You can have my gri-gri...when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
The fleshy fingers or the bionic fingers?
I put I like Gri-gris and climb 5.11 trad. Even though I don't currently climb 5.11 trad, I have climbed 5.11 trad and expect to be back there in another month or so. Anywho, I don't use one and I'd rather not be belayed with one if the pro is marginal... but I certainly have nothing personal against them. I like them just fine.
(This post was edited by j_ung on May 29, 2008, 4:31 PM)
my grigri exploded causing my aliens to spontaneously combust which in turn cross loaded all of my trad draws (unfortunately they weren't opposite and opposing lockers). so i got a dog with a bandana, grew my hair long and took up free soloing.
May 29, 2008, 6:59 PM
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I voted for the first option. Notice the difference in the responses between the climbing levels. Those that climb harder seem to have a higher percentage that like Gri-Gri's than those that don't.
FWIW, attend an AMGA class and you will hear the Gri-Gri referred to as "the device of choice" on a few occasions.
Edited to add: I am guessing that Majid is in the last category
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It was my understanding that the military "invented" the internet....not sure how Al fit in there....probably pushed funding through with no idea if it was for missles or the tubes the internet is made of. Who invented rc.com? Did you know there are people who climb that have never heard of rockclimbing.com? How do they know how to do climbing stuff or what gear they should buy?
I'm pretty sure the first 'internet' was set up to share data between observatories and their users. That's why netscape always had the telescope/sky themes.
I'm too lazy to search for the true origins. It's more fun to speculate.
It was my understanding that the military "invented" the internet....not sure how Al fit in there....probably pushed funding through with no idea if it was for missles or the tubes the internet is made of. Who invented rc.com? Did you know there are people who climb that have never heard of rockclimbing.com? How do they know how to do climbing stuff or what gear they should buy?
not even close
The school and universities were the first who came up with the idea of using phone/ modem to send data . in 1983 while I was living in France, the French were offering a small b/w terminal that looked like a small laptop with a small on-board keyboard. back then , you use that machine to check the train ticket, airline ticket and so many other things.
(This post was edited by majid_sabet on May 29, 2008, 8:02 PM)
hey girl , nice body, you look fit, u wanaa climb vit me ?
Ohh me
Yes you, you look like a top climber, here letz go climb,
ILL teach you , its fun and easy just watch
ohh ok
what is datt ?
this called Gri Gri, its no brainier, look, all you got to do when i fall you let go off it and it stops me from falling
ohh that is cool so i just let my hand go right?
yaa , girl just let your hand go but do not ever push that handle while im ripping this rock ok
OK, so what should I say?
say , belay is bad boy and I climb
ok climb
3 min later
fu*k this king dyno move sh*t is hard
hey girl i think i may loose it it
ohh what do you want me to do ?
just lock me
lock you ? how ? you did not teack me that
ohh sh*t I am falling
ohh my god rope is flying in to this thing like a speed of sound
what should i do ?
lock me you beeaaaaaac*********
KABBOOONG
That happened to a good friend of mine (no pun). He picked up some girl at a non-climbing gym, took her on their first date to a choss heap, and got dropped exactly like that.
Of course no belay device would have made up for him concentrating too hard on the girl on not hard enough on the training and maybe some practice. Good think he only fell 15 feet onto soft sand.
On the other hand, I get belayed by this old guy, 60+, and I'm confident in his skill but not in his strength. I like that gri gri in his hands.
Like all 10,000+ threads on the gri gri vs. the world, use any tool wrong and your screwed. Use it right and it's just as good as the rest for what it's designed for.
It was my understanding that the military "invented" the internet....not sure how Al fit in there....probably pushed funding through with no idea if it was for missles or the tubes the internet is made of. Who invented rc.com? Did you know there are people who climb that have never heard of rockclimbing.com? How do they know how to do climbing stuff or what gear they should buy?
not even close
The school and universities were the first who came up with the idea of using phone/ modem to send data . in 1983 while I was living in France, the French were offering a small b/w terminal that looked like a small laptop with a small on-board keyboard. back then , you use that machine to check the train ticket, airline ticket and so many other things.
Wow, 1983? That surely must have been the first then... This troll should hook some tech nerds.
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It was my understanding that the military "invented" the internet....not sure how Al fit in there...
You guys are speaking of the internet as if there's only one... as far as our commander in chief is concerned there are multiple internets... which still begs the question: where did they all come from?
May 30, 2008, 3:29 PM
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who exactly in this thread do you think is lying?
if you automatiacally suck dick when confronted with 10+ trad sendage, i suggest you get on your knees for the OP.
WHOAH! So much anger from a five foot summat crusading ninja 5.12 badgirl!
Have a look at the poll figures, compare them to the ascent logs, then maybe you can answer the question yourself.
So far 47% have claimed they climb 5.11 trad/5.12 sport or higher.
Maybe you misinterpreted my comment, the 'respect' was for Billcoe's straight answer, not for climbing 5.10.
47% of the people who've answer the poll. surely you don't think the poll votes directly correlate with the thread posts? cause that would be a stupid thing to think. there are plenty of people on this site that climb either .12 sport or .11 trad that can have drive-by answered the poll to make up that number.
as far as my badgirl status, you'll have to be a little closer before you can really put that phrase to good use, sugar.
also, define "summat." i cant tell if you want "summat" ninja bad girl or if you're jealous of my many "summits." (note: i can haz no summitz. i hikes not.)
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"The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet."
When I first started posting to USENET it stilll adhered to the sort of stuffy intellectual politeness of university folk. Haha. Boy did folks like me help usheer in a more modern appraoch to online communications.
You had to have leather elbow patches on your sport jacket to post in those dayz.
"The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet."
When I first started posting to USENET it stilll adhered to the sort of stuffy intellectual politeness of university folk. Haha. Boy did folks like me help usheer in a more modern appraoch to online communications.
You had to have leather elbow patches on your sport jacket to post in those dayz.
"The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) developed by DARPA of the United States Department of Defense, was the world's first operational packet switching network, and the predecessor of the global Internet."
When I first started posting to USENET it stilll adhered to the sort of stuffy intellectual politeness of university folk. Haha. Boy did folks like me help usheer in a more modern appraoch to online communications.
You had to have leather elbow patches on your sport jacket to post in those dayz.
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