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the shizzle => news => Topic started by: grimer on November 23, 2005, 01:28:49 pm
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Christmas is coming and the geeses are getting fat,
So please go to http://www.thebmc.co.uk/guidebooks/ and download your free sample of the forthcoming Burbadger, Millstoner and Beyond.
Yes folks, this comically titled guide will be in your shops ready in time for your Christmas stockings. As a taster, there is a Millstone section for your perusal on the website. Note, it is about 5mg long, so it's best if you have broadband. Sorry Johnny.
Aided and abetted by UKB's very own Cofe, Johnny, Dave and Bonjoy - Thanks guys - you make lovin' fun.
Gwima
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Looks great. Eager to see the whole thing. Nice work, G.
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Typically brilliant that man. That's one request to Santa sorted out.
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word - i guess theres no point sending you any more bamford photos then......
wikkid.
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That's one request to Santa sorted out.
fuck that shit homie. think big. i wrote to saint nic and asked for a catamaran, a ferrari, and a madonna with the big boobies.
GORILLA.
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Izzit going to have some of that entertaining anecdotal stuff like the Staffs one? Or was that just a one-off?
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fuck that shit homie. think big. i wrote to saint nic and asked for a catamaran, a ferrari, and a madonna with the big boobies.
jeeps. judging by current form your stocking will be bulging with a trimaran, a lamborghini and madge herself with a tit job.
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Looks superb grimah. Glad to see the excellent style and functionality of the Staffordshire guide is being maintained. All hail the mighty BMC guidebook comeback!
P.S. On of the few re-gradings I noticed was Watling Street with the grade down and the stars up - entirely right I think.
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Wow. Some of those pics are fantastic. And the guide looks sweeter than a jellybaby with a mouthfull of lucozade.
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sweet work G - nice .pdf tip of the iceberg :-)
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thankk you all, will pass it on to the others. I think the pix in this are amazing, with 2 of jonny brown's being amazing (the johnny one in millstone being one).
And yeah, will have the anecdotes etc in there too.
:D
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Very nice Grimer. Ace shots. I'll buy a copy for the text and pics alone. :D
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Superb stuff! Stunning photography and classic, clean design, with the now trademark historical/incidental asides. Well done that man.
Dawes on London Wall - a phenomenal image. Take a bow Johnny B and enjoy the applause, you deserve it.
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Thanks Ru. When you buy the text and pictures, we'll also throw in some pages to keep them on as well.
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looks great, can't wait for the whole thing!
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Woah, I've just realised this is the one that covers...
Burbage, Higgar, Millstone. Lawrencefield, Rivelin, Bell Hagg, Wyming Brook, Bamford, Derwent Edge, Agden Rocher and Wharncliffe
Excellent, I presume this is what was once called The Sheffield Area guide? Looking forward to the coverage and updating of the less popular crags in particular.
I presume too at some point there will be combination of Froggat Curbar Baslow Gardoms Birchens Chatsworth, and then a southern grit guide for Cratcliffe, Black Rocks, Amber Valley and all the related esoterica? And of course a proper functional Stanage guide at some point?
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You mean Above and Beyond the Amber Valley Fiend?
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I presume too at some point there will be combination of Froggat Curbar Baslow Gardoms Birchens Chatsworth
we should resurrect the derwent gritstone guide. Do we have a volunteer to do the downhill racer rockover in bright white flared dungarees?
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yes
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Bettered only by Paul Mitchell doing Speak the Truth with a tail on his head.
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Or Keith Sharples casually cracking one off whilst hanging from a jam at the top of Mental Pygmy at Black Rocks.
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word, are the current generation of bmc guides the first in about 30 years that don't have at least half a dozen pictures of keith sharples in? or has grimer sneaked a few in? hopefully we're talking PAs, adidas vests and jimmy hill beards.
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...and not forgetting: tiny shorts, Galibier Contacts with socks, knotted sling quick draws and enormous Troll 6a chalk bags (a gallon capacity at least!).
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word, are the current generation of bmc guides the first in about 30 years that don't have at least half a dozen pictures of keith sharples in? or has grimer sneaked a few in? hopefully we're talking PAs, adidas vests and jimmy hill beards.
fuck man. the sharples was the illest back then. matched only by bancroft in cricket sweaters and jeans, or pollitt in pink spandex tights and neckerchief. cosmic.
these young things these days have no idea.
