By Dylan Weldin
From Durango, CO
Dec 5, 2012
| Friendly public service announcement:
IT'S RAPPEL. You go RAPPELLING.
Not any of this:
| No... (But I met this guy there. He rollerblades to the crag and has a thick Polish accent)
Submitted By: Dylan Weldin on Dec 5, 2012
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BUT YES THIS
In my opinion there are two possible solutions to this issue:
1) If you misuse this word, you will be reminded, slapped in the face, and reminded again not to repeat your mistake
2) We reinstate "abseil" as the new "rappel"...
Thank you for taking the time to educate yourself. Be mindful of the slap to the face weather you are on the receiving or administering end. (That one was intentional). | 
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
Dec 5, 2012
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By splitclimber
Dec 5, 2012
| I'm repelled that climbers can't get this right. thx for the PSA |
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By Ben Brotelho
From Albany, NY
Dec 5, 2012
| nicely done...I thought this was going to be a legitimate post at first and you had misspelled rappel, I was thinking of creative ways to correct you. |
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By Gunkiemike
Dec 5, 2012
| Stand by for Part 2 - the appropriate use of the word "splitter". |
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By Tom Howes
From Bozeman, MT
Dec 5, 2012
| Weather is that stuff up in the sky. Whether is often used to introduce a question, often a choice between options. |
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By Shelton Hatfield
From Austin, Texas
Dec 5, 2012
| Tom Howes wrote: Weather is that stuff up in the sky. Whether is often used to introduce a question, often a choice between options.
BOOM! roasted |
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By matt davies
Dec 5, 2012
| Buff Johnson wrote: Two electrons walk into a bar...
Which does NOT beg the question, "what are electrons doing in a bar?" |
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By camhead
From The Old Northwest
Dec 5, 2012
| Best post ever in the history of mountainproject. Serious.
To take it further, the slang verb of descending down a rope is not "raping." It's rapping. |
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By matt davies
Dec 5, 2012
| Eric Engberg wrote: ab off?
Is that what you say when you're at the end of an absail? |
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By ChristopherAust
From Ohio
Dec 5, 2012
| camhead wrote: Best post ever in the history of mountainproject. Serious. To take it further, the slang verb of descending down a rope is not "raping." It's rapping.
Depends on what you're doing at the time... |
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By Rob Warden, Space Lizard
From Springdale Ut
Dec 5, 2012
| camhead wrote: the slang verb of descending down a rope is not "raping." It's rapping.
...so... am I doing it wrong? it feels so right... |
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By Dylan Weldin
From Durango, CO
Dec 6, 2012
| Tom Howes wrote: Weather is that stuff up in the sky. Whether is often used to introduce a question, often a choice between options.
Notice how I said I "(That one was intentional)" in my original post? BOOM ROASTED |
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By Marc H
From Lafayette, CO
Dec 6, 2012
| It appears you could avoid those unfortunate situations by not reading blogs about rappelling. :-)
Or reading blogs at all for that matter. |
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By Jake Jones
From The Eastern Flatlands
Dec 6, 2012
| I thought I was the only one that became furious wanting to maim the offender's parents for merely misspelling. It's good to know I'm not alone. Hug? It sounds like I'm being facetious, but I'm really not. I want to cripple these bastards for creating more dipshits. |
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By Buff Johnson
Dec 6, 2012
| matt davies wrote: Which does NOT beg the question, "what are electrons doing in a bar?"
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By Jason Halladay
Administrator
From Los Alamos, NM
Dec 6, 2012
| Dylan Weldin wrote: Notice how I said I "(That one was intentional)" in my original post? BOOM ROASTED
[sic]!
(Great PSA BTW.) |
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By Tits McGee
From Boulder, CO
Dec 6, 2012
| To add, the abbreviated past (not passed) tense of rappel is rapped, not raped. |
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By TWK
Dec 6, 2012
| Thank you for the great post.
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
--George Orwell, "1984" |
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By camhead
From The Old Northwest
Dec 6, 2012
| Tits McGee wrote: To add, the abbreviated past (not passed) tense of rappel is rapped, not raped.
Lebowksi? That's your name, dude! |
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By Stich
From Colorado Springs, Colorado
Dec 6, 2012
| Also, Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. It's Asian-American.
Dylan, looking forward to your next installment. |
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By JesseT
From Portland, OR
Dec 6, 2012
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Looks like his forehead is repelling his helmet... |
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