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Reading the Hardcock, sorry, Hardrock Challenge and I see it's lads climbing, little girlie driving and cooking. Passed a few tandems this week and it's always men at front women at back.
Motorbike pillion...Of course.
Even on this forum I've seen 'little girlies looking for strong men to take us climbing'.
Women are indeed equal, as long as men are on top!

In reply to Anonymous:
i prefer the woman on top

In reply to Anonymous:

Yeah and who is leading the hardest free climbs in the world?

Lynn Hill a tiny yank female.

so uh, what were you saying?

In reply to Anonymous:

I think women are equal to men, and will tell my secretary that when she comes back from Starbucks with my coffee.

In reply to Anonymous:

As I never rode a motor bike but did thousands of miles pillion I have always been at the back, and two riders were females. The last routes I have done have all been with females leading as well, apart from the Little Tryfan thing last year.

When both me and my wife were working it was first home, get the fire lit and tea on, no 'it is her job' for us.

In reply to Anonymous:

The 'little girlie' driving the HRC guys is having to drive hundreds of miles on sod all sleep! I don't think she's taking second place at all.

In reply to sutty:

My lass and me will be oblidged to separate some household duties.
I make the pancakes cuz she don't know how and she makes the tea.
cuz i'm a yank.

In reply to Toby S:


The 'little girlie' would also shoot you down for suggesting she was coming second to anyone. She is an integral part of the HRC team. The fact that she is a 'she' is irrelevant to her, and the boys doing the climbing I imagine.

In reply to sutty: Same here Sutty with regards to who gets home first. I reckon lots of people are like that. Doesnt make sense to divvy up housework according to gender, except hoovering which I always do as I like hoovering!

In reply to Mystery Toad:

I.e. 9a+ or 8c+ on trad gear? Sharma, Usobiaga, Ramonet, Graham, McClure, MacLeod, Trotter etc etc


She did the Nose, 8b+, free in a day about 10 years ago, a very impressive ascent.


What are you saying?

In reply to Anonymous: I have been told that should we ever go tandem riding. he insists I be at the front as it will motivate him....

In reply to alj:

I am sure it is more relevant to Rich than it is Mark. I certainly find the fact that my wife is a she very relevant.

In reply to Nick B not logged on:

Just what i was thinking

In reply to callum:

Strange boy!

In reply to Toby S:

that was a very sly name change, young man - did it happen recently?

In reply to Anonymous:

It's known as the bitch seat for a reason I think

In reply to CJD: No, he's always been called Toby.

In reply to callum:

I do the hoovering every day, the sodding cat sees to that, dropping its fur if I miss one.

Never did polishing though, only dust if I cant see the TV or Computer screen.

In reply to Nick B not logged on:

In context obviously!

I was trying (in a very badly communicated way) to suggest that Rich and Mark considered their driver to be key to the team and had not selected Sam on the basis that they needed a 'little girlie' to tag along and look after them.

But I'll shut up now as I risk being dragged into a potential troll-slip-up incident where someone gets offended and accuses me of being a feminist in an attempt to insult me, and then someone else suggests that as a woman what would I know anyway - particularly not being involved in the HRC - and then someone will mention owls or grammar and it'll just ruin the start to the weekend.

In reply to sutty: Agreed! Dusting just makes me sneeze. Hate dusting.

In reply to CJD:

Earlier on this morning!

In reply to alj:
WOW

You have distilled the essance of 99% of threads on UKC!!

In reply to CJD:
Now I'll never find out what Am Fear Liath Mor means...
something something big grey?

In reply to alj:

Nowt wrong with being a feminist, my wife is one, her dissertation was on 'feminist utopian literature' and she does loads of martial arts and is getting worryingly handy with various bladed weapons!

In reply to time-for-tea:

The Big Grey Man. Go to Beinn Macdui and you may well meet him!

In reply to alj:

I was just joshing.

In reply to Toby S:

Cool - not just a feminist but a violent feminist!

In reply to Nick B not logged on:

I know Just don't go mentioning owls.

In reply to Nick B not logged on:

Or tapirs

In reply to time-for-tea: Big Grey man!
Nickname for the ghostie sometimes seen on Ben Macdui following folks in teh mist and scaring them witless....

In reply to Anonymous:


Ha haaa - because we're just too scared to even contemplate driving one of those scary beasties ourselves...
Arse.

In reply to alj:


She's not one of the climbers though!

In reply to Anonymous:

And...............

Unless you are Sam cunningly being anonymous - why does it bother you that she isn't climbing?

Why does doing the climbing mean coming first?

Oh b*ll*cks - now I'm responding to an annoying troll thingy. Where's my favourite owl, I'm off to see whether I can put an apostrophe in the wrong place in my latest tapir care leaflet.

In reply to Bob kate bob:

You mean misspelled?

In reply to Anonymous:

My god, you're tiresome...

In reply to alj:

You do not need to put asterisks in the word bullocks you know.

I was looking for pics of Sam climbing on Orange House website but it seems to be down.

In reply to Tiggs:


Naahh... it's just so that he can take it easy and let you do all the pedalling.

In reply to Anonymous:

Maybe you simply attract the wrong sorts of women around you?

In reply to sutty: My wife does almost all the cooking, she enjoys it, so I do all the washing up. She's a bit of a kitchen Nazi so cooking together just does not work.

In reply to Anonymous: In my experience, they always like to come first