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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:06pm PT
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okay, nothing personal
but there is a
tradition here
when people take ill advised risks
the get warned
that
YER STARTUP!
IS GONNNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:14pm PT
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How is this not facebook for recreationalists?
One good thing about this thread, I finally understand the popcorn reference.. I been dyin' all morning!!
Nice of you to provide these guys with fodder Kendall ;)
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:17pm PT
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extreme hiking
Burly shite right there..........
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mountainlion
Trad climber
California
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:20pm PT
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Kendall why is it that people like you want to say how "successful" they are when confronted with thier lack of a real life? So you have shared grub and conversation with CEO's (Criminal Extortion Operatives). Then you say that "honesty" and "integrity" are the backbone of your success. Try being honest with yourself (your life sucks). How do I know? You said you were a "mountain biker" but it is obvious you don't actually do it. I mean you may own a nice bike and all but the next time it gets ridden will be by some kid at your high end garage sale.
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:22pm PT
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The "hobby" description reminded me of something. Someone in the local Colo. Spgs. media once described Leonard Coyne as a "climbing enthusiast". For some reason it struck me as funny. I think Leonard thought so too.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 07:24pm PT
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If we are to be compared to anything in social media currently, it would more like if Pinterest was social and hit on all interests instead of just a small handful. Facebook is simply a system to connect with the people that you already know. Social discovery (not just us but all social discover) is in many ways nothing like Facebook. Go look at Twitter's or Foursquare's landing pages. They tell you perhaps enough to get some idea of what is going on inside the site, but certainly from the landing page of twitter you can't ascertain the impact of millions of people connecting over 140 character statements.
Our landing page is just mention to draw some remote interest. The real draw is when users with good content begin showing that content outside of a platform. Our purpose is to get the people with the "good" content into our system first, with just a big of money and social interaction, before we start blowing marketing money out the windows to get the "normals". It might seem that all of this (my site's name) bashing is not valuable to me, but it certainly is. You can learn a lot even from people completely dismissing a thing. That is, if you know what to listen for.
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Gene
climber
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:30pm PT
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Kendall,
For a rags to riches two time executive with a six figure salary before age 30, as well as a collegiate environment educator {WTF is that?}at home on the cocktail shrimp sharing circuit, you sure spend a lot of time on this forum for very dubious rewards. I question your judgment.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 07:32pm PT
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@mountainlion
I said I wouldn't call myself a mountain biker. And it is largely because I only dabble. The reason I don't have much time to is because I spend all of my free time with my wife and two children as I am a bit of a home body and my wife is thankfully able to be a stay at home mother.
The life I lead is by choice as I love my kids more than anything. I do work a great deal otherwise but it is because I love my work. My 80 hours a week feels like 10 or none at all because I am building my passions. Before I was the captain of the ship though, I could still say the same thing.
Honesty and integrity are rare amongst more of the crowd that I was speaking of and on that point you are correct. I may be amongst them, but I am nothing like them. I know hunger and hopelessness and poverty and they never will.
How many people can say that they love their work and their family and can find people out there to invest money to support their ideas? How many less can say that without a college degree? How many less can say that who grew up in poverty?
My life is full of blessing and I have no shortage of things to be thankful for. If I died today I would be a happy man.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 07:35pm PT
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@Gene If I spent a great deal of my time doing stuff such as this I agree that would be bizarre. Thankfully I don't and simply today I am on many boards at once in dialog with many different interest and activity communities simultaneously. I appreciate this group just as much as the others though even if this one has far more negative comments than the others. It's all good feedback.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 07:41pm PT
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I don't fault anyone here for negative comments. You are simply giving your opinion of something of which you currently have limited information to judge upon. It is human nature to desire to judge even when limited to the smallest amount of criteria to judge upon. You see a film preview and you think "I bet that will be awful" or "that will be amazing" when sometimes upon watching both you will find the truth to be the opposite.
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WBraun
climber
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
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kendallc81
This forum is owned by a guy most of us know personally.
He's a fuking bad ass both physically and mentally.
He's not some abstention wanker owner and bragging rich guy trying to be cool like you.
We know who he is unlike you who's hiding behind some stupid made up wall.
