This is Repelling...

Friendly public service announcement:

IT'S RAPPEL.

You go RAPPELLING.

Not any of this:

No...

No...

No...

No...

No... (But I met this guy there. He rollerblades to the crag and has a thick Polish accent)

BUT

YES THIS

Yes!!!!

ALSO Yes!!!

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).

giggle

I'm repelled that climbers can't get this right. thx for the PSA

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.

Stand by for Part 2 - the appropriate use of the word "splitter".

Two electrons walk into a bar...

Weather is that stuff up in the sky. Whether is often used to introduce a question, often a choice between options.

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

comma splice

Buff Johnson wrote:Two electrons walk into a bar...

Which does NOT beg the question, "what are electrons doing in a bar?"

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.

ab off?

Eric Engberg wrote:ab off?

Is that what you say when you're at the end of an absail?

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...

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...

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

It appears you could avoid those unfortunate situations by not reading blogs about rappelling. :-)

Or reading blogs at all for that matter.

matt davies wrote: Which does NOT beg the question, "what are electrons doing in a bar?"

Dylan Weldin wrote: Notice how I said I "(That one was intentional)" in my original post? BOOM ROASTED

[sic]!

(Great PSA BTW.)

To add, the abbreviated past (not passed) tense of rappel is rapped, not raped.