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Things that give you "the ick"

Climbing Weasel · · Massachusetts · Joined May 2022 · Points: 0

isn’t he on this platform?

apogee · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2009 · Points: 0
Robert Swrote:

Those poor kids having to grow up with those stupid names...

Those poor kids are going to grow up having seen their father’s actions as appropriate ways to conduct themselves with their children, and society in general…and more likely than not, emulate him. This is how society deteriorates.

Jared E · · CO-based healthcare traveler · Joined Nov 2022 · Points: 417

Learning steps instead of understanding systems

Jay Crew · · Apple Valley CA, · Joined Feb 2018 · Points: 7,312
Robert Swrote:

Those poor kids having to grow up with those stupid names...

Are we talking about the Baldwins?

Cole Ing · · CA · Joined Dec 2019 · Points: 166

When people use "casual", "romp", etc. to describe their long day out.  We get it everything was so easy for you

TJ Esposito · · San Diego, CA · Joined May 2011 · Points: 110

Wow.  Check out the vomit-inducing cringefest that is his / the kids IG comments.  Didn't know bots had private parts to suck but that guy is apparently trying! e.g. on the MB American flag post-

@logandow_81139 Love the patriotism, god bless America!

@samueladventure you seem cool so we followed you back! It’s important that we teach our boys how to contribute.

@logandow_81139 I agree 100% you guys are awesome!

@samueladventure why thank you!

B Y · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2021 · Points: 20
TJ Espositowrote:

Didn't know bots had private parts to suck 

this needs to be on a shirt hahahahaha

Khoi · · Vancouver, BC · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 50
TJ Espositowrote:

Wow.  Check out the vomit-inducing cringefest that is his / the kids IG comments.  Didn't know bots had private parts to suck but that guy is apparently trying! e.g. on the MB American flag post-

He has created various social media accounts for his boys, and it's bloody obvious that he is the sole person behind those accounts. They are pretty much his sock puppet accounts.

You think an 8 year old is going to create an account on BOOMERBOOK, and then proceed to respond to comments criticizing the shit they did on El Cap?!

Khoi · · Vancouver, BC · Joined Oct 2009 · Points: 50

Ah, that Joe guy... Here's a gem from fall '22 when he claimed that his son was the youngest person to climb El Cap. Then he got schooled on the fact that jugging up a fixed line does not equal climbing 

Lars Edmunds · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Aug 2023 · Points: 0

They’re all idiots bro. They don’t understand. Also those flags kinda deserve to be held upside down rn. The government has no respect for the land. 

J L · · Craggin' · Joined Jul 2023 · Points: 4

Ripping out pages of a physical guidebook to take along with you to the crag

Alexander G · · Gunkie · Joined Apr 2024 · Points: 12

tbh this forum gives me the ick but im addicted to icky things i guess

Allen Sanderson · · On the road to perdition · Joined Jul 2007 · Points: 1,100

This week in the gym the person a couple of routes over fell while on TR. They were only 10'-15' off the deck. I did not think much of it even though they said to let them down as their finger was bleeding. They wandered off to take of their finger.

A few minutes later I was about to start up a different route when one of the person's partners said "I hope you are not planning on getting on that climb," pointing to the first draw on the route. There stuck on the carabiner gate was a flap of skin about .5" wide and 1.5" long. Ick I did not need to see that.

Epilogue - the gym crew showed up, took pictures, gloved up, climbed up, removed the flapper from the carabiner, disinfected the carabiner, took more pictures, disposed of the bodily parts.

Jared E · · CO-based healthcare traveler · Joined Nov 2022 · Points: 417

The phrase “whatever’s clever”. I don’t know why

SoCal Choss · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2022 · Points: 60
Charlie S · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2020 · Points: 0
Cosmic Hotdogwrote:

Alex Honnold instead of Albert Hangboard

I thought his name was Alex Handhold..?

Nick Goldsmith · · NEK · Joined Aug 2009 · Points: 470

tRumpers

Belay On · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Sep 2023 · Points: 0
Khoiwrote:

Ah, that Joe guy... Here's a gem from fall '22 when he claimed that his son was the youngest person to climb El Cap. Then he got schooled on the fact that jugging up a fixed line does not equal climbing 

Unless you are

Not saying jugging El Cap is an easy feat. Just commenting on the loose term of “climbing” and the celebration of pampered jugging ascents. 
M M · · Maine · Joined Oct 2020 · Points: 2
Nick Goldsmithwrote:

tRumpers

Trumpers are icky but the left isn't that impressive either. Too many payoffs, backroom deals and subsidies to billionaires to even list from both sides, orange man spent 8 years learning the tricks of the trade and he is using that knowledge now. Politics in general are icky, hopefully the orange politician doesn't get us into deeper shit than he already has, I prefer having affordable costs of living so I can work less, climb more and hopefully have a place to live when I'm really old  (many old folks around the world have nothing but dictators and war)

Sam M · · Sydney, NSW · Joined May 2022 · Points: 1

The standard descent at Pierces Pass in the Blue Mountains is 2x50m rappels and the ​absolute lengths ​​​​​people will go to, to avoid bringing a second rope or learning to use a tag line. These posts are weekly. 

I can't imagine begging on the internet to borrow another party's rope for a descent, total ick.

But like I know one of these people, and they're a better and more experienced climber than me. Am I crazy, or are they crazy!? Is this acceptable practice?

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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