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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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When you forget you’ve left out ice cream to soften up a bit and the next morning you find it.
Dang I wish ice cream would refreeze properly.
Susan.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Military grade Preparation H?
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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Digital condom?
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Friends of ours got married and moved into her 2600 sqft 5 bedroom house. Just 2 people in 2600 sqft. They are planning to move soon because it is too cramped for them. WTF has happened to people's sanity?!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Ha! I knew a guy who lived in a joint near me with his dog, in 49,000 SF!
He got bent cause the neighbors wouldn’t let him put a helipad in. He was
sooo tired of being limoed to his Gulfstream. I felt his pain.
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RURP_Belay
Big Wall climber
Bitter end of a bad anchor
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Starbucks Via is not NEARLY as good as drip.
Very disappointing - it's like, now that they CAN do a decent instant, why can't they just get it right?
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Well pump difficulties. Gonna yank the pump and pipe (250 feet) out tomorrow and see what’s up.
Had to take a shower using water I hauled and pumped from a temp storage tank. That city water REEKED of chlorine. That sh#t is gnarly.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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cropdusting the sharks circling the Whole Foods buffet is less effective on a veggie diet.
this part too: [photoip
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Russ Walling
Social climber
from Poofters Froth, Wyoming
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The fukkin' in-cab tire pressure indicator on my new Raptor is off by nearly 2psi compared to a calibrated gauge. WTF???
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feeling yer pain, Mr Walling. Mine was quite accurate when I hit a berm out where the sun
mostly shines at 40 and got some nice air. It told me upon landing in no uncertain times that I
was then rolling on only three gud uns.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Have to wait like ten seconds for the iPhone to sync with the bluetooth on my Chevy Colorado. SO PAINFUL.
I almost missed the scratchy bit at the start of Immigrant Song.
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HoMan
Trad climber
Wasteville,CA
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^^^^
Haha....same in my Audi. That bluetooth delay should NOT take that long! They did that on purpose. Damn THEY!
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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Predicting temperature by checking to see if my coconut oil is solid or liquid.
Susan
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Splater
climber
Grey Matter
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Meanwhile,
in the third world,
one section of transcript from
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/myanmars-killing-fields/transcript/
MOHAMMAD AYAS:
[subtitles] I was watching through a hole. I saw everything clearly.
NARRATOR:
Villagers say this is one of the soldiers who led the attack that day, Sergeant Ba Kyaw. We interviewed nine residents who identified him and said they knew him well. He was a member of the army’s Unit 564, based here, just south of the village.
MAN:
[subtitles] I had known Ba Kyaw for six years. I used to deliver things for him.
NARRATOR:
Witnesses say Ba Kyaw and other soldiers rounded up dozens of men and took them to the village leader’s compound.
Aisha Begum was at home with her sons.
AISHA BEGUM:
[subtitles] As my child was being taken away, I grabbed his hand. He was crying, “Mom, they’re taking me.” I thought they might kill him, so I told him to pray to God.
NARRATOR:
The men and boys taken to the compound were forced to lay face down. Mohamadul Hassan was among them. He says he had nothing to do with the militants.
MOHAMADUL HASSAN:
[subtitles] They tied our hands and made us lie down in the courtyard. I thought I was going to die.
NARRATOR:
He says the men were kept tied up in the courtyard for two hours. Then he says an officer took a phone call. Other survivors have given journalists and human rights investigators similar accounts of what happened next.
MOHAMADUL HASSAN:
[subtitles] When he returned, he shouted, “OK, begin!” Then they started slitting people’s throats.
NARRATOR:
This video of him was taken a few days after the attack. He says he was shot twice and left for dead. Hiding on the roof, Ayas says he watched as some of the men were killed in the courtyard.
MOHAMMAD AYAS:
[subtitles] Ba Kyaw started slaughtering people. Some villagers said, “We are not your enemies.” But the soldiers said, “All Muslims must be wiped out from Myanmar. There’s no place for Muslims here.”
NARRATOR:
In all, eight witnesses told us that Sergeant Ba Kyaw participated in the killings. He’s also been named in other news and human rights reports.
We weren’t able to speak to Ba Kyaw, and the Myanmar military wouldn’t respond to the allegations against him. They insist their troops did not harm civilians. But survivors estimate at least 80 people were executed in the courtyard alone.
