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Seriously, this site ... !
Andy P
7-Aug-2016
11:47:39 PM
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 ...

technogeekery
8-Aug-2016
8:24:52 AM
Nope - over to you (and me, and anyone else who wants more climbing content). I believe you are a writer - I bet you've got loads to contribute. I would love to see more trip reports, reviews, climbing talk too - so I guess its over to us to contribute more, and hope that others do too.

Eduardo Slabofvic
8-Aug-2016
10:23:10 AM
I'm with you Andy. I say bring back the days of dogs, blue tarps, subarus, and arguments about knots

MisterGribble
8-Aug-2016
11:00:06 AM
Falling drunk into camp fires, Tiptoe Ridge after a skinful, bin dives in Horsham....


Salad Days..........
hero
8-Aug-2016
11:04:24 AM
Andy,

I tried to post something interesting for you and got this message.

"Invalid or Suspicious Input Detected. Press BACK on your browser."

Too bad.

MisterGribble
8-Aug-2016
11:25:29 AM
On 8/08/2016 MisterGribble wrote:
>Falling drunk into camp fires, Tiptoe Ridge after a skinful, bin dives
>in Horsham....
>
>
>Salad Days..........

I forgot paranormal events involving spoons.......
Andy P
8-Aug-2016
12:00:49 PM
Thats a shame hero ... a rude word perhaps?
hero
8-Aug-2016
12:07:33 PM
Virtual Sexxx

Someone once ventured, no doubt with awareness of the irony (as am I), that “opinions are like arseh0les, everyone’s got one.” In the world of internet p0rn0graphy this surely seems to be the case, and if you’re not careful someone will jam a c0ck in it. Which brings me to the world of virtual climbing, the forums. When I’m not downloading internet p0rn, I often check out some of the climbing forums, or one Victorian one in particularly. Like a certain glossy Australian climbing magazine, it quickly loses it appeal, and I rarely find anything to sustain my interest. That could be my fault of course; a life time of substance abuse and a fractional mind have given me the concentration span of an …where was I? Oh, climbing forums. In the old days you used to have to write a sycophantic letter to Rock to get your opinion published, or be the loudest mouth in the campsite (an option taken by many I could name). Of course, as Mark C pointed out, you could just monopolise the climbing media. However, with the advent of cyber-democracy (I’ll return to this), the Wiki world, all opinions are equal and equally inane.

You can go online and mention the routes you climbed on the weekend and not gain opprobrium from your online peers. In fact, other avatars will tell you that you rock, that they also found that route good, the number of times they’ve done it, and where the retro-bolts should go. Oops, did I say retro-bolts. The good old fashioned sport of taking the p1ss out of someone’s ascent seems to have completely died out, under the kindly and wise eyes of the forum’s moderators. I hope this doesn’t mean sandbagging is also dead. Surely not. Next the old Australian tradition of making jokes about bombs on planes will be illegal.

The forums are instead full of scintillating t1tbits of wit, and wisdom, long paeans to peoples’ opinions of what rope you should bring to Arapiles in what month, what shoe is best to climb Morphyd, and um [snore]… sorry dozed off there.

It interests me that the majority of posters are young males. Geeks. Working dead-end jobs in the city and dreaming of being rockstars. My evidence for this is that they log on Sunday nights after the crag (implying they’re not getting any) and are online all hours of the work day. They post links to Sci Fi remakes on youtube, and to any obscure piece of climbing trivia that endless hours trolling the net have uncovered. The modern equivalent of faxing a photocopy of your pr1ck to a public service buddy. (2016 edit – Most forum posts are now by old fahts, myself included).
hero
8-Aug-2016
12:33:35 PM
The boyishness of the forums seem to fly in the face of modern trends in climbing, given that Arapiles seems to be crawling with attractive women nowadays (not like when I was young, why in my days … but I digress). Climbing forums strike me as an unlikely place to meet potential mates (I mean that in a Darwinian not John Howardian way). Perhaps they are the modern equivalent of the old VCC beard strokers.

The concept of moderators is interesting. The word moderate means to cut out the excessive and extreme, which is to dull things down and make them mediocre. No bad language. You’ll never see a nipple in the Daily Express. Or the word fahk in the forums. Unless it is impotent cartoon swearing. It **%$#@# sucks. Though, I called someone a m1nge one day without a response. Guess they didn’t know that it meant c00nt. See, now I’m doing it. Frank Zappa said that “Without deviation progress is not possible.” The moderators don’t subscribe to this or many of the other intelligent things Frank said. If any respondent gets too lively, they are barred. An ineffectual device in a world where internet addresses are easy to come by (try killthepig.com). The way to silence this dissent is to ignore comments, no matter how rational, from anyone considered a troll, or considered to be hiding behind a mask of anonymity. For god sakes, it’s the web! And, as Doug Lassi Hook would attest, anonymity is not the invention of the web. Many great satirists of the past have published their most biting pieces under other names. Of course, if you’re in the boys’ club, then you can be all sorts of a c0ck head with your comments and that’s OK. And knowing something about what you are talking (typing) about no longer seems a prerequisite.

