[Nigel]

c) some barely competent photoshopping

I don't know anything about photoshopping; how can you tell??? I can see some pixelly blurring around Si's lower body if I look very carefully, is that it? Do you work for forensics? Do you need jelly eyes to see it?

I second the chap who said they'd buy a Si O'Conker stonker book; please publish your memoirs Si!

[Yossarian]

I second the chap who said they'd buy a Si O'Conker stonker book; please publish your memoirs Si!

me too... i wonder if he could get a deal with the news of the world to publish extracts?

[Fiend]

爻uk.mutual-dick-stroking.waffle爻 ROFL  



You know, at some point, I was willing to give Si O the benefit of the doubt, and have an entirely neutral perspective on what he may, or may not, have done o_O

[Bubba]

爻uk.mutual-dick-stroking.waffle爻 ROFL  

my thoughts entirely, perhaps I should register ukmutualdickstroking.com - and how can he slag off forum users for not doing any real climbing, but then produce a huge rambling blog all on his own. Odd.

[Yossarian]

As for trad mo charaid, most of the time for me, it's about stickin yer testicles in yer mouth, shuttin' the fuck up, & soloing out there through the roofs, 26 mtrs above a death-drop, to recce the gear [& believe me, you would'nt want to fall off at this point, you have to have it in hand]. Inadvertantly however, you may find youv'e added another insane v9 into the equation. The only problem with that is, you need to be able to climb E9 to get to it.

is he for real? or is it the drugs...?

[Fiend]

Bubba you really need to sort the .waffle domain though  :wink:

[Fingers of a Martyr]

As for trad mo charaid, most of the time for me, it's about stickin yer testicles in yer mouth, shuttin' the fuck up, & soloing out there through the roofs, 26 mtrs above a death-drop, to recce the gear [& believe me, you would'nt want to fall off at this point, you have to have it in hand]. Inadvertantly however, you may find youv'e added another insane v9 into the equation. The only problem with that is, you need to be able to climb E9 to get to it.

is he for real? or is it the drugs...?

i can safely say that no drugs i've ever come across make you say things like that...

[tommytwotone]

is it me, or is Si O' Connor the Ian Bell of climbing? Stay with me...

1) On paper he seems like he's world class
2) He has some big numbers under his belt
3) No-one seems to have seen him contribute anything useful in front of world class peers

 :wink:

[Bonjoy]

c) some barely competent photoshopping

I don't know anything about photoshopping; how can you tell??? I can see some pixelly blurring around Si's lower body if I look very carefully, is that it? Do you work for forensics? Do you need jelly eyes to see it?

I second the chap who said they'd buy a Si O'Conker stonker book; please publish your memoirs Si!

 Pure speculation only. It's pretty easy to phop in a background if you turn a picture into a dark B+W and blur the added background to give the impression of depth of field effect.
 I might have a go later and see what I can come up with.

[tommytwotone]

c) some barely competent photoshopping

I don't know anything about photoshopping; how can you tell??? I can see some pixelly blurring around Si's lower body if I look very carefully, is that it? Do you work for forensics? Do you need jelly eyes to see it?

I second the chap who said they'd buy a Si O'Conker stonker book; please publish your memoirs Si!

 Pure speculation only. It's pretty easy to phop in a background if you turn a picture into a dark B+W and blur the added background to give the impression of depth of field effect.
 I might have a go later and see what I can come up with.

can you photoshop me actually latching the top of Deliverance please?

with a lion at the bottom?

[Nigel]

Pure speculation only. It's pretty easy to phop in a background if you turn a picture into a dark B+W and blur the added background to give the impression of depth of field effect.
 I might have a go later and see what I can come up with.

Aaah, so you're saying that the whole foreground of Si on that lump of rock might actually just be a little boulder in a field which he's overlaid on some landscape shot of a crashing sea. Hmmmm, I could (technically) believe that. Seems pretty slick if that's the case though, is it really quite easy then :?:

[Bonjoy]

Here's a pretty poor example of the sort of thing. I only have Paintshop at work which is a very blunt tool compared to Photoshop.

 The key thing for making this easy is to make sure the boundry between the two images is as bland dark and simple as possible, darkening, blurring and de-saturating all help with this . Hence why Si's pic is the sort which could be easily produced from two halves. That doesn't mean it is of course.

[Bonjoy]

Here's one I prepared earlier. Not exactly what I was talking about, but it shows the sort of trickery that can be done.
Spot the difference. Before

After


 Of course I didn't tell Ru about this when I gave him the pic for the bouldering guide  
 :wink:

[Soxs]

is it me, or is Si O' Connor the Ian Bell of climbing? Stay with me...

1) On paper he seems like he's world class
2) He has some big numbers under his belt
3) No-one seems to have seen him contribute anything useful in front of world class peers

 :wink:

I think that, that is being a bit harsh on Mr Bell, for a start; he hasn't adopted a nationality to give himself some mystical auora, he has failed very publicly and taken criticism on the chin, also when out for 0 he hasn't then walked into the scorers hut and put himself down for 150 n.o. And lastly he did take some great catches and therefore given us one thing to like him for. :?

[Fiend]

Spot the difference.

You've got a bigger chalkbag in the second one, and your goatee's blowing a slightly different way.


Is there a prize??

[AndyR]

I think that, that is being a bit harsh on Mr Bell, for a start; he hasn't adopted a nationality to give himself some mystical auora,

Has SOC?

[Mr.Burns]

Has SOC?

He wasn't called Si O'Connor when he lived in the South Lakes!

[Fingers of a Martyr]

Has SOC?

He wasn't called Si O'Connor when he lived in the South Lakes!

haha what was he called?!

[Yossarian]

Has SOC?

He wasn't called Si O'Connor when he lived in the South Lakes!

oh get it right, puuulease...

it's si o'connor of the clan o'connor

[Fingers of a Martyr]

Has SOC?

He wasn't called Si O'Connor when he lived in the South Lakes!

oh get it right, puuulease...

it's si o'connor of the clan o'connor

actually it's 1 'n'. n00bz. :

[Bubba]

Ok, folks, I've had a PM from Si who's concerned about the way this topic is heading.

Please discuss whatever you want his routes/problems, but leave things about his personal life out of this.

[saltbeef]

who cares about si o connor when jeff mills is on!

[SA Chris]

I see he has taken to borrowing problem names again "Eat Yerself Whole". This is the name of one of tc's problems at Langstrath. I suppose it was a coincidence :roll:

More likely Greg, they both took the name from the album, by Kingmaker or someone I think?

[Greg C]

This makes interesting reading...

http://www.scottishclimbs.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2373&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

All though they might pull it.

[tc]

I see he has taken to borrowing problem names again "Eat Yerself Whole". This is the name of one of tc's problems at Langstrath. I suppose it was a coincidence :roll:

More likely Greg, they both took the name from the album, by Kingmaker or someone I think?

Nope. I was on a 'things that require time and effort to do' theme. Hence: "Eat Yourself Whole" and its companion problem "Bonsai Your Cat".

The 1970s had a profound effect on me  :wink: although the current medication is helping with the flashbacks (to Mc Callum)