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Heres the actual article by john redHead. I think its worth reading it in its own Right away From the whole JR/DP kerfuffle.

I Thought it was a good read, and chimed with me.

http://footlesscrow.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/xs-essence-of-trad-plea-and.html...

In reply to Choss: Very entertaining - almost any part of it could be randomly extracted and put into Pseuds Corner (I think JR has made regular appearances here before) and yet some thought provoking concepts.

Some contradictory ideas on rock memory - the Spanish presumably limestone has recorded human events
" Whatever happened, I’d like to think, is recorded in the rocks, like compressed data on a silica chip? "

whilst the Cloggy rhyolite "Do you think Cloggy gives a ‘falling f*ck’ if you are sexy or not?" appears to lack this ability.

"it has been over twenty years since we have climbed together. It may as well have been two minutes." This is what I have experienced sometimes and is really quite remarkable.

In reply to Choss:

A very good article. I like JR!

In reply to Choss:

It all got a bit 'wordy' ten paragraphs in - can anyone summarise?

In reply to MonkeyPuzzle:

Yeah basically he is saying that he reckons Sophie Ellis-Bexter has a good chance of winning Strictly this year, but only if she sorts her flicks and kicks out.

In reply to Choss:

If you read that article backwards, it exhorts you to worship Satan.

In reply to The Pylon King:

Yeah, when I stopped reading it seemed to be going in that direction. Sensible article.

In reply to Clauso:

Weird. I've heard if you play Black Sabbath records forwards, they're all about death and Satan, too.

In reply to Chris H:



French Catalunya - if they had remembered anything is probably the memory of the Cathars in the 13th century.

In reply to Choss:

JR will always live in the shadow of JD, whether it be cragging, or talking bollox.

In reply to Jonny2vests:

Not in the Moors. Nor in the hearts of anyone who understands climbing.

In reply to Franco Cookson:

I'm usually a defender of yours Franco, but bollox!

In reply to The New NickB:

I was going to let him have the first bit actually. He is quite good at bollox.

In reply to Franco Cookson: Ditto. JR made the point once - can't remember the source without my books - that a VS climber embarking on an E1 is just the same as your top folks pushing E7 to E9. He comes (bad choice of word) over to me as a well grounded bloke, and I for one have found the petty anonymous character assassination pretty dispiriting.

Climbing is a broad church. That is its beauty. I vaguely know both John/ny people. One lives on my street. Ballet is a different niche to the visual arts. All the versions of creativity embodied in death defying feats of ascent should be celebrated and also held up to the ridicule they deserve.

Enough of the bitching. Get on and get out there. Preferably with the rope clove-hitched to your balls. I won't dwell on the ramifications of making that last statement non-sexist.

In reply to Tony Naylor:

You play a country & western record backwards, your wife comes back and your dog un-dies

In reply to David Alcock:

I think you're taking it waaay too seriously. Maybe go and have a play on a space hopper.

In reply to Jonny2vests: Boing. Damn, just bit my tongue off. And there's a hole in my cheek.

In reply to Choss: interesting read-chimes with me as well-reminded me of julian cope

In reply to malk:

Reminds me of De Kooning lost in some milky cave.

In reply to David Alcock:

I did actually laugh out loud when I read that.

In reply to Jonny2vests:

I prefer Dawes's take on things than Redhead's though, to me it seems less arrogant and more heartfelt.

In reply to Timmd:

Yeah, that's what I said(!).