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Static rope taken, Reservoir Dogs, Medlow Bath

audtracol

11/02/2009
9:10:02 PM

A few years ago i was camped at Cumberland River on the great ocean road. We had purchased firewood and had it sitting under our fire drum for that night. After returning from Lorne after a few ales we observed that our wood had gone walkabout. The only others in the park with a campfire where about 50 teenage kids on camp. Quite a few of the kids were sheepishly looking over at us and sharing a laugh on us. Needless to say quite a few pairs of runners, jeans left out to dry and other clothing was removed from their site overnight and left hanging quite high up from the roofing chicken wire in the ladies toilets. Every dog has its day TND.

fish boy

11/02/2009
10:29:36 PM

plugngo

11/02/2009
10:34:52 PM

On 11/02/2009 fish boy wrote:
>Dutch, means "the"....that's where the arrogance comes from.

I can think of many suitable things that Kam might mean. None of them good.

fish boy

11/02/2009
10:53:01 PM

On 11/02/2009 plugngo wrote:
>On 11/02/2009 fish boy wrote:
>>Dutch, means "the"....that's where the arrogance comes from.
>
>I can think of many suitable things that Kam might mean. None of them
>good.

Nice one tough guy!

Who else wants a stab?


peterc

12/02/2009
10:27:36 AM

On 11/02/2009 garbie wrote:
>I don't want to get all gooey, but I remember the days when the climbing
>community was really a community, and fish boy and his ilk just weren't
>around. Nostalgia just aint what it used to be, but its sad when the days
>when you could trust your fellow climber are over. I can't believe people
>would say Niall deserved it - go find something else to do if you think
>so...

Is this a generational thing? – As was being hinted at earlier. Or is it a societal thing? – Maybe the world is going to sh!t. Or is it just a case of a proportional increase in crime? – There are more climbers now (and maybe the percentage of thieving scumbag climbers is the same now as it used to be).

I guess when the climbing community was smaller, there was a greater sense of accountability. After all, if you behaved like a scumbag, word would get around pretty quickly. And you could find yourself running out of climbing partners. That’s not so much the case anymore.

Although I guess forums like Chockstone, can act a bit like the stocks in a town square of old. Just line up the rotten tomatoes.

We trust our lives to our belayers. It’s a shame that we can’t seem to trust our gear to fellow climbers anymore.

BTW, has anyone else noticed that fish face’s first name is a synonym for “steal” and his surname means “the cam”?

“Steal the cam” – in a thread about the theft of climbing gear. It’s just too good. No wonder Mikl thought it was fake.

And Niall, if for some bizarre reason you took him up on his offer to climb with him, how would you feel leaving your gear unattended at the base of the cliff???

On a different note...Hey Garbie, got an old rope from the gym that you can donate to Niall for his bolting efforts?


Sabu

12/02/2009
10:55:38 AM

On 12/02/2009 peterc wrote:
>BTW, has anyone else noticed that fish face’s first name is a synonym
>for “steal” and his surname means “the cam”?
>
>“Steal the cam” – in a thread about the theft of climbing gear. It’s just
>too good. No wonder Mikl thought it was fake.
>
>And Niall, if for some bizarre reason you took him up on his offer to
>climb with him, how would you feel leaving your gear unattended at the
>base of the cliff???
Wow that is a very harsh comment.
Nick just likes to stir shit up here, i thought most people would have realised that by now.


garbie

12/02/2009
12:48:00 PM

On 12/02/2009 peterc wrote:
>
>On a different note...Hey Garbie, got an old rope from the gym that you
>can donate to Niall for his bolting efforts?
>
>
Yeh Pete, but they're pretty far gone by the time we take them down!


evanbb

12/02/2009
12:53:09 PM

On 12/02/2009 garbie wrote:
>Yeh Pete, but they're pretty far gone by the time we take them down!

Just abseil gently. They'll be fine. Niall doesn't weigh much.

dmnz

12/02/2009
3:59:19 PM

On 11/02/2009 garbie wrote:
>I don't want to get all gooey, but I remember the days when the climbing
>community was really a community, and fish boy and his ilk just weren't
>around. ...

just being a climber doesnt make anyone special or better or have better "morals"
climbers are just another part of society they're not above it.

whatever fishboy has said has been about leaving a rope not about you personally. he's entitled to his opinion as are you

Chockstone Moderator

12/02/2009
11:39:48 PM

In relation to a deleted post, just a reminder that personal insults are not allowed on this forum. Please take your personal issues elsewhere.


wallwombat

13/02/2009
7:29:51 AM

On 12/02/2009 Chockstone Moderator wrote:
>In relation to a deleted post, just a reminder that personal insults are
>not allowed on this forum. Please take your personal issues elsewhere.
>
>

Hey big nose! Your mum wears army boots.

; )


Capt_mulch

13/02/2009
7:49:16 AM

On 12/02/2009 Chockstone Moderator wrote:
> Please take your personal issues elsewhere.
Not fair :-( This is where we all take our personal issues - the Chocky self help forum. It always makes the next trip to Arapiles so much more interesting (at least you know what a twisted kcuf the person in the next camp site is :-).

grego

13/02/2009
8:34:56 AM

I agree, this is not the place for personal insults.

If you have something insulting to post, then you should be putting it on "THE OFFICIAL PERSONAL INSULT THREAD". ;-)

bl@ke

13/02/2009
6:15:23 PM

i agree too
fighting is dumb too
fighting should be left for stupid high school teenagers ... like me ; )


zumojugo

15/02/2009
6:06:51 AM

can you guys keep posting, this is hilarious!

Winston Smith

15/02/2009
8:58:01 PM

The trouble with many Chocky posters is that they answer questions in "take the piss", "self-righteous prig" and "theoretical answer" modes.

Some times these modes are engaged at once which means the responses have been through a triple filter of weirdness before they leak out of the finger tips and onto the page.

The result is a bunch of responses and answers that are confusing, not very helpful and bound to cause a blue.

There are a few people using "honest joe" and "helpful advice" modes.

My keyboard is currently on "six beers" mode and "this makes sense to me" mode.

It is in this mode that I say this to the fkcuer who nicked Niall's rope: Keep on abseiling ...


nmonteith

15/02/2009
9:01:31 PM

so true it hurts...!

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