Epic

[bridgeman]

Who ruined the word "epic" for you?

 

[BroDeal]

Two asian babes, a bottle of strawberry jam, and a couple of rubber bands.

 

[pedaling squares]

A couple of chump mountain bikers I once knew who felt that climbing a couple of thousand vertical feat over six hours was a feat worthy of knighthood. They would have ruined "dude", "like", and "you know?" too, but those words weren't supposed to be uttered in the first place.

 

[barn yard]

rapha.....

 

[Ferminal]

Kevin Rudd ruined "hero" for me.

 

[Martin318is]

In my older rock-climbing days before I started office work, an 'Epic' was a climb (or entire climing trip) where things really failed to go to plan and you either had to extricate yourself from a life-threatening situation (over several hours) or more likely that you had to spend at least one night trying to sleep several hundred metres above the valley floor on a ledge barely wider than your ****. (One of the truly miraculous examples of this type of Epic was Joe Simpson)

Crucial to this though is that an Epic was something you got yourself out of and told well, made for an interesting camp story.

If you had to call in external support it wasn't an Epic, it was a pathetic embarassment and your mates would never let you forget it.

Now the word is used all over the place by people who have no idea. I think it was just the internet in general that wrecked it - everone uses "Epic Fail" to describe situations that barely rate as a Fail.

 

[Nick777]

Kevin Rudd ruined "hero" for me.

Jess put him back in his box, though...

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Who ruined the word "epic" for you?

Faith No More. How can it be an "epic" when it's less than five minutes long?

 

[53 x 11]

rapha.....

they certainly helped.

 

[mortand]

Myself, I'm afraid. I think I OD'ed on epic a couple of days ago.

Although Libertine Seguros' got a point - Zombie Eaters is way more epic than...well, Epic.

That's it - I'm never using that word again.

 

[53 x 11]

King Crimson Lizard is epic.

 

[craig1985]

 

[53 x 11]

This is as close as you can get to epic in two seconds. otherwise it takes days.

 

[Ferminal]

Now THAT is epic...

Jess put him back in his box, though...

I guess that's the textbook response she learned in Media 101.

Amazing all the fuss over someone who is just trying to make a bit of money and set themselves up, why don't people get the same reception for finishing a degree?

 

[bridgeman]

It's Monday, which is supposed to be my epic rest day.