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Indoor rock climbing got started in the 60's but really took off in the 80's. Along the way climbers got really obsessed and more and more started pulling on tiny little sharp edges, so tearing a flapper got common. So some genius decided super gluing a flapper would allow him to keep pulling down like the rad dude he dreamed to be. I saw a guy at a gym supergluing his flapper on the way in the john to take a piss. Yep, glued his hand to his pecker. The separation injury was nasty. He never lived it down.
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Sadly, this is not so far out of the realm of reality.
Nice, but this was a year ago, not the current fustercluck. Doesn't mean it can't still apply, obviously.
Had a guy at work was out with his dog early one morning. Did one eye. Came in to work and then went to dr.. came back the next day not in bad shape considering but man did he forever get fucked with
America's Hundred Thousand should be a part of that library.
I talk and work with people everyday that are in this business. A few have written and published books on these subjects and have done the research. One of them helped Joe Yancey rebuild Allisons for years. He just might know a little bit about them. Planes of Fame in Chino has one of the best collections and Steve Hinton is one of the finest remaining warbird pilots around. I was friends with Lefty Gardner who flew a P-38 and was a regular at Reno.... now I am a nobody, just a retired aircraft mechanic that has spent some time on the flightline with these aircraft, and I have even wrenched on the Memphis Belle in the past. None of that means a thing except that I just might know a thing or two and got the knowledge first hand from the BTDT folks. My dad was a B-24 pilot as well. You may have heard of the tragic crash of the Nine O Nine. I was acquainted with Mac may he rest in peace.
On books: be wary of anything published by Osprey (info can be hit or miss and you won't know what is what unless you know) and avoid anything by Martin Caidin.
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One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
“Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
“What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
“The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
“Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
“Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
“Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
“Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
“Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
“What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
"Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
“How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
“Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
“But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
“Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
“What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
“Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.
I've actually had some similar conversations with tree hugging environmentalist. They tend to get pissed when they realize everything they open their mouth about there's some petroleum product being shoved in it.
Complaining about the environment while driving an electric vehicle, wearing clothes with materials or dyes made from petroleum products, made on machines that were either made by or use petroleum products, using their computers, reading books... LOL.
Complaining about the environment while driving an electric vehicle, wearing clothes with materials or dyes made from petroleum products, made on machines that were either made by or use petroleum products, using their computers, reading books... LOL.
I must have missed indoor climbing in the 60's. I climbed a lot of boulders in the Eastern Sierra, then left for the Army in '66.
My son owns a big bouldering gym in Birmingham AL, Birmingham Boulders. The young hotshots keep the place hopping. I used a lot of adhesive tape on my fingertips, back in the day. Before I retired, Cyanoacrylate was coming into it's own for wound repair. If I remember (vaguely) they finalized on a slightly different formulation.
Just go climb 6 pitches of 5.7-5.9 trad and quit worrying about all those micro edges.
tape up if a lot of cracks like Veadawoo. (Sp?).
I never gym climbed a lot.
just climbed in the cold.
now, there are crowds on routes on any decent day within an hour of the front range. Apparently lines for the nicer routes.
tape up if a lot of cracks like Veadawoo. (Sp?).
I never gym climbed a lot.
just climbed in the cold.
now, there are crowds on routes on any decent day within an hour of the front range. Apparently lines for the nicer routes.
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Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring this to the attention of your MP, who has been trained to give you all the SHIT you can handle.
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PS - Due to Coronavirus, as well as current market conditions, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
Due to the current financial situation caused by the Coronavirus and slowdown in the economy, the Government has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early, mandatory retirement, thus creating jobs and reducing unemployment.
This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).
Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to the Government to be considered for the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced Termination).
Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW program (System Covering Retired-Early Workers).
A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as the Government deems appropriate.
Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS (Additional Income for Dependents & Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel Early Severance).
Obviously, persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED any further by the Government.
Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT (Special High Intensity Training) as possible. The Government has always prided themselves on the amount of SHIT they give our citizens.
Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring this to the attention of your MP, who has been trained to give you all the SHIT you can handle.
Sincerely, The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives (E.V.I.L.)
PS - Due to Coronavirus, as well as current market conditions, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
You gotta luv a sporting gal in public…confidence that doesn’t mind giving some special enjoyment…
. And only the women that understand that “game” don’t worry about what anybody else thinks about it, very special. And somewhat rare, on occasion I’ve been privileged to view such a sight in public, every one of them remembered because they are far and few between.
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I'm in the same boat. Retired aircraft mechanic. I would have dearly loved to spend my working time on vintage/WWII aircraft, but I had a family to feed so I went the airline route. Most of it in the commuters. What I realized is that if you want to work on big planes you have to move to a big city. I'd rather have quality of life than quantity of job. The last few years of my career were at MRO's. Small city with big planes. But, limited. I liked daily operations better. The few times I got to work on WWII aircraft it was volunteer. But, it was fun.
That hole package is very nice. Corrected your spelling.That whole package is very nice.
Or at least you hairdo needs to change...monthly. And you need super trendy suits. Right Trey, it's about appearance, not doing anything...just appearance....like GOP has done since Reagan was out of office.
And we immediately know..it’s the Bard that
PROUDLY posts it too, nearly exclusively, taking great joy in somewhat terrifying 
some of us mere “others”, less privileged to exist in his locals… 
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Never did like the back end of this generation of the Vette.
However, that other back end shows some promise.
