# I Pit Walking Poles **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261 "2012-11-17T00:31:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/81 "2012-11-18T18:36:05Z")
This rant ranks right up there with getting all pissy watching someone who \*appears \*perfectly abled, park in the disabled spot, even though they clearly have the stickers. Unable to make the leap to, ‘perhaps they have a condition not visible to me?’, are you? Go ahead and think that anyone, not walking up wild mountain hillsides, is clearly being faddish and hipster, because again, ‘how could they have a condition I cannot see?’ There is a Little Person lives in my neighbourhood, uses smaller poles. I’m sure that’s hilarious to you. I’ve seen her walk without them, so she must not need them, right? Just following the fads perhaps? This is a very lame pitting, and appears to be entirely projection on your part, in my opinion! ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/82 "2012-11-18T21:37:03Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > Sure, Harry. Great! My blasting rod and my staff comfort me. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/83 "2012-11-18T21:40:36Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > There is a Little Person lives in my neighbourhood, uses smaller poles. I’m sure that’s hilarious to you. No, not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/84 "2012-11-18T23:51:03Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > No, not at all. It angers you, then? [I bet this just sends you into a rage.](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8197016991_c613489f7d_b.jpg) Just look at that Pole! ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/85 "2012-11-19T00:33:11Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > It angers you, then? > > [I bet this just sends you into a rage.](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8490/8197016991_c613489f7d_b.jpg) Just look at that Pole! Man, if you’re gonna link to a Pole, make it a really famous one. > **[Pope John Paul II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II)** > > Pope John Paul II\[b\] (born Karol Józef Wojtyła;\[c\] 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. > In his youth, Wojtyła dabbled in stage acting. He graduated with excellent grades from an all-boys high school in Wadowice, Poland, in 1938, soon after which World War II broke out. During the war, to avoid being kidnapped and sent to a German forced labour camp, he signed up for work in harsh ... ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/86 "2012-11-19T00:43:48Z")
[Poles diving at the North Pole.](http://youtu.be/pS5QniphY0k) ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/87 "2012-11-19T01:04:19Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Man, if you’re gonna link to a Pole, make it a really famous one. > > [Pope John Paul II - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II) But that Pole’s wearing a ring, and he wasn’t attractive, married, or a woman (so far as we know)! Besides, there’s a chance my Pole’s still a Walking Pole. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/88 "2012-11-19T18:42:10Z")
> [@Cyros](#): > > Where did your syphilitic reader monkey see that they were to be worn while driving? Probably from here: > [@OP](#): > > These light-weight aluminum-alloy, telescopic, adjustable Fitness Walking Poles are designed with 1-adjusting point for more quick & simple adjustment and easy transportation as well an assured customized comfortable fit for the casual average walker or the more aggressive athletic Pole Walking walkers who find they pretty much walk in & around home or they sometimes drives (by car) to other locations to explore other neighborhoods or trails (so they want Poles that are as quick & simple to adjust as possible). In retrospect, it’s not really clear. “the more aggressive athletic Pole Walking walkers who find they pretty much walk in & around home or they sometimes drives (by car) to other locations to explore other neighborhoods or trails”. Well, they’re not drivesing by cat, which is a relief. They also mostly athletically aggresively Pole Walk around their home or inside their home. Though sometimes they drives, so they need a quick and simple to adjust Pole. Though I think that’s in order to store in the car, rather than drives with it. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/89 "2012-11-19T18:53:37Z")
How about sleeping walking Poles? ---