AISHA BEGUM:
[showing picture] [subtitles] This is my eldest son, this is the middle one, and he’s the youngest. This is their father.
NARRATOR:
Aisha says that her husband and three of her children were among them.
AISHA BEGUM:
[subtitles] This is my 11-year-old who was killed.
NARRATOR:
The Myanmar military says that it was conducting a clearance operation to rid Rakhine of terrorists. But video shot at the scene supports eyewitness claims that many civilians were killed.
MAN:
[subtitles] There’s a hat laying there..
NARRATOR:
Nurul Hakim went back to Monu Para with a camera once the soldiers had left, risking his life. His footage is dated August 28th, one day after the killings. This is the first time he’s been interviewed.
NURUL HAKIM:
[subtitles] This is Monu Para village. This is the blood of the people who were slaughtered at the base of the trees. Look, it’s an ocean of blood. We found 66 patches of blood. People had been slaughtered, and the blood had flowed.
NARRATOR:
Nurul and other witnesses told us more than 100 people were killed throughout the village, a number that is consistent with subsequent investigations by human rights groups.
NURUL HAKIM:
[subtitles] They tied the men’s hands with the women’s scarves and made them lie face down on the ground. All the scarves they tied them with were still there.
NARRATOR:
Nurul also found body parts.
NURUL HAKIM:
[subtitles] This is a piece of scalp I found.
NARRATOR:
Elsewhere in the village, he filmed the body of a boy who appears to have been shot in the head.
NURUL HAKIM:
[weeping] [subtitles] I saw this myself, the blood of many people. I found their ID cards. I found the clothes of people I know. I saw it with my own eyes.
NARRATOR:
In another part of Monu Para, a villager filmed a body being dug up. The wounds are still fresh.
EVAN WILLIAMS, Correspondent:
The dead man─ do you know who this is?
MOHAMMAD AYAS:
[subtitles] The dead man is Humayun. He was a street vendor. He sold fried rice.
NARRATOR:
Ayas says he had seen this man alive in the courtyard before the army’s executions began.
EVAN WILLIAMS:
How old was he?
MOHAMMAD AYAS:
[subtitles] He was 22 years old. He was a good man. He prayed regularly and obeyed his parents.
NARRATOR:
By now, the Myanmar military’s campaign had spread across the whole of northern Rakhine. Over the next few days, dozens of Rohingya villages were attacked and burned to the ground. On August 27th, members of 33rd Light Infantry Division moved into the village of Chut Pyin.
NEWSCASTER:
[subtitles] Bengali terrorists started shooting in the village of Chut Pyin.
[subtitles] The 33rd Light Infantry Division fired back. There is now a fierce battle going on. The Bengali terrorists are also burning houses.
NARRATOR:
But the footage filmed by Rohingya activists tells a different story. Sabo was filming in the nearby village of Ah Tet Nan Ya as survivors from Chut Pyin streamed in.
SABO:
[subtitles] They were all in a terrible state. They were traumatized after seeing brothers and sisters killed. Only God knows how much they suffered.
[subtitles] Did the military shoot you?
WOUNDED MAN:
Yes, they shot me while I was running away.
SABO:
Did the bullet come out?
WOUNDED MAN:
Yes, it went in here and came out.
NARRATOR:
He filmed dozens of wounded men, women and children, many of them shot in the back as they fled. We tracked down some of the survivors seen in Sabo’s footage, who all independently recounted how the military attacked civilians.
MAN:
[subtitles] Two of my relatives died and she was shot.
NARRATOR:
The video shows a villager named Jahin Hussein and his niece, Jamila Khatun. She’s 16 years old and has been shot in the back.
JAHIN HUSSEIN:
[subtitles] It’s been stitched. We were able to remove the bullet. She is in a lot of pain.
NARRATOR:
We found them in the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
MAN:
[subtitles] One of my brothers was shot dead. My baby daughter was shot in the head.
WOMAN:
[subtitles] I was shot and fell in the rice field. I could not get up, I was in so much pain. Then four soldiers raped me. Women were raped and then they died.
WOMAN:
[subtitles] About seven of us women tried to run, but we were rounded up and taken into some bushes.
