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Monkeys Fist

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  1. If you already have a verified account with every porn site going, no need. So I’m told.
  2. Toonpack, TBD and Wykiki at the after party…
  3. Is Thursday Erdinger day?
  4. I agree. I still think we should kill Dougle though.
  5. Did not realise Sonny Rollins was still knocking about
  6. I agree, that’s what made me laugh
  7. He was sat in the stands for the pic
  8. Signed for three years. “ Finish the sentence” wasn’t an instruction for the video, was it?
  9. What’s the pic? Not showing up for me?
  10. Regardless of whether we end with him or not, he’s now no longer Nunez and will simply be known to me as Sandra.
  11. My favourite mountaineering tale from the Karakoram range is of the first successful ascent of The Ogre by Doug Scott and Chris Bonington. All went well until , on the descent, not far from the top, Scott slipped on an abseil and went flying across the face of the mountain, smashing his shins when he hit rock. He and Bonington managed to abseil to a ledge where they spent a freezing night with no gear or sleeping bags, then made it back to their high camp below the West Summit where their two remaining team members, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine were. They spent 5 days stuck there in an ice cave, ran out of food, and eventually had to set of (in the middle of a storm), with Scott’s team members cutting steps for his knees where they could, him sliding and crawling otherwise. Due to the weather conditions, on this rescue descent, Bonington very nearly came a cropper by abseiling off the end of a rope, and broke his ribs. The two of them made it down, Scott then crawling for 5 days over broken stone and snow to get back to Base Camp. All this, with both his legs snapped below the knee, every single bump and movement causing him severe pain ( no painkillers left either), and Bonington struggling to breath with badly busted ribs. When they got there, ( Base Camp) it was empty, as the rest of the party had assumed all four were dead and left. Clive Rowland basically ran for a day or so and caught up with them, and they arranged a helicopter to pick up Scott and Bonington. It could only take one at a time, so Scott went first, and in its way back for Bonington it crashed so he had to wait days for another. Absolute epic. In over 20+ expeditions, it’s only been summitted three times I believe, the first being these absolute legends. Doug Scott was a fucking monster of a climber, the first UK climber to summit Everest, fucking nails, and also did an amazing amount of charitable work in the Karakoram and Nepal reducing child mortality and providing clean water to villages etc. Edit; Both he and Bonington were pissed off that their two rescuers, Rowland and Anthoine, got little credit at the time for saving their lives ( this was late 1975 -Bonington was probably the most famous climber in the world at the time, and Scott had just become the UK’s first Everest summiteer). Whenever either spoke about it, they went to great lengths to make it clear that without those two, they’d both still be up there.
  12. 16 is also the distance (in feet) he’ll bounce off BUJ7 on their first meeting.
  13. Unless Schmeichel vomited on the pitch, ‘tis merely a scratch.
  14. The original post Definitely sign him for the lasses…
  15. Fair play to her for leaving instructions that no one should risk their life attempting to rescue or recover her. Looking at the mountain she’s died on, rescue/recovery would be incredibly risky. Judging by the height stated for the accident , she was a couple of hundred metres from the top.
  16. BBC reporter causing childhood trauma here
  17. Tbf, whilst the second part is true, I wasn’t wrong about the first part, though
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