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NEWS: Being A Professional Climber Not That Great

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 UKC News 01 Apr 2016
Motivational Quote taken from 'Quotesgram.com', 3 kbDespite never having to work and being paid to go on amazing holidays around the world with other equally deluded middle-class white people, professional climbers actually have a really crap life it has emerged.

Here we uncover the stresses and strains of life as a modern adventure athlete.

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 ChrisBrooke 01 Apr 2016
In reply to UKC News:

Ouch! That might sting a little.

Quality
 jsmcfarland 01 Apr 2016
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Brilliant =D
 Henry Iddon 01 Apr 2016
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ha ha priceless

The same could have been written about a lot of 'Pro Adventure Photographers'. Got to be tough fitting all those international shoots in between the 'day job'....
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 Offwidth 01 Apr 2016
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Class! Well done Jack and co.
In reply to UKC News:

What an extraordinarily nasty article. Satirising something I've literally never observed in professional climbers, who in my experience are intensely aware of the privilege they have. Still, maybe I don't look close enough.

jcm
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 Wft 01 Apr 2016
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You are sheffield rumours and I claim my signed ukc tradeshow t-shirt
 mwatson 01 Apr 2016
In reply to UKC News:

seems a bit harsh, practical jokes are meant to be about drawing the reader in so they laugh at themselves, not an excuse to be rude about people and force them to laugh it off. A better line would have been doing a rock fax review that said something negative, that would have got us going...
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 JMarkW 01 Apr 2016
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pretty tongue in cheek I think. Made me laugh.

cheers
mark
 Al_Mac 01 Apr 2016
Read to me as though it had been written by a said 'pro climber' being self depricating.
 Hat Dude 01 Apr 2016
In reply to UKC News:

Myrtle Berry - has she got a brother Bill?
 marsbar 01 Apr 2016
In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

I assumed it was written by someone who has had that privilege and is taking the p out of themselves.
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 dickie01 01 Apr 2016
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Love it, very funny!
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This has to be the winning April Fool today on UKC. Lovely.
 mlt 01 Apr 2016
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Good shit
 Michael Gordon 01 Apr 2016
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Excellent!
 Greg Lucas 01 Apr 2016
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Brilliant. Seriously funny. Made my day.
 Robert Durran 01 Apr 2016
In reply to UKC News:

Wonderful. Cuts through the crap brilliantly and good naturedly.
 footwork 01 Apr 2016
In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

> What an extraordinarily nasty article. Satirising something I've literally never observed in professional climbers, who in my experience are intensely aware of the privilege they have. Still, maybe I don't look close enough.

> jcm

#blessed
 LeeWood 01 Apr 2016
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well I can't think of any close match who would squirm at this but ... shoulder injuries really do hurt ya know
 rockcat 02 Apr 2016
In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

> What an extraordinarily nasty article. Satirising something I've literally never observed in professional climbers, who in my experience are intensely aware of the privilege they have. Still, maybe I don't look close enough.

> jcm

This has got to be another wind-up!
 Robert Durran 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Hat Dude:

> Myrtle Berry - has she got a brother Bill?

Am I right in thinking her name has changed from Berry to Kerry since yesterday? Maybe her sister Natalie wasn't happy.
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 Michael Gordon 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Robert Durran:

yes, weird that
 Dave the Rave 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Michael Gordon:

Why is the Ice Factor new centre in the pop up ad spelt center?
 Michael Gordon 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Dave the Rave:

because they can't spell?
 Wsdconst 02 Apr 2016
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I'm getting sick of all the piss takers picking on barnsley, we're not all coal miners you know, ok all my family are,and so are my wife's,and all of my neighbours, but I'm sure some people aren't. Dickie bird ! He's not ( but he might have been, I'm not sure). Anyway lay off us barnsley folk, come on you reds !!!!!
 Dave the Rave 02 Apr 2016
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> I'm getting sick of all the piss takers picking on barnsley, we're not all coal miners you know, ok all my family are,and so are my wife's,and all of my neighbours, but I'm sure some people aren't. Dickie bird ! He's not ( but he might have been, I'm not sure). Anyway lay off us barnsley folk, come on you reds !!!!!

Ever had a Barnsley Trout?
 veteye 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Hat Dude:

> Myrtle Berry - has she got a brother Bill?

Speak to the French first, before asking.
 Mick Ward 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Wsdconst:

Nowt wrong with Barnsley, lad - get on't motorway and rev off... in either direction.

Mick
Removed User 02 Apr 2016
In reply to Mick Ward:

Nowt wrong with a Barnsley chop, but that's about it.
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 Mick Ward 02 Apr 2016
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But then again, I remember meeting a couple in Grimey (Grimethorpe), shades of Kes/Brassed Off... pretty much the most heart-achingly lovely people I've ever met.

Certainly going down Barnsley Main Colliery was a sobering experience. Respect.

Mick
 Wsdconst 03 Apr 2016
In reply to Dave the Rave:
> Ever had a Barnsley Trout?

Had one ? I f##king married one
Are you referring to a big fat turd by any chance ?
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 Wsdconst 03 Apr 2016
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> Nowt wrong with a Barnsley chop, but that's about it.

I'll gi thee a barnsley chop lad
Removed User 03 Apr 2016
In reply to Wsdconst:

I rub a bit of cumin on mine before grilling it. Just cos I'm a Lancastrian in exile in Yorkshire like...
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