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Fuck Yeah!

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HI EBBODY! JUST HEARD ABOUT THIS GREAT THREAD AND THOUGHT I'D STOP BY TO APPRECIATE, CELEBRTE, AND TREASURE IT! ANOTHER WINNER BY ONE OF OUR VERY OWN VALUABLE CONTENT MONKEYS, FO SHO!

Ransom nets 10 times the reward, and guarantees some measure of safety from attack.

Furthermore, you will not find my pooing on the posts of Rob, because he is the Sex Jesus. Nor Choada, due to his extreme Choada-ness. OK, maybe I indulge a little on the Cho. Nor Porter, because his massive retaliation is swift and sure. Not to mention his secret projects. No, my primary targets are obvious ones. The standards. I'll catpaw others but save the juicy ones for a select few of the priveledged. You are not in that category. You are a peripheral, semi-cordial relationship. The posts which require the most effort are responses to my own. The reciprocal nature of that relationship can become confusing.

Because Ivan is a demigod, who soars far, far above the bowed, primarily empty heads of the Bugs and Billcoes of the world. Your kind barely qualify as primates.

You're kind of dumb.

Oh, thanks for posting. I've been meaning to mention a few of the things you could do a little better.

In case you guys have any questions about climbing, I'm just here to share the joy of the sport with you. I've climbed with people who have written guidebooks. I don't want to drop names, although they are names that nearly everyone on the planet would instantly recognize. That's not the way I roll. Anyway, feel free to let me know how I can help make you a better climber or, more generally, human being.

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I crack myself up, which is a good thing, because I love to laugh.

No, but I left a note for you at the trailhead.

Between your knee and my fasciitis it might be a wash. ;-) Dudes, what you're planning on doing in the shower together might need its own thread. Not that there's anything wrong with that. you should wash your ass sometimes, TTK; people might be able to stand being around you Thanks for the offer, but I've only got a one person shower at my disposal.

Between your knee and my fasciitis it might be a wash. ;-) Dudes, what you're planning on doing in the shower together might need its own thread. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I left one in Rob's oven just the other day....

I frequently leave notes with my friends enumerating all the little things they could change for the better. I do it because I care. That's just the kind of guy I am.

Not to be negative or anything, but if you climb, you'll die.

Not to be a negativist or anything.

Ironically (or not), I was born in Las Vegas. Let's go to Vegas together! Observe the Bro-code!

JP4 breath? WTF?

I like to think of my posts as a bit more than mere nitpicking, but you have to get the point to realize that. Yes, we will continue to do what we're doing, which is evolving. Can we evolve into something sustainable indefinitely? No. We can't know the future, so 'indefinitely' isn't attainable. We can become more sustainable, either by choice or limitation, but it's not at all clear that that's the direction we're heading or will head. Given the events of my lifetime, it seems just as likely that we'll engineer our own doom as not, either actively or passively by, say, ignoring a threatening asteroid in favor of more 'worldly pursuits'. Actually, since we've been doing practically nothing but engineering our own doom since I was born, that outcome is probably more likely. Don't get me wrong, I think we're a hard species to exterminate, but probably not as hard as one might think. The more we depend on technology to survive, the harder we're hit when that technology fails us. Technology, population concentration, and super organisms (companies, militaries, governments, 'movements', etc) have probably decreased our chances for long term viability through the increased destructiveness of warfare, exposure to epidemics, increased popularity of environmentally devastating behaviors that are now planetwide(consumerism, etc), and an increasingly sophisticated capacity to encourage this destruction in the name of you-fill-in-the-blank. Our survivability, like our financial systems, has been 'globalized'; it is more at risk of catastrophic collapse than ever before.

While it's true that I laugh at most of you, I do laugh with some of you at the rest of you.

I just totally made that up! I couldn't have done it without giving myself permission to laugh, though.

Joy is a condiment: it must be spread to be tasted.