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#425 Re: calling of the lime
March 06, 2020, 07:24:16 pm
I suggest we crowd fund a Machine learning based PhD to sort this shit out once and for all... :D

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#426 Re: calling of the lime
March 06, 2020, 07:53:38 pm
I'd nominate Mat Wright. Don't know him personally but his credentials are impeccable.

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Perfect. I’ll put it to him

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#427 Re: calling of the lime
March 06, 2020, 08:25:46 pm
We have a new caller  :dance1:

How’s Powerband looking?

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#428 Re: calling of the lime
March 06, 2020, 08:43:55 pm
Well that fits the quality of the subject matter very well  :sick:

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#429 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 06:06:11 pm
Who's the lime caller? Did the lime actually get called? just the usual shambles...

10degrees and a Northwesterly on Thursday/Friday, see you all on the grit 

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#430 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 06:17:43 pm
Who's the lime caller? Did the lime actually get called? just the usual shambles..

Furloughed

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#431 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 06:18:40 pm
Thought the overlords were basing it on UKBSage science committee? 😃

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#432 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 06:33:22 pm
Who's the lime caller? Did the lime actually get called?

Boris called it obvs.

Hope it’s not him again next year.

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#433 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 07:34:59 pm
Dominic Cummings called it on his blog last year

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#434 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 08:09:40 pm
10degrees and a Northwesterly on Thursday/Friday, see you all on at Taddington Crag X 
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I think a missed call can be forgiven this year given the circumstances. If the clipstick baton is passed to someone with more personality the next year, sobeit.

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#435 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 09:27:12 pm
Who's the lime caller? Did the lime actually get called? just the usual shambles...

10degrees and a Northwesterly on Thursday/Friday, see you all on the grit 

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fuck the lime

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#437 Re: calling of the lime
June 02, 2020, 10:22:14 pm
This year would have been a superb data point for the calling being an indicator of climate change study. And now it’s all been fucked away.

I demand a UKB enquiry. With a poll.

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#438 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 03:29:22 am
well i didn't call it cos 1. im stuck in wales. and 2. I though BO JO called it upon releasing lockdown? finally got out for the first time today at a local crag, found a nice project for me to try and just typical the forecast is for rain after weeks and weeks of sun. the climbing gods hate me

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#439 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 08:38:43 am
If the clipstick baton is passed to someone with more personality the next year, sobeit.

Harsh?

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#440 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 10:01:56 am
I present Isolation 8A. Quarantine but in reverse (starting as for alpha)

Now get out there and CRANK!!

It seems that last year's apparentaly late Lime Call was actually a really early 2020 call.

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#441 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 11:51:17 am
If the clipstick baton is passed to someone with more personality the next year, sobeit.

Harsh?
Maybe. I thought it was NOT Hadyn this year btw??

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#442 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 11:51:59 am
Errr, it's not supposed to be a dabbler. It's supposed to be a dyed in the wool over-biting diet-obsessed crimp fiend anorexic wierdo with no aesthetic sense whatsoever who once tried grit but didn't like it cos there were topouts and slopers and slabs and scrittle and beautiful moves requiring poise and grace. Or you'll unbalance the White and Dark Peaks and bad things will happen. Like plagues, floods etc. Traditionally it's also been a hapless klutz who drops the ball, misses the call and can't do more than one season without quitting, but I think those are optional.

At least we met all of JB's requirements  ;D

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#443 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 12:05:27 pm
Clearly we need for for the Limestone Advisory Group. This group would be refreshed each summer - with a hand over from the old LAGs to the new. Their role is to advise - er the caller on when to make the call.

Alternatively, we could contract Serco to create a series of national centres capable of doing - (picks a number at random) 200 000 calls a day.

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#444 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 12:30:02 pm
A more appropriate moniker for this quango in these times might be the Science-led Limestone Advisory Group, with an appended (S) for those who are chosen by polling, standing for Seconded.

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#445 Re: calling of the lime
June 03, 2020, 12:51:23 pm
A more appropriate moniker for this quango in these times might be the Science-led Limestone Advisory Group, with an appended (S) for those who are chosen by polling, standing for Seconded.

It’s clearly an important issue to get right. So maybe the SLAGs could advise the LAGs?

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#447 Re: calling of the lime
June 05, 2020, 08:39:51 pm
Minter than replacing your chalk with crushed Polos this evening at Helsby. Velcro would have seemed slippery in comparison. I *almost* feel sorry for the lime ball dropper caller this year.

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#448 Re: calling of the lime
June 05, 2020, 11:39:56 pm
Minter than replacing your chalk with crushed Polos this evening at Helsby. Velcro would have seemed slippery in comparison. I *almost* feel sorry for the lime ball dropper caller this year.

Similar at Burbage, except that I had some coordination problems and had a bad fall whilst warming up, also had joint pain which meant I couldn't put up with wearing climbing shoes.
Still, better than limestone

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#449 Re: calling of the lime
April 09, 2021, 10:02:07 pm
I had hoped for a warm sunny spell after the mini ice age to come but rain it is instead, oh well! With the end of the mini ice age I declare open season on the lime! Hopefully its going to be a good year for us crimpers. I wish tendons of steel upon you all and endless sunny days!

COME ON LIME! LETS DO IT!

 

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