[cheque]

An archive of classic posts from over the years.

To kick us off:

Fatdoc’s immortal White Peaches story

A dense loner expresses incredulity at the idea of grading campus performances


Webbo warns of the dangers of urban showboating

[jwi]

Duncan's post on How To Climb The Nose In A Day

[cheque]

The Power Club where Shark had his best session on the Oak then (in a later entry, keep scrolling) harms his chances on the route for a while.

Gus’s review of the once-popular Transgression fingerboard

Various forum members spend four months wrapping their injuries in bits of Theraband and inner tubes then discover that they’ve been used as evidence that the technique works on another website

Perhaps the highlight of the 35-page Powerballs thread: Lagerstarfish and Jasper Sharpe’s descriptions of the Chuck Norris-esque Irish Alan

[shark]

What’s happened at Tilberthwaite?

[shark]

This post about Ioan Doyle from Nigel always makes me laugh

[csl]

What’s happened at Tilberthwaite?

Next up, as Doylo said, someones done a shit under the route. Frankly I think everyones confused about the poo, everyone but Gresh, he's angry about the poo.

I'd forgotten about this one, that thread was gold.

[Fultonius]

 That's brightened up my Saturday morning!

[Will Hunt]

This and Yossarian's other literary endeavours.

Can anyone dig out the Si-O-Connor-chased-by-the-SBS post?

[cheque]

Is this it?

Related- The thread where everyone gradually realised the truth about Rich Simpson

Also related- Dave eviscerates “the worst English-language bouldering guide of the 21st century”

[Will Hunt]

Found it:
https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,10172.msg168062.html#msg168062

Tragically copied from Scottish Climbs so we can't really claim it.

[SA Chris]

https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,13302.0.html

The accapi nexus thread (can't do the clever embedding titles)

[Bonjoy]

Poor old The Sausage getting hoisted by his own dabbing petard.
See first and third post. The guy in the photos being The Sausage.

[cheque]

(can't do the clever embedding titles)

1. Find the highlight you want to post.
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[SA Chris]

thanks for writing that out, I will try and do better next time (but will probably forget).

[jwi]

Is this it?

Wow, that's two years before I registred. Richard Simpson and Si O'Connor were OGs!

[Fultonius]

(can't do the clever embedding titles)

1. Find the highlight you want to post.
2. If it’s a post from part way down a thread make sure you click on the title of that post (the bold text that says “#10 Re: Best of UKB” for example) before the next step.
3. Cut or copy the URL that’s in the address bar.
4. Start a reply to this thread.
5. Type the description of the highlight.
6. Select all the text of your description.
7. Scroll up to the row of icons above the smileys.
8. Click the one that’s a tiny globe.
9. Scroll back down to the text of your post. It will have [/url] after the text you selected and [url] before it.
10. Put an equals sign after the l in the first brackets.
11. Paste the address of your highlight directly after equals sign so it’s in the brackets. Make sure there are no spaces or it won’t work.
12. Click Preview to check all is good. You can click the blue text in the preview box and see if it goes to the right page.
13. Post.

For anything like this you can also click quote under a post where someone’s done what you’re trying to achieve and see how they did it.

This ^^ is what makes this place goooood. People take the time.

[Felix14]

Took me a while to find this.

Tom de Gay realising just how hard 7a is.

[cheque]

Johnny Brown describes Ben Bransby’s old Almscliff warmup.

[edshakey]

Chasing a spectre

[cheque]

Pages 3&4 of the Significant Repeats thread are great, with classic ascents, timeless questions,PATrul’s bizarre poetry and Stevie Haston getting angry. Dave’s definition of the true all-rounder is their bathetic culmination.

It’s interested to read the first pages of any of the long-running threads for a big of perspective of how UKB’s evolved over the years. Just don’t look at the start of the RIP one.

[andy popp]

Pages 3&4 of the Significant Repeats thread are great, with classic ascents, timeless questions,PATrul’s bizarre poetry and Stevie Haston getting angry. Dave’s definition of the true all-rounder is their bathetic culmination.

It’s interested to read the first pages of any of the long-running threads for a big of perspective of how UKB’s evolved over the years. Just don’t look at the start of the RIP one.

I was just thinking that what this thread needs is some Sloper, and there he is.

[stone]

Pages 3&4 of the Significant Repeats thread are great, with classic ascents, timeless questions,PATrul’s bizarre poetry and Stevie Haston getting angry. Dave’s definition of the true all-rounder is their bathetic culmination.

Awesome!
I remembered that with fondness from lurking back then. Webbo's bit about Alpinism amounting to using a chairlift and Himalayan climbing being chapati eating was for me as much a highlight as Dave's allrounder definition. https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,10607.msg177028.html#msg177028

[SA Chris]

Quote from Bonjoy in the significant repeats;

There are six moderators on UKB - Bubba, dave, me, Dobbin, Underground and Fatboyslimfast.

Was there some point when lightning shot down Bonjoy's sword and he became mortal? or is FBSF still officially with us?

[tommytwotone]

Most of Game for a Laugh:


https://ukbouldering.com/board/index.php/topic,5617.msg77260.html#msg77260