[Dolly]

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/02/sports_to_impress_your_valenti.html

[Houdini]

Great to see bodybuilding at the bottom and climbing at the top.

Though BB is hardly a sport, should've had powerlifting in (but most wouldn't know the difference would they?)

[tlr]

Well I climb, cycle, ski and play golf, so thats pretty much all bases covered for me I reckon.

Surfing should have been on there I'd have thought. Rather better image than standing around a sheep shit covered moor with a load of scruffy blokes in dirty pants down jackets and beanies making their fingertips bleed.

Tim

[dave]

just tell them you go abseiling.


Or alternatively, tell the ladies you often climb at Chapel head Scar, Attermire Scar or Woodhouse Scar. Because as we all know......
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[SA Chris]

Not sure to smite or wad for that joke.......



You get the benefit of the doubt.

[SA Chris]

Well I climb, cycle, ski and play golf, so thats pretty much all bases covered for me I reckon.

Participants were given a list of 15 sports/physical activities and asked if engaging in them would make a member of the opposite sex more attractive

They were give 15 and asked to rank them? 

Golf came out second from bottom?

I wonder what "extreme sports" are defined as? Anything that over-caffeinated sugary drink companyock sponsors?

[Jaspersharpe]

I wonder what "extreme sports" are defined as? Anything that over-caffeinated sugary drink companyock sponsors?

Kite wanking (or whatever the next load of shite they make up and include in the Olympics before climbing will be called).

[magpie]

Where's snowboarding, everyone know snowboarding is far sexier than skiing.  Surfing should definately be on there too.

I also fail to see how running is sexy in a man, on the right girl I can see the appeal.

[Dolly]

When I was telling Mrs Dolly about the survey last night,  she noted that the women who had responded obviously weren't in a relationship with real climbers,  but were imagining some sort of idealised figure. 
Otherwise the illusion of a finely sculpted athlete would have to be replaced by the reality of an obsessive list ticker.

Not quite sure what she meant 

[magpie]

Mrs Dolly sells climbers short, in general they are much more... ehh, I can't think of a polite word... toned, will do, than regular (I nearly said 'normal' ) guys.

Technically boulderers are better than climbers too.  Not that I've done a study or anything. 

[Houdini]

You're impressed by muscles aren't you Magpie?   This is not unusual for small ladies (you hands are tiny).

[magpie]

You're impressed by muscles aren't you Magpie? 

Maybe.  I'm fussy though, they must be lean muscles not big body building ones, they frighten me.  There are rules. 

(you hands are tiny).

 

[Paul B]

You're impressed by muscles aren't you Magpie?

Maybe.  I'm fussy though, they must be lean muscles not big body building ones, they frighten me.  There are rules. 
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  I don't think you get leaner than bodybuilders < 7% fat etc.

[magpie]

Well maybe I don't mean lean, I mean not huge and bulky.  Like your avatar, that is wrong.  I don't know what I mean really, I think the important point in what I'm trying to say is that everyone should post more semi-naked climbing pictures.