**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/90 "2012-11-19T19:24:41Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > Probably from here: > > [QUOTE=OP] > Originally Posted by OP > These light-weight aluminum-alloy, telescopic, adjustable Fitness Walking Poles are designed with 1-adjusting point for more quick & simple adjustment and easy transportation as well an assured customized comfortable fit for the casual average walker or the more aggressive athletic Pole Walking walkers who find they pretty much walk in & around home or they sometimes drives (by car) to other locations to explore other neighborhoods or trails (so they want Poles that are as quick & simple to adjust as possible). [/QUOTE] I figured that it was obvious that passage referred to the poles being easy to adjust so that it is convenient to make them smaller to fit in the trunk or backseat. It is nonsensical that they would be quick and simple to adjust so you can _wear_ them while driving. A mistake in comprehension that would be made by a syphilitic reader monkey. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/91 "2012-11-19T21:10:22Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > We stick them in the snow, and then go skiing, using the poles to tell us when to turn, which is utterly silly given that we all know that no one needs to told when to turn when skiing. All you needd to know about directional control and skiing [Go that way really fast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEHZJNQ5Y4A) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/92 "2012-11-19T22:40:40Z")
> [@Precambrianmollusc](#): > > All you needd to know about directional control and skiing > > [Go that way really fast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEHZJNQ5Y4A) That is the best ski instruction video I have ever seen! ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/93 "2012-11-19T23:07:11Z")
hmmm I need my poles to hold up my tent, I use them for long hikes and find them great and as said they double as tent poles when I camp. I am a minimalist hiker who goes down the ultra light path, tarps instead of tents etc but the poles have been a god send and allow my knees to keep up with my teenage sons! ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/94 "2012-11-19T23:23:59Z")
ok, I have a walking stick. I cut it, dried it, linseed oiled it and stained it myself. When I go hiking IN THE FUCKING WOODS, I use it. It is useful on steep trails, and uneven ground. With the possible exception of San Francisco or Kathmandu I have yet to find an urban or suburban area that features steep trails and uneven ground. That being said, I will occasionally use my monopod as a ‘walking pole’ when my silly journalist ass thinks it a good idea to lug 60+ pounds of camera gear with me. I claim an exemption on that though, because I will use the monopod for its intended purpose (supporting my EF-600 f4L.) Why have all these neighborhood walkers started using these things? ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/95 "2012-11-20T00:26:42Z")
> [@pikey\_pete](#): > > Why have all these neighborhood walkers started using these things? Because if one actually uses them as they are meant to be used, they turn a flat terrain stroll into a full body workout. Simple as that. The ones meant for street use have rubber “rockers” that go onto the tips. These provide grip on the asphalt and pavement. Granted, they may look silly, but I use them. When I have the time to walk to my office, the three miles actually provides nice upper body conditioning provided I’m digging in and pushing myself along. All I will say further is that you might want to try walking a mile using my trekking poles before you criticize them. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/96 "2012-11-20T03:27:12Z")
> [@Mister\_Owl](#): > > Because if one actually uses them as they are meant to be used, they turn a flat terrain stroll into a full body workout. Simple as that. So does bludgeoning footpads with a knobkerrie, but you don’t hear me bragging. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@Mister\_Owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Owl)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/97 "2012-11-20T14:26:54Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > So does bludgeoning footpads with a knobkerrie, but you don’t hear me bragging. Hey, if it works for you be loud and proud. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/98 "2012-11-20T14:45:02Z")
> [@Beastly\_Rotter](#): > > So does bludgeoning footpads with a knobkerrie, but you don’t hear me bragging. Somewhere [Professor and Madame Vigny](http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_vigny_0500.htm) are smiling. Footpads, blackguards, hooligans, mashers, yeggs, and thugs? Not so much. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/99 "2012-11-20T15:22:38Z")
I pit sleeping poles, 'cause you trip over them when walking. ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261/100 "2012-11-21T20:24:36Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Somewhere [Professor and Madame Vigny](http://ejmas.com/jnc/jncart_vigny_0500.htm) are smiling. Footpads, blackguards, hooligans, mashers, yeggs, and thugs? Not so much. > [@](#): > > To us, as a nation, the Frenchman is still as our traditions have made him – a mercurial individual, fantastic of dress, with exaggerated mannerisms, full of emotion, a brilliant winner, but a poor loser, a man to whom success is absolutely essential to happiness, and who breaks down woefully when adversity falls to his portion. Hand me my Penang Lawyer, there’s a good fellow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-walking-poles/641261.md?page=6)