NARRATOR:
Nur Begum says that when the women tried to fight back, a soldier shot one of them dead.
NUR BEGUM:
[weeping] [subtitles] A soldier cut off her breast. He held it up like this and it was shaking. He said if we screamed, they would do the same to us. They did whatever they wanted. Four or five soldiers held me down and raped me.
NARRATOR:
Multiple survivors from Chut Pyin told us the soldiers engaged in mass rape in the village. Among the survivors filmed by Sabo was village leader and medic Rashan Ali.
RASHAN ALI:
[subtitles] We don’t have any medicine. We don’t have the money to buy it.
NARRATOR:
He says he did what he could to treat the victims.
RASHAN ALI:
[subtitles] I treated 92 people there. Many women were raped and killed. We stitched them up. They were lacerated. Their breasts were cut. I treated them with whatever I had.
NARRATOR:
He said many of the rape victims were children.
RASHAN ALI:
[subtitles] Most of them were 12 or 13 years old. Some of them could not bear it and they died.
NARRATOR:
As the soldiers swept through Chut Pyin, 9-year-old Arefa Khatum was hiding at school.
AREFA KHATUM:
[subtitles] People in the village were surrounded and could not escape. My father was killed and also one of my brothers. I was also shot.
NARRATOR:
When the soldiers reached the school, Arefa says she was shot through the leg. The bullet shattered her bones.
AREFA KHATUM:
[subtitles] I saw five dead people who’d been shot. I saw the blood flowing from the school.
NARRATOR:
What happened next is horrific. Arefa’s mother, Rashida Khatum, says she and her son were rounded up by soldiers with a large group of women and children.
RASHIDA KHATUM:
[subtitles] They took beautiful girls to the school compound. We older ladies were sitting with the children and the soldiers were surrounding us.
There were small children like him. They hadn’t done anything. Then they snatched the children from their mothers’ laps. If any mother cried out for their baby, they shot them. They killed 10 women for that. I saw it with my own eyes.
NARRATOR:
Rashida says the soldiers dragged the children and babies to nearby burning houses. She says they then threw them into the flames alive.
RASHIDA KHATUM:
[subtitles] When the children tried to get out of the fire, they pushed them back in with bamboo sticks. There were some older, some his age and some younger. Some were six months, some three months. Twenty to thirty were taken.
NARRATOR:
Rashida says she saved her own son by hiding him under her shawl.
Sixty-year-old Umul Kulsum says her grandson and granddaughter were ripped from her arms.
UMUL KULSUM:
[subtitles] Johora was three years old. Ilias was five. They were burned to death. They are not coming back. They were screaming as they burned.
NARRATOR:
Ahmed Hussein, one of the village leaders, is compiling a record of everything that happened in Chut Pyin.
AHMED HUSSEIN:
[subtitles] [with map] This is Chut Pyin. Some military came from this road. Some of came from that one. Some women were taken across this field to the army outpost. They raped the women there, then killed them. My sister was raped with seven other women. She was shot and died the next day.
NARRATOR:
He showed us where the women were held with their children.
AHMED HUSSEIN:
[subtitles] This is the big fallen tree where the women were being held. The soldiers snatched the small children from there and took them over here. They threw them into burning houses here. All the children were taken from here and thrown into the fire.
NARRATOR:
Ahmed is collecting the names of all the missing. So far, he’s identified 358 people that he believes were killed in the attack. We asked him how many of the dead were children.
AHMED HUSSEIN:
[subtitles] Ninety-nine were killed. There aren’t many older children because they could run away. Many of them were only babies.
NARRATOR:
By early September 2017, an exodus was under way. In a single month, around half a million refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh. It was only now that the Rohingya crisis became world news.
Under international pressure, the Myanmar military would eventually conduct an internal investigation. It concluded there was no rape, no burning and no killing of civilians by its soldiers. They maintain that the campaign was a counter-insurgency clearance operation against Bengali terrorists.
ZEID RA’AD AL HUSSEIN, U.N. Hight Commissioner, Human Rights:
Rubbish. I mean, this is not counter-insurgency. Counter-insurgency means you go after the specific units that are involved. But rounding up civilians, you know, burning their houses, slicing the throats of children, you know, raping pregnant women and then disemboweling them─ I mean, how on earth is that counter-insurgency?
