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  1. It's worth going to both, the main difference will be in the type and nature of the rock: basalt column jammin' and tuff mud pullin vs. granite crack bliss!
  2. Hey Justin and Darin's wives showed up at the last one, it wasn't 100% sausage fest
  3. Isnt the Predator out of production now?
  4. Dru

    River surfing

  5. Probably early February and you can always find some hungover type to go slumming at Marble Canyon with.
  6. Dru

    The Olympics Suck

    If you want to see real sport watch the Special Olympics or the Paralympics.
  7. Scrambling Class!!!!!!
  8. so probably nothing like the vertical sandbox in offwhite's back yard then...for instance
  9. Le Mulot not Le Mullet. Le Mullet is what you find on the head of the Canadiens players and fans.
  10. Ah yes, Vantage is so well known for its multipitch sport scrambling!
  11. Eliminating gorts is aid.
  12. So if he's only going to be there for the weekend and is doing two IV's when is he going to get the rest day to hike around Not that Bridge Mtn isnt fun and all.
  13. Bud: Hey kid! (Honk) Hey! Hey kid! Hey! Hey! Are you hard of hearing? Otto: What do you want? Bud: You want to make ten bucks? Otto: Fuck you, queer.(Shove off, pervert) Bud: Now waita minute wait a minute kid you got the wrong idea. Look my old lady is real sick and I got to get her to the hospital, okay? Otto: So what? Take her there. Bud: I can't. I can't leave her car in this bad area. Look I need some helpful soul to drive it for me, okay? She's pregnant. She's with twins. She could drop at any time. All right? Otto: Well, uh, how much are you going to give me? Bud: Fifteen bucks. Otto: No. Won't do it for less than twenty. Bud: Twenty-five. Follow me in my old lady's car. It’s right here. okay? Otto: All right... Where's, uh, where's your old lady at? Bud: Never mind about that. Right now we need to get both of my cars out of this bad area, allright? Come on. Otto gets in the car, a white 4 door Cutlass sedan. from the apartment: (baby crying) Papa! (?) aqui. un gringo (en la calle con su coche) [Looking through the window of the apartment, the sedan becomes a 2 door coupe.] Bud: Let's go. Car owner, grabbing Otto: (Vete la chingada!) (followed by several more exclamations in Spanish) Bud and Otto drive down freeway, Chevy Malibu swerves in front of them. It is moving right across the lanes but has the left blinker on.
  14. Avoid lying to people who know your "baseline behavior" Many years of research have proven one thing: it's incredibly difficult to know if someone is lying unless you have prior exposure to his or her baseline behavior. What is a baseline? It's the back of the box on a tennis court. What is baseline behavior? It is how you act when you're not lying. You know, the way you normally act, the way you talk and behave when you're having a casual conversation in which no attempt at deception is taking place. The greater the number of interactions that the target of the lie (we'll use a "he" in this example) has had with you, the more familiar he will be with your baseline behavior. Because he knows how you usually act, he'll press you on the veracity of your statements, and be more likely ultimately to figure out that you lied. This is why the old maxim: "a liar never looks you straight in the eye" is bull. If the person doesn't usually look people in the eye as part of his normal non-lying behavior, he very may well look you in the eye when he IS lying. (This would be a change from his baseline behavior.) Lots of other little clues that all of the fogies down at Shady Pines have provided (e.g., liars talk fast, their eyes dart around, or clear their throats a lot) are also pretty much useless for this reason; if the old folks really knew how to spot a liar, they wouldn't get ripped off in those crazy phone scams all the time. It doesn't matter what someone does when (s)he lies, it only matters if such behavior is different from how she or he normally acts. It's easier to lie to people you don't care about There is another important justification for having as little contact with the target as possible: it is easier to lie to people about whom you don't give a damn. To understand why, consider this: many studies have shown that it's relatively easy to lie to someone over the phone because the sense of personal connection is very small. You can't see them; they can't see you. As a result, you are less likely to feel guilty and, therefore, give visual clues that you may be deviating from your baseline behavior. If you were closer to the person physically, you would have a greater personal connection. Consequently, you would be more