Choada_Boy

And I thought all one needed to do to climb a Big Peak was get the money! Can't I just write a check and magically get my ass to the top? I should have "experience" too? Damn you, Mountain Madness!!

I'm starting to suck a lot less on guitar, and I'd like to start recording my playing, primarily because I forget some of the riffs I come up with. Any suggestions, other than an old-school tape recorder? How do you record your playing?

Shocking. We must be the fattest fucks on the planet. And have you seen the size of their margarine tubs?

Clearly the most socialist countries in Europe (Scandinavia) have the best health care. Please forward this thread to Obama for societal reassignment.

do you have a source for this "20 min affair, if that" claim? can't say i've ever seen a broken arm managed that quickly in any emergency dept i've worked in. perhaps your "8 solid hours" in canada was caused by people with real emergencies (e.g., myocardial infarction, potential stroke, seizures) being treated before your friend got treated. emergency department operates according to the principle that the sickest people-- those with potentially life-threatening complaints -- get treated first, those without life-threatening problems (e.g., broken arm with pulses intact distal to the site of injury) get treated when time is available, and that's true regardless of whether health care is organized according to a single-payer or multipayer system. restaurants operate according to the "first come, first served" principle but emergency rooms don't because there is a profound difference between delivering health care and serving big macs. having to wait in the emergency room for care is usually a good thing. it means you aren't about to die or lose a limb. it means you aren't very sick or too badly hurt. And white guy with a paper cut get served first, obviously, even if the black guy with Ebola is bleeding out.

Leashless? We are obviously dealing with ice I in both instances (lake v. WI), but there is clearly a macroscopic difference between the two as evidenced by the way they refract light (clear v. opaque respectively) Regardless, v-threads are strong, so who really cares. I can't remember ever hearing of a v-thread failing. We set one up once, and connected it to a 3:1 with 4 people pulling on it. We then chipped out the ice between the cords under load, and it failed with about 2 inches between the cord.

Cures for a closed head injury: You gotta open that shit UP! And all three are available for less than $18K!

I agree with your disagreement. Water Ice Polymorphism

Perhaps we could could convict them here, then send them to a Russian prison.

Q: What's better than winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics? A: Not having Down's Syndrome.

Looking good up there?

Don't get down on yourself. Your sheep shagging art gets me hot.

You're proving my point for me, youth. "Knowing what you're doing" comes from "experience". You lack the experience, for example, to understand the proud tradition of man/sheep sex graffiti in the Pacific Northwest climbing community and you're showing your hubris by casting aspersions towards an unknown climber (Was that my lead?) over the screw count on a pitch. Why's that? (And we only brought ten screws, so it couldn't have been, like, 14.) Here's a little thought experiment that may answer mattp's question ("WTF?"): You're 16 now. Remember when you were 8? Remember how clueless and immature you were at the time, compared to yourself now? Now, imagine that you're 32. How clueless and immature will the 16 year old you look to the 32 year old you? You clearly have natural talent, fitness, skill, and plenty of motivation. That's awesome. I wish I had that at your age. I was too busy getting laid. Sure, you've done some climbing, and don't take this too personally, but you're still a kid, and as such you lack two things that I think are very important to the issue at hand (the safety of a "minor" as a climbing partner): a fully formed brain and an "adult perspective". For example: kids your age, especially boys, are not skilled at fully evaluating the consequences of their actions before they take those actions. Additionally, if you we're to evaluate your potential actions before taking them, you'd be doing so through a lens of experiences and perspectives of a 16 year old. What potential consequences would the 32 year old you come up with? The 16 year old you asks a total stranger to "come up here and say that to my face". Hopefully the 32 year old you wouldn't. I had a friend learn that one by regaining consciousness in an MRI after getting his face kicked in.

In your opinion. why don't you think a 16 year old climber can know what they're doing? Why don't you come up here, climb with me for a couple days and then tell me that to my face. Didn't you accidentally leave your ice tools at a rap station this winter and have to retrieve them the next day? What other mistakes are you capable of making? What other experience do you lack? Do you know? I'm not trying to feed you shit, I'm simply trying to point out that many boys your age suffer from the diseases of hubris and narcissism. Don't confuse natural talent with experience, for example. 16 year old males are disposable by nature, you included, so don't think you're hot shit just yet. You owe a partner more than that. And I'll say anything to your face, puke, so don't go too far down that road.

In your opinion.

I guess he won't be getting one of these:

A person with a dollar is infinitely wealthier than a person with no dollar.

And that's why you're still a kid, because you don't really get it yet. You're not making decisions with an adult mind, based on a wealth of adult experience, nor are you capable of fully weighing the consequences of your actions in the same way that an adult would, because you can't at your age. You're still a kid. Sure, you've got talent and motivation, but you're not the real deal yet. I started climbing when I was 15, and was always treated well and equally within the confines of the Seattle Mountaineers. Then that's a problem with the Mountaineers. Start climbing young, okay, whatever, but treating a 15 year old kid as an equal on a climbing trip? For real? Are you fucking crazy?

And that's why you're still a kid, because you don't really get it yet. You're not making decisions with an adult mind, based on a wealth of adult experience, nor are you capable of fully weighing the consequences of your actions in the same way that an adult would, because you can't at your age. You're still a kid. Sure, you've got talent and motivation, but you're not the real deal yet.

The language barrier makes this post funny on many levels.

I recommend suicide, or perhaps quickly establish a hankerin' for catfish grabbin', swamp buggyin', mud bug body suckin', cousin' fuckin', hurricane cleanin' up afterin', or anythin' that ends in " n' ", and you'll be fine.

He beat Cavendish. That's a big deal.

I think you guys should go for it. Perhaps you should change you objective to THIS, though. Seems reasonable for your team.

Yes, let's! Here's Bill O'Reilly providing some insight into the case of an 11 year-old boy kidnapped, held captive, and raped repeatedly, for four years: "The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents. He didn't have to go to school. He could run around and do whatever he wanted." and: "I hope he did not make a conscious decision to accept his captivity because Devlin made things easy for him. No school, play all day long. " Trusted news source?

Yes.