"Splitter" as an adjective

Austin Baird wrote:Using the word "splitter" to describe anything other than a crack is stupid and obnoxious. This goes for "splitter weather", "splitter weekend", and any other usage. That's all.

This forum has the potential to be all time legendary SPLITTER status but for now ^^Austun^^ is just getting PITTED,
Sooooooo PITTED!!!!!!
Go back to the Front Range Brajjjjj!!!!! :)-

The use of "dirtbag" today kills me, but what am I missing about "rig?"

mediocre wrote:The use of "dirtbag" today kills me, but what am I missing about "rig?"

So back in the early/mid 90s, some of my friends from the southeast where I grew up went to school in Durango at Ft whatever it's called college. They came back calling everyone's car/truck/van a "rig". I vividly recall driving from ATL up to Pigeon Mtn to go caving (this is where Lost wall and Rocktown are located, but there's also some killer caving, PMI the rope company was named after that mtn). My van had a wheel bearing acting up a little, and my friend goes "hey man, I don't know about this rig, are we gonna get there in this thing?".

Flash forward about 15 years. By now, "rig" has gone from meaning a big commerical truck, to any vehicle, to now using as a nym for routes and other stuff. This was about the same time people started sticking "the" in front of route names that have no "the" in them.

Bro 1:"Like hey man, have you been on The Cosmos?"
Bro 2:"Yeah cuz, I sent that rig that last year! A2, tops"

Bro 1: "Yo man hows this anchor look?"
Bro 2: "Are you high? That rig is bunk dude!"

Will S wrote: So back in the early/mid 90s, some of my friends from the southeast where I grew up went to school in Durango at Ft whatever it's called college. They came back calling everyone's car/truck/van a "rig". I vividly recall driving from ATL up to Pigeon Mtn to go caving (this is where Lost wall and Rocktown are located, but there's also some killer caving, PMI the rope company was named after that mtn). My van had a wheel bearing acting up a little, and my friend goes "hey man, I don't know about this rig, are we gonna get there in this thing?". Flash forward about 15 years. By now, "rig" has gone from meaning a big commerical truck, to any vehicle, to now using as a nym for routes and other stuff. This was about the same time people started sticking "the" in front of route names that have no "the" in them. Bro 1:"Like hey man, have you been on The Cosmos?" Bro 2:"Yeah cuz, I sent that rig that last year! A2, tops" Bro 1: "Yo man hows this anchor look?" Bro 2: "Are you high? That rig is bunk dude!"

The offroad community refers to their offroad vehicles as "rigs", maybe that's where it came from. For example, my PT Cruiser was my DD (daily driver), while my Wrangler was the "trail rig". Offroading in CO is supposed to be splitter (sorry I had to), and so that could be why it was a thing.

My theory is that "rig" came into prevalence with climbers around the same time that trucker's hats and carharts did, since all of these things kind of play into the whole pseudo-blue-collar image that some middle class "dirtbags" want to project.

Will S wrote: So back in the early/mid 90s, some of my friends from the southeast where I grew up went to school in Durango at Ft whatever it's called college. They came back calling everyone's car/truck/van a "rig". I vividly recall driving from ATL up to Pigeon Mtn to go caving (this is where Lost wall and Rocktown are located, but there's also some killer caving, PMI the rope company was named after that mtn). My van had a wheel bearing acting up a little, and my friend goes "hey man, I don't know about this rig, are we gonna get there in this thing?". Flash forward about 15 years. By now, "rig" has gone from meaning a big commerical truck, to any vehicle, to now using as a nym for routes and other stuff. This was about the same time people started sticking "the" in front of route names that have no "the" in them. Bro 1:"Like hey man, have you been on The Cosmos?" Bro 2:"Yeah cuz, I sent that rig that last year! A2, tops" Bro 1: "Yo man hows this anchor look?" Bro 2: "Are you high? That rig is bunk dude!"

That would be annoying. I've only heard "rig" refer to a truck, and then I only heard it when I moved to Eastern Oregon 12 years ago. Rig is definitely not splitter.

Yeah, not into using the word splitter, nor do I find actual splitter cracks that interesting to climb. I like jagged, zig-zagging cracks that vary in width a lot. Splitter means you have to borrow like eight racks.

Plus I hate things!!!!!! Oh, yeah!

Pnelson wrote:My theory is that "rig" came into prevalence with climbers around the same time that trucker's hats and carharts did, since all of these things kind of play into the whole pseudo-blue-collar image that some middle class "dirtbags" want to project.

So why don't the people who wear nice button down shirts to climb in talk like a professor?

Not to hijack but now also popular in Colorado is the varied use of the word send. It is now used regularly in skiing, mountain biking and above all things crossfit.

Send that rig (regardless of the sport)

Even writing that makes me want to punch myself in the face

Splitter Dirtbag rig bruh! Lets hop in that sucker and go send some gnar 5.7 sport!

But what if things are just so rad that they need to be considered as sweet as beautiful parallel sided crack?

"Your three legged rescue dog is sooo splitter!"
"This kombocha is splitter"
"Upper middle class suburbia? Splitter!"

honestly, casual sexism encountered in the workplace is worse than casual sexism encountered at the crag, cuz, at least at the crag I get to climb
and that sh** is F**king splitter, or whatever, so who cares.

shouldn't we just use the forum to discuss other stupid things that make us laugh?

seriously, usually forums entertain me enough away from the ignorance of coworkers.

(slight bias: last year, caught myself using splitter as an adjective, turned it into an ironic statement, then stopped, thank god).
;)

mkeown wrote:Send that rig (regardless of the sport)

how do you send a rig?

mkeown wrote:Not to hijack but now also popular in Colorado is the varied use of the word send. It is now used regularly in skiing, mountain biking and above all things crossfit. Send that rig (regardless of the sport)

Seriously?!!

Does your doctor give you beta?

"Ok bruh, you've got to self catheterize for a while, so you take this rig here and lube it all up. Move static to a hand/penis match. Careful not to tweak it. After you've sent, you'll feel splitter".

mkeown wrote:Not to hijack but now also popular in Colorado is the varied use of the word send. It is now used regularly in skiing, mountain biking and above all things crossfit. Send that rig (regardless of the sport) Even writing that makes me want to punch myself in the face

Weird. One would hope those sports could create their own stupid terminology. At least ski and boarders still say it's a "powder" day or gonna hit the pow pow, gnar knowutamean? Mountain bikers, please create your own shit.

Stich wrote:At least ski and boarders still say it's a "powder" day or gonna hit the pow pow,...

I've always had a serious problem with "pow-pow" since it makes the speaker sound 3 yrs old.

Brah you like pidgeon?

Stich wrote: Weird. One would hope those sports could create their own stupid terminology. At least ski and boarders still say it's a "powder" day or gonna hit the pow pow, gnar knowutamean? Mountain bikers, please create your own shit.

As far as mountain bikers go, it seems they have a pretty solid slang base. For example:

Captain crash bonked out early and wrecked after he hit a death cookie on his cockrotter.

Translation: The rider got tired and crashed while still clipped after hitting a large rock on a bike that has not been properly maintained.

Now I may not be using the vernacular correctly but you get the picture....

'Send' is funny. Wonder where it came from and how it became part of the vernacular. It could be heard in the snow as early as the early nineties (maybe earlier). 'Send it' and so on, referring to jump, cliff, etc.

Been hearing it with dirt bikes for at least as long with respect to air time, mtb since lord knows..

I know words, I have the best words.