Most tired Climbing Cliches?

Stich wrote:Girlfriend is a splitter, man.

pics or it didnt happen

Tim Lutz wrote:After a quick perusal of his recent posts, I have concluded that there is nothing that has happened in climbing in the last 30 that is not frowned upon by one Healyj.

Great....now we are going to hear more of her cliche "back when I started climbing" or "Back when I was putting up hard FA's" rants!

"Was he wearing a helmet"?

used in some sentences:

Climber unroped and fell off from the top of the 8th pitch: "Was he wearing a helmet"?

Her belayer's grigri didn't lock and she was dropped from 100 feet up and broke both ankles and her pelvis: "Was she wearing a helmet"?

Got in a car accident on the way to the crag: "Was he wearing a helmet"?

Got his shirt caught in the rap device and was stuck for 3 hours on the overhang: "Was he wearing a helmet"?

Got his dick slammed in a car door ... again. "Really? Dear Lord, was he wearing a helmet"?

Referring to any / all 5.10 sport routes as a "good warm up".

What if a person only climbs 5.8 or even 5.10... is that 5.10 going to be their warm up? Why must THIS route be the warm up... can they make the 5.9 or 5.11 route their warmup instead if they are intending to get on that 5.12?

What does writing it is a good warm up add to the description- can't people just choose their own warm ups based on the grade the climb is rated, and the grade they want to climb later? What makes it a good warm-up instead of just a good climb?

Mark E Dixon wrote:Dismissing every climbing debate as just a "first world problem."

Calling entirely true statements cliche.

+1 for "rig"

The monkey call.

Billcoe wrote:"Was he wearing a helmet"? used in some sentences: Climber unroped and fell off from the top of the 8th pitch: "Was he wearing a helmet"? Her belayer's grigri didn't lock and she was dropped from 100 feet up and broke both ankles and her pelvis: "Was she wearing a helmet"? Got in a car accident on the way to the crag: "Was he wearing a helmet"? Got his shirt caught in the rap device and was stuck for 3 hours on the overhang: "Was he wearing a helmet"? Got his dick slammed in a car door ... again. "Really? Dear Lord, was he wearing a helmet"?

Yes!

All too often, "was he wearing a helmet" questions in accident reports carries the same tone as "what was she wearing?" in rape reports.

Using the word "Beta" for everything.

"Can I get "Beta" for getting to Muir Valley." (Directions)

"Thanks for the "Beta" on opening that can of beans." (Lending me a hand)

"That was profound. Thanks for the life Beta." (Advice)

dude, i already did the beta post.

"I repeatedly whipped on my micro cam. Now it doesn't work."
"Clearly a manufacturing defect."
"Clearly user error."

"I lead 12 sport, 7 trad." Whuuuuu?

"Up rope." (every 5 seconds says the person on toprope. STFU and climb.)

And the most annoying over used and abused word today and can be heard every nano second in every gym and most crags today: Take, take, TAKE!!!!!

christoph benells wrote:dude, i already did the beta post.

Sorry, I had bad beta for making sure I read ALL 5 PAGES of comments.

I just spent a weekend at Miguel's and it was really getting on my nerves by Sunday.

Nathan Self wrote:"I didn't read the whole post, but here's what I think...(repeats OP or others)"

You mean like this? :

Zabadoo wrote: Sorry, I had bad beta for making sure I read ALL 5 PAGES of comments. I just spent a weekend at Miguel's and it was really getting on my nerves by Sunday.

Time to replace "spank the gnar" with the retro "crank the rad".

Climbing with no shirt but wearing a winter beanie

Describing every route by adding a "y" to the end of some noun.

Examples: juggy, pumpy, crimpy, slopey, balancey, fingery, etc.

Adam Burch wrote:This thread serves as yet another reminder to me, that in spite of us all loving the same thing, most climbers are annoying as hell.

I've definitely given up hobbies because of the people that practice them before. Climbers, at least the ones I know, aren't all that bad :)

Healyje wrote: Gyms were originally an attempt to provide an indoor emulation of outdoor climbing however vaguely related. The issue is that, after about a decade, things got turned on their head and generations of climbers who learned in gyms then wanted emulations of gyms outdoors

The funny part is mountaineers could say the same thing about rock climbing. Rock climbing was originally an attempt to provide a close-to-home emulation of roped mountain technique. Only now, there's a whole generation who learned on rock instead of mountains...

C. Archibald wrote:Describing every route by adding a "y" to the end of some noun. Examples: juggy, pumpy, crimpy, slopey, balancey, fingery, etc.

alright now this is just uncalled for.

Eli Buzzell wrote: alright now this is just uncalled for.

Muscle-y ... I just saw this word online.

in eldo ....