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Goggle Tans

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mothaeast
Posts: 2923 - Karma: 13
People here where I ski in NZ refer to goggle tans as "punter tans" meaning they are lame, but back home in Vermont, if you get a goggle tan, you are a hero.
Which is a more common view?

By the way I have a rediculous one right now.
5 hour Endurance race in the blazing ozone-holed New Zealand Sun
Oct 19 2006 4:32AM
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cab_D
Posts: 1602 - Karma: 51
there alright i guess. It's not like you try to get one, they just happen. I'd rather have a partially tanned face than a pure white albino face. But, there pretty average when the season's over. You look like a racoon.
Oct 19 2006 4:42AM
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michael_bc
Posts: 1386 - Karma: 720
here in Switzerland it just means you're a rider.

and these days when you ride at almost 4000m its impossible not to have a g tan.
Oct 19 2006 4:51AM
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surf+ski=LIFE
Posts: 185 - Karma: 10
yeah same here in finland
Oct 19 2006 5:06AM
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feezy
Posts: 2022 - Karma: 23
its a mark of pride for me and my friends, but we live in the bay area, so its not exactly a ski town, and i doubt most people know why we are half tan.
Oct 19 2006 5:11AM
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C.Royce
Posts: 1031 - Karma: 187
goggle tans= verrrry good
Oct 19 2006 5:30AM
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mavric1298
Posts: 561 - Karma: 55
yeah i've had one most of my life growing up racing and such spending 5 days a week on snow all winter and summer

I have just come acustome to it, i like it

hot on girls jmo
Oct 19 2006 5:39AM
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TWallisch
Posts: 1482 - Karma: 5,651
goggle tans are steezed for sure
Oct 19 2006 6:12AM
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Drunkenmaster
Posts: 435 - Karma: 9
they look pretty cool...
but it's true they just happen...u don't really want to get them
Oct 19 2006 6:47AM
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FUUUCK
Posts: 18426 - Karma: 4,888
people who dont ski: think there's something wrong with you

people who ski: think youre the man
Oct 19 2006 8:21AM
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CamBrowne
Posts: 1830 - Karma: 99
goggle tans fucking own
Oct 19 2006 8:32AM
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boochronic13
Posts: 191 - Karma: 24
hell yeah gotta rep the coon eyes...
Oct 19 2006 8:52AM
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jamesmccormick
Posts: 1481 - Karma: 17
goggle tans i kind of over i would say
i think that summer glacier shredding was the last time they were cool for a while, because they're considered lame and nz and probably will be for the rest of the season so yea im gonna go buy some sunscreen haha
Oct 19 2006 9:51AM
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ThePoopSock
Posts: 2619 - Karma: 22
rumor has it that girls get turned on by them
Oct 19 2006 10:10AM
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Ktownchic
Posts: 1774 - Karma: 2


