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Offline Greg

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Comparative Risk
« on: February 16, 2012, 11:27:47 AM »
My wife and I saw this when it was originally shown on 60 Minutes back in October. I remember my palms sweating (honestly) while watching this guy climbing.
No hooks, ropes, cleats, spikes, nada! Brings to mind the fact that perception of risk is often very subjective.

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Re: Comparative Risk
« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2012, 08:31:09 PM »
Yep, freestyle climbers are in the top 99.99 percentile of crazy.  Course this guy probably thinks the same about riding a motorcycle during rush hour.
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Offline Greg

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Re: Comparative Risk
« Reply #2 on: February 17, 2012, 09:11:02 AM »
What the heck. I'll go off-topic in my own thread .....  :P

I thought I had seen just about every Beatles photograph, but then I came upon this one on Facebook. Cool.

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Offline Aprilian

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Re: Comparative Risk
« Reply #3 on: February 17, 2012, 10:46:27 AM »
Is she the 5th Beatle?
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Re: Comparative Risk
« Reply #4 on: February 17, 2012, 12:12:11 PM »
It's Pete Best's mum, and she's still bitter about it.
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Re: Comparative Risk
« Reply #5 on: February 17, 2012, 12:32:02 PM »
Quote from: 4kless on February 17, 2012, 12:12:11 PM
It's Pete Best's mum, and she's still bitter about it.


lol, clever!  :)
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Track days are like climbing the rock wall at REI.
Perhaps I need to stop taking the high road.

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Re: Comparative Risk
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2012, 10:47:28 AM »
Ruh-roh

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