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Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 08:05:28 am
Absolutely brilliant. Haven't read better.

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#1 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 08:24:17 am
Grimer you should do a compilation of all your writing in a book or something? Stunning writing/writer.

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#2 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 09:13:12 am
I was just thinking that the other day, Perrin has done enough books from his climbers columns. High time Red Roddy got a wider airing.

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#3 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 09:27:46 am
That is brilliant.  I would definitely buy a book of Grimer's writing  :2thumbsup:

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#4 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 09:57:08 am
Likewise. I liked some of the non-climbing related stuff he used to put on UKC too, like the one about the guys microwaving their brains for a laugh.

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#5 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 09:57:23 am
Oh hey, thanks everyone  :) I can print them all off at work and flog it for a fiver.

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#6 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 11:10:57 am
Add me to the list of people who'd buy a Grimer Compilation book.

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#7 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 11:35:04 am
Oh hey, thanks everyone  :) I can print them all off at work and flog it for a fiver.

Another failed business idea right there!!

No hankerings of North Wales?!

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#8 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 01:03:16 pm
Brilliant.  I'd buy said book

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#9 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 01:07:19 pm
Is there a link anywhere to Grimer's story about staying in a random eastern Europeans flat and freezing to death in a tent in Font (I think that's what it was about)!?

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#10 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 01:17:39 pm
it's been republished on UKC; naturally they all found it horribly offensive.

As much as I hate linking there, there are some more here

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#11 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 07:42:34 pm
The weird wanking stories might broaden the appeal to other niches outside climbing.

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#12 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 09:14:07 pm
Blush blush. Very kind of you all.

There's loads of good stuff around. I kinda imagine folks on here don't buy mags much but Climb comes through my door and I always find myself enjoying stuff in it. The last one had something by someone called Sarah Jane Dobner that I really liked.

But in case anyone hasn't seen this, this is mindblowing

http://fiveten.com/community/blog-detail/13017-conquering-the-unknown-factors-david-graham


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#13 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 09, 2012, 09:33:33 pm
I would definitely buy said book.

I really used to enjoy your BMC blog - link here for anyone who's not seen it.

Last blog entry Feb 2008 - time for an update  :please:


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#15 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 08:49:25 am

DG article is amazing. I'd buy that book too.

Dave Graham Pro Blog @ Climber

Remember reading the last entry just after he'd done The Island, its more about discovering a state of mind (oh and he didn't get on with the French police).

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#16 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 09:13:25 am
There's loads of good stuff around. I kinda imagine folks on here don't buy mags much but Climb comes through my door and I always find myself enjoying stuff in it.

I buy it intermittently and am always impressed with the writing and photos, and actually read most of it. Which I haven't done since early OTE days.

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#17 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 11:48:59 am
 :agree: I came across it whilst wasting time at work, reading through a few of the blogs, didn't think it really stood out. However the Grimer article is great.

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#18 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 01:39:27 pm

I have seen links to that article all over the internet. What is that people like about it? Seems like a fairly linear account of trying some problems with a few scatterings of unprofound introspection. What am I missing?

I like that it's an insight into the process and thoughts of the most prolific developers of hard boulders in the world at the top of his game.  I guess it would be less remarkable if he was talking about doing Brad Pit or 1,8,14, but he's talking about repeating an 8C and opening 3 8B's in a newly discovered bouldering area, on blocks which he's had the vision to see contain 3* hard problems.  I think that's pretty cool.

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#19 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 01:56:18 pm
In that regards its a rehash of his "The Island" blog post further up, I found that quite interesting, less so the more recent one on 5.10 (could be down to the fact that I've been to Font but not the US locations though).

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#20 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 10:29:44 pm
Blush blush. Very kind of you all.

perhaps you could publish that story you wrote about being caught by your parents with a pr0n mag?

had me chuckling for days

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#21 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 10, 2012, 11:46:42 pm
brilliant, did you ever get an answer from dean?

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#23 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 18, 2012, 09:33:37 am
I'm astounded. Scarpa refer to Percy as an Athlete.

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#24 Re: Re: Quality Chuffing Articles
May 19, 2012, 08:25:05 pm
Grimer was the original reason why I bought climbing mags when I first started climbing - totally awesome then and still is now.

A Grimology question: When you wrote that article about different types of climber and one was called the "Bumbly", was that your coining of the term? 


 

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