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#75 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 06, 2013, 09:35:05 pm
Although I do miss your work boon of free petrol!


Me too mate. However, I don't mss the shitty job that went with it.

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#76 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 06, 2013, 09:52:25 pm
Although I do miss your work boon of free petrol!


Me too mate. However, I don't mss the shitty job that went with it.

Fair play. The endless driving on over-caffeinated sugary drink company never sounded that good.

I was regailing the 'lost keys at the Roaches' story only the other day. It never fails to produce dropped jaws. I've certainly never been 6.5 hrs late for work again...

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#77 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 02:19:49 pm
Yeah, that redefined the word clusterfuck. At least you didn't have to go all the way back to the Roaches with spare keys to get the car.

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#78 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 02:21:58 pm
Do tell...

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#79 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 03:55:32 pm
If you really want to know - shurt and I went up to Roaches on a weekend and stayed in the Rock Cottage with some mates. On Sunday we wandered up and down to far skyline etc and when we got round to going home in the evening I couldn't find my keys, must have fallen out of rucksack at some point. Gone. I tried AA etc, but as they said it was non- emergency it would cost a couple of hundred quid to get car on a carloader truck and taken to Bristol. Fuck that. So plan B was - kip on verge. Next morning (after a shit night) we walked to Upper hulme I hitched into Leek, got bus to stoke and train to bristol, got taxi to letting agent, got spare keys for flat, got into flat, got spare keys for car, got taxi back to station (all with same taxi - guy must have thought I was nuts!), got train back to stoke, got bus back to leek, hitched back to upper hulme, walked back to car, got in car and drove home to bristol.

I think shurt hitched to bristol and went straight to work?

Anyway, not an experience to be repeated.

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#80 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 04:07:08 pm
Jeez!

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#81 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 04:13:39 pm
Not furthest I've travelled in UK in a day, but in top 3.

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#82 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 04:25:12 pm
Holy shit!

I feel traumatised just reading your tale.

Couldn't you have just torched the car!?

The insurance would have paid out and got you safely back to bris.

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#83 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
February 07, 2013, 05:03:33 pm
Just to add my side of story. I walked/ran to Leek all the way from the Roaches as no one would pick me up. Then a bus to Stoke. I was so tired when I got to Stoke train station I got on the next train to Bristol as advised by a member of Virgin Trains and promptly fell asleep. Chris and I slept next to a stone wall. I was awoken by the ticket man so I asked for a single to Bristol. He just replied next stop London Euston and informed me that I had to biy a ticket at the peak rate of 64 quid. Cue a stand up row with the ticket office at Euston before they agreed to get me to Bristol as had been given bum advice at Stoke. They could only do this by re routing me back through Birmingham on Virgin.
A pretty shit Monday morning all in all...

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new to this and been absolutelyu battered on a forum - even got - karma !! gutted . so help me out please how do i give good/bad karma points on this ere forum thingy - thanks from a newbie

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new to this and been absolutelyu battered on a forum - even got - karma !! gutted . so help me out please how do i give good/bad karma points on this ere forum thingy - thanks from a newbie
Esentially, just go with it.
Try to avoid tit-for-tat, i suspect there was a trigger-happy response, on an overheated thread.
If I remember, there is a certain period/forum level required before you can Wad/Punter with Karma.

This is usually a chilled environment.


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Dense is brutally blunt.





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You can only give Karma +ve or -ve once you've hit 100 posts IIRC...

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Points mean prizes absolutely nothing. They weren't undeserved today in my own opinion, but that aside, it's all part of the forum game. Go with it or don't play. Just don't get bent out of shape.
By the way,  :icon_welcome:

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 Ask Andy E how to survive, we ripped the shit out of his naive, uninformed posts for a couple of years. Just look at what a well rounded individual and invaluable member of UKBouldering he's turned into.

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 ;D kiss ass!
Now, do I give you a punter point?!

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#91 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
August 18, 2018, 07:15:41 pm
Remember, you too were once a newbie.

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#92 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
October 21, 2018, 03:23:34 pm
I wanted to add a picture so I go to FAQ and find this useful link

“If you want to post pictures then please, please, please read this.”

but the link is broken!


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#93 Re: event: Hug a Newbie Week at UKB
October 21, 2018, 03:29:56 pm
http://ukbouldering.wikia.com/wiki/HowTo_Embed_Pictures_to_UKBouldering

There seems to be an issue with FlickR at the moment but imgur works ok still

 

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