ivan

asshole!

that would account for why there are so many of them?

do i want her coming home w/ a chinese or hispanic boyfriend?

like when cursing at street-urchins? i do prefer chinese cuisine...

Please explain - they had to reshoot the battle scenes?? WTF?? Please explain - haven't read it. Prolly won't ever get the time. Cliff notes, plz? Amen to that. Gettysburg, Bull Run/Manassas, Fredericksburg, Antietam/Sharpsburg, Shiloh, Harper's Ferry, the list goes on and on... the up-close fighting scenes are silly - the bayonents are made of rubber and wobble - there is no blood, no wounds (save 1 moment when they blew the budget on a 2 dollar bottle of ketchup ) - the british enfield rifle shoot a 45 caliber bullet that put giant gaping holes in zules, but you get no sense of that - nor do you of the zulu's awful, ritualistic habit of disemboweling people after they killed them (it was believed that if they did not release the dead man's soul (which lives in the entrails) that his ghost would haunt them for the rest of their lives (zulu warriors had the period of one moon before they also had to return to their home hearth and "wash their spear" in order to prevent haunting - this was actually a useful superstition, in the grand sense, in that it necessarily limited the length of combat operations because the whole army (or impi) would mutiny if not allowed to go home a month after a war started) zulu culture is actually quite fascinating and the book worth reading, w/ the caveat that you must skip any portions related to the history of the white-folks in south africa, which is dreary as for the inaccuracies in the film, in brief: there was no dissension between the 2 officers at rorke's drift, the zulus tried no grand strategy but just attacked pell-mell on all sides, the reverend witt (and his daughter) were not present, the british shot most of the "keffirs" in the back when they ran away at the onset of the battle, and there was no second day of the battle (and thus, none of the "we salute you" nonsense show at the films end). also, "hook" the malingering private in the hospital (who won a VC there) was not the rascal he was played to be. did you know napoleon bonaparte's last descendent (his grandson) was killed in the zulu war?

well, it only took me 2 years so i assume she can do it in less than 7

my daughter's entering kindergarten next year - vancouver has language emersion programs for both languages - which would you choose? i reckon both are good for her guiding me to regions w/ cool mountains

the rei folk like it when you rip them into pieces right in front of them when bringing'em back for a refund personally, i like them - helmets are mostly for keeping me from banging my skull into rocks and fending off small size projectiles - i'm not too worried about their performance on taking giant groundfalls or resisting meteor strikes b/c those are fuckups i plan on avoiding - so long as their light and don't get totally shredded on the outside of my back on the approach hike, i'm happy.

That's a fuq'n great movie. I still think it's Michael Caine's best work, even if it was his big break into film in '64. I have a friend who visited Rorke's Drift. He said it made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. I had a similar experience in the Devil's Den at Gettysburg. That shite is weird. great movie but needing a remake for the fighting scenes are silly, silly, silly also, once you read "the washing of the spears" you realize the epic film is 90% hog-warsh i miss living near civil war battlefields - drinking a golf-course pack while walking them is a good way to spend an afternoon!

mushroom tea always makes me feel funny

the phattie omelet i cooked up nearly came back up while at the gym, but the warm water pool afterwards w/ the kid-oes answered tolerably - after setting most of the brush in the backyard on fire, it's time for some hair of the dog and the last 40 pages of the letter of marque!

yeah, but i bet that piece of moss would respond a whole helluva a lot more positively to such a treatment

and not just any kind of people!

far be it for a climber to dismiss another wierdo for their bizarre hobby

i remember driving past peta world hq all the time back in the day - they sure got a bitching big boat floating off the peer!

sounds biblical dude...or is it romulus and remus? actually w/ their ma gone it's kinda fun - i sow discontent and have just taught them the proper way of handling a giant goddamn french knife when making the garlic suffer!

everytime the wife talks about trying to replace the bofa w/ several thousand dollars worth of new couchs i simply go into the kitchen and sharpen the knives

split the difference - why doesn't everyone sleep on their stairs? must make coffee or one of the children will have to be sacrificed to almmighty baal...

wife out of town w/ lesbian friends...several liters of cabinent soevigner and a few hundred pages of obrian dispensed - children abed - should i crawl upstairs or sleep on my most commodius bofa?

Nope....just the sensitive moss folks! my question to you and our brethern kev is, could we keep it safe for the tourons? or would it take a zombie apocalypse to make it okay to clean out a couple lines up all that beautiful stone near the p-lot?

and 'fore you get angry joe, let me say that, in the eventuality the park was closed, the best way for us climbers to let the s side still stay undisturbed during hte peregrine season would be to make the north side a realistic playground - the biggest obstacle to me seems keeping it safe for the tourists, as developing anything near the summit would seem potentially wicked dangerous for folks at the base - there'd have to be a buncha folks involved when cleaning up there i'd wager...but on the other hand you wouldn't have to worry about pissing off the train folks!

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i don't know shane (perhaps you can speak for him joe?) but i assume it's him and his crew working on it - the next bit from the anchor looks a very fun corner to a cool protected ledge system, and above that they have a rope fixed through ground that looks much easier, but therefore much more vegetable-fucked - plenty of sweat left to make 'fore it'd be ready, but there's no reason to think the line won't be able to be pushed eventually to the rancho relaxo area and therefore to the true summit! it would suck if the park closes b/c of budget cuts but one potential positive would be north side routes could be developed more aggresively? god knows theres a ton of sick options if only the boltability/cleanability was enhanced? there's so much impossible stone at the moment given its completly unprotectably nature and sections of jungle-fuck infestation.

not bad for an invisible hand