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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
The Peaks
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 24, 2011 - 11:32am PT
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I wondered she might be into kinky sex or something, or maybe her big fat lorry driver husband was going to tie me up and all.
Read the article: http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=4231
Have a good one.
Mick
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
OR
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Dec 24, 2011 - 12:12pm PT
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Thanks Mick, for this very original, and sharp writing by "Grimer."
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dec 24, 2011 - 01:06pm PT
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I've liked Niall's other articles. This one however was harsh and negative and left me feeling that someone needed to kick Niall's ass. It sure would have been a better ending to the story.
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Mick Ryan
Trad climber
The Peaks
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 24, 2011 - 03:17pm PT
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Yes irony indeed!
Try this if you don't get it!
How to save money at your local climbing gym. Hard times requires stealth methods and cunning.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2zg23N5zXY
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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Dec 24, 2011 - 03:45pm PT
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Excellent Work, as always. . . Are Mick and I the only ones who get it?
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kc
Trad climber
the cats
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Dec 24, 2011 - 04:09pm PT
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Hard times do require more effort and ingenuity, and hard times suck. But being so ungrateful is the part that I find troubling. After all, the people that the author takes from seem to have just as little (or less) as he does. Not my thing, I guess.
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callum
Trad climber
UK
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Dec 25, 2011 - 03:30pm PT
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! Even before i clicked on the link from UKC i knew what i would find. Quality. Bold move posting that here Mick. :)
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Neil Chelton
climber
England
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Dec 25, 2011 - 04:51pm PT
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Absolutely classic. I like how Niall got some pussy in France but dumped it straight away without even taking advantage of it. Typical Irish. What's the deal with this kc guy? American by any chance? Perhaps the humor isn't basic enough.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 25, 2011 - 05:16pm PT
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Trying again to make myself likable.
He needn't bother. Self-absorbed prat, and self-admitted thief.
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DanaB
climber
CT
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Dec 25, 2011 - 05:46pm PT
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I think most of us got it. It just isn't that funny or creative: pretty routine, really.
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grimer
climber
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Dec 26, 2011 - 07:46am PT
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Thanks all, happy christmas x x
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dec 26, 2011 - 12:51pm PT
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Niall, you should change your nickname from the Grimer to the Slimer. Also, work on your complexion, you look like one of those washed out Eastern European pastries you love so much. Speaking of food, are you friggin serious? You poke fun at the French and everyone else, and you can gag down that crap known as English breakfast? You should learn other languages if you're going to travel you know. Maybe you can get by in France on the goodwill of the French, but Sprechen Zie Deuteche? No, you probably don't speak German because thats thanks to the Americans(in WWII) that you also poke fun at. I guess the English are good at one thing, freeloading. Alright now, we've had our fun. Cheers Mate!
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Dropline
Mountain climber
Somewhere Up There
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Dec 26, 2011 - 01:25pm PT
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The protagonist in this story, and it seems to be an at least partly fictional story, is obviously and blatantly self absorbed.
Real life self absorbed climbers are much more subtle. For example, a climber who is perfectly able to work, make money, and pay for their own medical insurance, will instead choose to road trip, forgo medical insurance in favor of food and gas. If hurt or sick they will of course use emergency room medical care and probably with no intention of paying any of the bills they incur.
Those with medical insurance end up paying for those without, so fully able uninsured road tripping climbers, who need and get medical care at times, are just as selfish as the character Grimes portrays. They are mooching off the rest of us, intentionally.
Back to Grime's story. His real goal in writing that story remains obscure, at least to me. Is he reflecting on and illuminating the narcissism innate to many climbers?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 26, 2011 - 01:29pm PT
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Perhaps instead of pretending to be a dirtbag, and writing self-absorbed quasi-existential nonsense, he could have just called his mummy. I don't like parasites, especially those who take pride in being parasites, and are ungrateful about it - even if they claim it's 'irony'. And we've all met dirtbags - they get old, fast.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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Dec 26, 2011 - 01:44pm PT
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I read most of it......it's just the jargon of the jaded dirtbag;...trying to make things seem more epic and harsh than they really are, and , of course, everyone in the world is an idiot except the author.....this sort of individual, weather real or make believe, is a dime a dozen.....in the world of the dirtbag freeloaders. If you live in the city or in the climbing gyms...you may not know this fellow. Many may know him, but turn and look the other way;.....too bad, for you can learn much from him and his self-absorbed lifestyle. If you live in the campground, the cave, the crag , or the field,.... you probably do know him;....maybe better than you wish. His bark is worse than his bite, his stories full of holes, his resume' inflated, and often does way more hanging out and flappin' than climbing......he can slackline very well, juggle, drink your coffee and beer, try unsuccessfully to steal your girlfriend, and play a few songs on the guitar.... I know this fellow well;.........he's actually not a bad sort;....just don't take him seriously and everthing will be fine....nothing to hate or get too worked up about for sure...eventually, he will go away;.....but it may take years...nothing to envy either;...although if you hang around enough, you do get in on some of the real fun and games while everyone else is out making a living...in some ways he's more real than most folks....but still missing the mark by a long shot.....don't pity him either;....he's just fine..... He's "living the life".....yeah;.....so is that hobo you see downtown with the shopping cart.....Sooner or later, even he stops believing his own bullsh#t, and joins in with the rest of us.....by that time it's probably too late. I enjoyed the read for awhile, until it all started to sound too familiar to me........I've visited this land myself on and off for most of my life, but managed to wipe my own butt more times than not........
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dec 27, 2011 - 12:55pm PT
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Bump for the Brit love!
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Dec 27, 2011 - 01:23pm PT
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Todd Gordon said: I've visited this land myself on and off for most of my life, but managed to wipe my own butt more times than not........ People who live 3000 miles away and have never met you know of your selflessness, generosity and kindness TG. You are the opposite of a parasite, ...what is that? "A host"? LOL.
I suppose that if the articles purpose was to make fun of the selfishness of dirtbag climbers, it would have been better to parse it in the 3rd person. Anyone who has ever had a parasite attached to them like a ramora on a shark may be a tad sensitive over how difficult it was to shake them off.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Dec 27, 2011 - 03:07pm PT
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I read this story, while appreciating its "cultural contex."
It is interesting to read accounts about the "chip-on-shoulder" attitude many working-class Brit climbers historically, have had towards the Euros.
Heidi bought me "The Burgess Book of Lies" sometime around last Christmas, and those lads were sooooo bad in the youthful Euro trips.
I don't remember Don Whillans being mentioned as shoplifting in France, in his bio, "The Villain:" but his attitude toward the Euros was similar.
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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Dec 27, 2011 - 03:14pm PT
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^^^^ Best critique yet.
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Enty
Trad climber
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Dec 27, 2011 - 04:55pm PT
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wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
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Baggins
Boulder climber
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Dec 29, 2011 - 05:39pm PT
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fookin wanker!. very bukowski...
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grimer
climber
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Dec 31, 2011 - 05:58am PT
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Oh, just one thing I want to clear up. I've just reread the article (hadn't done so for a while, I had a chuckle even if no one else did. Read into that about ego if you want) and one thing i want to say, althought very insignificant maybe, is the reference to the Canadian climber who I said stole my tent. He didn't, he only borrowed it and it was posted back to me some time later. I don't want anyone else hogging the venom.
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