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dude, we're talking about bacon here, not sex w/ men!

i'm here for the bitches..and the brews...and the blunts!

if i'm doing it w/ a rope, i only clip the 2 80 year old ring pins my fav was trying ot solo it last fall while waiting for jim to show up and getting impatient - i thought it would be dry enough but upon getting to the blackberry ledge, discovered it was too wet to sanely solo - but how to get back down? i had a rope but no gear - in the end i rapped off my emergency prusik, tied into a knot and slotted into the crack spent the rest of that morning drinking beer in one of the tunnels and chainsmoking

let's pause a moment to remember all the boys who died to keep china british!

i thought that way was just to do it once and call it 5.9 A2?

good point - i'm fine w/ a limited autocracy at the mighty, mighty beacon-wand - jim's the august emperor and if he says it's alright, then so be it. but who takes over when he shuffles off the mortal coil?!?

more like just a failed conspiracy to kill black folk

"and it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard rain that's gonna fall"

you guys really need a vacation somewhere, say the emuclaw pet reserve and wildlife sanctuary it's totaly obvious shit - boys who wanna kiss boys n' bitches wanna tongue bitches and leave all their shit to onna'nother when they die of heart-attacks in their strap-ons have just as much of a human right to do that as some stupid cracker and his whore - the gov's role should be very minimal, mostly just interested int he tax, inheritance and child issues associated with it i'm glad the measure passed - if the result of our byzanitine federalized legal system is that our fair state atracts a lot more queers n' their dollars, what numbnut fiscal conservative could argue? hey, if we get more queers, does that mean we get more leavenworths? i can cave on a whole lot more gays issues if so

i seem to recall he went o-f-t to the land where people are officially nuetral about everything (despite being ragingly conservative, a fine therapy for him i'd imagine) - hanging out in switzerland would seem to be a perfect spray-supresant, especially if you have designs on the eiger and wishes to Become Penitent

ah - i grasp what must have transpired - can't say that i'm offended, it's a trade-route that's being preserved, and yah, i solo on it enough that, even though i alwasy feel i have it wired such that i can recover from a blown hold w/o death, i'm okay w/ knowing its glued - i'd be more interested in its maintainence schedule at this point - what is it? i look forward to seeing n' yarding on it, though in part its pure personal escapism at the moment - so long as it not gross or obvious looking and doesn't actually accelerate the harm it seeks to prevent, good work!

solo?

ah, but you can make the tempting anchor w/ a 60 w/ 8 inches to spare!

i've been up there w/ you, remember?

that's part of what's fucked in the new rome - gladiator contests were generally free for the public yeah but u didnt get to have kickass tailgate parties though... actually you did - and on the emperor's dime no less! plus women fucking polar bears!

word. and how much iq does a belayer need to jug a rope if he can't climb it? you shouldn't be putting up a route w/ bullshit anchors if that's the problem.

that's part of what's fucked in the new rome - gladiator contests were generally free for the public

yep, but a bunch of ex-poor baseball dudes with a bunch of talent are now filthy fucking rich cause of a gross physical expression. funny how people hate capitalism until it comes knocking at ur door with a wheel barrel full of LOOT athletes are the gladiators of the modern age baseball would be a whole lot cooler if there was actual competition, not just a century of rich teams beating the holy fuck outta poor ones

fuck i hating the fucking fuck yankees - i'm w/ u pink - they are the gross physical expression of everything fucked up w/ america - the perfect team name for a monstrosity - i coulda put osama's pic up on my wall if he'd gone after yankee stadium instead (well, minus the civilian collateral damage i reckon )

i like that bruce springstein freaked out on reagan when he used "born in the usa" as his '84 campaign song - great example of republican retardation at that, given the message of the song

holy shit i can't believe i watched that whole thing

good luck dave - it wasn't until 4 days in that i got concerned enough to take my girl into the clinic - she was obviously breathing really fast and shallow - the doc she saw poo-poohed it and sent me home - the wife took her back the next day (5) as she had grown extremely listless and lethargic - she got 2 shots of antibiotics after an xray showed obvious pnumonia - they considered hospitalizing her but decided to just see her in 24 hrs - the day after (6) that she seemed much better, very active and happy and so they gave her oral antibios - that evening though her fever returned w/ a vegeance and she became much worse - couldn't move, refused to take medicine, angry, coughing - so day 7 she was back to the clinic whereupon they wigged out, started her on oxygen and did hte whole lights-blaring thing into portland - that night they cut into her chest, put in a tube, and drained off fluids for the next 3 days whereupon her lung popped back into shape - today's #12 and she's back from the dead but probably will keep the cough for weeks as her lungs clear out the bullshit

indeed - the standard rules for breaking the law apply curently - primarily: don't get caught & don't brag about it on the interwebs

got my girl home today - she looks like a concentration camp survivor - lost 10% of her body-weight, blond hair fused into a singular bob marley dread, a distinctly hollow look in her eyes, but she's very happy to be home and even got to wave at her kindergrten class friends at recess from teh car window when we drove by to remind her she'll eventually get back to a regular life i don't know much more about vaccines than i learned in college biology and watching "outbreak" - clearly vaccines have transformed the world for the better in general - no one misses smallpox, measles, diphteria (holy shit, if you've never read of the cruel, cruel way that killed kids, google it b/c it was beyond fear-of-god-awful), etc. as for the flu, whatever - clearly that vaccine is much less useful/effective - some years i get one, most years not - i'm lazy and not a zealot - it is folly though to assume that your personal strenght and health will save you if a flu like the 1918 one shows up again as it killed strong healthy folks by the millions (though i suspect the mortality would be much less these days for folks like my daughter who actually get extensive meical care) we're climbers - do we really worry about shit like this? pretty much the same as getting clobered by icefall or hit by lightening - not really that much you can do about it, eh?

funny, i always saw him as the half-retarded bat boy who snorts the baseline chalk, pisses on his uniform pants, trips on his cleats, and goes by the cheerful nickname of "slappy"