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tradrenn
May 15, 2005, 2:29 AM
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Just the other day me and body were climbing. I get to the top, set up an anchor and he starts to climb and clean the gear. As he gets to the top 3 women walk by and start talking about us:
First woman: They are idiots
Second woman: Looks like he knows what he is doing, he's got two ropes.
I just died loughing.
Later I thought: If I only had one rope that would make me a MORON.
Has anything similar happend to you ?
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dklco
May 15, 2005, 2:45 AM
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its when they dont speak they just stare...
almost caused an accident at a road sid crag cause of people slowing down to see what we were doing....
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tradrenn
May 15, 2005, 1:04 PM
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So that's what makes climbing dengerous ( haha )
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"but how do you get the rope up there in the first place?" a dollar for every time I heard that would be nice.
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ctardi
May 15, 2005, 6:59 PM
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Oooooh, that's why i'm unsafe...i only climb with one rope. *doh*
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ctardi
May 15, 2005, 7:00 PM
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The cutest little girl came up to me at the gym and said, "why do you guys have so many key chains?"
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wallcrawler
May 15, 2005, 8:14 PM
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"Look at my new North Face jacket" :roll:
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cthulu
May 15, 2005, 9:12 PM
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I should hope you were climbing with your body.
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kachoong
May 15, 2005, 9:18 PM
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"So, you went mountain climbing on the weekend?"
....uhh, yeah.... mountain climbing on the weekend.... :roll:
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winkwinklambonini
May 15, 2005, 9:32 PM
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My brother was a river guide in Utah, he got a few good ones:
Why do they build ruins?
Why do they build ruins so far from the roads?
Do we end up back here?
For climbing though, for some reason, "How long did it take?" seems to be popular.
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philbox
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May 15, 2005, 10:56 PM
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Have you people no shame, posting climbing topics and replies in community. Tut tut.
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philbox
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philbox moved this thread from Community to General.
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tnchief
May 15, 2005, 11:32 PM
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A few of my favorites:
"Why would you want to do that to a perfectly good rock?"
"What did the rock do to you to deserve that?"
"What are the clippy things for?"
And everyone has heard this one:
After informing many people I am a ROCK climber,
"Have you done Everest?"
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dontmaytagme
May 15, 2005, 11:37 PM
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This is quite amazing :roll: , however, haven't you heard climbers say some pretty stoopid s*** somethimes?
ja.
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skymeat
May 15, 2005, 11:38 PM
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"What happens if you fall?"
"Does it hurt when you do that?"
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grover
May 15, 2005, 11:49 PM
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Search THIS site, and you will have a months worth of answers. :twisted:
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grover
May 15, 2005, 11:50 PM
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Double post.
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mtmountaineer
May 16, 2005, 12:40 AM
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Jesus, coherency would be nice. If it is stupid things that are being sought out, then perhaps one ought to look to the poor excuses for writing that nearly seem to be the norm on this site.
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lostdog
May 16, 2005, 1:07 AM
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my climbing partner was coming back from a climb. still having his harness on (got caught in some rain) some people who passed him asked if he had just gone skydiving...? his reply, "yeah, i went skydiving. i wear all of this metal so i can fall faster." i'm still chuckling over that one. :lol:
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napoleon_in_rags
May 16, 2005, 1:15 AM
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A guy I work with said this:
"Dude, why do you want to climb to the top, I mean is there a strip club up there or something??"
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vegastradguy
May 16, 2005, 1:38 AM
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there is a difference between stupidty and ignorance...
since most folks do not climb, when they see it and say something about it, it can usually be called the latter...
dont badmouth someone simply because they do not know. instead, you would do better to educate them...
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duality4569
May 16, 2005, 1:45 AM
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don't you climb up the rope??
um yea right.... :lol: :lol:
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blonde_loves_bolts
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I asked one of my coworkers if he felt like going to the climbing gym with me, which happens to be all of 5 minutes away. He explained that he couldn't take stupid, uncalculated risks like that anymore, since he now has a wife and two kids. He said I'd understand when I was his age and in a similar situation. Then he went for his daily 45 minute run around one of the least pedestrian friendly parts of San Francisco during rush hour. The logic escapes me.
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musicman
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yes, a lot of the questions (most of the time) are legit questions that we climbers just get so sick of we have to come up with whitty answers to find some amusement out of it. such as "how'd you guys get the rope up there?" what's frustrating is after explaining it to a tourist in Moab on Potash Road, after listening intently for 5 minutes he said "so basically the leader climber is risking his life for everyone else's pleasure? i'll never understand the logic of this sport" then he walked away and we went back to risking out lives leader climbing haha. some more legitimate questions are when i'm walking down the trail after rappeling with all my gear on people showing off for dates (always the best) asks "so you were rappeling up there huh? are there anchors or what?" to myself "no idiot, there aren't anchors, i threw my rope around a birds neck and hoped that it didn't fly away to fast"
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