Bought a new toy (video digitiser lead) thanks to a thread on UKC lately...
And used it to convert and upload an absolutely legendary bit of BBC television which I have not seen digitised anywhere (there is a near unwatchable one on YouTube; I just uploaded mine to there but I don't know if it'll get blocked for copyright infringement so this link is an upload on my own webspace) NB A Triple Echo production for BBC Television, copyright BBC Worldwide, 1998
Airlie Anderson and Aid Burgess in Utah for "The Face", a 6 part climbing documentary broadcast in 1998 (and narrated by the proper original Brian Cox). Airlie has an infamous meltdown on a crack pitch that is clearly well within her climbing ability....so this will be me on a Severe in May, probably.
This is a downloadable mp4 on my own webspace, if anyone wants it
It's definitely one of the funniest clips ever seen in a climbing video along with the Barry Blanchard meltdown on some aid route in Greenland. Comedy gold.
it was BBC2. It’s all bleeped out, although brilliantly after about 20 seconds that are just bleeps, she calls herself a div, which really cheered me up because I have coincidentally been resurrecting “absolute div” as an insult in the last 6 months and now feel vindicated
The section at the end with the frantic clipping of a badly placed cam highlights one of the best aspects of rock climbing as an experience.
You can have that genuine brown pants fighting for your life feeling whether you are a VDiff, E0, E3 or E9. The feeling is the same, the grade it happens on just depends on your level of (in) competence...
> You can have that genuine brown pants fighting for your life feeling whether you are a VDiff, E0, E3 or E9. The feeling is the same, the grade it happens on just depends on your level of (in) competence...
Absolutely, hence the comment in my OP that this will be me on a Severe in May. 😃
The only people who I hear use the word "divvy" regularly are a couple of gypsies I know but it has a very complex etymology and most of it seems to be speculation. There is no real consensus but I've just counted at least six explanations about its origin.
I don't know why you are being so unpleasant and dismissive. You seem to be like it a lot more often lately. As I've said before, your UKC persona seems very different from the helpful and friendly person I've come across in e mails.
What is the problem with me saying I find a subject interesting, bad enough for you to describe it as "wittering".
You are coming across as unpleasant and dismissive, very much so. You seem to enjoy using the insult "div". It was OK with a smiley after it but it's not funny any more.
Your comment at 11.44 was snide, sarcastic and patronising and it seems I wasn't the only one to think so.
It's your thread so I'll leave you to it, but if ever there was an example of a UKC poster who would behave totally differently in a real life conversation, I suspect you are it.
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