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word, are the current generation of bmc guides the first in about 30 years that don't have at least half a dozen pictures of keith sharples in? or has grimer sneaked a few in? hopefully we're talking PAs, adidas vests and jimmy hill beards.
fuck man. the sharples was the illest back then. matched only by bancroft in cricket sweaters and jeans, or pollitt in pink spandex tights and neckerchief. cosmic.
these young things these days have no idea.
word, that picture of my man Shizz-arp on Technical Master was the main reason I got psyched for bouldering.
what about the amazing amount of candystripe lycra in the Froggatt guide? That spandex / jumper combo is the shizzle word. They're all wearing it down here in Hoxton you know.
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you gotta love basher's "dressing up box" look at rivelin in the 89 guide - red tights, tiny white running shorts over the top of them, and a floppy black and teal fairisle jumper. can't remember exactly but i assume its capped off with fires and ice white sports socks (with double cadet stripes) pulled well up the calves. its a look that redefines sports casual.
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Ah, the piss stained lycra - christmas jumper combo. A Llanberis - circa 1988 - favourite, especially for Pritch and his cronies. Those brave bastards used to wear that crazy kit down the pub. No wonder there were so many fights in the Padarn back in the 80s.
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what about the amazing amount of candystripe lycra in the Froggatt guide? That spandex / jumper combo is the shizzle word.
mark Leach at froggatt looked amazing, like a kinda cross between a stick of rock and uncle peter.
on the flipside, the fewer photos of colin binks i have to look at in that bloody red corduroy sailor hat the better.
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the shot of sharples in stoney cafe (my god i can't even remember what it's on? black n tans, anyone?) with a melon on either side of his head is what it's all about. for me that's the best climbing shot
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am still haunted by the trauma me and andy pop caused to a group of school kids out at the far skyline, when we emerged from wild thing decked in well holed metallic lycra and diy haircuts - think they were ready for wallabies but not that!
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Or Keith Sharples casually cracking one off whilst hanging from a jam at the top of Mental Pygmy at Black Rocks.
As in rubbing one out?
:shock:
Climbing does excite me occasionally, but that seems a little OTT.
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You gotta love basher's "dressing up box" look at rivelin in the 89 guide - red tights, tiny white running shorts over the top of them, and a floppy black and teal fairisle jumper. can't remember exactly but i assume its capped off with fires and ice white sports socks (with double cadet stripes) pulled well up the calves. its a look that redefines sports casual.
genius :lol: that's the funniest post I've read in a while. But with the guide in front of me, I can see that you're not quite right. The socks have TRIPLE cadet stripes.
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TRIPLE cadet stripes? Jesus H they must have been some kinda limited edition.
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Ah, the piss stained lycra - christmas jumper combo. A Llanberis - circa 1988 - favourite, especially for Pritch and his cronies. Those brave bastards used to wear that crazy kit down the pub. No wonder there were so many fights in the Padarn back in the 80s.
man, pritchard's tights in the Stone Monkey Quarryman sequence...just the thought has turned my stomach....
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am still haunted by the trauma me and andy pop caused to a group of school kids out at the far skyline, when we emerged from wild thing decked in well holed metallic lycra and diy haircuts - think they were ready for wallabies but not that!
Andy popp outside The padarn with yellow lycra and full beavers tail dread sticking up vertically, nasty school jumper and full on crusty boots :lol: some young beris girl and her mates were all shouting in welsh 'show us your beard, weird'
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I thought I looked nice!
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Hahaha. Just goes to show, you never know who's listening in :D
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Alright there andy. Those tights have history, don't they. Didn't you have to risk your life to get your hands on those babies?
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And yes, andy, you did look nice, and don't let anyone else tell you different. How you keeping?
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I thought I looked nice!
:lol: nice one andy.
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Hey grimer. Word, I'm dope, apart from just had really wack session on the board (er... I dont think thats right is it? I haven't got the hang of all of this) Seriously, I'm OK, give me ring or send me a mail
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Hey grimer. Word, I'm dope, apart from just had really wack session on the board (er... I dont think thats right is it? I haven't got the hang of all of this) Seriously, I'm OK, give me ring or send me a mail
Come on Andy, make an effort...
