Thursday, December 30, 2010

Google run the internet and they watch and record every single thing you do online, which is bad for things like personal privacy, but great for producing interesting snowboarding statistics.  They've just released the Google Zeitgeist which is a list of the most searched terms in 2010. Snowboarding clearly doesn't have the same significant global impact as the earthquake in Haiti, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico or Justin Beiber, but we did find a few interesting things and while we were at it we took a look at some of the other snowboarding related stats we could ply from Google’s cold electric soul. In this article we find out lots of exciting snowboard facts including:

  • Which country loves snowboarding the most
  • What the kick-ass Boy Scouts were wearing in 1983, and...
  • Is Shaun White bigger than snowboarding?

Monday, December 27, 2010

Today it was reported that Charlie Sheen died in a snowboarding accident. Here's the Global Associated News article

Fortunately this was not true and he got better. See

These are just a few things that Charlie Sheen would have been remembered for:

  • Shooting his fiancĂ©e in the arm
  • Screwing some of Heidi Fleiss' stable of prostitutes
  • Overdosing on cocaine
  • Threating to beat his pregnant wife
  • Being convicted of beating a different wife
  • Starring in Two and a Half Men where he currently gets paid a reported $1.88 million per episode

Monday, December 20, 2010

A couple of weeks ago while doing one of our in-depth consumer advice articles on the new Willy Finder one-piece suit range we made a passing prediction that the monoski might make a return next season. We were confident that this wasn’t going to happen because clearly monoskiing took the worst bit of skiing (the hard boots) and teamed it with the worst bit of snowboarding (going uphill) to create an incredibly freaky and pointless sport that no one in their right mind would want to do. E.g. 

Unfortunately fellow blogosphereist, Misplaced Person got in touch afterwards to break the bad news that monoskiing is somehow still alive. So we decided to brave it and take a look at what’s been going down in the world of monosking...

Thursday, December 9, 2010

The last two years have seen an unprecedented increase in space exploration themed marketing campaigns for snowboard companies. I've no idea why, but all of a sudden everyone’s at it.

According to some of the latest surveys about 25% of people in the UK and US don’t believe that man has landed on the moon. That’s a frightening quantity of mentals. I imagine they might also be a bit sceptical that snowboarders have now conquered space, but we have gathered together some photographic and video evidence that will blow their tiny little minds...
 
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