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redsox5945
Feb 3, 2008, 12:45 AM
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I was setting up a TR and some guy came up behind me and said, "I don't understand why you're climbing this. I mean, you went around back and tied the rope to that tree right?"
Me: "Uh, yeah, kinda."
Him: "So why are you climbing it?"
Me: "Practice, I guess."
Him: "Oh, well, have you ever heard of climbing gyms?"
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crimpstrength
Feb 3, 2008, 1:54 AM
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"I am trying to decide on a new jacket and wanted your opinions on North Face versus Arcteryx jackets."
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MonkeyInTraining
Feb 3, 2008, 2:55 AM
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redsox5945 wrote: I was setting up a TR and some guy came up behind me and said, "I don't understand why you're climbing this. I mean, you went around back and tied the rope to that tree right?" Me: "Uh, yeah, kinda." Him: "So why are you climbing it?" Me: "Practice, I guess." Him: "Oh, well, have you ever heard of climbing gyms?"
And then you killed him and stuffed his corpse behind a flake off route I hope.
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redsox5945
Feb 3, 2008, 4:24 AM
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Ha. No, I hit on his hot gf until he left. I'm a lover, not a fighter.
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truello
Feb 3, 2008, 5:34 AM
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"So do you shoot those things into the rock when you're climbing?"
No
"They don't have those things do they? Things that shoot ropes into the rock like on Bond?"
Putting up a climbing calendar in my cube is sure to bring more hilarity like this. 
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Hennessey
Feb 3, 2008, 5:52 AM
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I showed my 83-year old neighborhood pictures of me climbing and his response was: " How did you get that rope to the top of the rock. Did you use one of those ropes with a hook on the end like ninjas have"
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kriso9tails
Feb 3, 2008, 6:16 AM
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dta95b7r wrote: Little kid at a birthday party "Can you below me?" sounded just like blow me, nearly died.
Back when I worked at a climbing gym, kids rarely remembered the term 'belay' or even the phrase 'hold the ropes.' Conversation between a group of ten-year-old girls I was belaying for: "Can you do me here next?" "No, I want him to do me in the corner next." Luckily they caught the innuendo themselves before I ended up a registered sex offender for 'doing' a bunch of prepubescent girls (on their parents dime no less).
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suilenroc
Feb 3, 2008, 10:38 PM
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"i rap 5.12 for breakfast." -non climber, seriously
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mounter
Mar 21, 2008, 4:41 PM
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Isn't that dangerous or something?
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rangerrob
Mar 21, 2008, 4:56 PM
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Are you gonna try to climb Everest?
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circello
Mar 21, 2008, 5:10 PM
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A family of four has hiked up to a climbing area for lunch. Unaware that my partner and I can hear them they begin discussing how we got the rope up the wall, and the function of quickdraws ('To grab on to')
I begin leading the next route, and the mother quickly catches on. As I am beginning the crux moves, I hear the light go on in her head
"So if he falls, it's going to be twice the distance past that metal thing."
My reply: " We generally don't think about those sorts of things"
It was a classic moment.
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basilisk
Mar 22, 2008, 4:27 AM
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Last summer I spent some of my time in Bangor, ME. Whenever I had some free time, but not enough to climb, I'd boulder on this a watertower that's out there. Once, while I was trying to circumvent the tower, a group a second-graders were walking around with their teacher. A little girls asks her teacher
"What's that man doing?"
"He's practicing."
"Why?"
"So he can be big and strong when he climbs The Grand Canyon!"
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shockabuku
Mar 22, 2008, 4:35 AM
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Overheard at the gym:
"There's another armhold up there."
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btmayo79
Mar 22, 2008, 5:59 AM
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My only advice for all of you is to stop talking shit about people who don't get what you're doing.
Yes, you may be able to sport climb 5.radical, but if you sit and spew garbage about non climbers, realize that those same folks would think of you as inferior (yet not judge) if you asked questions about things they were into, like being able to compose a sentence with good grammar, or operate on a sick little kitten.
Just because others don't get what you're doing gives you no reason to look down upon them.
The trend in this thread seems to be sport climbers,cool,but understand that while at a sport crag you are bound to encounter inexperienced folks, as sport climbing is the easiest, cheapest and safest way to 'climb'.
Even if the folks you come across are not climbers, give them the benefit of the doubt and remember that they would not talk shit about you were the tables turned. Maybe...(maybe you deserve it,self righteous fuckers)
Cheers, B-
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taydude
Mar 22, 2008, 12:57 PM
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Why do people get worked up about a few cheap laughs? Do you write angry letters to a comedian after he makes fun of Bush? Ignorant behavior/ statements are fun to poke fun at.
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bobruef
Mar 22, 2008, 2:14 PM
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btmayo79 wrote: My only advice for all of you...
My advice to you is to read the thread before you post. This has been covered already.
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evanwish
Mar 22, 2008, 3:01 PM
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shockabuku wrote: Overheard at the gym: "There's another armhold up there."
haaa nice.
would an Arm-bar in an offwith count as an "Arm hold"? lol
oh and btmayo79, how long have you been climbing?
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shadowsandwich
Mar 22, 2008, 3:04 PM
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bobruef wrote: btmayo79 wrote: My only advice for all of you... My advice to you is to read the thread before you post. This has been covered already.
ZING!!
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shockabuku
Mar 22, 2008, 6:29 PM
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btmayo79 wrote: realize that those same folks would think of you as inferior (yet not judge) if you asked questions about things they were into, like being able to compose a sentence with good grammar...(maybe you deserve it,self righteous fuckers) Cheers, B-
If you can't compose a sentence with proper grammar, and you're a normal functioning adult, then you deserve it; and I would perfectly expect it and accept it, as I have in the past.
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alicecooperfan
Mar 23, 2008, 4:48 AM
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[quote "cthcrockclimber"]people at the local climbing wall (first timers) usually have od ways of saying "belay" and "carabiner"[/quote]
or like
Them: "what happens when u don't have a rope and ur at the top?"
Me: "Splat...climb on"
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themadmilkman
Mar 23, 2008, 5:58 AM
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btmayo79 wrote: Cheers, B-
I give you a D+ at best, actually. Terrible troll.
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