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chossmonkey wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: I really didn't need to see that. Hey after almost 40 years.... he's still touring... That's like knowing that my parents are still fucking. 
Nah, I know that because he toured through a small fairly obscure NW BC town I was working in a few years back that you can only drive into from the Yukon.
They guy is completely off the wall, nice guy, but I think he's been smoking something for way too long.
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obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: After leaving me for dead on thursday while out MT.Biking, Rebecca entered the ranks of the n00bs today while climbing. I ropegunned her new projjj for her and she proceeded to TR it. THEN when she was all done and we had moved down the cliff and I was getting all my draws together to do a quick lap on one of my training routes I realized I was a draw short. Wouldn't you know, it was still up on the route Rebecca had been working on. She promised me she would get it on the way down. It turns out I was the one who ended up reclimbing the route and getting it.  Good thing the route was too hard for the swarms of other n00bs to climb it and booty the draw before we went back and got it. At least you got another training lap. Maybe that was Rebecca being exceptionally cunning and helping you train. Thanks are in order, methinks.  I want to hear more about the left for dead thing. It would have been better training for me to go do two harder routes at the other part of the cliff then to do the victory lap and then one harder route. Long story short. My chain broke, twice, and I didn't see Rebecca until she got home later that night. I almost didn't take a chain tool or tool kit since she already had one. Let that also be a lesson to not try and put back together a link that already came apart on its own, even though theoretically it does give your riding partners more time to come back and find you and help. Thankfully it was just my chain that was broken and not me. IC. Mountain biking looks fun, but I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself. Mt.Biking is dangerous. That's why I don't do it very much. Its not as dangerous as downhill. You notice that new sports are being invented to chase the ultimate thrill. Downhill biking that Brent is into, is a new sport. They build routes down huge hills so they can go faster. Its all downhill. They don't have to pedal up..they use the chair lift. Next thing you know it will be an olympic sport. I suppose its no different than what we do with snow boarding.
A) That's hardley a new style, it was well established when I started mtn biking. I still don't think its more dangerous than some of the free style stuff they do.
B) Where the hell do they do real DH stuff around where you live? I understand there's the escarpment near by, but ski hills? I heard Tremblant in QC is well set up for summer DH biking.
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself.  I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all.  I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones?
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: granite_grrl wrote: So I'm on afternoon shift here at work all week. Today I hit the floor running, literaly. Got called to help at a machine before I could even tie up my safety shoes. After three hours of that I'm now trying to catch up with emails. I'm currently trying to figure out how to say that some vender's design sounds okay, but I don't fully understand what the design is for without sounding like an idiot/bitch. I forgot you were on afternoons. Forgot to tell you guys I didn't make it home til way after 10 on Fri night. Drove straight into that huge storm. You should have seen the lightening coming off the lake! It was wild. no hail though. People don't know how to drive in blinding rain either. They all slowed down to a snail pace and threw on their hazzard lights. Even in the "fast" lane, so I couldn't get by them. You think you're all tough in that big gas guzzling truck don't you? Damn straight. I am king of the road. I didn't realize you had a penis. How did I miss that? 
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chossmonkey wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: . I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? CCR Jimi Hendrix The Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane and lets not forget.... The Monkees
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the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones?
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Jun 17, 2008, 9:59 PM
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obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? hahahaha how old is that guy? who is that guy? I have heard the name but have no idea what he sang
I would hazzard a guess that if you heard him playing you would know. Guaranteed you've heard him before.
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the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary.
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the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary. , yeah, I'm positive that's who you meant. It just don't get more classical than that. Dint know she was his contemporary though. Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678. 
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stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: stymingersfink wrote: the_climber wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: kachoong wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: We are on the metric system. The generation of kids comming out of school or in school now are really the first generation to have a full "Metric" influence. My better half was in school when the change occured, I was is just after, and both our parents were only schooled in imperial measurment. So for me I speek, Celcius for temp, meters for hight of cliffs/buildings/... , km for distance (though I understand miles, feet, ect. too), feet and inches for hight of people, liters/mL for volume, kg and pounds for weight except for ounces which completely throughs me off (unless it's a certain something else in ounces, oh and gold I know in ounces), and Feet for Elevation... still working on the whole meters thing for elevation, that just hasn't happened for me yet. I totally relate. I was in school when the change to metric came in. I only speak in metric temps and mileage. As for everything else, I'm still old skool. My kids don't know anything about imperial measurements. Its hard to discuss things with them when we speak different languages You just date stamped yourself. I could be wrong, but Standard (a.k.a. Imperial to british wannbes) is going to be around in Canada for a long time still. At least in the construction sector. Industrial uses metric but Canada supplies too much stuff to the US for residential that it really doesn't make sense to go to metric. Standard works much better for construction anyway. Hahahahaaa! You must be careful to not date stamp yourself here!! I'm not sure when the metric system started in Canadia but in Aus it was about 67 or 69. I certainly wasn't even born then.... although I did see Nirvana in concert at college, if that's a date stamp at all. I don't care anymore lol Everyone knows Im as old as art. We didn't get the metric system til I was almost out of highschool and that was NOT in the 60's. I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary. , yeah, I'm positive that's who you meant. It just don't get more classical than that. Dint know she was his contemporary though. Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678. I'm glad you're catchin' my drift. Thought maybe you caught one too many chunks of ice in the helmet this past season.
