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  1. I have a hunch it's more about form than content. If the trip report had been a one-paragraph "We climbed Baker via Coleman-Deming, great conditions, good views" type of things no one would have said much. The guy's trip report, however, lays out a million and one things they did "wrong" but doesn't take the appropriate "oh my god we fucked up and almost died" tone. It's more along the lines of "we fucked up and got lucky, so we rock!" So you have someone both detailing the mistakes they made and appearing cocky about it instead of kissing the feet of the 11th Essential. That's bound to attract the naysayers. On the other hand if somebody wrote a TR along the lines of "I toproped Classic Crack with the rope running through a sling, no biner. The sling is a bit melted now but I got up the thing" you might expect that someone would post up "You shouldn't run a load bearing rope through nylon cause it will cut the nylon and you will die" too. I didn't pay enough attention to see if these Baker guys really were just dumb and lucky or if they were hyping relatively minor details in their TR up into a supreme mediocre epic chestbeat. What exactly that was so bad that happened? They wore snowshoes, didn't take the 10 essentials, had bad weather and bad snow conditions?
  2. What about Bat Boy?
  3. I still don't get this. Information cannot be copyrighted, only presentation? A guide to the same area, different author, same routes, with different wording cannot legally be blocked - can it?
  4. If it gets too warm the snow on the midway slabs on the Pup Butt will start moving and you don't want to be underneath when it does (as someone who posts on this board found out in May last year).
  5. Burqa
  6. How much oil do they have?
  7. link http://icftg.com/2009/04/03/this-is-not-drama-and-i-am-not-a-real-rock-climber/#more-1241
  8. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Oogle see #4
  9. At Vantage it's not so much about the holds that come off as the rare holds that don't.
  10. I doubt it was Navy SEALS. that's just a cover story. Most probably Obama sent ninjas, because everyone knows when it comes to pirates vs. ninjas it's ninjas ftw.
  11. Obviously one can add a subgroup to "dumb and trendy" namely the gear whore Don't forget to buy your ATC-Sport in 5 different colours so that you can accessorize it with the 5 different pairs of boots and quiver of windshirts you bought in the last few months!
  12. Yes. Once I was at Smith Rocks and Juniper Junction WAS OUT OF HUCKLEBERRY ICE CREAM.
  13. Episode 2: Attack of the McClones
  14. maybe you could use some of the sand from your pussy
  15. Superconductor is one of the more poorly-remembered acts of the indie 90s, on account of its willful "obscurity" (travel within a cultural circuit too foreshortened to accomodate its more-or-less stated ambitions as the nine-piece of the *Heavy With Puppy* single) and unapologetic orientation towards the Canadian cultural matrix. *Hit Songs For Girls*, the first of two LPs, features even more aggressive figuration than the brutalism of "Bushpilot"; as Nomeansno listeners can anticipate, these songs are quite definitely not concerned with "treasured moments". Even if you have worse friends than the detritus of consumer culture, what one can "brew" from the lees and scum allowed the ordinary youth is really something "not worth having", i.e. aiming at creating a "notional" distance between exploiter and exploited as we know them from our occasionally none-too-carefully-scripted "personal" lives; this is a product not to expose the most durable suavity to.
  16. The commercial banana hammock I purchased was much too small. I had to upgrade to the zucchini model.
  17. G-spotter

    ALPINFOX

  18. No surprises here.
  19. Is that what you end up in if you can't handle the challenges of being a player?
  20. you tie into it and lower yourself!
  21. If thy hand offend thee, cut it off.
  22. If you are dumb or trendy enough to buy one, I guess you deserve it. If BD can make $$ selling to suckers, let'em.
  23. Forward Dog pose
  24. G-spotter

    Mythbusters

    I grew a mustache and bought a beret just so I could be the mustache dude from Mythbusters for Halloween.
  25. I bet that sucks.
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