101 uses for a mobile!

[skyline]

Last years Edale kit requirement was full waterproof ........

seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVfzOCq_vWE

if they had mobile phones the network would have been jammed with runners calling home for last words with their nearest and dearest before they snuffed it

[daz h]

Road running lost it's appeal for me over a period of many years due to all the nonsense including (but a great deal more than) goody bags and overcomplication.

I'm not a mountain person, I'd never seen a mountain until I ran the Borrowdale race.I'm not good with heights. Nevertheless I became obsessed with fell racing as peole who know me may appreciate.

I have often wanted to comment on the myth of 'blazers' in athletics which is the disparaging term we are supposed to use for the athletics establishment. If you want to see a bit of purity in sport go to a track and field evening at Stretford in the spring and summer and don't pretend fell running has any more of it.

Personally, there's other stuff I can do than run a fell race with a phone.

chris would you have NOT become obsessed with fellrunning if mobiles where compulsory when you first entered the sport or is it because the phone idea has just come about ??.

[Stolly]

To be fair the last thing I'd label an organiser of a fell race as being is a 'blazer' . I'm really grateful to the time and effort that I'm sure Andy Jenkins is putting in for the Edale, regardless of the mobile thing (..... that he's obviously got wrong of course ).

[dominion]

Come on guys, stop winding people up!

One of you is trolling shurely....

http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...6531#post96531

[Baggins]

Come on guys, stop winding people up!

One of you is trolling shurely....

http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...6531#post96531

Beat you to it

Bill

[Stolly]

Come on guys, stop winding people up!

One of you is trolling shurely....

Well I'm not trolling and don't call me Shirley

[Fnstein]

Come on guys, stop winding people up!

One of you is trolling shurely....

http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...6531#post96531

Similar post appeared on UKClimbing.com - the responses make this forum appear the height of polite discussion

[Chris]

To be fair the last thing I'd label an organiser of a fell race as being is a 'blazer' .

No, Stolly. That wasn't the point I was trying to make.

'Blazer' is the disparaging term often used by fell runners on this forum to refer to the athletics establishment. Some people do wear blazers in track and field athletics and most of them give a huge amount to the sport. That is why the term 'blazer', in my opinion, is a bit ignorant as it is based on some myth of over-officialdom.

For all it's supposed self-reliance fell running has taken on an unhealthy awareness of insurance and liability issues. I wonder if this forum, me included, shouldn't just shut up about it (except that the mobile phone requirement does seem to justify some comment)?

[dominion]

To be fair chris, I think the disparaging 'blazer' term is used by all runners, regardless of whether they are fell runners or not. eg, the 'blazers' who decided to ban me for 9 months for changing clubs, even though at that time they regularly didn't ban runners joining certain other clubs....

[greenleafer]

The surveillance and policing of this society is already being put into place. Use your loaf - what do you really think our lives will be like in ten years time? It's scary to think about isn't it? I feel strongly about the issue of biometric id schemes and surveillance generally, and I think the push for it from governments and big corporations is part of the preparations for the civil controls which will become necessary if we don't sort out our energy problems -


I think one option for the government, after their biometric id plans have finally unravelled, is to combine mobile phone technology with their id plans, so your phone is your id card. People think I'm strange for not carrying a mobile phone, but everywhere I look I can see people talking to people who are not there. Society is fragmented. Mobile phones fragment society. Divided and conquered. The only hope for us is if we reject (disposable) mobile phones and the other wasteful polluting and soporific trappings of globalisation, and 'sustainable' economic growth and start talking to each other about our world at a local level and how we want it to be,and taking action to make it like that, using low cost, low tech local solutions.

Not that I really want to extend this tedious thread but Grouse...how can you be so high and mighty about mobile phones when you love the internet as much as we forumites do.

Surely the web is the worst culprit for

1) fragmenting society- relating to invisible people instead of the real ones that live near us and

2) monitoring people's movements, preferences and spending habits.


Ps. I've heard that Tesco's are the worst for sending subliminal propaganda down the pipe. One day soon you will find yourself at the express checkout with a fruit flan in one hand and a mobile in the other.....with absolutely no idea how you got there.