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Sick of pics of boulderers with beards

richardo

21-Jan-2011
9:10:40 PM

For example - latest Rock. Full of fuzzy chinned pebble pulling wookies.

From a marketing perspective its pretty clear that if bouldering is going to keep cool you need the full "back, sack and crack" treatment in every published photo. How else are you going to get the "pink pound" into the sport - that's where the money is.

chuss
Richardo xxx


MisterGribble

21-Jan-2011
10:57:14 PM

Oh No, not you again!

Don't you realise the entire outdoor scene was started with people with beards
Chris Bonington, Doug Scott, Don Whillans, guess what they all had - yep, BEARDS!

If you want to make more money than Simeys cafe at Easter, open a Brazilian waxing salon next to Golden Streak. Sit out the front with a blue singlet and some hand shears, show off your tatts and they'll come from miles around.

You Poms just lost at cricket again, and your wickie's got a ........oh wait a minute, ..... a BEARD!

(Southern Bloody Jesse!)


hangdog

22-Jan-2011
7:51:33 AM

>Don't you realise the entire outdoor scene was started with people with
>beards
>Chris Bonington, Doug Scott, Don Whillans, guess what they all had - yep,
>BEARDS!

I am pretty sure that these guys had beards for completely different reasons to the current band of boulderers.


chossbagger

23-Jan-2011
10:18:52 AM

If your Dad hasn't got a beard, then you've got two Mums..


BoulderBaby

23-Jan-2011
10:35:56 AM

...f*king indie boulderers...

Danger Mouse

24-Jan-2011
11:00:09 PM

Do you shave when you go to the crag?

Danger Mouse

24-Jan-2011
11:01:03 PM

I didn't say that by the way. I have been hijacked!

kieranl

24-Jan-2011
11:41:19 PM

Could the mods please bin this thread? The title is simply gross, and I'm not talking about the beards. It's garbage, can we be rid of it?

widewetandslippery

25-Jan-2011
8:00:40 AM

I actually am quite happy with a thread where women in there 20s talk about there shaving habits

Godless

25-Jan-2011
9:13:20 AM

Jesus H Christ. Rickardo you are so last year man. All the wafer thin fashionable young men (as pointed out by Musique) in the art scene are bearded. Why shouldn't that fall over into the equally fashion obsessed world of boulderers.

And crack back and sack was more a habit of bogans who wanted to be porn stars.


Climbau

25-Jan-2011
9:17:21 AM

On 25/01/2011 Godless wrote:
>And crack back and sack was more a habit of bogans who wanted to be porn
>stars.
>
Or folks who enjoyed puberty so much they wanted to experience it again, and again , and again.

Godless

25-Jan-2011
9:45:31 AM

I didn't say good fashion. (In fact the word fashion does not accept quantifiers). What about beanies? And are you telling me the mats aren't a fashion accessory?


Eduardo Slabofvic

25-Jan-2011
10:19:40 AM

On 25/01/2011 Godless wrote:
>In fact the word fashion does not accept quantifiers

Just like "Art" then?

widewetandslippery

25-Jan-2011
11:21:44 AM

I want to hear more about female boulderers shaving habits.

Philtown

25-Jan-2011
11:37:05 AM

On 25/01/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
>I want to hear more about female boulderers shaving habits.

I want skinny jean wearing chumps with bad sunglasses and deathtrap fringes to F.O.A.D. so beards go back to being the preserve of real men with only 1 mother. But do you think it's gonna happen???


bw

25-Jan-2011
11:49:33 AM

On 25/01/2011 Philtown wrote:
>On 25/01/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
>>I want to hear more about female boulderers shaving habits.
>
>I want skinny jean wearing chumps with bad sunglasses and deathtrap fringes
>to F.O.A.D. so beards go back to being the preserve of real men with only
>1 mother. But do you think it's gonna happen???

not going to happen whilst the baristas have beards. you can trace most of these horrible fashions to the barista.

Philtown

25-Jan-2011
1:28:32 PM

On 25/01/2011 davidn wrote:
>
>Edit (to Philtown): What's a deathtrap fringe when it's at home?

One so ironically post-emo long it's not allowed on public transport for safety reasons.

widewetandslippery

25-Jan-2011
3:05:10 PM

(prior appology to Hamster as this may offend, hope it doesn't)

Hampster in a Bavarian Hampster kind of way makes me think of beavers

A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.

Godless

25-Jan-2011
3:21:55 PM

Does not everything make you think of beavers?

On 25/01/2011 widewetandslippery wrote:
>(prior appology to Hamster as this may offend, hope it doesn't)
>
>Hampster in a Bavarian Hampster kind of way makes me think of beavers
>
>A bird in the bush is worth two in the hand.

Duncan

25-Jan-2011
3:25:52 PM

This thread is f---ing retarded. There are phtoos of 2 people in the current Rock with beards - some kiwi guy and James Trainer (nee Scarborough). James is hardly what you'd call metrosexual, and he has his shirt on and no beanie in any of the photos. There are photos of (at least) Chris Webb, James Kassay and Ben Cossey bouldering without beards.

In conclusion, the OP is a f---ing arsehat.

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