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outrageous
Ice climber
isle 9
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Jan 30, 2018 - 08:43am PT
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i have such a crooked smile.
nae lassie can interpret it.
whenever it drape it across
my gob, it leaks.
f*#k-all comes out of it:
spittle, beer, melancholic utterances.
i cannot get it to seal up, tight-like.
my bent is to analyze inanimate entities:
the sum of the moments must equal zero.
the live load and the dead load must equal the total load.
well i'm stymied at the biological threshold,
because life + death does not equal the sum of the two,
and it adds up to infinity rather than zero.
thus there is something else in the makeup; a dark entity.
not matter, though. more like soul.
i was running through the jungle,
and the lonliness is outrageous.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Jan 30, 2018 - 08:43am PT
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huh?
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Ballo
Trad climber
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Jan 30, 2018 - 09:46am PT
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Single women are 2x and its only when they saddle up a man do they become merely whole.
Groan.
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John M
climber
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Jan 30, 2018 - 10:06am PT
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Single women are 2x and its only when they saddle up a man do they become merely whole.
I'm with the groaners on this one. Its kind of a put down. It means a man is better because he can and should marry up. It also allows a man to be more of a child, because mommy will help him be better. I'm not trying to ding you Dingus.. I know that you have worked hard on tempering your ego.
To me it takes two whole people to make one whole relationship. Both can start out not whole, but they each had better be working on it. Sometimes one grows before the other and that causes splits. And sometimes neither grows and that makes a poor relationship and hopefully they split so they find the desire and motivation to grow as a person. A proper relationship challenges each partner to be more of themselves.
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Jan 30, 2018 - 10:25am PT
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When I moved to West Virginia as a single guy in my 30s, I had 3 inviolate requirements for dating a woman:
My only requirement to committing to a long term relationship (marriage or otherwise) was a reasonable expectation that being in said relationship would make me happier than being single.
That turned out to be a really high bar.
Finding somebody that either didn't cut into my climbing, or made up for not being able to climb as much, sure didn't help.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 30, 2018 - 12:17pm PT
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single man is only half a man
Imagine the poor state of the guy who put up quarter of a man.....
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Ballo
Trad climber
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Jan 30, 2018 - 01:02pm PT
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Imagine the poor state of the guy who put up quarter of a man.....
That's due to divorce
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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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Jan 30, 2018 - 01:37pm PT
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T Hocking and John M for the win on thoughtful responses. Tami for the win of absolute coolest grandma. Being a husband and a father are the hardest leads I've ever done. Striving to be a good husband and father are perhaps the most noble efforts I have made (not sayin' I stuck the landing or anything...).
Just happy to be here, actually. On that note, I'm happy all y'all are here too.
cheers
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 30, 2018 - 02:54pm PT
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I am 1.3333 of a climber man.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 30, 2018 - 02:57pm PT
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Our marriage has been War and Peace, mostly peace.
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ExfifteenExfifteen
climber
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Jan 30, 2018 - 06:30pm PT
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John M, I’m not sure about growing up. I believe my girl married me for who I was, why change it?
Moose
yup. been a long time since wisdom graced stupidtaco...
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Polebridge, Montana
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Jan 30, 2018 - 08:35pm PT
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Imagine the poor state of the guy who put up quarter of a man
Quarter of a Man. I need to give that one another go but I may not be "man" enough. Oops, I've offended someone I spose.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 30, 2018 - 08:44pm PT
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I’ll lend you some man.
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skywalker1
Trad climber
co
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Jan 30, 2018 - 09:15pm PT
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Quarter of a man? LOL I was 3/8ths that day. Toprope and hung once...
S...
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Jan 31, 2018 - 04:33am PT
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I'm with the groaners on this one. Its kind of a put down. It means a man is better because he can and should marry up. It also allows a man to be more of a child, because mommy will help him be better. I'm not trying to ding you Dingus.. I know that you have worked hard on tempering your ego.
To me it takes two whole people to make one whole relationship. Both can start out not whole, but they each had better be working on it. Sometimes one grows before the other and that causes splits. And sometimes neither grows and that makes a poor relationship and hopefully they split so they find the desire and motivation to grow as a person. A proper relationship challenges each partner to be more of themselves.
Yikes, I am going with DMTs tack in general. JM, change your handle to "The Whole Enchilada", some enchiladas may be offended though.
As a whole lotta of not quite whole person, I heard some advice once. Make her(or him) laugh. Best advice ever!
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Gunkie
Trad climber
Valles Marineris
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Jan 31, 2018 - 06:06am PT
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Great thread; very entertaining at the least and it really drives home some good concepts.
I loved being single, unmarried and not engaged, in my 20's. Climbing and surfing all the time. The fun I had working in Silicon Valley for a start-up. Traveling the world on the company dime. Shacking up with too many questionable women and coming out the other end unscathed makes me lucky.
What makes me fortunate is the luck I had at meeting my wife. I have seen the destruction of divorce from the other side of the fence. I have seen bad marriages strung out way too long to the detriment of the kids. Married 25 years this year and loving my wife more each day. YMMV.
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John M
climber
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Jan 31, 2018 - 06:19am PT
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I just reread the thread.
I'm not sure why I singled you out Dingus. Or even why it struck me the way that it did. I view you and Moose as emotionally mature people.
I have though seen emotionally immature people who used the "she is my better half" as a kind of joke, but with underlying tones. For the one person in particular that I am thinking about it was a form of false humility. He had deep seated beliefs that women were inferior. It wasn't something that was blatantly on the surface, but was more subconscious. It showed up in how he treated women, feeling like he "had" to take care of them because they were weaker. Not just physically, but mentally and spiritually. So that might have been what I was reacting to. I in no way meant specifically you or moose. I do know that it can be a joke between spouses. I just also know that with humans history of treating women as inferior, there can be a less then healthy side to that joke. I see it a lot in Christianity, because many of those churches believe that women are not capable or even allowed to lead a church because according to the modern version of their bible it was eve who discerned falsely.
I'm not entirely certain I am explaining myself well. I haven't been sleeping well for some time. So I will beg off. I meant no disrespect towards either you or moose.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 31, 2018 - 07:27am PT
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I'm not entirely certain I am explaining myself well.
Or maybe reading too much into what somebody else posts here and moralizing accordingly?
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Mtnmun
Trad climber
Top of the Mountain Mun
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Jan 31, 2018 - 07:31am PT
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Quarter of a Man is a David Lindley Song as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txL3Z4JlFeo
When I divorced after 19 years of marriage I felt like half a person for several months. When you get over having to get laid and become comfortable in your own skin then the magic can happen.
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