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Directissima
Normally a very direct line or route up a mountain face such as the Eiger North face Directissima.
But in Scotland appears to relate to indirect wandering climbs on the Mountains such as Buachaille Etive Mor. One such climb is Cunieform Buttress Directissima. See records in Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal 2005 New routes section
But in Scotland appears to relate to indirect wandering climbs on the Mountains such as Buachaille Etive Mor. One such climb is Cunieform Buttress Directissima. See records in Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal 2005 New routes section
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A Booger In The Nose Of Progress
"Militarily, that inquest was a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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"As far as human rights are concerned, this political infighting is a booger in the nose of progress."
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fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)