sherlock said:This reads like a survey, is there a prize?
And you can't put a price on that :icon_beerchug:andy popp said:sherlock said:This reads like a survey, is there a prize?
Only a warm fuzzy glow.
sherlock said:And you can't put a price on that :icon_beerchug:andy popp said:sherlock said:This reads like a survey, is there a prize?
Only a warm fuzzy glow.
The advertising is hard to miss, it’s very open here. This is surprising after being away so long and returning to find such huge changes and a very liberal society. Almost all of the top hotels provide “Spa” services for men and women, which range from getting you nails done to something else entirely. There was an article in a local paper about a young woman who came from Thailand (trafficked in the bad old days) and now owns a respected chain of “Spas” across the country. sherlock said:
A few months ago I tried to search for what I remembered as being my favourite ever UKB post from years ago. I think it was by Dave Parry replying to Stevie Haston. It went something like, "Being able to use a chairlift or eat a chapati in its natural habitat isn't what matters. The mark of a true all-round climber is being able to cut it at Burbage, Rubicon AND the Tor."cheque said:There should be a Best of UKB highlights thread that collates them.
stone said:A few months ago I tried to search for what I remembered as being my favourite ever UKB post from years ago. I think it was by Dave Parry replying to Stevie Haston…
I drew `a blank though. Did I just dream it?
Houdini said:This thread cracks me up!
You want scientific proof that fire is hot?
I hear guillotines are great for migraines...
Mrs OMM occasionally posts here as Pollylolly and refers to it as UKBollocks, both as an insult and in reference to the male domination…Fultonius said:Wowzers, 17 years! I always felt like I'd come into something quite long running and it certainly took me a while to feel like I "got" the lingo, atmosphere, spcial norms etc.
It was a wee bit like walking into a village pub...
My first ever post was about a finger injury, where (quite ahead of my time if I do say so myself, with some amount of smug self-satisfaction) I asked about using a fingerboard for rehab....
Houdini said:This thread cracks me up!
You want scientific proof that fire is hot?
I hear guillotines are great for migraines...
Aaaah, the old days.
What I particularly like is that you can tentatively suggest ideas, theories, half formed hunches and, instead of being shut down and labelled a fool, you get considered responses.
I also like that you can occasionally say things you're not proud of, and you know you've crossed the line. This is only online place that's ever actually changed my viewpoint on a subject, and it's happened a few times. So thanks everyone for that!
I love the training and injury geekery, Stu doing critical force analysis for me, Barrows' pdf, loads of other random shit.
Chris (SA) is the only person I'm aware that I knew from outside, but there are a few other lurkers that I see at the wall occasionally, Fiend who I try my best to avoid at all costs (kidding...) how did we never actually climb outside together?, bumping into Nibs in the dolomites and almost doing my only ever 7C boulder....
As others have said, it would be great to have more women on. But the look my OH gives me whenever she see's me on here makes it clear it's an uphill battle.