Add LEB/Lois to the mix...(OT)

LEB fit perfectly, and was the sanest person on the Site. You can't possibly call CMcN SANE can you? He throws his body, over and over again off of CLIFFS using a largely homemade rig that nobody would EVER call safe. No matter who makes his suit, its a cluge of judgement, luck, imagination and ignorance. Along with a disreguard for his own life.

Not a chance. She was as she posted. A bit of a dork like most of us.


The ultimate equality of us all is ignored. Our singular commonality is not our climbing, its our posting. We, every one, are drawn to posting, to words in a row, and THAT is more what binds us than climbing. Very few of us actually get together with EACH OTHER and climb, we ALL gather "here" and type like hell into keyboards. That IS OUR COMMON LINK, not climbing. Climbing is just the Granfalloon we base our interaction around. Our subject might as well be ice cream or cars.

The truth behind our personalities is that we are so closely related its like Incest Manifest. The draw to typing is overwhelming for all the constant, high volume posters. Quite a niumber here are not actually climbers any more, we're cripples; crippled by age, by injury, by disease, by our intellects or our emotions. THAT is why ever so many, when they post a picture, look like our own grandfathers. Those who are climbing, skiing, working don't have the energy, the time, the inclination to post here, who cares about the website if you ain't rained in.

((I am rained in today, look at the weather report. Rain, and 50 mph winds soon.))

We ARE brothers from other mothers, its in our posts. As much as I hate some of you and like others, I know NO-ONE any longer, and yet its the familiar family and watching TV has even less draw than fighting and arguing.


But to pretend that some of us are better than the other posters because we CLIMB, thats complete wish fulfillment. Climbers don't much impress anybody but other climbers. The vast masses think we are self damaging freaks, without common sense. That our "sport" is worthless, that we are largely unsuccessful suicides that have yet to become competant enough to either live within normal society or die.


And they are right. It is always the masses that define insanity, chart the normal and legislate the permissable. We, everyone of us, is patently, obviously and clearly, demonstrably insane.


LEB fit perfectly, and was the sanest person on the Site. You can't possibly call CMcN SANE can you? He throws his body, over and over again off of CLIFFS using a largely homemade rig that nobody would EVER call safe. No matter who makes his suit, its a cluge of judgement, luck, imagination and ignorance. Along with a disreguard for his own life.

Everyone of us used to fit that pattern, as climbers. We made our o0wn gear, we made the rules and we tried to live long enough to quit.

I don't think the sport climbers fit the old mold at all. They buy everything, they bolt the sh#t out of everything, and they eliminate the danger as much as possible. MAXI_PADS?? We never saw the need.

Thats not how all the rest of us did it, BITD.


We are insane. Always have been, we built the sport on insanity. Its no surprise we can't get along,

WE are the Insane.

This is not a house of celebration, its time for a wake. I f Fatty deserved a wake (and he did.) so does LEB. We do not gain especiall ywhen a harmless annoyance is shunned from our little cliquish assemblage. What harm did she really create, once she stopped posting on the climbing threads?

the taco ain't the taco without lois and jockitch...

But I can honestly say that I have NEVER been this sick...