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  1. how many HAS he told us about sounds like a freakin Dufferin orgy
  2. hard ballin'
  3. Dru

    Needless...

    Is this "trolling"
  4. Dru

    4:00 AM

    WTF, where the hell in North America did the sun rise at 4 AM this morning? Maybe in Antarctica where summer is drawing to a close.... most of the rest of the Southern Hemisphere is too far north in latitude for this to happen at this time of year.
  5. I decode your message above. Lesse 11 and one = Smiff
  6. if you didnt want to argue why did you reply? i get the last word
  7. squamish by day vimff by night its gonna be a good lineup we have abby watkins, matt maddaloni, john sherman, simon yates and krystof wielicki over the next 3 nights.
  8. are you suggesting that workers in developed nations should have to give up their jobs so that those in developing nations can have better paying jobs? where else do the jobs come from? are you suggesting that one should pass laws forbidding outsourcing, or how do you propose to stop it, is what I want to know?
  9. Dru

    trad gear

    yup they pack four cams into the width of a tcu the same size
  10. 1) sometimes the experience itself is not fun but it feels good afterwards to have done it. 2) i think you have a point. i rarely see experienced climbers grinning like they overdosed on prozac while walking down a low angle 10 foot long slab, or while rappelling off a 5 foot high cliff, or while fashion modelling shorts, polypro and seattle sombrero
  11. How are we going to raise wages in developing nations without giving them good paying jobs? Its the same deal as farm subsidies. American and European farmers are heavily subsidized while the market is effectively closed to produce from many 3rd world countries aside from certain cash crops such as coffee.
  12. it's Cypress Peak. cypress Bowl is the ski area in West Van.
  13. Dru

    trad gear

    more flexible, stronger, better slings, place nicer
  14. Dru

    trad gear

    after comparing aliens to WC zeros - the zeros win hands down.
  15. I'm surprised that a working stiff like yourself could be so anti-union. Unions make life better for for a lot of people. Why would you be surprised that I believe in the ideal of personal merit as opposed to collectivism? Anymore, unions are simply tools for large numbers of workers to extort benefits they may not necessarily deserve from employers. It's extortion plain and simple: "give us more money/benefits or all of us are going to walk out." Please don't respond with all sorts of "unions help blah blah blah"; I've worked with several unions over my career and have no use for any of them. Why not excel and earn based on your personal merit not the coattails of someone else? Prostitutes' Unions Mexican prostitutes, especially in larger cities, frequently form organizations--what amount to prostitutes' labor unions-usually to fight exploitation by the hotel owners who rent them their cribs, or to protest police harassment. Sometimes the prostitutes' unions also attempt to work with government public health workers conducting STDS and AIDS programs. Organized prostitutes also wok to eliminate child prostitution, apparently out of moral concerns and perhaps also to eliminate cheap competition. In Mexico City, prostitutes sometimes work with feminist organizations and with political parties to lobby for legislation or regulation in their self-interest. How dare these hookers "extort benefits from employers"??????
  16. The article was an after-the-fact defense of sport climbing by an Ontario has been sporto who edits the magazine. His contention that "sport climbing has won" was bunk in that if it had we would have retrobolted all the crack climbs like they did in France and Switzerland. It would be more accurate to say that sport climbing has become accepted as an acceptable type of climbing, than that sport won and trad lost. In fact if you look at the current scene I think you see more boldness than you did 5 or 10 years ago. Bouldering leads to highballing, highballing leads to soloing and an acceptance of trad falls, leading to hard trad leads. In fact I have seen a few cases where routes that would have been done as sport 5 yrs ago are being done as highballs now. How long will it be until bolts are removed from the Fly now it has been established as a boulder problem?
  17. Dru

    trad gear

    my current rack is mostly tcu's, camalots and WC zero's but if i was starting off today and wanted a full rack of cams I would buy DMMs and WC forged friends from MEC where they are cheap.
  18. it's about spreading the wealth outside north america and making the middle class global instead of a privileged group of euro, north american and japanese. correcting historical inequalities in evidence since colonialism. so stfu NIMBYs.
  19. you could also possibly still ski up the white salmon gl in may?
  20. if you are interested in less objective danger stay off coleman headwall
  21. bwahaha distel syubmitted all those bouldering pics and none of them won!
  22. Dru

    96.5 KRock

    mullhawk!
  23. Dru

    4:00 AM

    wake n bake
  24. Dru

    How safe are SUVs?

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