Could have caught one to many chuncks of ice in the helmet too... can't really remember after that real big one in January though.... hmmm.... or was it Feb?
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granite_grrl wrote: obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: wanderlustmd wrote: chossmonkey wrote: After leaving me for dead on thursday while out MT.Biking, Rebecca entered the ranks of the n00bs today while climbing. I ropegunned her new projjj for her and she proceeded to TR it. THEN when she was all done and we had moved down the cliff and I was getting all my draws together to do a quick lap on one of my training routes I realized I was a draw short. Wouldn't you know, it was still up on the route Rebecca had been working on. She promised me she would get it on the way down. It turns out I was the one who ended up reclimbing the route and getting it. Good thing the route was too hard for the swarms of other n00bs to climb it and booty the draw before we went back and got it. At least you got another training lap. Maybe that was Rebecca being exceptionally cunning and helping you train. Thanks are in order, methinks. I want to hear more about the left for dead thing. It would have been better training for me to go do two harder routes at the other part of the cliff then to do the victory lap and then one harder route. Long story short. My chain broke, twice, and I didn't see Rebecca until she got home later that night. I almost didn't take a chain tool or tool kit since she already had one. Let that also be a lesson to not try and put back together a link that already came apart on its own, even though theoretically it does give your riding partners more time to come back and find you and help. Thankfully it was just my chain that was broken and not me. IC. Mountain biking looks fun, but I'm pretty sure I'd kill myself. Mt.Biking is dangerous. That's why I don't do it very much. Its not as dangerous as downhill. You notice that new sports are being invented to chase the ultimate thrill. Downhill biking that Brent is into, is a new sport. They build routes down huge hills so they can go faster. Its all downhill. They don't have to pedal up..they use the chair lift. Next thing you know it will be an olympic sport. I suppose its no different than what we do with snow boarding. A) That's hardley a new style, it was well established when I started mtn biking. I still don't think its more dangerous than some of the free style stuff they do. B) Where the hell do they do real DH stuff around where you live? I understand there's the escarpment near by, but ski hills? I heard Tremblant in QC is well set up for summer DH biking.
I guess its new around here. I thought it was new in the last 5 years.
Glen Eden and Blue Mountain have downhill. But its not whistler by any means.
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obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: granite_grrl wrote: So I'm on afternoon shift here at work all week. Today I hit the floor running, literaly. Got called to help at a machine before I could even tie up my safety shoes. After three hours of that I'm now trying to catch up with emails. I'm currently trying to figure out how to say that some vender's design sounds okay, but I don't fully understand what the design is for without sounding like an idiot/bitch. I forgot you were on afternoons. Forgot to tell you guys I didn't make it home til way after 10 on Fri night. Drove straight into that huge storm. You should have seen the lightening coming off the lake! It was wild. no hail though. People don't know how to drive in blinding rain either. They all slowed down to a snail pace and threw on their hazzard lights. Even in the "fast" lane, so I couldn't get by them. You think you're all tough in that big gas guzzling truck don't you? Damn straight. I am king of the road. I didn't realize you had a penis. How did I miss that? You don't have to have a penis to be king of the road. You are so sexist
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obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: . I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? CCR Jimi Hendrix The Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane and lets not forget.... The Monkees Okay, you are not allowed to guess anymore.
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obsessed wrote: Did you mean Vivaldi?
Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary. You couldn't pay me to see him. The only Canadian band I used to follow around was teenage head from my home town. But thats not the classic band I was referring to. they were far from classic.That didn't stop you from being a groupie.
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: the_climber wrote: Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary. You couldn't pay me to see him. The only Canadian band I used to follow around was teenage head from my home town. But thats not the classic band I was referring to. they were far from classic. That didn't stop you from being a groupie.
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chossmonkey wrote: the_climber wrote: need some quoting tips there Chossy? Bite me spellmaster.
I'm just packing up here and I'll be home soon!
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Sure, my last day to PC++ and it is dead in here.
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chossmonkey wrote: Sure, my last day to PC++ and it is dead in here.
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: . I saw the classic bands when I was in college. Any guesses which ones? The Beetles and the Rolling Stones? CCR Jimi Hendrix The Grateful Dead Jefferson Airplane and lets not forget.... The Monkees Okay, you are not allowed to guess anymore. I'm currently out of guesses anyway.
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chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary.
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obsessed wrote: chossmonkey wrote: obsessed wrote: Did you mean Vivaldi?Nope, "Valdy" would have been touring the college folk festivals before during and after (apparently as he's still at it) Obsessed was in both high school and post-secondary. You couldn't pay me to see him. The only Canadian band I used to follow around was teenage head from my home town. But thats not the classic band I was referring to. they were far from classic.
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