I feel the forum has got a little flat recently so hopefully this should breath some life into the rat.

Rules of this thread:
1) It is solely for complaining about things, something climbers love to do! The more trivial the better!
2) No Names are to be used although references can be used aslong as it is in code (ie PBP - phesant basher pavey)
3) Posts must be started along the lines of "OOOOO don't get me started on that. Another thing that really bugs me is......."
4) Only men are allowed to post, this is a grumpy old MAN thread *this should get a few things started!*
5) Committee can only edit if one of the above rules are broken, a record is kept of these edits which I will check and if neccessary name and shame you!

To start it off

One thing that really bugs me is people having names which are nothing like theirs on the forum. How am I suppose to know who ddick78 is?! Whats wrong with your real name?!

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Unlevel-headed member of team Gadd-vey

Cheif Scout

OOOOO don't get me started on that Michaf C. Another thing that really bugs me is all the bloody sport climbing people in this club do! It's a joke. Why don't people do some real climbing for a change, jeez. We may as well change the name of the club to the Uni of Birmingham Trevor Rocks Society. What happened to peoples sense of adventure? Returning to the same crag time after time after time... How boring! Get me at the top of a cliff, some 100metres above the sea holding on for dear life, where every other hold is a loose head sized boulder which could pull off at any second any day!

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massive punter

Don't get me started on that tool who put their climbing forum username as "I like climbing"

What really bugs me is that pull up forum, there should be a Uni of Birmingham Pull Up Forum Society (UBPUFS)

Oooooooo don't get me started on that. Another thing that bugs me is the amount of topless men bouldering. Yes we all have muscles, we all shag, but there's no need so show off! If you wan't to do that start your own bodybuilding society! And if men are going to boulder topless, then women should do so too! [Laws of equality and all that]

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No longer VP : But still Vaguely Philippino
FYI: Actions speak louder than wombats

I couldn't agree more RE, Man than really does grind my gears.
One thing that chafes my brain more than unnecessary threads on the forum is people (mainly women) who feel the need to pull the sexist card for trivial matters. like women’s rights.

Oooooooo don't get me started on that. Another thing that bugs me is people who get stuck half way up a route and need rescuing.

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Level-headed member of Gadd-vey

Phil you are soooooo right! The worst thing is that after you have rescued them they think they are still more of an expert on climbing than you are. It's as if they have selective short-term memory loss!

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Cheif Scout

Oh man don't get me started on that! do you know what else annoys me, people going on about the BBW, and who has traversed the whole thing left to right using something like just their chin and their right pinky finger.

Tell me about it laurence. It's as if they think they should get some kind of medal for it. Douchebags. It's so annoying when your trying to walk through the arch to get to uni and some selfish freak has blocked the entrance with bouldering mats. Seriously.... Let's be sensible now.

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massive punter

Oooooooo don't get me started on this, it really grinds my gears when you tape your rack in a colour no one else has, only to find loads more people colour their rack the same bloody colour the next year.

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Level-headed member of Gadd-vey

Phil I have never had that problem but im sure it puts your knickers in a right old twist.

You know what is really putting a bee in my bonnet at the moment? England

You spend months waiting for the world cup, counting down the days, letting the excitement take hold of you like a priest in a young persons prayer group. Finally it is Englands turn to play and you are like a kid at christmas, your hopes are up and you just know this is the year. And then Father Christmas doesn't bloody deliver.

The standard of football against Algeria was of a lower standard than our UBMC kick about, the players looked more confused than Byron with a rope and were as pointless as Paddy's pull up thread. Then Rooney has a go at the crowd for venting their frustration (who have paid to get to South Africa, battled to get tickets and at one stage drowned out the trumpet things with God Save the Queen)

If Heskey gets on that pitch for one more minute Cappello has officially lost the plot. He is the cleverest man in the world in the fact that he is taking 6 million pounds a year from our country and at the same time sabotaging our team!

As England supporters however we will carry on blindly supporting our team like possibly no other nation does.

Come on England

(please?)

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Cheif Scout

Do you know what really grinds my gears fellow club members borrowing tents then losing them leaving my high and dry with no tent for pembroke and not even bothering to approach me about it or even apologise!

Could be worse I guess.... Could be a french supporter?

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massive punter

Did any fellow grumpies watch any of the BBC 2 program last night at 10? It was a program after my own heart

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When jeans wear out I get very tense. It means I have to go shopping for a new pair of jeans.

I just want a pair of jeans that fit. I don't want a million different styles, boot cut, drain, lad etc etc.and skinny jeans can knob right off. Who the chuff would buy skinny jeans, who is a male. Picture cocky in skinny jeans, no, real men don't wear skinny jeans.

Russel Brand can also go to hell, Alan Carr is not funny.

Call centres, particularly virgin media. Especially the automated voice at virgin media, I just want to speak to a real person. Then you get put through to about seven brain dead morons before you speak to the "right person" who also clearly is challenged in many departments.

People, usually men, who shout up at you when you're climbing "you've gone the wrong way, I've done that route, you were supposed to go left at the woodlouse that lives in the crack that takes a number four nut". No, no I wasn't, read the guidebook you balding, slightly overweight misguided old fool. If you were half the climber you think you are you'd be twice the climber you ever will be. Now excuse me while I accidently dislodge this rock onto your numb skull, or go home and put a blanket over your knees.

Jobsworths.

People who don't care and have no opinion about anything, Wet Weekend(s).

The new mini. Cyclists not stopping at red lights. Jellyfish. Getting sand in your food when you're at the beach. People who take forever leading/seconding a shag and don't just admit the can't do it when they know fine well there are people waiting.

People who say they can't shag something because the hold is too small/facing the wrong way/too chalked up/not chalked enough. Actually I think what happened was you weren't good enough.

People who drive slowly on country roads, Sunday drivers, people who want your time and or money when you're walking down the street clearly with somewhere to go. Dog crap. Kids with dummies when they're clearly far too old.

When milk goes off and there is no other milk in the house.

Showers where the head is so low you have to duck to get your hair wet.

Fat people.

The fact that Scotland is so far away and has so much amazing climbing.

Student Loans Company...

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