minx

somebody pass the cabana boy

cripes people! i've been kicked out of bars, movie theatres and even a holiday inn but never an entire country take your bloody passport and be done w/it!

i knew you had it in ya! you can laugh!

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watched soccer on saturday morning, cragged in the lovely sun on saturday went for a walk and admired the lovely crisp fall weather and cleaned house on sunday unexciting, uneventful, uninteresting and a perfectly wonderful w/e.

from a couple of climbs earlier in the year i've become a big fan of the wild country curved hexes for alpine routes. mix those w/nuts and 4-6 cams and couple small try cams and i'm pretty happy these days.

"We take rock, paper, scissors about as seriously as you take something like rock, paper, scissors. We have a lot of fun with the concept." "We have a lot of fun with the concept."

ah yes, and dru speaks from personal experience.....

scrambler, quit sucking the light hearted nature out of my posts. these are interesting accomplishments but way too damn serious for a rock paper scissors discussion

rock, paper, scissors World - Canada Canadian Beats World at Rock, Paper, Scissors Sun Oct 26, 6:45 PM ET TORONTO (Reuters) - The competitors, in glitzy, off-the-wall costumes, call themselves professional athletes. Some even bring along team doctors to supervise their nutrition and take them through intense warmups. This, it seems, is serious stuff to the 320 competitors who shook their fists early into Sunday morning at the World Rock, Paper, Scissors Championships at a nightclub in downtown Toronto. The man who did win -- and netted himself a purse of C$5,000 ($3,825) -- was Toronto's Rob Krueger, a member of the team "Legion of the Red Fist." To achieve the lofty title of World RPS Champion, he threw a combination of rock-paper-paper, defeating his opponent's offering of three rocks. Treading a thin line between silly spectacle and serious sport, the event drew a crowd of about 900, including many bemused spectators who wandered, with drinks in hand, among a slew of local and international media. Andy Cumming, 28, flew to Canada from London with five other members of the United Kingdom team, as well as their team doctor who counsels them on warmups, diet and practice. "It's an internationally played game, you know," he said, wearing a pair of worker's coveralls with the red, white and blue of the Union Jack patterned on it. "It's a complete travesty that not many people take it seriously." To the uninitiated, taking the playground game seriously is something of a tall order. Many competitors wore crude, homemade costumes, and played with a can of beer in their non-throwing hand. Douglas Walker, managing director of the Toronto-based, 700-member World RPS Society, is a little more realistic about the so-called sport he promotes. "We take rock, paper, scissors about as seriously as you take something like rock, paper, scissors. We have a lot of fun with the concept."

believe me, i was troubled at the time. however, i will say this. at no point was it anywhere close to a rescue situation. in this case it was a partner who was able to help me keep my head about me and safely backtrack myself to more secure ground. and this was quite a long time ago. what i realized this weekend is how much confidence having a partner who could've climbed the sketchy section had i had to bail on the pitch gives me.

dryad, i thought about this post this w/e. i was climbing with someone who wouldn't have been able to bail me out if i'd ended up off route, in harder territory than i feel comfortable leading. interesting, good point. i've wandered off route into "uncharted" waters before. it's not a great feeling but i was lucky enough to have a good partner who bailed my sorry ass out. i realized that i most often climb with partners who are stronger climbers than i am. a false sense of security to be sure, but none the less it does add to the comfort factor.

minx, you totally missed out. i can't believe you went home after the fish and chips!!! i figured i would miss out but i couldn't face an early morning soccer game w/hangover. a very few things are better than w/friends, and one of them is watching my kid play soccer way too early in the morning in the middle of a muddy field i still want to know what you guys did to e-rock. he's just not right anymore

i don't know! i wasn't looking that closely! these two are a case study in what women don't want! Which would you prefer? That, or this: none of the above!?!?!

i don't know! i wasn't looking that closely! these two are a case study in what women don't want!

A thong? a pink tiger stripe thong i keep thinking of those puzzles that i did as a kid "find all the things wrong w/this picture"

apparently i haven't been looking at this enough...what the helll is he wearing to cover his package!!!

but i thought you hated everything

i'll keep this thought going. life is so super good right now, i can't hardly believe it

does this explain why e-rock is posting gay porn pics and comments about manray?

trask, i didn't realize that you'd get so bitter when i said those things about your performance. come on...now, you're not that bad. stop kicking the dog, you just need a hug I know it. Would you come sleep with me tonight. I miss snuggling with you. awww trask, it's so sweet of you to ask. but those performance things are still a problem for me. let me know whe you get that 'script from your doc and then we'll talk. but i know the dog would snuggle w/you if you'd stop kicking him. The only performance problem I remember was you hollering how my dick was too much for you and an hour of scroggin' was wearing you out. I suggest you do some calisthenics and stretch maneuvers with a large cucumber. yeah...i know old age will make your memory foggy, you might want to talk to the doc about that too.

trask, i didn't realize that you'd get so bitter when i said those things about your performance. come on...now, you're not that bad. stop kicking the dog, you just need a hug I know it. Would you come sleep with me tonight. I miss snuggling with you. awww trask, it's so sweet of you to ask. but those performance things are still a problem for me. let me know whe you get that 'script from your doc and then we'll talk. but i know the dog would snuggle w/you if you'd stop kicking him.

trask, i didn't realize that you'd get so bitter when i said those things about your performance. come on...now, you're not that bad. stop kicking the dog, you just need a hug

good question PP- and that's the reason i think that cracked's point is good- i don't know. i would probably be less intimidated by a trad route w/o obvious protection than a bolted route of similar grade. it's clearly a comfort level/control issue w/me. i trust my gear placements so as long as i feel like i'm going to have them, i'm happy. the question just stuck in my mind b/c so many people have suggested i get back to leading by clipping bolts rather than trad routes.

lets for the sake of general discussion leave the particular crack out of it. no reason other than since it was my lead, my impressions of it are what mattered not everyone's experience on it. yes, it was sustained strenuous. not a lot of breaks but pro just about anywhere i wanted. had to run it out a little in a few spots. the bolts were reasonably spaced, no it would not have been a clean fall but the route was fairly short so it wasn't particularly tiring.