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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by gme on Today at 10:57:11 am »

Not more impressive IMO.

Both amazing achievements, but to me Shauna's return to the top level on rock as a mother is more notable than anything anyone does on a board.

It was very much tongue in cheek.

Milk it is more impressive than anything on grit though.

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diet, training and injuries / Re: One for the runners

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 10:53:55 am »

You serious? No different to downturned climbing shoes, carving skis or aerobars on a roadbike. I'm not getting any younger, need every help I can get.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by fatneck on Today at 10:47:19 am »

Totally agree! I wonder whether Badger Cave is calling?

Is this the hardest grit problem by a British woman?

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Changing the BMC

« Last post by shark on Today at 10:42:18 am »

Thanks Dave,

I need to go through it all properly (not sure when though!) but in general the rebuttal document is high on assertion and low on fact.

To quote a former Directors reaction: “Some of that is fundamentally incorrect and some just inappropriate”.

My gut instinct is that the CEO £200k in kind figure is highly questionable as it contrasts so starkly with the £81k shared costs figure provided by the previous CEO and I strongly suspect doesn’t subtract the £100k? or so of grant income that the BMC gets for covering GBC’s admin costs.

There is also the notion that it is acceptable to bake in a contribution of £386kpa to GBClimbing before extras!  whose participants are perhaps 1% of the membership. Elite mountaineers or elite rock climbers get buttons.

Also what is the money being spent on? In general empire building rather than direct support to athletes to gain comp experience - surely a priority in performing well in comps.

There are also references to problems with grant funding. I had a conversation with the BMC’s governance contact at UKSport and specifically asked her what would be problematic about moving to a wholly owned subsid set up and the only thing she raised was that it would be a nuisance reassigning the contracts to the new body. So things like the compliance with the Code of Spirts Governance objection I’m taking with a pinch of salt unless the BMC can identify which parts of the code and why and back that up with testimony from UKS.

As for keeping it internal I’d like to be trusting but it leaves far too much scope for funny business due to lack of transparency.

That’s just an initial brain dump and as I said I need to go through it more systematically and pick a few brains.

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power club / Re: Power Club 750 22-28 April 2024

« Last post by Duma on Today at 10:34:18 am »

Lots of good OS milage there Shark!

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by Duma on Today at 10:31:47 am »

Not more impressive IMO.

Both amazing achievements, but to me Shauna's return to the top level on rock as a mother is more notable than anything anyone does on a board.

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diet, training and injuries / Re: One for the runners

« Last post by Duma on Today at 10:26:53 am »

FFS everyone rates carbon plated road shoes, because it's mechanical doping.

Fucking shameful that this bullshit was allowed by the authorities IMO, running has been sold to Nike etc al.

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for sale / wanted / Pair of Black Pad - Knee Pads

« Last post by Nike Air on Today at 09:53:05 am »

Purchased these directly from Spain.

They come as specified left and right leg.

Not been used that much to be honest.

Based in Lancashire but can post or meet at the crag/wall .

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgt7AjKj8gj/?igsh=MW0zeXNhZWludmEzOA==

https://www.blakpad.com/

£125 for the pair.

Jordan

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Changing the BMC

« Last post by Davo on Today at 09:11:45 am »

Hi Simon

I’ve been generally following this stuff and I applaud you for your efforts. I think due to your efforts the BMC are attempting to make some significant changes and improvements. I don’t like the way your resolutions have been handled by the BMC and I think your resolutions should go to AGM. I’m a BMC member via a club.

I have read the latest BMC stuff and am just wondering what your specific objections to them are? I can appreciate that one of the documents would feel like a personal attack on your resolution but I don’t read it that way myself. I don’t agree with all that it says but I just see it as a different opinion to yours that needs to be put forward and discussed at the AGM.

The papers seem to give better financial accountability and to segregate financially comp climbing which doesn’t seem unreasonable. If you wouldn’t mind detailing your objections that would be much appreciated

Cheers

Dave

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music, art and culture / Re: Assisted Dying, UK Parliament

« Last post by remus on Today at 08:54:16 am »

Sorry for your loss Sam and thanks for sharing on the forum.

For anyone interested, here's a long, very good (IMHO) article by philosopher Duncan Reyburn that he published about a month ago. Not that I'm agreeing with what he's written but I found it very thought provoking.

https://open.substack.com/pub/duncanreyburn/p/citizen-disposal?r=4n4mm&utm_medium=ios

An interesting piece, but I found it hard to get past the constant hyperbole. For example calling the doctors involved murderers, calling MAiD a "state-approved murder", a "nazi dystopia" and "the modern equivalent of the gas chamber".

Ultimately I don't think they make much of an attempt to balance the opposing sides: is being able to optionally end your life e.g. in cases of great suffering worth the risk of people being coerced in to ending their lives.

Imagine a child handing the relevant lethal dose to a parent to administer, if indeed that is the process followed. Imagine a friend handing a gun to another friend. Imagine a little girl watching the substance of that lethal injection being deployed into the arm of her mother. Can we honestly reconcile ourselves to what would be required of us to make such acts palatable? Nature may be cruel at times, and life hands very difficult endings to many of us. But to emulate that which opposes life is precisely to side with death. It is to side with the poison, the car crash, and the natural disaster.

I think this quote makes my point. It is certainly unpalatable helping someone kill themselves (I would certainly find it very hard, and of the doctors I know I think they would find it difficult too). But equally forcing someone who has expressed a clear wish to die to live against their will, while they descend into madness, or suffer in great pain for months or years, is obscene.