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charlie wrote:...I kinda liked the other one though, the tea thing.

/golf clap

Yeah the tea thing was cool. We can have only so many people bent over and grabbing their ankles before we have some sort of crazy sex party.

Wes wrote:

Alan Evil wrote:Weren't you paying attention in high school? Elite athletes are better than everyone else and deserve special treatment. They are like golden gods on high and we are lucky if they happen to pass their gaze in our direction. Everyone else is worthless shit that should feel lucky to share the planet with such models of perfection.

Just because you are insecure and need a crutch to prop up your sense of self worth, does not give you the right or reason to say shit like that. I have been lucky enough to climb with a couple of the strongest climbers out there, and they are way cool people and a much more mellow then the ave. 5.10 tard climbers I have met.

Wes

Actually I was paraphrasing a South Park episode (the one where Stan becomes the "star" quarterback). No need to get your panties in a bunch. As best as I can tell, high level climbers are far cooler than any star quarterback. I still doubt I've sat next to many 5.14 climbers. I've never met Rodan, for instance.

Y'know, I hate to come back to this, but some of you guys have ZERO sense of humor. Wes, if you can't tell that I'm being extremely sarcastic with the above bit, you've got some serious security issues or perhaps I'm hitting too close to home. Ever find yourself looking down your nose at beginners? You're saying that there aren't any 5.14 climbers out there that are stuck-up assholes? Would you really make the blanket statement that no 5.14 climber (I didn't say shit about 5.13 climbers) is a prima donna? Was your high school's quarterback the best guy in the world? Mine was a rich fucker that should've been third string but his daddy was head of the booster club. Or how about in college? The "elite athletes" at my college lost games while point shaving, snorted more cocaine in a weekend than I've seen in my life, and bullied fellow students for being short, Jewish, or smart.

If you haven't figured out by now how to read sarcasm... well, maybe you shouldn't be reading what I write. Just a suggestion.

This reminds me of an event somewhere else on the web that occurred to me. I posted that I didn't want to work for a corporation, that I'd tried it and I'm not good at kissing ass, which is essential to climbing the corporate ladder. Well for the next three days until a moderator stepped in I was accused of being an unAmerican and it was expressed that I deserve to die poor and alone, that if it weren't for corporations the world would implode, and on and on. Sounds just like you and Spragwa.

If it weren't for climbers much better than me I wouldn't be climbing. Excellent climbers have taught me everything, I'm not fool enough to try to teach myself. Everyone I've climbed with has been fun to be around, helpful, patient (well, usually), and extremely willing to teach.

However, I've been at crags where "elite" climbers have been climbing and they were pricks. Everyone else was in their way and stupid. So they're out there. I'm going to take it that you're not one of them (from first hand accounts) but Jesus, dude. You really take this internet crap too seriously.



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Maybe your sense of humor is so poorly presented that we don't *see* the sarcasim? Esp. since you tend to follow it up with attacks on just about everything that isn't you? You have such a chip on your shoulder and a hard-on for bashing people that it is impossable to know how to take anything you say. I will do my best to avoid responding to anything else you write unless it is clear what you were meaning to say.


Wes

Just assume from now on that I'm deliberately writing something that is WAY out at the extreme of what I mean.

The thing is, I can say the same things in a group of people (not like in the middle of a WalMart, but a group at a party, let's say) and most everyone will laugh even though I might use the most deadpan expression and tone of voice. Timing and context are everything, I guess. I would imagine you would LOL at my short stories but they have their own context.

Ah the lack of subtleties of the web, huh? Every time you and I get at each other, it's for the wrong reasons.

No worries. It can be tricky to get your point across on the net.

Wes

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