Completely OT: Climbing and Humanity

Jon Senior said:

For a brief period of time, my faith in humanity was restored. The only
hope might be to take the power away from the adults and let the kids
decide what to do.

That's fine unless you are the fat kid with glasses.

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Jon Senior said:

For a brief period of time, my faith in humanity was restored. The only
hope might be to take the power away from the adults and let the kids
decide what to do.

That's fine unless you are the fat kid with glasses.

Hey. I resembled that remark!

This brief flurry of optimism was put in its place by the fat be-suited
[censored] in a tinted windowed SUV who decided that the "Lane closed.
300yrds" since didn't apply to him since he could bomb down said lane
thus jumping the queue and barge his way in at the last minute. Sadly my
van was somewhat overladen, otherwise he'd have ended up parked in the
back of "Use right hand lane" sign.

Jon

Eiron said:

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For a brief period of time, my faith in humanity was restored. The
only hope might be to take the power away from the adults and let
the kids decide what to do.

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That's fine unless you are the fat kid with glasses.

Yes - they're always got first by the Creature / serial murderer / killer
tomato.

Guy
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Jon Senior wrote:

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For a brief period of time, my faith in humanity was restored. The only
hope might be to take the power away from the adults and let the kids
decide what to do.

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That's fine unless you are the fat kid with glasses.

THE CONCH!

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Helen D. Vecht: [email hidden]
Edgware.

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I've just spent a weekend at Ratho Adventure Centre as part of a film
crew recording the World Youth Climbing Championships. In addition to
some amazing climbing, I got to watch a group of kids from around the
world, with few or no languages in common playing together (Hackysacs
are back in fashion!) and swapping clothing, badges etc with people from
other countries.

By the end of the weekend, you'd be hard pushed to identify the country
of origin of many there from the "team" clothing that they wore.

For a brief period of time, my faith in humanity was restored. The only
hope might be to take the power away from the adults and let the kids
decide what to do.

I'd have said hello if I'd realised you were there.

It was a brilliant weekend, I thought the atmosphere was teriffic on the
saturday night, especially during the flag waving for the camera session.
Did the Aussies inflatable roo get rescued from the top of the competition
wall? It was still up there when I left on sunday.

I hope the event gets the same quality of tv broadscast as the Tour of
Britain did.

--
Duncan Gray

www.duncolm.co.uk
also The Mountaineering Council of Scotland
www.mountaineering-scotland.org.uk

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Jon Senior said:

For a brief period of time, my faith in humanity was restored. The only
hope might be to take the power away from the adults and let the kids
decide what to do.

That's fine unless you are the fat kid with glasses.

Or Simon.

Pete

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I'd have said hello if I'd realised you were there.

You may have seen me. I spent most of it stood next to the lights on the
pile of bouldering mats in the middle of the room, trying to stop small
kids from hurting themselves when they ignored the barriers and played
on the boulder.

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It was a brilliant weekend, I thought the atmosphere was teriffic on the
saturday night, especially during the flag waving for the camera session.

"In honour of the winner, we will now play the Russian national
anthem... again!". The Russian team was pretty bloody good though.

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Did the Aussies inflatable roo get rescued from the top of the competition
wall? It was still up there when I left on sunday.

I didn't see it come down and I was there for another hour or so after
it finished.

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I hope the event gets the same quality of tv broadscast as the Tour of
Britain did.

Well, we were filming on behalf of the BBC so it will hit mainstream TV
later in the year. I don't know how long it'll take them to edit, and
when they'll schedule it for.

Jon