These were not sporadic acts, these were well organized, well thought through. Clearly, it didn’t seem to be an operation that was put together at the last moment. There is some design to this. This was a textbook case of ethnic cleansing.
NARRATOR:
As more survivors were reaching Bangladesh, the accounts of atrocities mounted. The worst known massacre of all happened in the village of Tula Toli. When soldiers attacked from the north, hundreds of Rohingyas fled eastward but were trapped by a bend in the river.
MAN:
[subtitles] Peace be upon you. We are from Tula Toli. Look, the women are fleeing from the gunfire. They’re setting fires from the north side. They’re trying to burn us out. They’re running towards the beach.
NARRATOR:
Survivors we interviewed told us this video was filmed downstream from Tula Toli. It shows the bodies of children and babies being recovered from the river.
MAN:
[subtitles] Put him here. Put him here. Oh, God! He’s been shot. He’s been shot. His brains are falling out!
NARRATOR:
The survivors from Tula Toli recognized some of the bodies in the video.
MUMTAZ BEGUM:
[subtitles] They threw my 5-year-old into the river. I had my two-year-old baby on my hip. They grabbed the baby and threw him on the fire. My 11-year-old boy was lying half-dead with his throat cut.
NARRATOR:
Mumtaz Begum says soldiers took her to a house with her only surviving daughter, Razeya.
MUMTAZ BEGUM:
[subtitles] The house was so full of dead bodies, we had to walk over them. As they raped me, my daughter was screaming, so they macheted her three times.
NARRATOR:
She says when the soldiers had finished, they locked the women inside the house.
RAZEYA:
[subtitles] They poured gasoline and set it on fire. Some of the women were still half-alive.
MUMTAZ BEGUM:
[subtitles] My daughter shook me and said, “Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning.”
MAN:
[subtitles] That evening, you could hear the women screaming in the burning houses. We lost all hope. The area was entirely filled with the bodies of burned people. It was all black.
NARRATOR:
Survivors from Tula Toli streamed across the river trying to escape. Witnesses told us that over a thousand people were killed in the village, a number consistent with reports from other journalists and human rights groups.
WOMAN:
[weeping] A daughter, a daughter-in-law, a grandchild and a son. They were shot and burned with gasoline.
NARRATOR:
Mumtaz says she managed to escape the burning house with her daughter. As she fled, she found her wounded son lying nearby.
MUMTAZ BEGUM:
[subtitles] My daughter said, “Brother, get up. Get up.” He said, “I can’t get up. My head is gone, I can’t get up.” [weeps]
AUNG SAN SUU KYI:
[September 19, 2017] The security forces have been instructed to exercise all due restraint and to take full measures to avoid collateral damage and the harming of innocent civilians.
NARRATOR:
Three weeks after the campaign began, Aung San Suu Kyi defended the military and claimed that operations in northern Rakhine had finished.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI:
There have been no conflicts since the 5th of September and no clearance operations.
NARRATOR:
But even as she spoke, the destruction continued. Satellite imagery shows that in the weeks after September 5th, numerous Rohingya villages were burned to the ground. We tried to get access to northern Rakhine, but the Myanmar military refused our request.
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just one "Never again" out of many.
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RURP_Belay
Big Wall climber
Bitter end of a bad anchor
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A new computer board for our broken washer that is 3 months past warranty is the same price as a new washer.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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European toilet paper. I don’t get it. They make Ferraris and Porsches yet they wipe their bums with waxed tissue paper? Really?
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Timbers of Fennario
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Jun 11, 2018 - 11:50am PT
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While riding my BMW F800GS and listening to music on youtube, one of those damn 10 minute commercials came on. To skip it I would have to pull over, remove a glove and the phone from my pocket. Agony. And the worst part was my headphones died right after it finished. WTF?
Also, I just bought crash bars for the radiator but I already layed it over in a turn and scratched it!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 11, 2018 - 01:48pm PT
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pmac, feeling yer pain, bro, but at least you don’t have to do ‘software updates’ on that rig. Or maybe you do now for bikes?
Just found out that when I pick up my new Volvo in Gothenburg I will have to view my fuel economy in liters/100km! WTF is up wit dat BS? Sheesh!
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