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Plastics suck ass. They come into their own only when it's really cold. You can get a very cheap used pair of plastics for the rare times when you'll use them, but unless you're going to be out in really cold temperatures (10 F or below for extended periods for me), don't bother getting a pair of frankenboots. If you're going for only one pair of boots, the Trangos, Garmont Charmoz, or similar type of light mountaineering boot will be the most versatile for high season cascade climbing. Buy some supergaitors and you can use them on Rainier, even in winter, too. These light weight boots work well on trail, snow, and rock. As always, the most important feature of any boot is how well it fits your foot. If you want a stiffer, more insulated boot to climb more technical ice, and extended winter conditions etc, the Trango Ice Evo, Asolo Cholatse, and competing 3/4 - full shank boots will all leave plastics in the dust on any terrain. Pro Mountain Sports in the U district is a good shop to check out climbing gear selected by experienced alpinists.

Pakistan is not an arab country, anyway.

Gear karma continues. Picked up a brand spanking pair of perfectly fitting Garmont Charmoz in the REI basement (paradise, if visited on the right day) for half price. Perhaps I will be struck down for wearing them (they do look plenty ghey), but hey, I've got til late spring before that happens. Manga takk, Jebus.

MLK too. Stuff like this doesn't happen in this country. Conflating Bobby Kennedy, MLK and Benazir Bhutto makes me sad and wonder about the educmakatinal sistem. Oklahoma City? 911? JFK? Nah, never happens. Uh, 'stuff like' exactly WHAT never happens here?

Had my Sub up to like, 95 a couple of days ago. Fuck'n picket fence posts were thwippin by like telephone poles.

Yeah, well, my mountain bike's got paddle shifters, too. They don't work worth a damn at the bike's top speed of 120 mph (after going over a cliff).

The popular wisdom is that the word is derived from the Arabic 'haschishin', or 'hashish user'. This is probably false. The most supported etymology for the word is from the Persian 'Hassassin', which means 'follower of Hassan' (an infamous Persian leader of a violent band in the 1200's). Hassan was a prohibitionist who did not allow his followers to use hashish. It's pretty unlikely, as many of us already know, that hashish would produce the desired affects for a band of assassins anyway. Google 'etymology assassin' and check it out. There are articles supporting both etymologies.

??? PS We've enslaved ourselves.

Well, I don't get too many cavities. If your child takes care of her teeth and she still gets gets too many cavities, she's eating way too much sugar. Perhaps The State should provide helpful nutrition consultants to help you make better choices at the grocery store. My plug for personal responsibility.

Just for fun... Second Thoughts on Fluoridation(Scientific American)

Mrs. T got me a new Thermarest. Why? The old one only has 12 patches, and I'm still confident I can find the last remaining leaks.

"Check out my new Facebook blog!" - this thread.

It's much more "Seattle Men's Chorus"

A penis pump fed by a scuba tank couldn't resurrect this thread.

How SPOT works. 1) Victim presses Distress Button. 2) SPOT sends signal to global rescue satellite network. 3) Starship Enterprise picks up distress signal and homes in on it at warp factor nine. 4) Captain Kirk beams down to accident site, gets bitten by the Mugatu, fucks the alien witch doctress with the Mexican Jumping Root and jealous husband, meanwhile the Enterprise's main computer is taken over by midget who's done way too much trania who then sends the Enterprise spiraling towards the planet surface, Kirk has to fight the husband with some giant plastic Hawaiian forks, Kirk almost gets his tunic ripped off, Spock and Scotty show up and tase the aggro motherfucker with the giant salad fork, the witch doctress says "fuck it, you'er a pussy anyway" to Kirk, everybody beams back up to the Enterprise, isolates the midget in the Vjer probe and blasts his shrimpy ass into deep space, and Kirk finally gets his memory back just in time to miss the deadline for reporting back to Star Fleet Command.

This thread uses a Russian Orthodox church for a butt plug.

Wedged upside down at the bottom of an avi-packed crevasse? No problem. Just press a button and a Life Flight chopper filled with hawt nurses and buff EMTs, Chinese take out, and fresh coffee descends on your hurtin' ass in under a minute like Delta Force in angel-wear. You'll be laughing about it over beers by dinnertime. Because the difference between working your stiffy and being a stiffy is your willingness to add our shit to your already bloated credit card balance.

If anyone's not doing anything for Christmas, this thread's "having a few friends over". Bring wine, some E, and shower sandals.

This thread traded in its PT Cruiser for a Scion xB.

This thread gets excited when Diesel Jeans and Adidas Originals go on sale.

This thread wants a pair of assless chaps and tickets to The Messiah for Christmas.

This thread owns a brindle pug, but wishes it could afford a shar pei.

This is the Volunteer Park men's room of threads.

This is an excellent question, Gene. Your doctors probably want you to avoid light mental exercise for a few weeks. Posting on CC, as most of us know, requires almost no effort from any organs above the waist, so post at your leisure. In fact, for many of us here the head is really not much more than a vestigial organ that provides structural support for the conduits of breathing and eating.

I forced Feck to lock it with my noodly appendage.