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liz wrote:Heading into town on my day off to watch some of my colleagues absail down Adelaides tallest building. You should come and check out the spectacle HB.
I was very tempted to take part myself, however learned about it a little to late to raise the required $600 (it's a charity fund-raiser for one of the cancer groups from memory). Maybe next time!
I have been telling a couple of my work mates for years, to step over the edge of a tall building. I was gratified to find some listened.
I was offered the opportunity through work, I did seriously consider it but figured that as much as I would have enjoyed the going down part, that first step would have been horrid (and indeed that was the feedback I got).
Kittaan I will thank you to keep your smutty innuendos out of my work place. I know what you said was harassment because I did a half hour tutorial on it just last month. I passed second go!
"She's a very charming and delightful creature, and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
Well done. I'm on my 4th pass (and counting) I could have passed it easily the 1st time, but the chick administering the training is smoking hot.
By the way, for any of you foolish people who actually care... I had to look up "Absail" which is actually "Abseil" to find that you were talking about what normal folks refer to as "Rappelling".
hellboy wrote:Normal American folks may call it rappelling, but here in Oz it's strictly abseiling.
Face first rappelling (Aussie Rappel), also called rap jumping. Aussie Rappel
Not by Australians it isn't. We call that particular form of abseiling Geneva apparently.
The origins of the word abseil are German, meaning quite literally down rope.
Rappel is of French origin meaning to recall or bring back.
Rappel could just as easily describe a dancing manoeuvre!
"She's a very charming and delightful creature, and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
hellboy wrote:Normal American folks may call it rappelling, but here in Oz it's strictly abseiling.
Face first rappelling (Aussie Rappel), also called rap jumping. Aussie Rappel
Not by Australians it isn't. We call that particular form of abseiling Geneva apparently.
The origins of the word abseil are German, meaning quite literally down rope.
Rappel is of French origin meaning to recall or bring back.
Rappel could just as easily describe a dancing manoeuvre!
So are you saying that that company isn't Australian and that the guy that developed this technique wasn't either? He developed it and named it in Australia and he was Australian. Why won't you give this man his due and acknowledge Aussie's are more French than German
Rap is short for Rappel. This extreme abseiling sport which employs S.R.T. (Single Rope Techniques) was founded in Australia by former SAS (Special Air Service) Trooper, Peter 'Macka' Mackail in the late 80s, early 90s in Cairns, Far North Queensland Australia.
I find it funny that people who do not participate in a particular sport seem to think they know everything about it after they watch a few youboob videos or read a Wiki page. The art of going down a rope is actually called a lot of things in Australia not just abseiling and I bet if you actually get out there and immerse yourself in the sport you will find this to be true.
hellboy wrote:Yeah, as a regular Australian Abseiler I certainly know that it's called the Aussie Rappel. We frequently call it forward abseiling though.
As a regular Australian the idea of forward abseiling is a naturally occurring thought (in truth I did offer to double the amount I sponsored my workmate if she would do it in that manner).
I doubt that a regular bloke from far north Queensland would ever come up with such a name, when our existing language suited perfectly well.
Perhaps we need to defer to Busty in this matter as he is the board expert on the language and cultcha of that area.
"She's a very charming and delightful creature, and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
N.Y.H.C. wrote:
well I don't know about all of that lol but December will be 11 years with no booze. not an easy task.
Why?
She asks as she sips her sparkling pinot with frozen strawberries.
"She's a very charming and delightful creature, and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
N.Y.H.C. wrote:
well I don't know about all of that lol but December will be 11 years with no booze. not an easy task.
Why?
Maybe because alcohol is the devil and causes people to do stupid shit...
xZ1mM3r wrote:I gave up drinking soda... Not quite as impressive but still difficult none the less
I stopped drinking most manufactured drinks like soda, tea, energy drinks, gatoraide, etc., long ago. I don't really miss them. Water rules! When I need something sweet I might grab a coconut water.
N.Y.H.C. wrote:
well I don't know about all of that lol but December will be 11 years with no booze. not an easy task.
Why?
She asks as she sips her sparkling pinot with frozen strawberries.
everyone asks me that question, I honestly don't know why. I stopped and things got better, so I kept it up. I'm a creature of habit I guess. all my best friends are alcoholics and they love having a designated driver for life lol
Asteroids do not concern me, Admiral. I want that ship, not excuses.
basejumper wrote:
Maybe because alcohol is the devil and causes people to do stupid shit...
Any time you wish to share your stupid shit Base please remember I'm here. I won't judge.
N.Y.H.C. wrote:
everyone asks me that question, I honestly don't know why. I stopped and things got better, so I kept it up. I'm a creature of habit I guess. all my best friends are alcoholics and they love having a designated driver for life lol
Some people should not drink (to excess) it is true. I have had a couple of friends like that and to their credit they took control of their drinking. I am all for having a sober unaffected driver at the end of the night but in my experience they usually go home earlier than I wish to leave!
"She's a very charming and delightful creature, and has only one fault that I know of. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."