What a fuking poseur.
Be up front like man instead of all this pussy ass talk here.
You get no respect when you try remain a anonymous wanker.
Go away!
Signed your worst fear, the bad egg ......
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 07:55pm PT
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So far no one here has stated any actual element of the site is bad. If you make a sandwich with mayo and someone says "I think anyone who uses mustard on sandwiches like you do, is an imbecile" you are not offended, because you used mayo.
On other boards that I'm currently interacting with some people are seeing the mayo and are saying either yea or nay. But it is still valuable to see why people think you are using mustard so you can make sure you avoid whatever that thing was. Even comments as simple as "looks stupid" can be valuable.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 07:58pm PT
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@WBraun I would love to say who we are but that would be advertising and all I am asking for now is feedback until we official begin advertising on this site and are given freedom by the owner to discuss openly.
Oh and I am not trying to be anything :) But I will take it as a compliment that you think I am trying to be "cool".
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:58pm PT
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Looks stupid.
I hope that is helpful.
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Sep 21, 2012 - 07:59pm PT
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say goodbye as#@&%e..
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chill
climber
between the flat part and the blue wobbly thing
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Sep 21, 2012 - 08:22pm PT
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Kendall - FYI, no one here is interested in your business. The only reason to check this thread to find out how much abuse it will take to make you go away.
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jeff_m
Social climber
700' up
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Sep 21, 2012 - 08:23pm PT
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Kendall (Ken doll?)
Pinterest? Really? You do understand that the primary demographic you're trying to pursue here isn't a gaggle of 14-year-old girls on a One Dimension fan site, nor is it a frustrated lonely-hearts scrapbooking club, right? (Not trying to sound all badass, but seriously, do a little homework.)
If you want constructive criticism, it's this: No matter how bitchin' you design your UI, I'm pretty sure this climbing group will not ever be "live chatting" to find new BFFs. (If it were live "shatting" you might be on to something...)
And too funny, Werner. (But you forgot to say "homo.")
[Cue pony graphics.]
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Sep 21, 2012 - 08:31pm PT
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I am only posting this for two reasons: (actually three)
It's shrimp cocktail dude, not cocktail shrimp (if you know anything about food).
So rags to riches and you grew up in a trailer park, and are now hobnobbing it with the 'big boys', so why hit this forum with your pathetic BS? You must be well connected, from what you claim, so why hit up this forum and others?
What is your M.O.?
Thirdly, you sound like a bag of shite.
Oh, actually to keep this thread going and bump it so we can all see what an arse you are. Let me know when the IPO is, I'll keep an eye open... and wonder (actually, your 'hidden company' would make it hard to follow, though I could).
Of course, gobshites like you do make it at times, the richest man in Ireland, actually a tax exile (who I despise, and he me), is a gobshite and he is a billionaire.. a gombeen, brown envelope stuff, a cheat, corrupt, albeit he has more money than I do (maybe I should have tried that route). But he is still a piece of...
Is that what you aspire to be Kendall, a rich gobshite? With only money buying you respect? A cheat, a gombeen? Karma says: "Hi Kendall, and where are your balls, oh you sold them to the devil, I see."
If money is your "raison d'être" (that's French by the way), I truly feel sorry for you. Okay, I don't. Gobshite.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 08:35pm PT
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@jeff_m The research says this: Pinterest is the fastest growing website of all time. It receives more sustained traffic than any website in history. It is the most popular website online for women other than facebook and receives more traffic than over a hundred websites that are household names to you me and everyone else (eg Yahoo).
All of this is not because it is used exclusively by tweens and scrapbook moms.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 08:42pm PT
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@Patrick Sawyer Your post made me laugh :) I hadn't before realized the distinction between cocktail shrimp and shrimp cocktail. You can tell how little of it I have had. But that doesn't mean that the times that I have had it that the context of the situation was any less valid. I mean, I rub shoulders with people who most people only see on C-SPAN (aka government and private industry policy makers) and I didn't even know it was called shrimp cocktail. That's got to be saying something. Those people don't exactly accept lunatics off the street in their company. They do accept lunatics, just not ones off the street.
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