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Piddo - sparta - wire! 28-Jun-2011 At 4:03:24 PM strerror

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On 28/06/2011 davidn wrote:
>Because talking about climbing is, realistically, very very boring. Especially
>compared to doing it. Same topics over and over, same hot air about bolts,
>grades, trad, sport, i'm hard and you're not, you wouldn't know a good
>climb if you decked on it, blah blah blah blah blah. That's not an excuse,
>it's just the reality - bored + internet = arseholes.

thing is I've been on the net since it's inception and while there are a number of forums that do suffer from severe trolling, I don't readily associate climbers with it as opposed to say gamers. The reality here though is that there is a pretty vocal, active section of the climbing community that really likes to shove their views in your metaphorical face. It doesn't bother me, as I say, I've dealt with it for a long time, but it does surprise me as the people I meet out climbing are generally really great people.
The amusing thing about my post was that where I live, Sydney, a few beers actually cost MORE then the cost of the wire, no one seemed to pick up on the irony though.