Youtube algorithm, what the eff?

[Bremspropeller]

Why are you suggesting videos right before hitting the sack that will give me anxiety for the rest of the night?

 

 

[JimTM]

Yikes! Much respect for the folks that do that. 

[Gambit21]

OK - not taking a thing away from these guys...I couldn't do what they do. Nope

However there's this guy named Alex Honnold - Did you guys see "Free Solo"???

 

Free Solo

 

I've stood below El Capitan, I'm climbed up the back side and stood on top of it. I've been in the valley watching (normal) climbers with gear and see what a tiny, tiny speck they are on that wall. This guy is something quite unique.

[JimTM]

I haven't seen the movie but that's quite the trailer. People like that are on another level entirely.

[Gambit21]

6 minutes ago, JimTM said:

I haven't seen the movie but that's quite the trailer. People like that are on another level entirely.

 

Yep. He’s on another level among people who are another level. He’s likely the only person that will ever do or even attempt this. 

[DD_Arthur]

11 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:

Why are you suggesting videos right before hitting the sack that will give me anxiety for the rest of the night?

 

 

 

Okay; I’m never ‘gonna complain about changing the headlight bulb on my wife’s VW Golf ever again!?

[Trooper117]

OMG!....

[unlikely_spider]

See, I don't think that would scare me too much - it actually seems like a lot of fun. I'm a former pro photographer who still dabbles in landscapes from time to time, and I've scared my wife while perching on precarious locations to get good images.

However, even if I had the strength and talent of Alex Honnold (not that anyone else in the world likely does) I still wouldn't put myself in the free climbing situations that he does. It's precisely the safety gear in the above video that would keep me from freaking out.

(But yes, watch Free Solo. It's a really good movie and I'm not even that interested in rock climbing as a subject)

[NoelGallagher]

i think it's awesome as long as they do it legally lol

it's like taining yourself to live the life on the edge

 

 

[Trooper117]

I still remember my first parachute jump... ''Just pull yourself out onto that metal plate under the wing. Sidestep along it while you hang onto the wing strut... when I give you the thumbs up, launch yourself backwards into the freefall position''.

All this at 3,000ft and the slipstream trying to rip you off the plane!  ?

[Guest deleted@188321]

This is right near the town I live in.

I know at one point it was the largest free standing radio mast in the western hemisphere. Not sure if that's the same case now.

It's near Rowena, SD and Larchwood, IA.

[Cynic_Al]

On 12/7/2021 at 11:42 AM, DD_Arthur said:

m never ‘gonna complain about changing the headlight bulb on my wife’s VW Golf ever again!

 

Climbing a vertical rock face is necessarily difficult.  Changing a VW headlight bulb is unnecessarily difficult.

[Feathered_IV]

At the moment YouTube thinks I am a Georgian peasant with a hankering for old-timey folk songs.  It’s actually pretty relentless about it too. 

[1./JG42Nephris]

Maybe I dont get it or my eyelight is getting old....but

Imho this is a VR Level

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Edited January 14, 2022 by 1./JG42Nephris