Things that give you "the ick"

Dogs under boulderers.

Inappropriate footwear.

Littering.

Name-dropping.

Unsolicited beta-spray.

Eric Mosswrote:

Never quite understood the hate for using a piece of climbing gear to hold the chalk bag. 

mbkwrote:

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Shouted anchor-cleaning instructions.

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By far the ickiest 

Brent Moorewrote:

Never quite understood the hate for using a piece of climbing gear to hold the chalk bag. 

It makes your chalk bag flop around, makes it hang out of reach, and as an added bonus is something that could break your tailbone.

Eric Mosswrote:

That looks like a geocities website

Camp 4 showers

dayflash

mbkwrote:

It makes your chalk bag flop around, makes it hang out of reach, and as an added bonus is something that could break your tailbone.

Who boulders in their harness?

North Face Gucci

Eric Moss rappel advice 

mbkwrote:

Shouted anchor-cleaning instructions.

Suddenly finding myself in a situation where I am being shout-asked to shout instructions. 

Walt Peterswrote:

Who boulders in their harness?

Who climbs trad?

Aspiring brand ambassadors hashtagging a sensitive area to death to score a free pair of shoes.

Many routes have repelled me. Sometimes it was ick, especially under recently nested birds, especially carnivorous birds. Or pack rats/Belding's ground squirrels. Also repelled when having to belay in the proximity of large, dead animals.

Gymbronis

People. They're the worst!

gym climbers calling 90* walls "slab"

Clip stick instead of stick clip

Alex Honnold instead of Albert Hangboard

Complaining about pain in their heal.

Complaining about the souls of their shoes.