And when I say ‘dodgy’ I’m betraying my stance, which is the opposite of the forum, where all opinions are rendered homogenous: there retro-bolting and placing fixed rings etc are admired and bolt chopping and conservative bolting frowned upon. It is good to remember history, because it has a way of catching up with one. An Arab proverb claims that ‘life is like a cucumber, today it’s in your hand, tomorrow it’s up your ahrse.’ And opinions are like that. Today, you’re the flavour of the month, the avant garde, and suddenly, history catches you under the chin, and you’re lying flat on your back, just another out of date and forgotten d1ckhead.



hero
8-Aug-2016
12:37:14 PM
The moderators, reflect the moderate or conservative views of contemporary society, where, as Scatterbrain once sang, ‘the government’s your mother’. The era of litigation, ridiculous court decisions, and those three little words we love to hear, OH&S, operate on the principle that life is inherently safe, and that if we die we are not responsible. Bullsh1t. Life and death are inextricably linked. As Jim said, no one gets out of here alive. There are a million relatively safe occupations and sports. Discounting the high incidence of lightning strikes, golf springs to mind. Surfing the net also. Why try to make climbing like these inane pastimes? Surely the reason for going climbing in the first place was that it was exciting and different.

I’m writing this late on a Sunday. Clearly, neither do I have a g1rlfriend. Elsewhere in other worlds not so far from where I sit, climbers are coming home to empty homes, and logging on to climbing forums, to relate what climbs they’ve done, and that their boots were too tight on Punks:



hero
8-Aug-2016
12:50:01 PM
purely as a prelude to the serious business of downloading p00rn. Me, I prefer to go straight to the p00rn.

Wow. It was the word precurs0r causing problems. Sorry I had to post that in parts.
Jayford4321
8-Aug-2016
1:25:49 PM
I vote we change the thread title to The Hero Worship Shred.

Chloe
8-Aug-2016
1:43:19 PM
On 8/08/2016 gnaguts wrote:
>I vote we change the thread title to The Hero Worship Shred.

I don't know about that but hero's dissing of the Mods although ok at a plutonic level, is way off the mark for this site as I think they do a great job, and as an example, pot-stirrers like One Day Hero get a pretty good run.

Andy, things wax and wane. Chockstone does too.
I've noticed that winter posts are often bitchy by comparison to summer posts when people get out and about instead of being cooped up inside.
This winter is kind of refreshingly different in that Chockstone has gone relatively quiet instead of bitchy for a change. Maybe this is due to the likes of One Day Hero not posting much lately, so perhaps gnaguts is right and we should rename the thread as another hero has stepped up to the mark?
Andy P
8-Aug-2016
4:38:55 PM
Nice one Chloe, and hero, those posts should get three stars each ...
I find it continually amusing when Mr Gribble and Eduardo throw in their witty retorts, irrespective of one of these fine gents being a very close personal friend.

Back to you Chloe: Yes, it does wax & wane doesn't it but I suppose as the membership ages the 'youngstars' aren't back-filling - they're out bouldering or down the indoor gyms .. ?

I might kick off another couple of new threads:
'Name that route by this description' and,
'How's yr new hip?'

Miguel75
8-Aug-2016
9:29:40 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 ...

Nothing witty, funny or even moderately interesting from me. I'm disenchanted with life, not just climbing;) too busy to climb or do anything except an occasional frollick on the MTB at the Youies. Actually, I did get out for a climb the other week; my TR goes something like this; set up self belay, zipped up and down climb of choice a few times, realise I still suck. Pack up and head home.

This is (almost) the end, my beautiful friend....
Andy P
8-Aug-2016
9:59:44 PM
On 8/08/2016 Miguel75 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 ...
>
>Nothing witty, funny or even moderately interesting from me. I'm disenchanted
>with life, not just climbing;) too busy to climb or do anything except
>an occasional frollick on the MTB at the Youies. Actually, I did get out
>for a climb the other week; my TR goes something like this; set up self
>belay, zipped up and down climb of choice a few times, realise I still
>suck. Pack up and head home.
>
>This is (almost) the end, my beautiful friend....

Just PM'd you.
Honestly, hope you're not serious here ... (Others - please lend support to someone who says their down).
Get back to us & let us know how you're doing. Even total strangers care ..
Best,
Andy P.


devlin66
8-Aug-2016
10:00:53 PM
This has happened on forums all over the place that I've been involved with. FB has killed off most of the forum traffic.

Miguel75
9-Aug-2016
5:51:59 AM
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;)


shortman
9-Aug-2016
8:38:57 AM
On 8/08/2016 Miguel75 wrote:
>
>my TR goes something like this; set up self
>belay, zipped up and down climb of choice a few times, realise I still
>suck. Pack up and head home.
>
>This is (almost) the end, my beautiful friend....

Yep, this sounds like my last few attempts at climbing...I would add, climbed for 20 minutes and spent 6 weeks recovering, :)
Andy P
9-Aug-2016
4:39:30 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;)
>
>


Glad to hear it.

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