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bolts make the baby jesus cry, and that makes me want to kill, kill, kill!!!

< crossing figures and hoping pink puts it over his head > is that the same as caping?

elitists are, by their nature, few and far between, and given to lofty ideals - a small group - so to take a strong position held by just a few, by definition, makes you an elitest - that doesn't mean your bad though - some elitest are kewl, others are krackers!

i don't believe for a second that adam and jamie are actually married to women - those san frannie boys are fruitier than bat-poo redhead chick is kinda hot in a dirty, sorta smart chick slutty sorta way and i have no doubt the whole us army would be shaking hands with themselves to her if that was all they could get - the old blondie chick w/ the shit-ton of tatoos was maybe kinda more desirable, but she was also a lot scarier too and i think she cruised after they buried her ass alive can't fuck w/ mythbusters - they do interesting shit and display the scientific method in a an enjoyablbe way - how can you not enjoy blowing a house up w/ bug-bombs, testing breathalyzer beating techinques, building a solar death-ray, a lead balloon or a batman auto-sky-hook gun? the principle flaw w/ the show, inherent to everything on discovery channel, is that there are commercials literally every goddamn 5 minutes

of all of the threads i have ever read, this one is, without a doubt, one of them

check out old rag mtn, just east of shenandoah - a very cool hike up a very rare thing in virginia (a giant chunk of granite) and if you bring your shoes and some sense, you can find a # of very cool things to clamber around on) go to seneca. seriously. and do it soon before it's too hot! for adventure, you can console yourself w/ scuba-diving, snorkeling, fishing, drinking and river-wallowing!

i have a very important opinion on this august subject

"beer: the solution to, and cause of, all of life's little problems" - homer simpson

seneca fucking rocks, as do the (free) musuems available at every turn

i don't feel i've classed you and put you in a box stp, so clarify: yes or no, should gays have the right to marry or not? if you say no, then whatever the machinations of your explanation, you can't help but come across as the guy who says, "i ain't racist, i just hate niggers"

leopold and loeb? okay, pre-depression, but a fine example of folks being bat-shit since way-back

dunno for meself - i've always strived for mediocrity in all things - i thiiiink i've suceeded pretty well at that endeavor

"There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed." Samuel Johnson

So in other words...you are incredibly selfish... dude, did you not know? i am the calm little center of the world. you vying for sainthood? st bone does have a fine ring to it...

rousseau's "social contract" has your answers stp - yes, you can be forced to become enlightened - it's what made so many heads roll in the french revolution! in this case, i don't think the state is trying to paint a picture of what an "ideal society" looks like, merely saying, "here are some elements it WON'T have, like shamelessly discriminating against people based on an inherent characteristic" - you're not one of those nut-jobs that think folks chose what they fancy to fuck, eh? polygamy should be legal - the state has no right to tell you who or how many folks you can marry - it's none of its business - prostitution should be legal too - pedophilia as you mention is dumb (clearly the state has an obligation to protect those who can't protect themselves, like children and the mentally disabled) how is the state invalidating the wishes of a parent in this issue? the state can't keep you from retreating to a shack in the middle of the woods, shunning all outside content - home-school baby!

if i stopped climbing i would kill my kids, my wife, my neighbors, everybody in safeway, anyone driving a prius or a ford truck, non-smokers, the religious, the spastic, every "john" in the world, anyone to the political right or left of me, and generally everyone i randomly ran into - it is for the good of the global world order then that i fritter away the best days of my life in meaningless combats far from the eyes of the disinterested

you moving to florida rob? i figured if i couldn't climb anymore that scuba-diving would be the next great hobby frontier for me...

i think that they twain of us could consume all the xanax in the world and not be able to achieve such an end how the hell was VT 4th though? jeebus, they're the gheyiest state in the union, no?

Sounds like you guys need to dial in the "leave no trace" system a bit. huh? seems to me this reads like we did, in fact, leave no trace?

nature is not a person - it doesn't exist, it has no feelings, no preferences, so it doesn't give a shit what we do to it - if nature did have a brain i doubt it would worry - its 5 billion years old and would know full well in a short time all the alterations of man will all be gone anyway that said, you could have a zero bolt crag, you'd just have to work to keep it that way and be prepared for things to get nasty - duh. the folks out at rocky butt are plenty succesful in chopping new bolts as they appear. of course they are broadly considered fools. if your no-bolt crew doesn't maintain a presence though, the bolts will appear.

if only i had 250$ i reached the anchor from my hook - i just wanted to about it!

but we had to beat the goldbar traffic! actually i woulda liked to continue up the last crack, but the long drive ahead, the lack of consensus, the recalcitrant dankness and the topo assurance of it being a 'dirty crack' nixed the motivation - ah well, i was never in any danger of being hardcore - next time i'll just aid solo it and there'll be no debate!

homemade cheat stick based on my memory of beaconben's design - the smallest gauge aluminum i could find at home depot and two shitty biners w/ a bunch of duck tape - after the last debacle at smith w/ the shredded rope i've taken to carrying another small roll of duck tape wound round a baby syringe in my back pocket as it happened, the cheat stick made my life a great deal simpler at the top of the 4th pitch