You Can't Climb Ayers Rock Anymore, Its Sacred Now.

[piggynose]

luckily i've climbed it, not recently, but over 25 yrs ago.

[naomi24]

DTC, I know. I live in the country too. What about the people who have committed crimes and are given community service? How do they spend that time? Anyone know?

[Khandro]

You can always do your bit. I have one of these;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Folding-Litter-Picker-Household-Length/dp/B00IPJ4FPO
Really ace tool! I carry it when out walking, along with a plastic bag. It folds and is quite small, litter-picking can become almost a hobby:0)
Toby Young and Griff Rhys Jones are fellow enthusiastic pickers

[Hypognosis]

Zarquon's knees!

Sorry, Australian tourist board but it's just not worth a day in a 32" seat pitch and a couple of £k to see something I can get, gratis, in Google Earth.

[DTCwordfan]

Who said we don't, Khandro.....I'll stuff them in the bloody mattress and shove it down our local lead mine.

[Ken4155]

Drat! I was going to 'pop over' and climb it next week. Have to make do with the mighty Pendle Hill, now:-)

[gness]

Ohhhh....litter......makes me so angry.......
I have one of those gadgets, Khandro....and since seeing an elderly couple picking up litter in the lanes.....and the little layby the lorry drivers use for a snack break close to us, a friend and I have joined them.....

Becomes fun, doesn't it......but we really shouldn't have to be doing it... :-(

[Peter Pedant]

It has always been sacred

BUT - that doesnt stop people climbing to the top of St Paul's [ being sacred I mean just in case people think mentioning St P is a non-sequitur]

nor does it stop people going to St Peter's square um in Rome [ I only put that in to stop people posting 'where dat ven?' ] and wandering up to the obelisk there and wondering if that was one of the monuments C Gallus put up to himself in 40 BC in Egypt (yes it was)

or looking at Notre Dame ( Paris this time not Urbana Ill) as gothic architecture and not a religious centre....

or using cemeteries to picnic in ( described by Plutarch but still goes on)

or using cemeteries to live in ( City of the Dead, Cairo )

or just about anything else

let us also remember that the dingo dog that really DID grab Lindy Chamberlain's baby Azariah ( and eat it ) had its lair half way up Ayer's Rock. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_Chamberlain-Creighton
for those who are reflexly thinking to themselves - "Lindy hoo-berlain ? - who dat ven ? "

so Good bye Ayers Rock ..... EJ Thribb aged 17 (thanks to private eye)

[Peter Pedant]

// Anyone know?//

nope - some of them clear the clag that gathers around the dumpiing ground on Reliance St., Newton Heath. More supervisors than punters as you can imagine.

Cantona who kicked the yob yelling at him - "F.O F.O get an early shower you buzzard" spent it coaching footie in local schools to general acclaim

[Khandro]

gness//Becomes fun, doesn't it...//

There is some satisfaction I find, from returning home and knowing that the world is ever so much a tiny bit better than when I went out :0)

[DTCwordfan]

for PP - //or looking at Notre Dame ( Paris this time not Urbana Ill) as gothic architecture and not a religious centre.... //



A wealthy Texan goes to Paris and takes a chauffeured tour around the city.

1st stop, the Elysee Palace - "That's a might fine building - how many rooms does it have and when was it built?

"that was built, Sir, at the end of the eighteenth century and took twenty five years. 173 rooms."

"*** it, in Texas, my house has 225 rooms and only took 18 months to build."

Next stop, the Louvre. Same question.....


"that was built, Sir, in the middle of the eighteenth century and took forty five years. 558 rooms."

"*** it, in Texas that would take us two years."

Nex stop up the Rive Droite, Notre Dame

"That's a might church, when did they start building that and how long?"

"The twelfth century and theytook one hundred and sixty-eight years."

"*** it, in Texas, it would take two years, just as we built one in Houston."

The chauffeur turns into Boulevard Sebastopol and the Texan sees the Centre Pompidou.

"What in hell's name is that?"

"I don't know, Sir, it wasn't here yesterday."

[douglas9401]

No climbing? Ulurus is Ulurus I suppose.

[piggynose]

hyponogsis, really? i dont think it was all that dear 25 yrs ago, 4 of us were driven in a toyota station wagon, to see kings canyon, sleep under the stars in swag bags(is that their real name?) then were driven to ayers to climb it but with a warning, those with dodgy tickers were advised not to climd it.

[Hypognosis]

@Piggynose

I think I was recalling a newpaper advert which had the fare from UK to Australia set at about £12,000. Just the fare - not the holiday package and/or tour costs.

That was the 1980s though. Probably more like £3000 (?), these days, thanks to increased demand and competition.