"for real, I'm illin' - blow up my celly or hit me with some lyrics yo"
:wink:
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Andy, you've been lurking for six months but have finally posted - nice :)
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big brother is watching you...
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(er... I dont think thats right is it? I haven't got the hang of all of this)
I feel your pain, blood.
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Hey grimer. Word, I'm dope, apart from just had really wack session on the board (er... I dont think thats right is it? I haven't got the hang of all of this) Seriously, I'm OK, give me ring or send me a mail
are you sure you're not tim westwood?
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ha, nice one andy. Your effort had me convinced at least. I will give you a ring next week.
Number,
Duff Paddy
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i'm down too A :)
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well get up, al!
Suggest we form a club for those of us who don't understand UKB speak.
Roger
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ten four good buddy
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yall wiggaz best to pop big-L's "criminal slag" in ya deck nex time yo rolling in the 64 impala . that'll school yo asses. no doubt.
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or hook your bad ass up with this shizznit:
http://www.knockknock.biz/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=48
big pimpin made easy!
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yall wiggaz best to pop big-L's "criminal slag" in ya deck nex time yo rolling in the 64 impala . that'll school yo asses. no doubt.
Now I'm really lost. Al, forgot to say hi! You're memory is better then mine.
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Al, forgot to say hi! You're memory is better then mine.
can clearly recall faces on the group of schoolies - really struggle to recall what i did this weekend though :?
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Do you find yourself walking upstairs, then stopping on the landing in a state of puzzlement, trying to work out what it was you set out to get?
Pre 40 I guess this is worrying, but after 40 I suppose it is just par for the course; the long slide into senility awaits us all.
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Do you find yourself walking upstairs, then stopping on the landing in a state of puzzlement, trying to work out what it was you set out to get?
I always assumed that was just the weed.
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Ah, of course. That was it. I set out to get the weed.
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Amazing - this thread is now about ageing and senility. Keep this up and we will have destroyed every last shred of UKB's cool within the week! Viva the old farts.
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Ah, of course. That was it. I set out to get the weed.
:lol:
Damn Stoners clogging up the landing... grrr
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:lol:
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Amazing - this thread is now about ageing and senility. Keep this up and we will have destroyed every last shred of UKB's cool within the week! Viva the old farts.
Did it start out as something different?
Oh, and while we're at it, let's start a campaign to replace words such as shizzle, word, dope, illin, blood, down and yo, with things like hello, unwell, thank you, bye bye, perhaps, chap and content. It's called old-spek.
It will be the badge of the new in-crowd - old people.
I will happily add myself to it. I sense Al and Andy are potentials. Panton and the Bubbs too perhaps? And let's not forget the great TC.
Now, where's me pipe?
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Did it start out as something different?
nope. it's always been run by a certified fat old git :)
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Oh, and while we're at it, let's start a campaign to replace words such as shizzle, word, dope, illin, blood, down and yo, with things like hello, unwell, thank you, bye bye, perhaps, chap and content. It's called old-spek.
you forgot fellow, darling, presently, horlicks and doodlebug...
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yall wiggaz best to pop big-L's "criminal slag" in ya deck nex time yo rolling in the 64 impala . that'll school yo asses. no doubt.
despite probably being the oldest of the old gits.i was once the proud owner of a 64 chevy impala.
a class machine remarkable in that it was the rustiest car in california and the back window was fastened in with blue tack.
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despite probably being the oldest of the old gits.i was once the proud owner of a 64 chevy impala.
a class machine remarkable in that it was the rustiest car in california and the back window was fastened in with blue tack.
brilliant. as long as the spinners weren't rusty.
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as i said i'm old git how i'm supposed to know what spinners are.
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as i said i'm old git how i'm supposed to know what spinners are.
aren't they busy knocking our boys in white out for a measly total, out in pakistan right now
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No, it's a fishing reference. Dave's right, you'll catch nowt if yer spinner is rusty.
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i do remember from the dim and distant past,some wank[or should that be wack] folk group of that name.but i did'nt think dave was a finger in the ear sort of bloke[or dude].
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Do you find yourself walking upstairs, then stopping on the landing in a state of puzzlement, trying to work out what it was you set out to get?
What if you have been doing it since your mid 20's? I can remember just about every route or prblem I have ever done, but cant remember to shave some mornings.
Guess it comes to us all. Maybe when I hit 40 I will forget why things like that bother me.
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