i used to always get shit when i was younger at school for them. ( i dont go to school around any mountain). kids used to think i had something wrong with my face. now i just dont give a shit what people think or say, i think their sick.
Oct 19 2006 10:12AM
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Dan-Man
Posts: 7488 - Karma: 3,620
if it happens it happens and it's pretty tight but if u got certain skin types you gotta be careful skin cancer is a brewin I already got some sketchy spots on my back that I got to get removed a little sun screen or even a gangsata bandan can prevent harmful uv rays touching your flesh
Oct 19 2006 10:24AM
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BkCountrySkrMO2
Posts: 1642 - Karma: 103
unless you go to a school with lots of skiiers that will appreciate it, ur just making urself look like a fag, obviosly, if their was a school full of NS kids, then it'd be different, but explaining to the preppy girls at my school why having a goggle tan is cool is imposible
Oct 19 2006 10:39AM
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ski_cartel
Posts: 6598 - Karma: 18
a dark goggle tan on a skier/boarder is like a lot of metals on a soldiers jacket. It says 2 things,
1. Im better then you so shut the fuck up when im talking and
2. I have been here longer then you, so once again, shut the fuck up
Oct 19 2006 11:15AM
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*rkp*
Posts: 8198 - Karma: 257
they're a very good thing.     all my friends try and see who can get the best one.
Oct 19 2006 11:19AM
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STACKS
Posts: 1938 - Karma: 42
i love goggle tans too bad its hard to get one in new hampshire
Oct 19 2006 12:01PM
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K.C.Deane
Posts: 1730 - Karma: 315
true words, true words. I personally have prefer not to have one because I feel it affects my magnum and my blue steel. Just a bad sit when you affect the look.
Oct 19 2006 12:18PM
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huntpip29
Posts: 135 - Karma: 10
i can never get one , but thy are cool
Oct 19 2006 4:33PM
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blakroc
Posts: 2323 - Karma: 28
i hate my googletan, its so fuckin intense like the part where my googles met my helmet disapeared around the end of august
Oct 19 2006 4:35PM
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altas_nashty
Posts: 6 - Karma: 10
google tans are just one more badge of honnor. just like scars and bruises, they're tatoots w/ stories.
Oct 19 2006 4:36PM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
google tans are sick, but most of the time people look at you funny, like youve been staring in an oven, cause they dont know why your face is discoloured
Oct 19 2006 4:46PM
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meggles
Posts: 3156 - Karma: 54
is it possibe to get one in PA? hah.
Oct 19 2006 4:47PM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
yeah, go in your backyard and put your goggles on while tanning
Oct 19 2006 4:51PM
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montageskier
Posts: 4725 - Karma: 126
I got mine in PA, two years ago, 3 days before my semi. I got a real bad goggle tan. The pic looked terrible, and i got no poon because of the tan. But i didnt get one last year. Hopefully i get one this year after semi.
Oct 19 2006 4:55PM
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jayamait
Posts: 2567 - Karma: 1,347
man, they are def the shit.
Oct 19 2006 5:30PM
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Freeskier22
Posts: 991 - Karma: 19
indifferent
Oct 19 2006 5:32PM
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poofartpee
Posts: 7436 - Karma: 1,538
goggle tan=rad!!!!!!!!!
Oct 19 2006 6:23PM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186
i went to whistler for spring break..my cheeks and everything red as fucking rudolph, even my nose it was ridiculous and around my eyes it was albino white i looked like a faggot but hey i got to go to whistler!
Oct 19 2006 8:17PM
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S2daJ
Posts: 919 - Karma: 10
my skin pigment is like forever two different shades.... even after not skiing since hood in the summer til now. i can still see it.
Oct 19 2006 8:30PM
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$tezzyStu
Posts: 1139 - Karma: 11
i get one regardless so it doesn't really matter to me, they're now bad just kinda goofey looking
Oct 19 2006 8:33PM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186
yeah haha same here, you can kinda see mine
Oct 19 2006 8:38PM
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bobs
Posts: 4801 - Karma: 868
theyre unavoidable if you ride enough. I love going to school and everyones like what the fuck
Oct 19 2006 8:39PM
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icecoastn
Posts: 524 - Karma: 15
i dont think theyre cool at all... but whatever personal preference. just wear a bandanna if you dont want them.
Oct 19 2006 8:45PM
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Coalescent
Posts: 4871 - Karma: 2,063
i like them...they mean dedication
Oct 19 2006 8:48PM
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olly.
Posts: 147 - Karma: 13
goggle tans are fucking sweet
Oct 19 2006 9:20PM
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MLB
Posts: 4462 - Karma: 298
me and my bud jer try to get them every year. We make it like a battle. I always get the littl shit, but he fuckin looks like half of his face is dirty all the time.
Oct 19 2006 9:37PM
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grams.
Posts: 7406 - Karma: 186
haha thats what my face looks like, like a dirt color then pure white around my eyes haha
Oct 19 2006 9:39PM
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dubage
Posts: 1124 - Karma: 665
HERO!!!
Oct 19 2006 9:45PM
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4frntSkier
Posts: 4008 - Karma: 143
i usually get a respectable one
Oct 19 2006 10:10PM
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Sholte
Posts: 2929 - Karma: 12
it means your a hard core rider, and your sick!!!
Oct 19 2006 11:24PM
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soulskier
Posts: 17806 - Karma: 3,841
they make you a god
Oct 19 2006 11:31PM
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Aerozol
Posts: 1124 - Karma: 488
I like them.
Then I can claim I'm a pro snow boarder and get girls.
That's how it also works in NZ.
Oct 19 2006 11:31PM
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liukangkid
Posts: 3323 - Karma: 82
yeah the first time i met this one girl she thought i had a skin condition cus i had a helmet+goggle tan
Oct 19 2006 11:34PM
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noobskier420
Posts: 65 - Karma: 10
cool... very cool.
Oct 19 2006 11:38PM
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A@ron
Posts: 1320 - Karma: 86
goggle tans show that your are hardcore and not a little pussed out punk beeeoch
Oct 19 2006 11:44PM
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ZavierV
Posts: 5077 - Karma: 100
goggle tan>legend.
Oct 19 2006 11:45PM
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