[yorkshiregripper]

Alex Barrows did his first 8C last weekend, Rollito Sharma Ext in St Linya. 

[wiain]

Nice one Abarro. 

[Steve R]

good work Barros!

Out of interest, how many British climbers have climbed 8c in recent years?  I'd guess at sub 20 individuals?  Seems lik quite a few new ones arrived on the list in the last 12 months.

[shark]

Alex if you are reading this    ThreeNine has been frothing at the mouth ever since you texted him.

Don't give up on the projecting   

[butterworthtom]

Nice one Barrows, clearly not as fat as Bob makes out.

[a dense loner]

nice one, he's put some time in on the circuit board for this

can a mod change the thread title to 8c? i thought gaskins had a grown offspring for a moment

[Jaspersharpe]

 

Fine effort. And....

 

Misleading title.

[Fiend]

If only there was a less ambiguous and confusable grading system for bouldering, eh, Jasper. I'm concerned about poor confused Dense here...

[grimer]

This is a tiny victory for the beleagured V-people 

PS, first post in a while. Have the smileys been at it? There seems to be millions of them all of a sudden.

[Jaspersharpe]

If only there was a less ambiguous and confusable grading system for bouldering, eh, Jasper. I'm concerned about poor confused Dense here...

There's a difference between misleading and confusing you dick.

This is a tiny victory for the beleagured V-people 

No, it's an incorrectly written title. 

[Jaspersharpe]

PS, first post in a while. Have the smileys been at it? There seems to be millions of them all of a sudden.

 

[grimer]

PS, first post in a while. Have the smileys been at it? There seems to be millions of them all of a sudden.

 

Great. So now I have to extend my range of emotions to encompass those represented by these new emoticons. In my entire life I've barely experienced the first row in terms of feelings and now there's three getting on for four. I don't like change 

[Ru]

I agree Grimer. I'm from Lancashire where we don't even have a need for exclamation marks. Plus the one emoticon that would be representative - dour - isn't there.

[SA Chris]

In my entire life I've barely experienced the first row in terms of feelings and now there's three getting on for four.

A lifetime of emotional repression siped out in an instant.

[Jaspersharpe]

Plus the one emoticon that would be representative - dour - isn't there.

Here you go:

[Fiend]

ConfusABLE you fish felcher   

[nik at work]

Whilst I agree that the title is confusing I'm surprised that nobody has commented on the fact that this was pointed out by the only user of UKB that appears to not have a shift key.

[sjw]

Sorry for going off-topic, but I am mostly confused because every guide book that I own which gives Fontainebleau grades uses a lower case letter (eg. 7a), therefore I always assumed that the upper case denotes French sport grades. I am wrong? It's confused me for a while, so a straight answer would be, like, totally rad. Dudes.

f = boulder?
F = sport?
8a = sport?
8A = boulder?

[Fiend]

8a - sport
V11 - bouldering

 

[abarro81]

Of course I'm reading this Simon - a UKB thread all of my own (except for all the discussions about smiley faces and capital letters). Thanks for the congratulations, my ego is getting bigger every day 
Of course it's all just training for link-ups at the tor and in tom's roof anyway...

[dobbin]

Who is this barrows character anyway? is there a picture anywhere? I would like to know if i recognise him.

[robertostallioni]

Who is this barrows character anyway? is there a picture anywhere? I would like to know if i recognise him.

Arnold Body with a Denzel face.

[wiain]

Who is this barrows character anyway? is there a picture anywhere? I would like to know if i recognise him.

He's the one at the Foundry/Tor that's eight feet taller than you.

[Paul B]

Who is this barrows character anyway? is there a picture anywhere? I would like to know if i recognise him.

you are truly shameless.

[sjw]

8a - sport
V11 - bouldering

 

Thanks Fiend, I can now add it onto the list of things I understand, along with V8+ and B10.   

[Stubbs]

He's the one at the Foundry/Tor that's eight feet taller than you.

I thought that was Will?!

[Adam Lincoln]

He's the one at the Foundry/Tor that's eight feet taller than you.

I thought that was Will?!

Will is 16ft tall.

[willackers]

Who's this Will fella?

He sounds like a giant! 

[SA Chris]

[shark]

Who's this Will fella?

He sounds like a giant! 

Seven feet tall he was, with arms like tree trunks and fingers like bananas. His eyes were like steel: cold, hard. Had a shock of hair, red, like the fires of Hell.

[Paul B]

Had a shock of hair, red, like the fires of Hell.

That would be strong Ed.

[willackers]

Had a shock of hair, red, like the fires of Hell.

That would be strong Ed.

You would never see Strong Ed at the Tor, maybe under the Foundry campus board but never the Tor.

[Paul B]

Maybe you should go to the tor, today...