willstrickland

Cheers Mate! Here's a pint of Full Sail Wassail to you

Actually MattP, I think a more fitting reply on my part in light of this thread would be: Piss off Kris Kringle! We know you'd just whistle for the flying reindeer to snatch your snapperhead pussified "I want my mommy" partner and your red-suit wearing clownpunching elf raping fat ass off the mountain. Once again St Nick

C'mon MattP, why you always gotta be the voice of reason? Anyone posting shit this late...and I'm an hour behind you, should be good and drunk. I'm saying climbing is intense, so are the climbers. You can check your societal niceties at the door. Yes, we can be, and are, upstanding. But OF COURSE you don't see it here because we're among our bretheren and the inane customs of "civilized" society aren't required. Well gawwwwlllleeee, SHAZAMMM!! Surprise, surprise surprise! And tell me Matt, if you drop your parter to the deck from a mere 70ft, what are the survival odds? How about 150ft? Not too good I'd reckon. But shit, what do I know? I'm not a lawyer afterall, just a hick engineer. Now back to more pressing matters...like the rest of this pint of Wassail

So it's that time of year, and I've been doing my share of sampling Fairbanks ain't no Portland when it comes to beer, but we get alot of stuff from the PNW up here. I'd rank this years seasonals something like this: Wassail Ole Fezziwig Jubel Winterhook Winternacht Alaskan whateverthefuckthenameofdatshizzis Ebeneezer What else is good out there? I'm going through a sixer of seasonal a week on top of the normal assortment until I've sampled most of the available seasonals up here. (On the normal assortment Alaskan ESB has been in heavy rotation along with Deschutes stuff since they're both cheaper than anything else good up here...like $6.40 /six compared to $8.50 for everything else, schtuff is expensive up here) FWIW, I'd rather have some of TGs barley wine or porter than any of it. Barley wine

And we should care because? If someone is too fragile to post on a freakin internet bulletin board, where they could be anonymous if they so chose, for fear of being flamed, they're definitely too fragile to tie into a rope with me. Catturd, do you ever realize how much shit here just goes completely over your head? I don't mean intelligence, I mean either generation gap, or "square factor". I don't know your age, but I'm guessing generation gap. Like it's big news that we're assholes? Most climbers I know can (and when the situation calls for it are) as respectful and upstanding as the next guy. We can be crude with each other because we've seen through the basic bullshit involved in day to day society. When the chips are down, niceties don't mean shit. Climbing is a game where the cost of total failure is death...that tends to cut out all the superficial bullshit that most of society stays emerged in. If you can't deal with something as silly as the tone of some words written in cyberspace, what the fuck are you gonna do when the storm breaks and you're on day 3 of no food, your partner has just passed out, and it's a 25 mile cross country trek to the nearest help? You gonna go to the chat room and work up the courage to post. Jeez-zus H on a popsickle stick, whadya want a blankie?

Might I suggest she try Beano, or perhaps Gas-X?

what part of Idaho did you grow up in, you fucking racist? Fuck you sizzlechest Maybe you wanna put the rest of what I said back into the quote, which was "...listen to this genre OR WOULD TRY TO SELL IT OFF TO USED CD PLACES..." Maybe you wanna talk to my former black housemates, black bandmates, asian housemates, or Korean climbing partners about how racist I am Go sell your cryin to someone who's buyin, jackass.

Yo Arlen, if it was the 2 disc set called "Guitar", I've got a copy I can burn for ya. If it was one of the "Shut up n play yer guitar" discs, no can help...my copy got jacked. PM me if you need it. Man that music WAS NOT tossed out by some car thief. For one, all the music you listed was hip-hop or urban contemp. I'd wager 98% of the car thiefs out there either listen to this genre, or would try to sell it off to used CD places, etc. Some dumb shit probably drove off with it on his roof. I speak from experience because my dumb ass drove out of the parking at Area 51 in Joes Valley with 200 CDs on my roof and when I saw them fall off in the dirt I could have kicked myself. Probably 50 of those 200 ended up with nasty scratches from the sand that worked its way into the CaseLogic book. And the Black Eyed Peas Outkast are ATL boys and their new album SpeakerBoxx/TheLove Below , well it too.

I've got a Petzl Pro-Traxion. Good system. Definitely better than the old WallHauler I had, and much better than the "use your jumars and a regular pulley". Only drawback is the the smallish pulley wheel. It could stand to be about twice as big. I believe the Kong Block Roll device has a rather large wheel on it. Gri-gri sucks to haul anything other than maybe a light pack, and in that case I'd probably just use a couple biners and a garda hitch (one of the more useful knots to know). But, you said you were El Cap dreamin, so see if you can find a Kong...I'd try ClimbMax in PDX, they are the only full-on Kong distributor I know of in the PNW, and if they don't have it, I'm sure they could get it. I did my first wall hauling with a regular pulley, a jumar, and a tibloc because I was soloing and had to use the other jug and my gri-gri to rap down and un-stick the bag a coulpe of times. After that episode in stupidity/cheap bastardness, I coughed up the money for a wall hauler...which kinda sucked. I'm happy with the ProTraxion.

