# "Loading" at the ski lift. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 25, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300 "2010-01-25T01:23:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/21 "2010-02-03T03:00:45Z")
> [@ArchiveGuy](#): > > [Not everyone is so lucky](http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi142607385/). šŸ˜ƒ You canā€™t fool meā€¦ Thatā€™s a _movie!_. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/22 "2010-02-03T03:09:09Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Wonder what the kid thought, sitting there staring at his dadā€™s taint (not safe for work): [ambking99](http://www.pollsb.com/photos/o/) > 148832-caught\_ski\_pants.jpg Copy from 148832 to jpg, click the link, then paste that your into browser right after /o/ Do I pass? ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/23 "2010-02-03T03:12:31Z")
Yes. I broke the link given the content of the pic. BTW, to avoid a similar fate, always keep an eye on the chairs before they go about the turnwheel. If one does not have its seat down, step to the side and do not load, and start shouting STOP! ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/24 "2010-02-03T03:13:28Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > You canā€™t fool meā€¦ > Thatā€™s a _movie!_. If I close my eyes, will it be a joke movie trailer when I open them back up? (Please?) > [@mangeorge](#): > > Copy from 148832 to jpg, click the link, then paste that your into browser right after /o/ > Do I pass? If you copy everything from the ā€œhttpā€ to the ā€œjpgā€ then paste into the address bar, the carriage return wonā€™t register. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/25 "2010-02-03T14:06:01Z")
Either way, itā€™s an awful lot of trouble just to see some guyā€™s butt. Not a bad butt, but still. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/26 "2010-02-13T03:31:28Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > See, I am pretty sure that the lift operator is there to make sure that the chair hits you in the back of the head if you miss itā€¦ > > FTR, in nearly 3 and a half decades of skiing, I have never had a single problem with a chair lift or a t-bar. I managed to screw up getting off a chairlift. I didnā€™t keep my tips up. A tip got caught and I flopped forward off the chair and landed face down, then lifted my head just in time for the chair to crack me across the back of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/27 "2010-02-13T03:42:16Z")
Iā€™ve caught my ski tails on the lift platform and had a ski release as the lift departed (they sent it with the next chair, and slowed the lift for me to get off, which wasā€¦ less than gainly.) Thatā€™s pretty much the worst that has happened to me on a chair lift. However I have fallen off a T-bar, taking 5 people with me on the way down. It was at Panorama resort in the Canadian Rockies, where, at this time, only a T-bar went to the highest part of the mountain. The T-bar track was quite steep, and one of my skis caught a loose patch of snow and that slightly dragged me off to the side. I foolishly shifted my weight and went splat and just went ass over teakettle down the mountain really. No injuries, except to my pride, and a few dirty looks. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300/28 "2010-02-13T11:36:32Z")
A Scotsman tried to push me off a lift at the 1996 Worlds. Three of us botched the loading so badly that he was slipping off of the chair, so I hauled him up, resulting in his being on my lap, which he took as a poofter thing to do. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/loading-at-the-ski-lift/526300.md?page=1)