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From www.urbandictionary.com
1. gaper 91 up, 10 down
A gaper is a skiier or snowboarder who is completely clueless. Usually distiungished by their bright colored clothes and a gaper gap, the gap between goggles and a helment/hat. Gapers also do the "Gaper Tuck" which is an attempt at being a ski racer by tucking, however, it is done incorrectly with the poles sticking straight up like thunderbolts and lighting, very very frightning! Gapers also sit at the bottom of jumps and try and go big off table tops in the park.
1. My eyes are burning from that gapers bright colored clothes.
2. I fell off the chair laughing at that gaper tuck.
3. Did you just see that gaper getting landed on because he was sitting like a dumbass at the landing of a jump.
1. gaper 91 up, 10 down
A gaper is a skiier or snowboarder who is completely clueless. Usually distiungished by their bright colored clothes and a gaper gap, the gap between goggles and a helment/hat. Gapers also do the "Gaper Tuck" which is an attempt at being a ski racer by tucking, however, it is done incorrectly with the poles sticking straight up like thunderbolts and lighting, very very frightning! Gapers also sit at the bottom of jumps and try and go big off table tops in the park.
1. My eyes are burning from that gapers bright colored clothes.
2. I fell off the chair laughing at that gaper tuck.
3. Did you just see that gaper getting landed on because he was sitting like a dumbass at the landing of a jump.
Nor'easter
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:grin:
Marc
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So clearly, deriving the word "gaper" from the word "gap" (originating from the gap between the goggles and helmet/hat) is erroneous.
If only skiers could understand English as well as they skied, everyone would spell the pejorative "gapper" and pronounce it accordingly.
Damn fools.
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Remember there are gapers everywhere...on the road, in the supermarket, in the airport...not just at the ski resorts..
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Stolen from Epicski...
Not knowing you look rediculous when you go into your version of a racer tuck because your poles are sticking straight up in the air.
Skiing in jeans.
Skiing in wind pants.
Skiing in a jacket in honor of your favorite NFL/NBA/NCAA/NHL sports team.
One-piece ski suits.
Matching ski suits that are not part of a mountain, ski school, or race program.
Hoods with fur (fake or real) on them on your primary ski coat.
Tucking anything that you are wearing on your legs into the top of your boots.
Owning $4000 worth of the latest matching ski gear and not knowing how to use any of it.
Talking about skiing "black diamonds" like it is an accomplishment.
AC40's are your "powder ski."
Thinking racers and other seasoned skiers are out of control because they ski faster than you do.
Thinking that you are in control because you are skiing slower than racers and other seasoned skiers.
Getting your $60k SUV stuck in a plowed parking lot.
Ski totes.
Not being able to properly shoulder your skis so that the brakes catch on one another.
Not being able to very easily carry all of your equipment to where ever you need to go (poles, skis, boots, bag, etc.).
Boot gloves.
Ski boots that are 2+ sizes too big.
Bending your cheap poles so they mimic a GS race pole.
Talking all the way up the lift about "ripping carves on that last run" and then executing a backseat skidded snowplow/stem christie all the way down the blue groomer of choice for that run.
Asking fellow lift riders: "so how do those new parabolics work?"
On a powder day asking the guy with fat skis on next to you on the lift: "are those water skis?"
Asking your fellow lift rider who is wearing a GS suit, shin guards, punch guards on their poles, helmet with a chin bar and visor, and slalom skis: "do you race?"
Flat filing the base edge of your skis in the parking lot with a 12" bastard file that you found in your garage that morning.
Refusing to ski the same trail twice in one day, regardless of how good the conditions were.
Bragging about how fast you ski.
Renting a bright yellow Hummer H3 when you are on a ski vacation.
Wondering why anyone would ever want to hike to make turns.
Assuming that ski season ends in mid-March.
Assuming that ski season begins the week after christmas.
You post on EpicSki.com asking about the BEST all-mountain ski this year.
Feel free to add to the list
Not knowing you look rediculous when you go into your version of a racer tuck because your poles are sticking straight up in the air.
Skiing in jeans.
Skiing in wind pants.
Skiing in a jacket in honor of your favorite NFL/NBA/NCAA/NHL sports team.
One-piece ski suits.
Matching ski suits that are not part of a mountain, ski school, or race program.
Hoods with fur (fake or real) on them on your primary ski coat.
Tucking anything that you are wearing on your legs into the top of your boots.
Owning $4000 worth of the latest matching ski gear and not knowing how to use any of it.
Talking about skiing "black diamonds" like it is an accomplishment.
AC40's are your "powder ski."
Thinking racers and other seasoned skiers are out of control because they ski faster than you do.
Thinking that you are in control because you are skiing slower than racers and other seasoned skiers.
Getting your $60k SUV stuck in a plowed parking lot.
Ski totes.
Not being able to properly shoulder your skis so that the brakes catch on one another.
Not being able to very easily carry all of your equipment to where ever you need to go (poles, skis, boots, bag, etc.).
Boot gloves.
Ski boots that are 2+ sizes too big.
Bending your cheap poles so they mimic a GS race pole.
Talking all the way up the lift about "ripping carves on that last run" and then executing a backseat skidded snowplow/stem christie all the way down the blue groomer of choice for that run.
Asking fellow lift riders: "so how do those new parabolics work?"
On a powder day asking the guy with fat skis on next to you on the lift: "are those water skis?"
Asking your fellow lift rider who is wearing a GS suit, shin guards, punch guards on their poles, helmet with a chin bar and visor, and slalom skis: "do you race?"
Flat filing the base edge of your skis in the parking lot with a 12" bastard file that you found in your garage that morning.
Refusing to ski the same trail twice in one day, regardless of how good the conditions were.
Bragging about how fast you ski.
Renting a bright yellow Hummer H3 when you are on a ski vacation.
Wondering why anyone would ever want to hike to make turns.
Assuming that ski season ends in mid-March.
Assuming that ski season begins the week after christmas.
You post on EpicSki.com asking about the BEST all-mountain ski this year.
Feel free to add to the list
Dr Skimeister
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On the internet?
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This guy...?
Marc
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I think the leashes really make the outfit for me.
darent
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This guy...?
I tried to keep up with a guy dressed just like that, red rear entries,jeans and skinny skis, guy could ski , bim bang, he was gone through those trees!!
skiNEwhere
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I'd say a gaper is anyone who posts multiple times about absolutely nothing
GrilledSteezeSandwich
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Totally I hate people like that..:beer:
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from_the_NEK
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I've posted this one before but I had to do it again...
I've posted this one before but I had to do it again...
Yeah really, that guy with only one, large, powder ski on and crooked goggles is a total gaper!
MRGisevil
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This guy...?
Don't be so quick to judge people based on what they're wearing. I know a couple of guys who can really rip it and will dress up in jeans and the like just for ha-has and shock value.
In mountain biking, the dudes with all the expensive gear and the $8k bikes are always the ones who spend 40 minutes in the parking lot outside West Hartford Rez stretching so everyone sees them, while they guys in ripped up t-shirts and Ibexes are out there tearing it up.
skiNEwhere
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I love seinfeld, he makes it funny though
eastcoastpowderhound
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Wow, those core dudes on Epicski oughta tell Simon Dumont and Jon Olsson that they're gapers. I can see it now..."hey, you guys up there on that X-Games podium...yeah, you're a bunch of gapers"
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