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Title: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: shark on October 15, 2008, 09:30:02 am
Ahhh that's better. UKC been down for 24+ hrs and I needed a fix



Anyone know what's happened ?
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: highrepute on October 15, 2008, 09:37:48 am
http://www.youtube.com/v/uFltF-WqlMg&hl=en&fs=1 (http://www.youtube.com/v/uFltF-WqlMg&hl=en&fs=1)
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Serpico on October 15, 2008, 09:43:25 am

Anyone know what's happened ?


I heard that the internet finally achieved sentience, and UKC was the first thing it got rid of.
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: slackline on October 15, 2008, 09:49:57 am
The title of this thread is petty and pointless, and reminds me of playground antics taunts at primary school  :(
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: SA Chris on October 15, 2008, 10:08:44 am
agree - one for the shitheap?
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: shark on October 15, 2008, 10:10:10 am
Wasn't intended to be. One of us has a malfunctioning sense of humour - probably me.  :kiss1:
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: slackline on October 15, 2008, 10:19:12 am
Or it could be me.  Its just that UKC is more than just one person and the title comes across as personally antagonistic as opposed to humorous.
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: shark on October 15, 2008, 10:35:03 am
Use of the word 'Peaks' would be the most inflammatory bit on UKC. I will need time to adjust my thinking.     
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Palomides on October 15, 2008, 10:39:15 am
Take it easy Simon.

UKC goes down like this quite predictably.

The evil overlord(s) of ukc are training their technical staff to never take holidays. Whenever he dares to take, for example, a week off to go to Kalymynos, the evil overlord(s) go into the server room and kick the crap out of various machines until something breaks, whilst muttering "this'll teach 'im".
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Eros Poli on October 15, 2008, 10:47:14 am
Bloody hell. And I thought it was UK Climbing which was famous for the odd sense of humour bypass???

Eros
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: DaveC on October 15, 2008, 10:52:23 am
I have noticed that if you mention the name "Mick Ryan" around here there is a distinct drop in temperature (so to speak.)
Wonder why that could be?  :whistle:
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Jaspersharpe on October 15, 2008, 10:55:16 am
 :yawn:
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: magpie on October 15, 2008, 10:57:09 am
Someone should really set up a UKC emergency overflow board, for troubled times like these.
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping o
Post by: beaver on October 15, 2008, 11:22:02 am
Rumour has it that it suffered a DDoS attack and might still be, or are just suffering the after effects. Maybe they should stop banning members for no good reason....

I mean come on, Rick Astley isn't "that" offensive... "bad" yes, but worth banning for posting video of?? He climbed up the charts which is more "climbing" than most of the people on UKC get up to...
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: lagerstarfish on October 15, 2008, 11:53:05 am
It was never E14 to start with. I know this because from my comfortable armchair I am best placed to make such judgements. I climb HVS and have done since last week. I therefore know what an accurate grade really means - and what it means to truly climb something on-sight. If the route had been climbed by someone who had a solid grounding in HVS and therefore understood the lower limit of E grades, then I might expect the E14 grade to be accurate. However, these things are only climbed by people who have polluted their minds and bodies by climbing other E graded stuff, so these decisions are just plain wrong.

Although Mr Ryan has performed a great service to us all by introducing the tried and tested USA decimal system to the peak (everyone will no doubt agree with me that we should continue to make the UK as much like the USA as we can), I am happy to volunteer my services to grade new E routes for people.

Well done to Mr Lee for finding a temporary home for all us dedicated UKCers.

What are all those animated little pictures of yellow faces above the box that I am typing in?

Yours

L'Etoile de Biere
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Norton Sharley on October 15, 2008, 12:01:19 pm
Nice one lagers, usual ukb sense of sarcasm re-instated. 
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Norton Sharley on October 15, 2008, 12:02:24 pm
er, sorry I meant humour  ;)
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Jaspersharpe on October 15, 2008, 12:06:08 pm

What are all those animated little pictures of yellow faces above the box that I am typing in?



 :lol:
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: slackline on October 15, 2008, 12:32:00 pm

What are all those animated little pictures of yellow faces above the box that I am typing in?

 :shrug:
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: shark on October 15, 2008, 01:17:51 pm
Back up now. Out of the shit heap and into the errr...  :wave:
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: lagerstarfish on October 15, 2008, 01:22:05 pm
I'm staying here on the shit heap to scrape my pustules with some broken bits of potery that I found lying around. Besides, I like the little yellow happy people.
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: Jaspersharpe on October 15, 2008, 02:28:08 pm
Pottery or poetry? I like the idea of self harming with stanzas of Wordsworth.
Title: Re: Mick Ryan downgrades E14 in the Peaks to 5.13 after toproping and chipping orgy
Post by: magpie on October 15, 2008, 02:36:19 pm
Papercuts can be really nasty if they're deep.  :'(
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