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Eduardo Slabofvic

9-Aug-2016
4:59:26 PM

On 8/08/2016 Andy P wrote:
>one of these fine gents being a very close
>personal friend.
>

as close as two testicles

Andy P

10-Aug-2016
12:14:43 AM

On 9/08/2016 Eduardo Slabofvic wrote:
>On 8/08/2016 Andy P wrote:
>>one of these fine gents being a very close
>>personal friend.
>>
>
>as close as two testicles

Hardly. Is that the best you can come up with? Yer slippin' mate.


MisterGribble

10-Aug-2016
12:48:06 PM

I would have said 'descending'

Jayford4321

10-Aug-2016
4:44:03 PM

^
U3 need 2 get a room an sort it out.

AP mentioned earlier;
>What happened to the climbing?
I went yesterday.
Didn't CU.
Where's the love?


ChuckNorris

10-Aug-2016
6:07:28 PM

Yeh I'm with spagguts get a room. I thought the OP didn't like "in jokes between friends that no one else gets"? Or did you mean "in jokes between folk that I don't know"?

If I were ed I would have said "as close as two pairs of testicles slapping".

But then I'm not ed so I won't say anything.

Andy P

10-Aug-2016
9:37:46 PM

I meant climbing in the literary/thread sense, not actually 'doing it', Heaven forbid ...
And what's the infatuation with testes - it's yous who should "get a room" - and compare ,,,, erm ,,, notes.
I'll be in The Spotti pub if anyone cares for a beer and a fireside chat ...
Talk amongst yourselves ..
Night night.


phillipivan

10-Aug-2016
11:19:52 PM

On 9/08/2016 Miguel75 wrote:
>On 8/08/2016 Andy P wrote:
>>Get back to us & let us know how you're doing. Even total strangers care
>
>Thanks Andy, it is heartwarming to see people care. Whilst I've been too
>busy of late to even contemplate doing anything remotely fun, my melancholic
>post may have come across a little too dramatic (especially the Jim Morrison
>quote at the end).
>
>I was trying to channel my sadness at Chockys dearth of awesome posts.
>I may have over shot the mark;)
>
>

A little! I certainly never expected to read an apparent suicide note from my big eared mormon friend on chocky.

But then, I did pike on Friday dinner. Sorry about that.

simey

17-Aug-2016
10:25:27 PM

On 7/08/2016 Andy P wrote:
>OK, does anybody actually have anything interesting or fascinating or witty
>to post on here these days? Seems not. It used to be vibrant and fun and
>enjoyable to pop in to every day or so. Recently it's just become so hum-drum
>an dull. Just look at the last few weeks: Folks who (probably) know each
>other anyway sharing 'in jokes' that no-one else gets.
>What happened to The Climbing'? Let alone the S&D 'n R&R?
>Disenchanted.
>Over to you ...
>

You have arrived too late Andy and I'm afraid you missed the Golden Age of Chocky. But you can still enjoy all those classic threads from the past. Who can forget such classics as Bourge's World? Or Blake's Ozymandias trip report? Or whatever the thread was where I was a total prick to M9? Or Clinton's Tyrolean adventures?

What we need is a star system where Chockstoners can rate their favourite threads so newcomers can work their way through those three-star classics on days when Chockstone is as dull as dog shit.


phillipivan

18-Aug-2016
8:59:05 AM

On 17/08/2016 simey wrote:

>You have arrived too late Andy and I'm afraid you missed the Golden Age
>of Chocky. But you can still enjoy all those classic threads from the past.
>Who can forget such classics as Bourge's World? Or Blake's Ozymandias trip
>report? Or whatever the thread was where I was a total prick to M9? Or
>Clinton's Tyrolean adventures?

Surely most of those threads have been butchered to the new generation of chocky anti spam rules; like all the trip reports about actual climbing.

If I ever get off my butt (or on my butt) to write another TR I will make sure it fit's inside a twitter post; once I figure out what twitter is.


Miguel75

18-Aug-2016
3:17:48 PM

On 17/08/2016 simey wrote:
>On 7/08/2016 Andy P wrote:
>>OK, does anybody actually have anything interesting or fascinating or
>witty
>>to post on here these days? Seems not. It used to be vibrant and fun
>and
>>enjoyable to pop in to every day or so. Recently it's just become so
>hum-drum
>>an dull. Just look at the last few weeks: Folks who (probably) know each
>>other anyway sharing 'in jokes' that no-one else gets.
>>What happened to The Climbing'? Let alone the S&D 'n R&R?
>>Disenchanted.
>>Over to you ...
>>
>
>You have arrived too late Andy and I'm afraid you missed the Golden Age
>of Chocky. But you can still enjoy all those classic threads from the past.
>Who can forget such classics as Bourge's World? Or Blake's Ozymandias trip
>report? Or whatever the thread was where I was a total prick to M9? Or
>Clinton's Tyrolean adventures?
>
>What we need is a star system where Chockstoners can rate their favourite
>threads so newcomers can work their way through those three-star classics
>on days when Chockstone is as dull as dog shit.

I reckon Clinton's Tyrolean adventure is freaking awesome. That thread had everything!