likely to "leak" (reveal in some way that you are engaging in deceptive behavior). The same reasoning applies to being close to a person psychologically. Think about it. If you try to lie to your girlfriend or boyfriend, there are numerous psychological pressures (you'll think about what happens if you get caught, feel guilty about lying to someone you care about, etc.), and it will be more difficult to focus on mimicking your baseline behavior. Trust us; you'll probably leak all over the place (in all senses of the word). This phenomenon is often called "liar's remorse," and it's usually what people are talking about when they say a liar "wanted to get caught." So how does knowing this aid your ability to lie well? The answer is this: if you're going to lie, try to lie to someone who doesn't know you very well. They will be less familiar with your baseline behavior, and you will be less like to care about them. In the event that you need to lie to a close friend, family member, or other loved one, try this trick: lie to someone who doesn't know you as well, and have them pass the message along. If that's not possible, you must truly master everything we tell you from here on in.
  15. A: Follow the pattern by letting the Pac-Man go to the left from the start, take the turns as indicated up to point A. Depending on how well you executed your cornering at point A, taking the sharp left towards the tunnel you will brush very closely with the ghosts which will come down from the top. Don't let this scare you off. Even slightly off the timing you will still race past untouched and head down towards point B B: By this time the ghost will be hot on your tail but no close enough to bite yet. Good thing there's a power pill nearby. Keep going to the bottom of the lane and up towards the power pill. Eat it on the fly towards point C C: When reaching C you will see that after having eaten the power pill the ghosts changed direction and are coming back up the lane from point B, right into your path. A bit of freestyling here, not indicated in the pattern and you can eat at least 3 of them, plus clean up the 2 remaining dots on the right of point C. The way you clean this may vary slightly depending on your timing and ghost positions at the time of eating the power pill. Usually there are at least 2, normally 3 ghosts coming back up the lane right into your path and you gobble them up one by one. A third one will be approaching from point D on the right. This usually means gobbling up the ones directly in your path, then heading towards the one on coming from the right, giving it what it deserves, heading back to clean up the two dots and resuming the path as indicated towards point D. This sounds complicated and is explained in many words but it's actually only a couple of jerks on the joystick and executed within 2 seconds. D: When reaching point D and turning right the ghost which you had eaten previously are already back in the maze hot on your pursuit. The red ghost will be millimetres away from you, might even touch you slightly. Don't let it put you off, continue the pattern to the second power pill on the bottom right eat it and then either go an eat some blue ghosts or continue the pattern as indicated towards point E. In this level the ghosts are so slow that you can quite leisurely spend some time chasing 2 or 3 of them down before resuming the pattern.
  16. what kind of sandstone? there is a wide variability
  17. Where is assmonkey in this discussion - huh?
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  19. Hi I have found an error in the Beckey guidebook. On page 372 of Volume III, wherre it says "Using left hand on large hold and right toe in crack, make boulder move to gain obvious gully" I used my right hand on the hold, and couldnt get my foot high enough to get into the crack. I think this kind of arbitrary beta is pure foolishness. Someone's going to get off route and get hurt. I plan to sue The Mountainerrs about this.
  20. Joffre (note spelling) is in the Selected Alpine Rockies guide. You can look it up. There is a glacier route to the summit but that is easiest to approach from AB not BC. king george is 4th class by the easiest line, supposedly you need a rope and harness, crampons but no pro as for peck "Peck is a fine three-day climb that includes an easy, but navigationally challenging approach, some interesting scrambling, unparalleled views from the summit, and an opportunity to experience some delightful wilderness."
  21. Seen today "IF THEY DONT ALLOW METAL DETECTORS IN HEAVEN, I DONT WANT TO GO THERE" complete with picture of angel holding metal detector
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