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#700 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 01:09:33 pm
Meanwhile on the Pex Facebook group adults are arguing about whether kids (with adult supervison) should be drawing in coloured chalk on the walls of Pex quarry...

It did remind me of that old adage of two bald men arguing over who gets the comb... 😃

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#701 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 01:29:33 pm
And yet still people are arguing the toss in the comments  :-\

No they're not, it's just the same conversation(s) we've had on here, with a little existential despair thrown in on my part for good measure.


As evidenced by most of those comments it is obviously still too early for most people to discuss this sensibly,

Why? What's wrong with the comments? Count yourself lucky I didn't descend into a monologue about the futility of existence...

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#702 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 01:42:10 pm
What's wrong with the comments? Count yourself lucky I didn't descend into a monologue about the futility of existence...

Oh go on. That’s exactly the sort of thing I want to read right now  :2thumbsup:

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#703 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 02:09:55 pm
Good to see Chaz still out climbing... https://twitter.com/Charles80641832/status/1247992761242071040?s=20

Surely if you are out climbing at the present time you wouldn't be so dumb as to publicly share it??

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#704 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 02:13:47 pm
Good to see Chaz still out climbing... https://twitter.com/Charles80641832/status/1247992761242071040?s=20

Surely if you are out climbing at the present time you wouldn't be so dumb as to publicly share it??

Maybe he couldn’t be bothered to run an Ultra in his back garden?

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#705 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 02:24:18 pm
Good to see Chaz still out climbing... https://twitter.com/Charles80641832/status/1247992761242071040?s=20

Surely if you are out climbing at the present time you wouldn't be so dumb as to publicly share it??

Saw someone share some bouldering in Wales on instagram the other day! I couldn't believe it. Training to be an outdoor MIA as well. God help us.

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#706 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 02:39:21 pm
I was out for a cycle the other night when I noticed a hitherto unclimbed quarry at the side of the road. I pulled in and walked through the gate into the field in which the quarry sat. I looked for projects, but alas it was all very very uninspiring. All of a sudden, a madness overtook me. I put my hand into a slot at shoulder height, looked down at my feet and saw two smears below me. I pasted the end of my cycling cleats on and locked the slot to reach the next break.

Just as I put my hand into the break, the rock an inch to the right of my head exploded as a high velocity round slammed into it. I dropped to the floor, cat-like, and rolled behind a boulder lying on the quarry floor. Huddled behind here I saw the red dot of the sniper's sight roaming the walls of the quarry, searching for where I'd gone. Reaching into the back pocket of my cycling jersey, I pulled out a mirror, a Steyr SSG 69, and my trusty service revolver. Using the mirror, I could see over the top of the boulder.

There he was atop a rocky tor. The shine of the setting sun hitting his reflective bonce was unmistakable.
"GREEEEEEEEEEEEEESH!", I roared.
Wind: 15 knots; northerly. Firing into the sun. 3Km range. The coriolis effect. Nobody could make that shot. But I was out of options.
I glanced around the quarry and spotted some oil barrels stacked up in the corner. Taking my revolver, I fired into them and they exploded immediately. As they did, I stood up, turned, and swung the rifle to my shoulder. The distraction hadn't been enough. The laser sight of Gresh's Lattice issue rifle connected with my sight and I was blinded. I pulled the trigger.

On the tor, the figure dropped to the ground. I spat into the dust. "That's for Tilberthwaite", I said. I walked back to my bike and rode on home.

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#707 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 02:42:50 pm
I’m not sure that was what Barrows meant Will 😃

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#708 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 03:02:47 pm
Meanwhile on the Pex Facebook group adults are arguing about whether kids (with adult supervison) should be drawing in coloured chalk on the walls of Pex quarry...

It did remind me of that old adage of two bald men arguing over who gets the comb... 😃

Is that a climber’s forum? Surely people cannot be that stupid?

Son:
“Dad, please can I graffiti a public amenity?”
Dad:
“ Why son, of course graffiti’s fine, I read it on Facebook””
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#709 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 04:14:34 pm
Good to see Chaz still out climbing... https://twitter.com/Charles80641832/status/1247992761242071040?s=20

Surely if you are out climbing at the present time you wouldn't be so dumb as to publicly share it??

Maybe he couldn’t be bothered to run an Ultra in his back garden?

Neither could I, nor many people? Doesn't mean I'm going climbing!

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#710 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 04:18:43 pm
It’s ok he’s now called TeflonChaz instead of AcidChaz- nothing sticks. 

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#711 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 04:26:16 pm
they view bouldering as illegal under the Public Health Act

"Crusty jugglers" 

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#712 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 05:43:24 pm
Hi people, back again under a slightly updated moniker as the old one just would not work .
There were 3 people bouldering at the tor yesterday, I think there justification is that they are living in there vans (there are 2) in the layby. The water baliff lives 3 doors down from me and is concerned about where there shitting, hes been coming to and forward apparently for few weeks. Ive another mate lives next to the anglers and is immuno suppressed and walks up and down the road every day with his dog and is concerned and asked me why climbers are coming to climb.....
Another gent yesterday was at horseshoe shunting on one of the shit lines on the right.

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#713 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 05:55:28 pm
I despair. If those people are reading this, you're all selfish cunts

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#714 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 06:02:35 pm
Hi fat boy, hope you and the fatboy family are all well  :wave:

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#715 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 06:18:58 pm
...back again under a slightly updated moniker as the old one just would not work.

Off topic, but to be able to login I had to delete any cookies related to UKB otherwise it'd throw an error.

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#716 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 08:26:08 pm
And yet still people are arguing the toss in the comments  :-\

No they're not, it's just the same conversation(s) we've had on here, with a little existential despair thrown in on my part for good measure.

Sorry, "arguing the toss" translates to "discussing this like there are options and grey areas". I just don't see the point of debating it anymore  :shrug:

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#717 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 09:00:56 pm
Interesting item on the bbc news stream...

2m social distancing is for stationary people inside.

New research shows For walkers should be 4m, for runners 10m! Of course when you’re moving you disperse your droplets more effectively... etc.. etc..

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#718 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 09:27:21 pm

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#719 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 09:27:27 pm
When I'm out running i go at least to the opposite side of the road if possible, even changing routes if someone is running or walking ahead of me, and avoid any single track paths now.

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#720 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 09:47:43 pm
When I’m out cycling I try to blow snot on every dog walker who has driven to out to walk their dog.
In the words of the Spanish Inquisition God will sort out the innocent.

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#721 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 09:50:49 pm
I reckon with careful aim you could drop an oyster on the car doorhandle.

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#722 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 10:25:45 pm
Good to see Chaz still out climbing... https://twitter.com/Charles80641832/status/1247992761242071040?s=20

 :popcorn:

Bit of a joke he has A) done that in the first place. B) posted about it on social media and C) I reckon he dabs at 17 seconds in too!!!

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#723 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 10:36:04 pm
Hard to tell. Is he wearing trainers/approach shoes? And he's got his dog with him? So he took his dog for a walk, saw a little overhang and pottered up it?
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#724 Re: Climbing during CV-19
April 09, 2020, 10:43:31 pm
I despair. If those people are reading this, you're all selfish cunts

I couldn't agree with you more. A thousand people a day dying in the UK alone, global economic catastrophe, and it's more important to them that they go and fail on weedkiller for the thousandth time. Why do these people think they're so fucking special?

 

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