Wal Mart is a plague on society. Their staff is underpaid with terrible benefits, all so we can save $0.49 on a $20 item, then go buy a venti half-caff skinny low foam latte for $4. They have a vicious union busting crew, and have closed a least one store where it looked like their union busting wasn't going to work and the workers would organize. Why should we care? Because while you save $0.49, and the Walton family gets rich, the under-compensated Wallyworld work force is sucking the public tit for health and social services that YOU are paying for. Save a dollar while shopping, cough up two in taxes. The only winners are the WalMart stakeholders.

Good cause, for sure. How are you getting it to let you click more than once a day though? What's the scam I'm missing? B-Rock pointed it out earlier, it's cookie based, so erase your cookies (tools->internet options->general tab->erase cookies). Do that after each time and you can ping it as much as you want.

Mad props to B-Rock for the cookie tip off. I been pinging that mother 20 or 30 times a day at work. Don't have much of a homeless problem here in Fairbanks, they turn into popsicles about November...and no football either....which I couldn't give two shits about anyway, only good football is COLLEGE football. Anyway, I encourage you to give it up for Atlanta, they have a huge homeless problem and the stupid yuppies there obviously are oblivious to this cool thing Cambells is doing.

Scott, maybe you misread my post. I don't care if it's hard, that's not the point. My point was that it's some rinky dink ass little craggin cliff, NOT some big mixed alpine line that someone will covet as a "worthy" ascent. You wanna put up mixed stuff on Prussik, cool man, just leave the bolts at home and do it in a proud style. My view...and that's all it is, MY view, is that if someone wants to practice mixed climbing on some inconsequential cliff and they feel the need to bolt it...go ahead, IF it's not established as a ground-up only area already. Would I rather them not bolt it? Sure. Do I care? Not much, it doesn't intrude on my experience, and unless there are people that were looking to do those lines ground up, it's not intruding on anyone else's experience either. I think sport-bolted routes (mixed, rock, or whatever) make climbing the equivalent of an outdoor gym...that's a big reason why sport climbing doesn't appeal to me. I won't deny that it's a great way to get strong, but to me it's pointless other than as a training activity. That said, it's pretty hard to train mixed climbing indoors...unless you own a three story meat locker or something. Something has to give somewhere. So I guess I'd rather have them get strong on some bolted little training cliff and then take the skillz to da hillz to climb something big and proud without the bolts.

Little story: In Kennesaw, GA local laws require every homeowner to own a firearm. This law was put into place in the mid to late 80s if I remember correctly. Do you know what happened? Crime rates dropped like a rock. Home burglaries wen from average to almost non-existent. I'm all for background checks, waiting periods, and restrictions on certain types of weapons. But, I'm also very against sweeping laws restricting firearms. The old cliche rings pretty true "If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns". I'd prefer to be able to fire back, or wax the tweaker who decided to break into my house at night and try to rob me and rape my wife. Of course that assumes that one day I'll be married...pretty big assumption, that one YMMV.

I'm not a Bush supporter, but I am a Georgia native. Max Cleland was a nutjob who rode his disability through a sucession of state politcal offices before becoming a US Senator. I wasn't happy with his replacement - Saxby Chambliss, but nevertheless, whacko Cleland needed to go. The guy seriously had some out of touch views on plenty of issues...take look at his voting record and some of his statements sometime. I don't discount what you're saying about Rove, particularly the dirty press about McCain...who I hoped would pull down the nomination (McCain isn't my ideal candidate by far, but was better than most in that race). Anyway, it's not big news Scrambler, dirty press and backhanded rumour spreading has always been a part of politics...it goes hand in hand with the lust for power.

Pope dude, I've backed your stances on plenty of issues in the past. This won't be one of them. I don't know whether you're just trolling to get a rise outta people or you truly believe your BS. Look, there are many "styles" or "disicplines" of climbing. Just as Smith is a bolted sport haven and Indian Creek is a trad mecca, each area has it's own niche. I'd be the first to scream when someone retrobolts trad lines in a trad area. I'd be whining if people were bolting trad/mixed lines in the mountains. BUT, get some perspective man. It's a mixed cragging area. It's not like it's some killer 1000m alpine line that people are salivating over. It's a dinky ass little cliff where people can go get strong and practice hard mixed climbing in safety. Personally, I wouldn't waste the time bolting it because it looks like it's easy enough to set a TR. But, some people enjoy "leading" this stuff and I'd wager it's better to be "leading" on the bolts than punching holes in your rope while trying to TR it. It also appears that some of the lines are pretty overhanging and a TR fall from below halfway might put you on the ground. That's not something most people will want to face when they're out there to train in what is essentially an outdoor mixed climbing gym. That type of climbing is not my bag, but neither is Smith...so I don't go there. Just don't retrobolt my trad lines, and I'm a happy dude.

