1.Blades are for people to dick about on
I believe that’s ostensibly the point I was making too.
No-one’s managed to tell us yet why that’s a bad thing, though. We’ve had passive homophobia, been called something ending in ‘t’ which has five letters in it (no, me neither), several comments along the lines of how silly they look, how it’s ephemerally ‘just wrong’ or ‘not proper’, and so on. Anyone care to have a stab at explaining why they’re a bad thing, or shall we just carry on reinforcing the skiier and snowboarder stereotypes for a bit longer?
I’ve no particular allegiance to any of them, incidentally. I’ve bladed once, and really enjoyed it, and skiied once or maybe twice when very young and equipped with the hand-eye ability of Stephen Hawking. I was just kinda hoping for some reasoned discussions beyond “well, blades smell of poo, innit.”