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Things that give you "the ick"

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

The ~2.7 million voters that swayed the election made a specific choice, and definitely did not sit on the fence. If they had had another, more intriguing alternative, they might well have gone that way.

Eric Craig · · Santa Cruz · Joined Sep 2024 · Points: 5

Who coined the term "alpine draw"?

Does anybody know? Anybody have a guess?

Jay Crew · · Apple Valley CA, · Joined Feb 2018 · Points: 9,312
Eric Craigwrote:

Who coined the term "alpine draw"?

Does anybody know? Anybody have a guess?

beginners and gym climbers started saying it, then a lot of them became "real" climbers and kept saying it

Eric Craig · · Santa Cruz · Joined Sep 2024 · Points: 5
Jay Crewwrote:

beginners and gym climbers started saying it, then a lot of them became "real" climbers and kept saying it

Eh, I am not buying that. Going out on a limb, but if I had to guess,  I would say Marc Chauvin. Or Alan Jolley, or a collaboration of the two. But it's just a hunch. I don't know. 

I have never seen Marc's book. Maybe the answer, or a clue, is in there. 

Anybody know? And willing to say?

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

Trumpers still give me the ick. as do folks who sit on the fence and allow our country to be hijacked by ignorant racist fascist jerks. 

Don’t get caught in the black and white bs. When uoi start making claims off the deep end and acting crazy then you look like you’re being controlled by political elites. But I agree I do not like that useless pile of orange trash. 

SoCal Choss · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2022 · Points: 60
Lars Edmundswrote:

Don’t get caught in the black and white bs. 

you can't be neutral on a moving train.

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

I am the farthest thing from politically elite. I am a gun toting back woods redneck. I ain't no doctor, ain't no veterinarian neither but I do know a dead horses asshole when I smell it. 

Michael B · · The IE · Joined Oct 2023 · Points: 216

putting anchor carabiners on bolts that have chains or quicklinks in them. There's enough space for one link in there and you're going to get something stuck. Put the locker in the quicklink itself.

Jay Crew · · Apple Valley CA, · Joined Feb 2018 · Points: 9,312
Michael Bwrote:

 Put the locker in the quicklink itself.

although unlikely to break, quicklinks are significantly weaker than bolt hangers

Eric Moss · · Exton, PA · Joined Apr 2016 · Points: 95
Michael Bwrote:

putting anchor carabiners on bolts that have chains or quicklinks in them. There's enough space for one link in there and you're going to get something stuck. Put the locker in the quicklink itself.

But the chains give me the ick!

Marc801 C · · Sandy, Utah · Joined Feb 2014 · Points: 65
Eric Mosswrote:

But the chains give me the ick!

Huh?

grug g · · SLC · Joined Jul 2022 · Points: 0
Nick Goldsmithwrote:

 as do folks who sit on the fence and allow our country to be hijacked by ignorant racist fascist jerks. 

"If you dont align with my every view you are the enemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Haha okay - just another side of the same extremist coin. 

M M · · Maine · Joined Oct 2020 · Points: 2
grug gwrote:

"If you dont align with my every view you are the enemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Haha okay - just another side of the same extremist coin. 

These days a fence sitter can just mean apathetic slugs who pay more attention to prices of new iphones and tiktok than current events IMO . Icky people indeed

Jim U · · Suh-veer-vul, TN · Joined Jul 2015 · Points: 81
grug gwrote:

"If you dont align with my every view you are the enemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Haha okay - just another side of the same extremist coin. 

I mean the "every view or enemy aspect" for sure... the intersectionality-purity test on one side continues to increase.  Seeing polls like this adds a lot of weight to the concept that one side is boiling down to a really concentrated bucket of crazy

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

Fern Gully · · Snowmass, CO · Joined May 2017 · Points: 45
Nick Goldsmithwrote:

Trumpers still give me the ick. as do folks who sit on the fence and allow our country to be hijacked by ignorant racist fascist jerks. 

“Everyone who doesn’t think or feel exactly like me or feels obligated to take a side in a rigged two party system gives me the icccccccck!”

Boomer take. 

M M · · Maine · Joined Oct 2020 · Points: 2

Gen z- bruh, why u harshing my buzz with politics?

Redacted Redactberg · · "a world travella" · Joined Feb 2020 · Points: 27
M Mwrote:

These days a fence sitter can just mean apathetic slugs who pay more attention to prices of new iphones and tiktok than current events IMO . Icky people indeed

How about paying attention to prices of cams?

M M · · Maine · Joined Oct 2020 · Points: 2
Redacted Redactbergwrote:

How about paying attention to prices of cams?

Traddies read the news 

SoCal Choss · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2022 · Points: 60

users rating their own photo, route, or problem submission 5 stars when they obviously aren't.

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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