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Would have been really nasty if it wasn't for me catching him, even with the mat. His hands slipped first from that position so he was flipping backwards as he fell towards me, landed on me then I pushed him towards the mat, where he happened to land feet first next to it and roll onto it. Was very lucky to walk away really... If I hadn't tried to catch him, he would have landed on his back/shoulder area on a load of jagged rocks, and would almost definitely have not walked away. Kinda brought home the fact that protection is great, if you can get it in and it stays in.

Had a very scary weekend, mate of mine took a big groundfall. See pic: He had gear in, pulled up on the edge of the roof and as he put the heel hook on, kicked the gear out. My girlfriend then took that pic, and moved the bouldering mat underneath him. He then tried to carry on but ended up falling, I managed to catch him/slow his fall and push him onto the bouldering mat. He walked away from it but he was lucky!

First things first, back it up because it sounds like it's dying. Run the HDTune health scan and error scan. If you get 1 error or more, then it's slowly going to die and you should return it for RMA.

Technically it'd be 0.0000000001 rounded, but as it's not rounded, it's an infinite amount of 0.0000 before the 1. Question is, does that make it 0, if so then 0.99999999etc must equal 1?

In the bios. It's either called vcore, or core voltage, or sometimes CPU voltage. Basically when you increase the clockspeed, the signal gets noisier/more prone to crashes. Increase the vcore to stregthen the signal and make it nice. But too much vcore = blown up CPU. My overclocking rules have always been, fit a ridiculously big cooler, set the vcore to the max that the manufacturer says you can, and then increase the CPU frequency until it's no longer stable. (BTW, stable for me is passing 24 hours of Prime95 blend. And I've known them die at the 23rd hour). I don't bother any more personally. I never felt it made any difference I could feel and see, so I run it stock now. Mind you I could only get from 3.4ghz to 3.8ghz, which is only 12% increase.

Not on a 760, 4.0ghz is about the limit I think. Have you upped the vcore? I'm playing with my Dad's new computer I just built for him. Sandy bridge i3, 8gb RAM, 500gb HDD and all for £280.

Yeh, both. Change the way you load your shoulder joints so you don't wear them out IMO. Might just be me having that need, as I have a knackered shoulder from crashing my motorbike when I was 15.

I'd say suggest somewhere that is blindingly obviously a date if you're worried she won't notice it is one. Go to a restaurant instead of cinema or pub. Being in a restaurant all dressy and nice makes it obvious and makes you both feel kinda "special". It's a change from the norm, which might make the memory of you change/stand out a lot more.

Dude, you seriously need to get out of that house. Not in a "get out more meet new pusssaaayyyyy" way, but a "move the f**k out and sort your head out" way. Sounds like she's just a typical 19 year old girl at uni to me. She's not really a fanny, or a bitch, or a trollop, she's just having fun and drinking too much. Admittedly showing your letter around was a low blow, but writing it in the first place was. You broke up, she's moved on, just let her get on with it and do the same! How do you think newguy feels that her ex who lives in the room next to her is writing her love letters? I know you hate him anyway but to be honest, he sounds like 90% of my uni mates. A bit lairy, takes some drugs, does stupid stuff on a night out but ultimately, he enjoys his life and doesn't give a shit, whereas you don't, and do. Start enjoying uni life!

I hate how even JD at his teeny height with his featherweight weight looks far better than me, because I'm fat. Bravo sir. Bravo. I ain't posting pics by the way, because I can't be arsed. That and I look pitiful.

I only had a single rope so ran it out instead of zig zagging. It's not as "sidewaysy" as it looks in the book IMO. Rope drag was nothingless. I've felt stronger drag indoors. But yeh, here's my list. Quickdraw was upside down with the gates facing the rock Run out over only one shit nut on that critical anchor, should have placed two if I was running it out that much. Was pretty certain it would pop if I fell on it... On those QDs, the orange is for the gear. I read the instructions. Silver has the bent gate, orange is straight, orange is loose in the sling, silver is sewn in. It's the opposite way round to most QDs, but they were brand new under £7 each, so I don't really care about the colour. As for the helmet argument, it's on the list, but at the moment I just can't afford one. I know "you can't put a price on your head", but for the tiny risk and the 2 weeks food budget, it's a risk I'm willing to take for now. It is the next thing on my list though. I didn't use an extendable as I planned to run it out to the left then back to the right, so a short one would do. That and my extendables were on the other side of my harness from my free arm.

Welcome to Stephen Lynch. The most underated comedian I've ever come across.

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Most entertaining thread on TF. I took AS level maths. Dropped it after 3 months, then dropped out of sixth form. I can do geometry stuff easily (cos it's like engineering only simpler), but could never do all the magic shit you lot are drawing up there.

I could learn it but to be honest the bouldering world is one I'll never understand. Trad is the way forward my friend! Trad grading I can understand. What's complicated about HVS 5B? () My local bouldering wall uses V, UK sport and font grading, so the same problem can be anything from 5B to 6A+. I just go on colour. I can all of the green with pink spots, some purple with pink spots, and a couple of blacks.

Lack of people, lack of functionality, secret santa launch, overly simplistic, not personal enough. (The whole circles thing rather than just friends).

Nahhhh, just makes me laugh now. Besides, two mugs of coffee > one.

That's the worst part IMO. I still regularly get two mugs out in the morning instead of one, just because I was in the habit of making coffee first thing in the morning for us both.

I tend to just lead indoors now, top roping has lost its appeal, plus the rope keeps hitting me in the face and I don't like it. You talking boulder problems there? I can't get the hang of the grades in bouldering, but the hardest thing I've done was a font 6A+.

Did my first leads this weekend! So lets play, spot the nooby f**kups in this photo: http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=193777 Hint, I'd say there were 3/4 things I did wrong on this route. It was only an S 4a though so not a lot of risk of falling...

Well in Manchester/Sheffield they were the fashion around then, 3-4 years ago. Now I never see them. (Never owned a pair, I'd look ridiculous being short and weighing over 13 stone).

Lol normal jeans? Bet you look like a right girl. Or a bellend, possibly.

Mockery aside, my take on this current situation is that the guy is clearly scum. He has been for 30 years, and if there was any gain in sorting him out then the SAS would have been dropped in 20+ years ago. Fact is, it's not our country, not our right to police that country, and not our fight. All this fund raising and awareness is futile. If the government could see an advantage to dealing with this guy, they would have done by now. Remember the controversy about the war in Iraq and what a mess that ended up in? That was to remove a maniac who was murdering his own people from power. Seems to me that this is the same rough deal, a bad guy, doing bad shit to people he shouldn't be doing bad shit to. At the moment he's no threat to us. There are no WMDs, no threat of war etc, but what happens if we go over their with the banners flying singing god save the queen and destroy him and his army? (Made up of the abducted children we're wanting to save I might add). What if every other nasty b*****d warlord fella in Africa turns round and decides that the UK shouldn't be meddling in Africa, and that we deserve a few more buses being blown up in London? This is just my own blinkered, narrow minded, northern view on things without reading the rest of this thread because I don't have time today. EDIT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/mar/08/kony-2012-what-s-the-story?fb=native Read. He's not even in Uganda and his army is now in the hundreds. That counts as war to deal with IMO.

Dude you should do talks and shit. People would pay to hear you talk about stuff.