>> ^dag:

Ned? "needle nose" Ned? >> ^Trancecoach:
watch that first step... it's a doozy



I don't know where you're headed but... can you call in sick?

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Ned? "needle nose" Ned? >> ^Trancecoach:

watch that first step... it's a doozy

I shared this with a friend who rock climbs. He said: That’s called “via ferreta”. It’s a type of climbing that most climbers have a disdain for. Italy’s gift to the world of mountaineering, bringing climbing to the masses by installing ladders and rails into the rock face.


Since this is Spain, I don't know if this is an example of via ferreta or not.

*brain

Jon Krakauer has a book entitled Into Thin Air, which gives the compelling account of 8 climbers who were killed on Everest in 1996.

So much played into this tragedy that the elements of nature were playing a secondary role.

(Krakauer's newer book, btw, details the events that lead up to the friendly fire that killed Pat Tillman, and the subsequent coverup that the DoD attempted to implement in response.)

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

>> ^Tymbrwulf:
The more popular this video gets, the more probable that idiots are going to try this. Every upvote is an upvote for someone else do it it. Keep this in mind, sifters.
(Psst, I upvoted)

Technology killed survival of the fittest...I like your new twist of it!


Who said survival of the fittest is dead? They started out with 200 climbers -- these ARE the fittest.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Great day job for a mountain climber.


Makes you wonder why they don't just build this shit up top of mountains.

Does anybody else play Just Cause 2? I played it a lot earlier in the year and some parts of this video, while cringe-inducing, alternately give me the urge to throw myself off, as I'm pretty sure I could make it to the top of that other tower over there with a clean swoop.

Great day job for a mountain climber.

>> ^qualm:

At :47 and elsewhere you hear the camera guy's normal voice. I'm sorry to disappoint your "Tea Party" theorizing. It's a pretty common racist "joke" here in British Columbia - to mock FNs with that stereotyped speech pattern.


Dude, you're on crack. He was in the midst of a spit of laughter. Are you serious right now?

>> ^TheFreak:

>> ^ForgedReality:
The only problem I see here is qualm's outright accusation, like he's constantly on the lookout for stuff like that. There is a term for people like that, which I can't recall at the moment, but essentially, it amounts to someone, who he himself is a racist, by expecting it, and projecting it onto others, as if perpetually fearful of it. As a result, they attack first, often incorrectly accusing others.

Holy cow! There's a single word that sums up all that?

There's a word I can't remember but it means that feeling of amazement you have when someone tells you something completely surprising and it really intrigues you but at the same time you're a little doubtful but you're thinking, "hey, why would he lie about something like that", but at the same time you're wondering if maybe that person's a little confused but despite all that you're still really interested to get to the bottom of it and you think maybe you might invest some time into figuring it out but, "Oh, Hey! Is that a bag of Reese's Pieces in my drawer? I forgot I had those...what was I talking about?"
Ugh...can't remember the word for that.

Race baiting, maybe? Defensive racism? Often, people who point out and are on the lookout for racism, are, in fact, racists themselves. Especially when there is no sane explanation for that person's perceived racist impression.


How is that so difficult for you to understand?

>> ^ForgedReality:
The only problem I see here is qualm's outright accusation, like he's constantly on the lookout for stuff like that. There is a term for people like that, which I can't recall at the moment, but essentially, it amounts to someone, who he himself is a racist, by expecting it, and projecting it onto others, as if perpetually fearful of it. As a result, they attack first, often incorrectly accusing others.

Holy cow! There's a single word that sums up all that?


There's a word I can't remember but it means that feeling of amazement you have when someone tells you something completely surprising and it really intrigues you but at the same time you're a little doubtful but you're thinking, "hey, why would he lie about something like that", but at the same time you're wondering if maybe that person's a little confused but despite all that you're still really interested to get to the bottom of it and you think maybe you might invest some time into figuring it out but, "Oh, Hey! Is that a bag of Reese's Pieces in my drawer? I forgot I had those...what was I talking about?"

Ugh...can't remember the word for that.

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That is such a long bow to draw- I had no idea what you were talking about, even after three or four viewings. There is racism in the world, but this is not it.>> ^qualm:

At :47 and elsewhere you hear the camera guy's normal voice. I'm sorry to disappoint your "Tea Party" theorizing. It's a pretty common racist "joke" here in British Columbia - to mock FNs with that stereotyped speech pattern.

>> ^robbersdog49:

>> ^qualm:
It's just too bad that the racist scumbag guy with the camera had to ruin an otherwise brilliant vid for me with his despicable mockery of a First Nations person at 2:44.

I'm sorry, I just don't understand. At 2:44 he says "At first I thought he was joking".
I'm really sorry if I'm missing the joke, but how is this racist?


I think he's trying to say that the guy was mocking American Indians with the way he spoke, but I think he was just talking normally.

The only problem I see here is qualm's outright accusation, like he's constantly on the lookout for stuff like that. There is a term for people like that, which I can't recall at the moment, but essentially, it amounts to someone, who he himself is a racist, by expecting it, and projecting it onto others, as if perpetually fearful of it. As a result, they attack first, often incorrectly accusing others.

>> ^qualm:

It's just too bad that the racist scumbag guy with the camera had to ruin an otherwise brilliant vid for me with his despicable mockery of a First Nations person at 2:44.


I'm sorry, I just don't understand. At 2:44 he says "At first I thought he was joking".

I'm really sorry if I'm missing the joke, but how is this racist?

>> ^shole:

every climber should have tried a different substance.. alcohol, acid, mushrooms
promise of snacks at the top for motivation


I'll do the second and the third climbing runs. I promise at least twice as much pants shitting and actual vomit.

every climber should have tried a different substance.. alcohol, acid, mushrooms
promise of snacks at the top for motivation

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