Ireneo_Funes

I'd like to apologize for the non-valuable input in my last post.

It's kinda interesting how folks who'd never tell a racist joke or call someone a faggot have no problem discriminating against the overweight. As if their condition is evidence of some kind of moral failure on their part. And thumbs up on what chucK said.

One of us!

Survivor is still on the teevee?

I think we've learned in the last few years that the CIA is way less clever than we ever thought. So your offer is tempting, but no.

Hwæt! We Gar-dena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon.

seriously, way too much fluff(ing) going on today in the spray zone

wow, you picked the worst line from that whole album.

Here's a better analogy: Joe Middleclass and his pals wants a cultural experience so he grabs his crash pad and drives daddy's 2005 Pathfinder down to the projects. He then proceeds to rip it up on manky apartment buildings while his buddies document the adventure while making sure that every frame features at least one barefoot African American kid or teenage mother. They then give high fives all around, jump back in the Pathfinder and return to the suburbs with a story to share with all. How is this 'transmitting knowledge and ideas across cultural boundaries'? Couldn't have said it better myself! Of course, the knowledge being transmitted is that Joe Middleclass and his brahs are jackasses.

I don't think slumming is a healthy way to develop real relationships or transmit knowledge and ideas across cultural boundaries. It's predicated on an imbalance of wealth and power...the white adventurer can leave at any time, while the native is stuck in his ghetto. It gives the one with power deluded ideas about himself, and breeds resentment in the coolie. I don't really have any contextual information about Sharma or any of these other guys, so I'm just going on the way these pictures are posed (and they do seem really carefully posed, most of them). Sharma might be a cool guy; I have no idea and don't really care.

members only...aka sausagefest?

Northwest Weather & Avalanche Center forecasts are pretty helpful in planning winter trips.

I always knew the Members Only jacket was lame. Pair that with acid-washed jeans and a hypercolor shirt and you'd be rocking the lame train big time.

Yeah, good post, Carl, but I wonder if there really is no connection between (white) subject and (dark-skinned) native props in the background. It seems to me that the sadhu watching dude send the boulder problem serves to lend the white adventurer some kind of authenticity...even though the white guy is set apart because he's got resources far beyond what the natives could imagine, he still wants to be down with the locals. Post-colonial slumming!

I think I'll just cringe, thanks

the picture of chris sharma meditating on the beach is particularly cringe-inducing

spackle the den martinize your shorts

Vista Bridge AKA "Suicide Bridge" would be a not-very-discreet spot for climbing. I too am curious where John's secret garden is.

Dick Trickle

how do you make your victory cell-phone call from the summit, then?

You moody Russians!

I think chucK's got a point. Save your energy for the serious stuff...you might think sloth and apathy is pretty bad (and I'm sure it is hard for a parent to deal with, especially since you & your wife are so active yourselves), but it could be worse, like he could be getting arrested, hurting others, whatever. On another point, I think a trekking vacation in Tibet sounds awesome, but it's probably the last thing that your son would be into right now, judging from what you've said about him. And it wouldn't be much fun for you if he wasn't into it. Save it for 5-10 years down the line when he realizes that you're an OK guy after all.

I have a sense of entitlement.

Hmmm...did we read the same article?