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alana

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you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« on: January 11, 2023, 01:40:28 AM »
best to keep them separate,
i just want to save you some time ☺


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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2023, 11:34:15 PM »
You can, but only if it's something you've watched before or don't care that much about (currrently "watching" BBC's That's My Jam as background noise while I sennit, before it was one of the many cooking competitions).

Now I want to see what went wrong while you were watching TV.  :)

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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2023, 12:00:08 AM »
haaa, that's so funny  😀
i think it was a heap of 'wrong-turn ring knots',
they didn't last long, no photos ...

see, i can't remember the knots,
and i can't remember the movie !

it reminds me of a sports bar,
you forget the meal
and miss parts of the game
(unless that' what you want!) 

good job on the tv sennit, knotme ! 

oh! i tie a lot with music in the background,
i have a few playlists that i tied a lot of knots to,
and now when i hear the songs,
it has a brings back the knot tying and cords 😀   🎺🥁🎸

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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2023, 03:15:09 PM »
I've discovered something called the radio.
Don't look at the Sun.

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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2023, 11:44:04 PM »
Actually have spent hours watching TV tying running Bowlines, Cloves, Piles etc. so could autonomously tie, then test angles of pull on thigh monitoring the feel of how things work.  Tying knots behind back another challenge.
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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2023, 12:27:38 AM »
I think it is dependent on what is playing... ;)

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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2023, 12:02:11 AM »
some people are knottier than i am ! 😀

I've had a go at 'tying by feel',
that's exasperating,
but can hone accuracy

sweeney has worked with blind people, tying knots,
which i think is incredible ...
way to go ! 
and they can probably have tv or radio running as well 😊

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Re: you can't tie knots and watch television at the same time
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2023, 10:31:55 AM »
That is really something!
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i have taught self to tie w/o looking, even behind back.
>>that actually started as a mental challenge to do so,
but also to show other folks that this is how it would look in their hands as tied behind my back,
instead of them looking at backwards or over the shoulder etc.
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But seems just the idea of someone tying something behind their back, while explaining what they are doing; that they can't tie is too overwhelming !
So i exploited that as well then, w/ "...see their is no magic ever to it, my fingers never leave my hands" added, as fingers paced thru DBY made by inverting from (RT)slip knot etc. !
i like DBY for how it works well in my ropes, strong, secure AND very clean , open eye here to connect cleanly to.
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i found this vid a long time ago of somewhat less fortunates for just 1 day with joy of rope work; always hit me hard.
To me climbing with rope has kinda been like tethered floating; these folks feel that too i think(w/o the work) .

(i imagine it wasn't for everyone, but they didn't show that part!)
« Last Edit: February 07, 2023, 01:43:04 PM by KC »
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed" -Sir Francis Bacon[/color]
East meets West: again and again, cos:sine is the value pair of yin/yang dimensions
>>of benchmark aspect and it's non(e), defining total sum of the whole.
We now return you to the safety of normal thinking peoples