catbirdseat

Brevity is the soul of wit. Six words.

If a cop with a hand held Taser tells me to leave, I'm at least going to step back out of arms reach. After that, I'm counting on moving faster if he comes at me with the thing.

They would have had to hog tie him, but yes, that is what they should have done, given that he seemed to enjoy the Tasing so much.

Circle of Mockery. Damn that's pretty good! I had to Google it to convince myself it was an original idea.

There is a group going tomorrow. Anyone is welcome to join us. Probably we'll do mostly easy to moderate routes at Sunshine Wall. PM me if interested.

We are doomed unless someone can come up with hamburgers and french fries that are low calorie and yet taste like they are loaded with grease.

Liberalism? He was as conservative as they come.

I guess everyone is missing the point. The point is that the premise of the original post was that Americans should be more like the Europeans who eat healthy diets and either walk or bike to work. Now we read that the Europeans over the past ten years have adopted our unhealthy ways. They are abandoning the healthy meals in favor of the imported fast food joints. It's just really sad and I hope that this trend can be reversed.

More info: NBC Channel 4 TV

I was impressed by the man when I saw his PBS special years ago. I didn't agree with all his ideas but many of the I did agree with, like the idea of the "negative income tax". I'm sure JayB is taking this hard. Obituary- International Herald

Remember we're not talking about routes that seem hard for the rating. We're talking about routes that are hard to onsight, routes that have tricky or quirky moves that, once figured out, make the route seem much easier.

WORK!!!!

Let's see, given a choice between a night stick to the head or groin and a Taser, I'd take the Taser. Given a choice between having someone kneel on me so I can't breathe, I'd take the Taser. Given the choice between a bullet to the heart or a Taser, I'd take the Taser every time.

Yeah, yeah, and opinions are like a**holes...

Of what material is it constructed? Looks like concrete, but that would be exceedingly heavy. Although they might have used a lightweight aggregate.

Based on sheer drivel, it's got to be a toss up between Dechristo and Olyclimber (and his avatars).

The guy seemed to be enjoying the attention he was getting. Every time he had a chance to cooperate and deescalate the situation, he did the opposite. He totally had it coming.

I applied for jobs and sprayed on cc.com all day.

Go ahead and laugh, you fool.

Rather, you mean gauche.

Rope team of 2 or 3? Miraculous that you avoided serious injury. What was involved in getting out of the crevasse?

I have read about experiments in which entangled photons have been made to travel great distances before being "queried" as to their properties. They found that no matter what the distance, forcing one photon to give up information caused the partner photon to do likewise. But we know that this phenomenon cannot be used to transmit information faster than the speed of light.

Perhaps we Americans and the Europeans are no longer so different? MacDonalds has worked it's magic.

How about a button called "Active Topics (Non-Spray)". I find that with all the 6 word posts in spray from the same 3 avatars, Active Topics fills up, and some good threads get buried. The only way to find them is to go through the menus one at a time.

No. That's what brain stems are for. You just put your finger on something. Spray these days is dominated (at least with regard to post count) by about three or four brain stems. These brain stems manage to get out about 6-8 words and "Continue", before the brains of their owners can even register what is going on. The result has been pretty damn boring. When I start looking at RC.com, I know the situation has become desperate.