Don't forget, you can keep the choice as "NA", you don't have to choose Y or N. For example, I think alot of people supported the resolution because of politcal pressure of looking like being weak on defense, so for me it's NA, because ideally my candidate would not have supported it, but I won't rule someone out because they did. BTW, Dean ended up being the only one left for me.

When in Utah, I ate ants on occasion. Mainly to get points across to the hoods. The ones that were half black/half red, pretty small so not much nourishment, but novel nonetheless. They taste lemon-like, but not sour, if that makes sense.

Layton, bro, little advice: That's not something you say to a woman. It's not something she wants to hear. What she wants to hear is "Ohh, I bet your feet are tiny, by the way I'm a multi-millionaire. Would you like to join me for dinner on my yacht? Jean-Paul, my chef, is preparing sushi, and I just stocked the wine cellar onboard. We'll take a little cruise around the sound and catch the sunset." Try that one next time.

I find it to be NON-news. Yeah, fuckin-a right Al Jazeera is gonna go film it if they're tipped...just like Fox,CNN,MSNBC, and all the rest had imbedded journalists. The report spins it so as to imply that those media outlets PARTICIPATED or AIDED in the attacks, I'd like to see the evidence. Perhaps they did, but again..show me the evidence. OTOH, as Caveman said, nobody knows what really happened at that hotel except the people on the battlefield. I'd feel reasonably confident that snipers had been on that roof at some point. I also feel reasonably certain that if I'm the gunner on that tank looking for snipers, and some dumbfuck cameraman is pointing a camera at me from 1000m, he's going to look like he's holding an RPG aimed at my tank....and he's going to fucking die. Sorry mate, but that's the chance you took when you stuck around to report on a WAR. To imply that the US military on the ground targeted the media is ludicrous.

Yep, shot the one with the pistol from a Summit climbing stand. Propped the barrel on the side of the poplar tree as he walked in from behind me. It was a heavy weapon, with 8" barrel, but I think the Mod1911 .45 we had was heavier. Deer population keeps rising in GA. When I started hunting it was 1 buck, 2 does during firearms season with does on designated doe days only plus two either sex tags for archery/primitive weapons. They began raising it right about then and now it's up to 5 in firearms and another 3 primitive. My stepdad usually only put one or two down a year, so my brother and I used up his extra tags. We probably ate venison 4 days a week. If the processor adds a little beef fat to the ground stuff, it tastes very close to beef. Sunday dinner was crockpot quarter roast for as long as I can remember. My brother has put 8 in the freezer a few years. But, he also hunts about 3 days a week during the season and takes a 7-9 solid day trip usually once each year(or he did before he had kids anyway). Venison is really good, especially in the midwest where they're eating corn all the time. Kill a fat doe for the best meat. Avoid shooting bucks during the rut (although this is the easiest time to take a buck, I didn't hunt for trophy, I hunted for food) they're pretty gamey and tough.

How could I forget? Best Thanksgiving turkey I ever had was a wild turkey my brother took the previous spring. Smoked over mesquite and cherry wood chips, so tasty! Usually wild turkey is a little tough and dry, but this one was amazing. I've got some bros who eat that sea urchin shizz at the sushi joint, they can have 'em.

Let's see Fairweather, should I debunk your bs...it's too easy man, but hell, why not: Point 1. Let's not forget, more people voted for Gore. I'd have a hard time not being smug too if I had to debate some dumbshit like Bush. Actually, I'd have a harder time not saying to Jim Lehrer "is this fucking clown for real? this guy is running for PRESIDENT?" Point 2. We know Dean was intelligent enough and industrious enough to make it through medical school, and I don't think Daddy being director of the CIA and a big money alumnus had anything to do with that. Short fuse? Who's dropping fucking bombs Fairweather? WMD huh? WHERE DEY AT YO? I'm sure some will turn up...as soon as we can fabricate them. Point 3. Being underestimated is Bush's greatest asset? Are you kidding me? You act as if he schemed it out..."Hmm, if I act like a fucking clueless redneck, the liberals will underestimate the power of clueless redneck voters in the voting populace. Ummm, well I guess since he doesn't really have any assets, you might as well choose that. Maybe his greatest asset is his lack of command of the english language, or perhaps his total lack of knowledge of foreign policy, both historically and at the time of his "election". Fairweather, I'd suggest you make a trip to your local opthamologist, you seem to be a bit blind to the issues...of course that could be because your head is so far up your ass, or perhaps you can't see past big daddy Bush's rod while his nuts are on your chin FWIW, I'd vote for McCain before Bush, Gore, or Dean. Hell, I'd vote for Ventura before any of those jokers.