Comments on: News & Notes – 08/07/2009

By: sweatpants

sweatpants — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:09:41 +0000

lol. you’re lucky i give good beta, otherwise you’d be screwed.

By: Eggbert

Eggbert — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:48:48 +0000

I will not say that I did not like the catalog. It didn’t make me want to buy anything in particular, however. However, if Sweaty buys a knight’s helmet, I will too. Monkey see monkey do. ce

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:31:00 +0000

Nothing on Fred Nicole?

Didn’t he just put up something really hard?

By: peter

peter — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:26:36 +0000

rhetoricallytarded? apart from being an oh-so-funny play on the word “retarded” (get it? get it?), it’s rude and offensive. kind of like the advertisements s/he’s whining about in the first place. Also, evidently you get into post-feminist heaven by getting so caught up in your rant you lose the ability to express yourself clearly. S/he is writing for Judith Butler, not Rock Climbers. My recommendation: keep the climbing climbing; and don’t link to that trash in the future.

By: sweatpants

sweatpants — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:07:19 +0000

I am now interested in purchasing a woman’s jacket… and I’d kind of like to purchase one of those knight’s helmets

By: Narc

Narc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:03:34 +0000

I’m not saying I didn’t like it, but I did find it an odd way to sell women’s jackets.

By: sweatpants

sweatpants — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:57:52 +0000

That dude’s retarded… what guy complains about a bunch of pretty woman in underwear… its like a victoria secret catalogue only for outdoor gear. BILLIANT!

By: Narc

Narc — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:52:56 +0000

The rant is a bit over the top, but that is par for the course at SA. The funny part is this: when I got home after reading that post Mrs. Narc was leafing through the same catalog and was like WTF, what’s up with this?

By: Eggbert

Eggbert — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:45:35 +0000

What the hell was that rant about Moosejaw? Just a company trying to make it out there… Who cares. Jeez.

On another note, yeah, the China comp sounds like it sucked. I was in China about 20 years ago in high school, and it sounds like nothing has changed. We were told not to drink the water, but it didn’t matter. I guess the ‘food’ itself was enough to clean out the intestines. I am always amazed that when we go out for Chinese here in the US it bears essentially no resemblance to what we were eating over there. Beautiful country though, amazing culture and a great place to visit otherwise…

By: sweatpants

sweatpants — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:12:16 +0000

That is really a shame about the conditions in China for the competitors. That had to be so hard to climb with your body feeling like that. It should be mentioned though that when they got back to LA they had a bunch of Domino’s pizza… talk about your digestion issues, I have to actually sit on the toilet while eating that stuff it goes thru me so fast. haha