Best-worst excuse you’ve sold yourself for laziness?

Cornelius Sale wrote: I skipped a yosemite trip for a #notmypresident rally.  And I'll skip another for a Move On rally as well

Why would you skip a trip to yosemite for politics?

Had to poop.

Didn't have to poop when I got down.

Weird.

Dead Head wrote: Why would you skip a trip to yosemite for politics?

Because The fate of our country from the orange man is much more important.  Would I have made a difference had I gone climbing?

Cornelius Sale wrote:

Because The fate of our country from the orange man is much more important.  Would I have made a difference had I gone climbing?

Did you make a difference by not going climbing?

Cornelius Sale wrote:

Because The fate of our country from the orange man is much more important.  Would I have made a difference had I gone climbing?

I don't think the "orange man" actually identifies as a man. I'm pretty sure they identify as an oompa loompa. Quit assuming pronouns for oompa loompas brah 

eli poss wrote:

I don't think the "orange man" actually identifies as a man. I'm pretty sure they identify as an oompa loompa. Quit assuming pronouns for oompa loompas brah 

Of course he does. He doesn’t believe that gender is a spectrum. It makes me sick to see that there are still bigots that think that way

NorCalNomad wrote: Didn't want to run into an ex at the gym.

This.... 

Cornelius Sale wrote:

Of course he does. He doesn’t believe that gender is a spectrum. It makes me sick to see that there are still bigots that think that way

So thinking you are something different than what you physically were born as is no longer a mental problem ( usatoday.com/story/news/201…) but playing video games to much is now a mental problem ( medicaldaily.com/playing-vi…).

I think I am a butterfly, there is nothing wrong with me!

Mason Stone wrote: Tangent,
No offense to psychologists on here and with all due respect, psychology as a field does not identify what the layperson understands as and they call a disorder. They identify characteristics or markers for the ways human experience is different from person to person. Saying you are a butterfly is not enough to be called one: did you transform, do you flap your wings, do you have a yearning for milkweed, are you pulled on a journey toward Mexico. If all of these were true and if there were a psychology conference/covention and enough people exhibited these traits in the general population then you might find butterflyism added to DSM.

Til then go luck on your transition ViperScale, you may not find a doc willing to perform the surgery, maybe get a butterfly tattoo? 

I take meds and I turn into a butterfly and fly around at night sometimes.

I even became a girl onetime but I didn't like that =/

ViperScale . wrote:

So thinking you are something different than what you physically were born as is no longer a mental problem ( usatoday.com/story/news/201…) but playing video games to much is now a mental problem ( medicaldaily.com/playing-vi…).

I think I am a butterfly, there is nothing wrong with me!

You have absolutely no insight into the difference between anatomical development of the sex organs and the development of the brain and its intrinsically varied response to sex hormones in every individual.

Stick to what you know or expose your ignorance.

Harumpfster Boondoggle wrote:

You have absolutely no insight into the difference between anatomical development of the sex organs and the development of the brain and its intrinsically varied response to sex hormones in every individual.

Stick to what you know or expose your ignorance.

The human brain develops based on what they are exposed to in life. Abuse can dramatically change the way a child's brain will develop. You probably have ticks that are caused by events that happened to you in your youth you don't even remember. Just because you had something happen in your life that makes you think you should have a different sex organ doesn't make it normal. If you are physically a guy and want to be a girl go for it. It doesn't bother me but don't think it is normal. I bet every single person on this planet has something about themself that isn't "normal". Nothing wrong with no being normal, heck every single person on this forum who rock climbs and puts themself in danger for fun isn't "normal", so what just learn to deal with what you are or find help changing the way you are.

Only the second page and it's become about trans people. FFS.

ViperScale . wrote:

The human brain develops based on what they are exposed to in life. Abuse can dramatically change the way a child's brain will develop. You probably have ticks that are caused by events that happened to you in your youth you don't even remember. Just because you had something happen in your life that makes you think you should have a different sex organ doesn't make it normal. If you are physically a guy and want to be a girl go for it. It doesn't bother me but don't think it is normal. I bet every single person on this planet has something about themself that isn't "normal". Nothing wrong with no being normal, heck every single person on this forum who rock climbs and puts themself in danger for fun isn't "normal", so what just learn to deal with what you are or find help changing the way you are.

Your ignorance of the molecular biological mechanisms of human development is staggering. Environment is certainly an influence to behavior, but we are talking about "hard wiring" of physical parts and physiology that you have zero insight into.

Someone born with the genitalia of a "male" yet otherwise physically and mentally "female" is not a product of "environment" but has a basis for their identity in their molecular biological heritage (ie inherited DNA).

s.price wrote: Good grief. This thread started out so fun and light hearted. Now it is petty bickering. Sad.

Agreed. 

Lost my favorite knit cap. :-(

s.price wrote: Good grief. This thread started out so fun and light hearted. Now it is petty bickering. Sad.

Don't confuse "petty bickering" with the refutation of bigotry towards a vulnerable community. Sorry, that takes precedence over the normal MP drivel.

s.price wrote: Bullshit. This a thread about excuses for not climbing or training. On a climbing site.
If you want to argue about bigotry find the proper website or start a different thread. No need for you and VS to muck this one up with your drivel.
I'm not confusing anything. You apparently are confused about subject matter of this thread.

No Ser Price, not confused about anything. I just have priorities in life and one of them is not tolerating Bigotry at any time or place.

As you can well appreciate, sometimes the kindest thing you can do is defend others less fortunate than yourself, or those going through something difficult.

As I have defended you to others.

Peace my Brother.

s.price wrote: No excuses today. I sent my first 5.11 since starting cancer treatments over a year ago.

Fuck yeah, stoked to hear that you're doing better, or at least your climbing is doing better. Shit man, I can't even climb 5.11 on a low gravity day and I'm young and healthy. Props mans, props!

All the old guys were arguing on MP and it made  me too scared to send.

depressionnnnnn. Also i just moved across country and feel like i can't do anything fun until my new place is unpacked and organized.