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https://www.iscwales.com/Products/Detail/reflex-mechanical-hitch/ ISC don't offer any guidance and if they did, it's not going to be in the bag with it when an employee is issued it (without the swivel) and told to go and climb a tree and not complain. I've never done a tree climbing course btw. My mother held me by the heel and dipped me in a river, which endowed me with all the strength and wisdom I've ever needed. I do take your point on nothing being truly idiot proof. But you strive to make stuff as idiot proof as possible and ISC have not strived enough.

No no. I was delighted to see it at first. Then deliberately open minded. And now I'm settling in to the grim realisation that it's just more tat. I don't even care that much about climbing stuff. But I do care about people missing open goals and filling the world with clutter. We don't need more things that nearly work, or that work if you've been careful about other things. We need things that (as close as possible) can't go wrong. This thing has a bit you'll lose and a load of ways to clip it up wrong. I just want the best for us, darling.

On mature reflection, this is the shittest bit. What happens when the swivel is lost and the device ends up in the hands of someone who doesn't know it needs a swivel? Which hole are they going to clip into instead? 1, 2 or 3? Will it work? Or worse, will it work for a bit? It's just so unnecessarily easy to use wrongly. Gear needs to be as idiot proof as possible. Even if it works SRT and DRT like it should, anyone buying for employees isn't going to risk it. More fuycking clutter in the world. Can somebody not just make something really good with nothing wrong with it.

Nah. I just picked up my climbing kit bag once, realised it was heavy and realised I wore pretty much all of it.

I don't have any scales. Don't attack me with your conventional beauty standards.

As an aside, clothes, harness, lanyard, clink, saw(s), spikes etc weigh a surprising amount.

That there are ten fanny Instagram videos about it where everyone is all like ‘sick send bro’ and looking sexy in a sexy tree canopy and not a single one where it just goes straight to the USP. Not an objection per se. Just ongoing frustration at the world revolving around style before substance.

Then where’s that video then?

Dribs and drabs more video and people saying they’ve tried it at TCIA have been getting to Facebook. One video does show it working tolerably on SRT without a wrench but a lot of the videos are suspiciously cut just before loading it fully. If it does work, why on earth the first thing on the internet about it wasn’t a video of a 200kg bloke saying, “I weigh 200kg and the ISC Reflex works on SRT without a wrench.” and then descending on it, I don’t know.

Isn’t it pectin rather than boiling and boiling that makes it set?

OK. I follow. I'd be deeply concerned. I don't want to live in a violent shithole. The problem is that it's already a violent shithole. Anyone who wants to use violence for whatever, can. Most people here are so milquetoast that the concept of foreceful resistance is alien. There's a poem called, "AMERICA IS A GUN." There might as well also be one called, "ENGLAND IS A CRIME REFERENCE NUMBER AND A DISAPPOINTING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE HOME AND CONTENTS INSURERS." Now as it happens, I do have an amount of faith in the English condition, that some freedom wouldn't boil over all brashly like it does in other countries. I like to think we're capable of restraint and tolerance etc. Or at least that the weather is bad enough to keep tempers broadly cool. But that is still a secondary consideration. My primary interest remains the rights of the individual. I don't see why anybody should be owned more than they can own themselves.

Sorry. I've missed your point. Spell it out please.

Joe wrote it.

I get the news from arbtalk and memes. An Eritrean grooming gang is coming to eat my dog and blight my potatoes. Nicki Minaj has had her shoulder tapped to sit on the bench at the Hague. Sir David Beckham retains the title at the Mercian Jousting Tournament.

And every potential crime becomes potentially opposed by an armed goodie. Evenly distributed, quiet law enforcers who don't care what you write on twitter but don't want offences against people and property happening where they live. But I don't want to argue that it's better for everybody. I want anyone who says people shouldn't carry to look into the eyes of an unarmed rape victim, mugging victim, violence victim etc and tell them their suffering was for the greater good. My view is built on respect for individuals to conduct their lives how they see fit. Bigger pictures then work themselves out. Unless of course you trust the people who make the rules about this sort of thing currently to decide what's best for everyone everywhere? And trust them to defend you since they've forbidden you from defending yourself. UK shootings. No idea. London, probably one happening now. What does it matter anyway?