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Google "British woman with two vaginas turns down Euro 1m to star in porn film"
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Happened to me at Skull Hollow once, except that instead of gone for good, all our gear was in our taken-down tent and stashed behind a boulder 500m up the road heading up into the hills behind the campground, which we accidentally discovered while wandering around looking for a sheltered place to bivi with no tents or sleeping bags that night! Still don't know if this was supposed to be a prank or a theft.
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pull cords are the climbing equivalent of rainbow unicorns up your butt. just learn to climb on doubles or twins like the rest of the world.
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If you are looking for a hardshell that you plan to carry in your pack rather than wear most of the time, the Alpha SL is a good choice. That's what I got mine for and it's good for that. Light, packs well, quite waterproof when I actually put it on. If you are looking for a shell you plan to actually wear most of the time you are on the mountain, you might want to get something else - like a softshell.
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Is that all? Sure you don't want a steak and a blowjob as well?
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I DID A V3 IN THE GYM. THEN I DOWNRATED IT TO V2. CALL THE MAGS
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why buy when you can warranty?
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Is this the lineup for the elephant walk?
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http://www.weatheroffice.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-28_metric_e.html I doubt it. Maybe high-elevation north-facing stuff like Night N Gale. Which is in a total avalanche trap btw.
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DID CHAPS MOVE TO THE EAST COAST?
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http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/333333/West_Face_of_Mt_Si
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But was it a Stihl or a Husqvarna?
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It's only a matter of time until snafflecopters steal your lunch
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I don't really follow. Hunter-gatherers likely abandoned old people too but it doesn't make them warlike. Nobody here claimed that primitive folk didn't know violence but ambushing individuals to get revenge (for example) isn't war. My point is if you kill 50% of your population through violence and they are young children, or if you kill 50% of your population through warfare as mature adults, you still kill 50% of your population through violent means.
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You already look like an asshole, so you can't make yourself look any worse, bro-brah.
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Ok how would you react if somebody(s) murdered your entire family, with the exception of a son, and someone posts that as a response???? My point is over your head. In simple talk here it is: J_B says hunter-gatherer societies were peaceful. If they were it is because they killed, and in some cases ate, up to half their children at birth. Societies that had lower rates of infanticide usually did so because they needed the babies to grow up in order to fight other tribes or bear more babies.
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Anyone have a month to spare this summer?
G-spotter replied to TheNumberNine's topic in Climber's Board
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The practice of infanticide has taken many forms. Child sacrifice to supernatural figures or forces, such as the one practiced in ancient Carthage, may be only the most notorious example in the ancient world. Anthropologist Laila Williamson notes that "Infanticide has been practiced on every continent and by people on every level of cultural complexity, from hunter gatherers to high civilizations, including our own ancestors. Rather than being an exception, then, it has been the rule."[2] A frequent method of infanticide in ancient Europe and Asia was simply to abandon the infant, leaving it to die by exposure (i.e. hypothermia, hunger, thirst, or animal attack).[3][4] Infant abandonment still occurs in modern societies.[5] In at least one island in Oceania, infanticide was carried out until the 20th century by suffocating the infant,[6] while in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and in the Inca Empire it was carried out by sacrifice (see below). [edit] Paleolithic and Neolithic Many Neolithic groups routinely resorted to infanticide in order to control their numbers so that their lands could support them. Joseph Birdsell believed that infanticide rates in prehistoric times were between 15% and 50% of the total number of births,[7] while Laila Williamson estimated a lower rate ranging from 15% to 20%.[2] Both anthropologists believed that these high rates of infanticide persisted until the development of agriculture during the Neolithic Revolution.[8] Comparative anthropologists have calculated that 50% of female newborn babies were killed by their parents during the Paleolithic era.[9] Decapitated skeletons of hominid children have been found with evidence of cannibalism.[10] The children were not necessarily actively killed, but neglect and intentional malnourishment may also have occurred, as proposed by Vicente Lull as an explanation for an apparent surplus of men and the below average height of women in prehistoric Menorca.[11] Marvin Harris estimated that among Paleolithic hunters 23-50% of newborn children were killed. He argued that the goal was to preserve the 0.001% population growth of that time.[118] He also wrote that female infanticide may be a form of population control.[118] Population control is achieved not only by limiting the number of potential mothers; increased fighting among men for access to relatively scarce wives would also lead to a decline in population. For example, on the Melanesian island of Tikopia infanticide was used to keep a stable population in line with its resource base.[6] Research by Marvin Harris and William Divale supports this argument, it has been cited as an example of environmental determinism.[119]
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What good is punishment for mental illness? This isn't the 19th century anymore. Mental illness among our service members is skyrocketing and the current military command doesn't seem to be addressing it well enough from my civilian perspective. Your fire and brimstone moral system sounds chivalrous but is old-fashioned. Punative rehabilitation has it's place but not with a mentally I'll, decorated and wounded veteran of four tours. Four, right? You can't put a human in these situations without taking some responsibility for them How is this dumbass any different than Anders Breivik or Jeffrey Dahmer? Jeffery Dahmer wasn't a good guy with a decorated history who snapped after the trauma of extended tours and injuries that he signed up for in the first place in the defense of his country. Of course, I'm assuming that's the case with this guy, which by all accounts seems to be the case. I get your point, but if you can't see the difference between any two given cases of insanity than you're living in a pretty simple world! Killing civilians is killing civilians, no matter where they live. If this guy had gone nuts in Tacoma and killed 16 people in a mall he'd be facing a US criminal trial like the Oklahoma bomber, wouldn't he?
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What good is punishment for mental illness? This isn't the 19th century anymore. Mental illness among our service members is skyrocketing and the current military command doesn't seem to be addressing it well enough from my civilian perspective. Your fire and brimstone moral system sounds chivalrous but is old-fashioned. Punative rehabilitation has it's place but not with a mentally I'll, decorated and wounded veteran of four tours. Four, right? You can't put a human in these situations without taking some responsibility for them How is this dumbass any different than Anders Breivik or Jeffrey Dahmer?
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War is the father of all and the king of all; and some he has made gods and some men; some slaves and some free.
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Gives new meaning to "5-finger sponsorship"