Also, thanks to the many people who've contacted me about my earlier and very gloomy post. The last sentence is a quote from a Doors song, not my bleak outlook on life;)


IdratherbeclimbingM9

18-Aug-2016
8:58:01 PM

On 17/08/2016 simey wrote:
>you can still enjoy all those classic threads from the past.
>Who can forget such classics as Bourge's World? Or Blake's Ozymandias trip
>report? Or whatever the thread was where I was a total prick to M9? Or
>Clinton's Tyrolean adventures?
>
That M9 fellow probably deserved it.
Heh, heh, heh.

On 18/08/2016 phillipivan wrote:
>Surely most of those threads have been butchered to the new generation
>of chocky anti spam rules; like all the trip reports about actual climbing.
>
The butchering seems to only have applied to excessive length within a single post, so my expectation is that the threads are still intact, though I haven't been back to check.
I would expect that the language filter applies to them, but most know how to read the new equivalents don't they?

simey

18-Aug-2016
10:48:10 PM

On 18/08/2016 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 17/08/2016 simey wrote:
>>you can still enjoy all those classic threads from the past.
>>Who can forget such classics as Bourge's World? Or Blake's Ozymandias
>trip
>>report? Or whatever the thread was where I was a total prick to M9? Or
>>Clinton's Tyrolean adventures?
>>
>That M9 fellow probably deserved it.
>Heh, heh, heh.

I was probably having a sugar low.

Andy P

18-Aug-2016
11:04:14 PM

On 18/08/2016 simey wrote:
>On 18/08/2016 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>>On 17/08/2016 simey wrote:
>>>you can still enjoy all those classic threads from the past.
>>>Who can forget such classics as Bourge's World? Or Blake's Ozymandias
>>trip
>>>report? Or whatever the thread was where I was a total prick to M9?
>Or
>>>Clinton's Tyrolean adventures?
>>>
>>That M9 fellow probably deserved it.
>>Heh, heh, heh.
>
>I was probably having a sugar low.
>
Where are they Simes? Directions please ,,, anyone?
Ta.


IdratherbeclimbingM9

19-Aug-2016
3:25:55 PM

Cicadas tyrolean adventure

... That'll keep you going for a starter.

As an aside, simey's taste in classics may not be others(?), and to support this hypothesis on my part I add that con-text is everything, as many threads from the golden age of Chocky had parallel running (con-textual) tidbits that often embellished the themes running elsewhere on the site. Without them some additional meaning is lost.

Post edit:
I note that the linked ODH's trip report ending that nine page thread has suffered the anti-spam shortening alluded to elsewhere ...

ODH; any chance of adding part/s 2, 3 etc to complete it again?

simey

19-Aug-2016
6:37:08 PM

On 19/08/2016 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>As an aside, simey's taste in classics may not be others(?), and to support
>this hypothesis on my part I add that con-text is everything, as many threads
>from the golden age of Chocky had parallel running (con-textual) tidbits
>that often embellished the themes running elsewhere on the site. Without
>them some additional meaning is lost.

Yes, that is all pretty true. Some of the classics of yesteryear might not hold up so well with the passage of time, but I am sure this one does...

http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=Display&ForumID=1&MessageID=27807


MisterGribble

19-Aug-2016
6:47:47 PM

Have you been listening to those early Brian Eno records again Simey ?

simey

20-Aug-2016
9:23:30 AM

???

simey

20-Aug-2016
9:31:32 AM

Here is another link...

http://www.chockstone.org/Forum/Forum.asp?Action=DisplayTopic&ForumID=2&MessageID=6496&PagePos=&Sort=&Replies=50&MsgPagePos=0

For a bit of background... Blake was just a weedy, young wannabee when he wrote this and was still finding his feet in the climbing world. He copped a bit of good humoured shit from the likes of me and One Day Hero later in the thread. Shortly after, his mum messaged me to say that she felt like we took things too far and that our sense of humour was not conducive to helping teenagers build confidence. It was a totally reasonable letter, but I pointed out that Blake wasn't being singled out (we wanted to see Blake succeed) but simply that everyone who posted on Chockstone was open game.

As things turned out, Blake's focus moved from big wall aiding to bouldering. He is now a 6'4" monster who pulls V10 or harder.

Andy P

20-Aug-2016
12:59:22 PM

On 20/08/2016 simey wrote:

>For a bit of background... Blake was just a weedy, young wannabee when
>he wrote this and was still finding his feet in the climbing world. He
>copped a bit of good humoured shit from the likes of me and One Day Hero
>later in the thread. Shortly after, his mum messaged me to say that she
>felt like we took things too far and that our sense of humour was not conducive
>to helping teenagers build confidence. It was a totally reasonable letter,
>but I pointed out that Blake wasn't being singled out (we wanted to see
>Blake succeed) but simply that everyone who posted on Chockstone was open
>game.
>
>As things turned out, Blake's focus moved from big wall aiding to bouldering.
>He is now a 6'4" monster who pulls V10 or harder.
>
That's a happy ending Simey and if we dish it out we have to expect to cop it back. 'The p*ss' I mean.
Nice tale.


ChuckNorris

20-Aug-2016
7:08:41 PM

I love the thread where Eduardo inadvertently fessed up to having intimate relations with microwaved haggis on a regular basis.

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