Re: climbing-goes-mainstream weirdness

[spidermonkey09]

BBC News - Climbing wall meet-ups scale heights of romance for dating Brits - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4vre2j4qqo

 

[lagerstarfish]

BBC News - Climbing wall meet-ups scale heights of romance for dating Brits - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4vre2j4qqo

I thought communication at climbing walls was supposed to be limited to mansplaining, unsolicited beta spraying and micro aggressions. I can't see how that could ever lead to romance.

 

[dunnyg]

I guess some people must be in to that

 

[Fiend]

I got unsolicited beta from a girl today, and she was goddamn right about the problem too

 

[webbo]

I got unsolicited beta from a girl today, and she was goddamn right about the problem too

What did she say “ It’s easier if you do it wearing your shirt” :dance1:

 

[Fiend]

I had a long sleeve thermal top on cos it was actually cold in there, you arsenugget!!

(It was getting a foot out right onto a good hold hidden around the volume, rather than smearing on the volume itself)

 

[Dolly]

Possibly slightly off topic, but Ilkley quarry featuring here.

Not just that, they've snuck Henry Price in too at 1:30, for the true connoisseur.

Sneaked is a past participle “cough”

 

[stone]

I'm interested in what motivates your preference that other people use "sneaked" rather than "snuck".

I was clueless about it all and had to google and they seem to be synonyms with "snuck" being more American. Is it good to enforce divergence between UK and US English?

 

[Fultonius]

Depends if you think language should be prescriptive or descriptive.

I'm all for being prescriptive when words bmare just being used incorrectly (see "myslef").

However, if it's just a variance in common use I think it's best to jsut go with the flow. It annoys me when people insist on lighted vs lit, or in Scotland we say jamp not jumped.It's not wrong, just different.

Re: the couples thing, Gordon and Meguni are friends - the fact it's in the news is pretty funny!

 

[remus]

Ldn climber x BBC collab

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj4vre2j4qqo

 

[Fiend]

remus x not scrolling up 8 posts

 

[Fultonius]

remus x not scrolling up 8 posts

:lol:

Also, delicious irony in all my typos and grammatical blunders in my last post. :lol:

 

[stone]

Depends if you think language should be prescriptive or descriptive.

That reminded me of a joke transcript of an argument where people started quibbling over the correct English for a something. It went to 1950s English, then Victorian, then King James Bible style, then Chaucer-esque and ended up in an incomprehensible ancient language like out of Beowulf. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-english-version

 

[shurt]

Just wanted to translate the following two paragraphs:

"Gordon, who'd been climbing for more than 10 years, asked if Megumi wanted some advice. Then, later that day, when Megumi, a relative newbie at the sport, cut her hand on the wall, Gordon jumped in to offer her an antiseptic wipe.

That night, Gordon, now 42, decided to look Megumi, 33, up on Facebook to check how her name was spelt. But he accidentally sent her a friend request."

After Gordon mansplained and wiped her cut with sanitiser he decided to stalk her on social media. One Facebook friend request later, it appeared she was actually into all of the above.

 

[jwi]

It's not mansplaining if Gordon actually have more expertice and experience than Megumi about the topic, and is not condecending ... at least not how I understand the word?

Me, I don't explain anything to anyone unless they pay me at least what I get in my day job. I get my fill of explaining stuff to people from 8 to 5.

 

[SA Chris]

Sneaked is a past participle “cough”

Feak off.

 

[tom123]

A radio drama revolving around bolting a trad crag on BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026935

Have they been reading UKB?

 

[tomtom]

A radio drama revolving around bolting a trad crag on BBC Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0026935

Have they been reading UKB?

It was nearly as bad as the thread…

 

[jwi]

I read the news today, oh boy. https://www.ft.com/content/0f0d1c49-61fa-4a8f-a2a2-9e4c3c3db5be

Early this May, an airline pilot, two entrepreneurs and a government minister will wait for the call to mobilise. The British group’s gear will already be at Everest base camp alongside Lukas Furtenbach [...]

As soon as [Furtenbach] declares that a weather window is about to open, his clients will dash to Heathrow for the next flights to Kathmandu.They will then take a taxi straight to a health clinic. For 30 minutes, each adventurer will wear a mask attached to a ventilator for administering xenon [...]

After no more than two hours to get ready and meet their half-dozen Sherpas, they will begin their ascent. [...]

If he can pull off his plan, which he is revealing now after years of secret preparation, his clients hope to return to the UK just a week after they leave.

“I’m super-excited to see if we can leave home on a Monday morning, be on the summit of Everest on Thursday night, and make it home for Sunday lunch,” says Garth Miller, the pilot and leader of the group, which includes Alistair Carns, Britain’s veterans minister.

Of course, we are refering to "climbing" in a very loose sense here. I do not think arms are used very much in this version of the sport.

 

[Fiend]

Will xenon gainz get me back up to 7A this year?