As you might imagine, I’ve had an inordinate amount of conversations about the prevalence of tall-T’s, silly posturing, and annoying music in skiing. I’m not necessarily proud of this, but when you’re me, the topic just tends to come up.
What does this have to do with the epic ski hill on a Caribbean cruise liner you see above? Well the best explanation for the shitty parts of skiing I’ve ever heard is that all the bullshit is a response to skiing’s lilywhite ultra-rich side. Basically it goes like this, skiing has absolutely no edge, so kids over-compensate by doing all the silly crap you can find on NS at any given moment. Of course, that knife cuts both ways. Skiing also fails to foster a grimy creativity like other boardsports because the kids who are wearing cotton dresses in order to rebel against the parents that brought them skiing on a superluxuryliner are still super rich and as culturally vanilla as Betty Draper.
Absolutely everything I just wrote aside, that cruise looks like the tits. It apparently features “a spectacular 150 metre open air ski slope…situated on the top deck and made with the innovative Perma-Snow all weather ski carpet and serviced by a button lift.” If you stare at the rendering very closely it looks like there’s a jump at the bottom. That is impossibly cool. If Iglu gave me a free trip I’d turn this blog into 24/7 Iglu cruise content farm in which I write “Tom Wallisch naked” in every post and link it to Iglu’s homepage (you know you’d click on that a couple times before giving up on some sweet Tom nudity).
From http://www.iglucruise.com/caribbean-skiing-cruise:
-The après-ski bar will be serving a collection of schnapps, gluhwein and more.
-The à la carte menu will be serving croque-monsieur throughout the day, rösti, cheese raclette and pizza.
Nothing says “G’ed up from the feet up” like rösti and cheese raclette washed down with some schnapps. The boat leaves on December 15th, I’ll just assume I’ll see you there.
Just an FYI, http://www.iglucruise.com/caribbean-skiing-cruise-enquire
Would have been right there on the deck with a nice bloody otherwise…
Well then… Here I was looking forward to posing at the bar with a chilled glass of schnapps and a croque-monsieur, all while impressing the ladies on deck. This is just embarrassing now.
skiing doesn’t have an edge like other board sports because unlike other board sports it was popularized as a luxury activity during the 50′s, 60′s, 70′s, and 80′s the ridiculous “edge” snowboarding has is because they always had to rebel against skiing. Skiing has always been a party on snow with funny costumes and will always be that way this [awesome looking] cruise proves that. And I’m not supporting tall-t’s but grime = grime and different = different not creative/good leather jackets and jeans (while fun/ “making a statement) while skiing are just as ignorant and silly as the alternative.
wonder if they could be convinced to have a rail jam – or take it on a surf trip so you could ski on the days where there are no waves.
See you at port men
finally a mad men reference!