rob

oh! so ur gonna vote for romney? Uh, no. I thought it was pretty broad knowledge that I'm a write-in for Goodspaceguy.

no, he's more of a republican like Mitt Romney

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Why bring a 22cm for top-roping if anything over 13cm is just as good? And if there IS a difference, why reserve your strongest screw (22cm) for top-rope duties, where the actual strength requirements are minimal, and use smaller screws for leading, where the strength requirements are much higher? Is that to prevent melt-out?

I guess it makes sense. I suppose they have to keep the act believable for the hoi polloi, or the whole thing would unravel

the only part I can't figure out is why the republicans in congress are opposing Obama. They should LOVE this guy.

Of course he does, he's a republican! So is Obama. No kidding. I have a working theory that the republican party has introduced such retarded candidates because they actually want Obama to get re-elected. It's the perfect strategy -- Obama gives the republicans what they want, but stifles opposition by pretending to be a democrat. I mean, if Romney was elected, the gravy train would stop, wouldn't it? Suddenly the dems would be free to oppose the executive again.

Ron Paul fully supports this bill! Of course he does, he's a republican!

This thread makes me laugh. I've got some crappy northface rain shell that I bought for like $5 or something in the REI basement like 8 years ago that has worked just as well as those fancy dead bird jackets my friends buy for $500 or whatever. True, I'm not doing first ascents in Alaska or anything, but I'm guessing most of you aren't, either. I dunno, I have a lot of cheap crap and I've just never noticed that it got in the way. But I was never a super alpinist or anything, and maybe I would have been if I had nicer things. that said, my Feathered Friends jacket is the best money I've ever spent. Of course, even that was still cheaper than arc'teryx.

Interesting. I guess this explains why I never became an alcoholic

This is what we did. It made sense because my carrying capacity was far greater than hers, and as you point out it, with a big kid, it wasn't long before she wasn't really carrying him anymore, anyway. I can't remember how old my son was on his first overnight, but I definitely remember it was before he started walking.

I'd smoke with him. I do a good Jesus schtick, I think he'd enjoy it.

That is so retarded. When I was growing up we would disappear for hours... and that was a welcome relief to the parents. Our society is so fearful of everything these days. When I was 10 or 11 my parents let me ride my dirt bike through the forest by myself all day. There were no cell phones, either. I'd crash that shit into trees and try to hide the bent levers from my father. Sometimes they weren't even home -- that was the best.

soon they will say taking your kids camping at all is too risky. Some lady called 911 once because my 9 yo daughter was playing by herself at the park ACROSS THE STREET. The cops showed up at my door while I was cooking dinner, with my daughter and the crazy woman who called 911 in tow.

wouldn't be suprised - a good cover story if you were freaking out over having kids and wanted to ditch them? sure, but can you really send people to prison for 12 years on that kind of speculation? And then say it's because they camped too close to a river? Weird, isn't it?

Actually, at least with bike racers, what happens is that your cardio gets so much work that eventually you just can't hit your calculated max HR anymore -- your leg muscles give out before your heart. Case in point, when I started racing, I would regularly hit my calculated max or slightly above -- like, over 200. But now that I'm more fit on a bike and my heart has gotten stronger, my resting HR has significantly lowered and I can't even get my HR over 180 -- now my legs are the limiter, not my heart. I'm sure I'm oversimplifying it. I read an article about this, something about how the stroke volume of a trained athlete increases (apparently the heart actually enlarges), increasing the cardiac output and thus lowering both resting HR and HR at exertion. I heard that Miguel Indurain's "max" HR was like 155. Sure, his heart was certainly capable of going higher, and his calculated max was certainly higher, but in practice that's as high as it ever needed to go. Or something.

12 years! Holy shit, seriously? There must be a big part of this story missing....

*everybody* gives me a hard time. I don't understand it, I look like a nice guy.

"What will you be doing during your stay in Canada?" "Your wife."

Just make sure you don't accidentally do any cardio on the stairs on the way to the hangboards, that would be counterproductive. Best take the elevator.

Canada may not be the best place to escape American fascism, after all.

after 1 hour @ 158? you guys must be out of shape. I'm no sports scientist so my eyes kind of glaze over when you start using big words but all I know is that if you can't use your muscles anymore after an hour of cardio something is wrong with you. Should cardio make you throw up? I've thrown up after intense workouts of several hours on the bike before but certainly those workouts were not aerobic.