In a letter to the editor in the November 2009 issue of Backcountry Magazine (www.backcountry magazine.com), a reader wrote in regard to ski town living saying: “Do the people who have been living here for less than a season need to be saying buzz words like ‘gnarly’ and ‘epic’ every other sentence?”
Like dude, talking in bro/bra-speak comes with the territory if you want to appear to be a local. Make that a local who skis, rides (boards and bikes), makes the brewpub scene every day and apparently does this all without benefit of a job.
Oh and throw in a cool house, cool car and way-above-average children, eating well, competing at a perceived world class level well, and you are a true hipper-than-thou Bendite.
Depicting all the elements of bro/bra-speak and living large in Bend has been difficult until to put into words let alone a video until someone created www.xtranormal.com/watch/63732671/
If you haven’t this video, and I won’t try to describe it , do so if for no other reason than how well it skewers Bend’s hyper cool ski/ride/swill/self-proclaimed super star athlete/awesome parent crowd nicely.
Whoever is behind the video gets major props for the effort. They could have gone way over the top but instead offer a restrained, and therefore much more funny, approach.
Judge for yourself. Until then, I’m off to run laps on the cone with some of the gnarliest dudes on the planet after we hit that new brewpub to drink some sick ales.
This article appears in Apr 22-28, 2010.
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awesome link bob,
my wife and i saw this this a couple weeks ago and were howling. they really nailed it! your point about not having a job is the key to the whole thing. i mean if you gotta job, its pretty hard to run around being so “sick” all the time.
i think you might be hitting a little close to home with the readers though. 135 views and no comments?! apparently being in a constant, hyper vigilant state of training for the privilege of paying money to run/ride your bike/paddle/ski in a big dusty crowd of other world class wannabes, makes you lose yer sense of humor. anyway, i’m off to stand up paddle board on the river.
p.s. you’re sorely missed over at the outside column.
Drat. The video has been taken down.
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….Bummer, I was looking forward to watching this video!!
But, Thanks anyways Bob,, -Great article!
Does anybody really say “gnarly” anymore?