Fair or not: using nose contraptions to push a peanut up Pikes Peak
 

This guy plans to become the first person in the 21st century to push a peanut to the top of Pikes Peak with his nose. It's been done twice before, or maybe three times depending on which article you read, but I think it's twice since I can't find the name of a third person.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/new...es-peak-summit

However, the article say this, and it offends my sensibiltiies:

The city said he will use a contraption taped to his nose to push the peanut.


Apparently, though, the first person to do it also used a contraption if you watch this video: https://www.travelchannel.com/videos...pusher-0235616. And the second person attached a wooden salad fork to his nose if you read this article: https://gazette.com/life/outdoors/sp...09ea818a3.html

I don't know about this. I think if you're going to say that you're pushing a peanut up Pikes Peak with your nose, you should have to directly use your nose. What do you think?

They must be Bronco Fans because they're definitely cheaters.

Yeah, that contraption in the video is bullshit. His nose is two feet from the peanut.

You Coloradoans and your legalized recreational drugs!

That’s nuts!

This is definitely a sports thread.

That's where I stand. If contraptions are allowed, why doesn't he just attach something to his nose where he can walk upright? It's completely counter to the spirit of peanut pushing.

Must be eco friendly tape with easy release organic glue. Don't want to harm any desert wildlife or vegetation.

It should at least be its own category. He was getting some good leverage with that thing and the peanut is travelling quite a bit further with each push.

Why not just have a little scoop at the end and then you can toss it a couple feet each time?

Why not make that thing 6 feet long and you can just walk up the trail and fling that sucker for some real yardage?

https://y.yarn.co/5cd6e980-df1f-4a57...b2f65_text.gif

I just drove up it a couple weeks ago. That was bad enough, this sounds like a ****in nightmare.

And no, you dont get to use a contraption, that doesnt sound very fair.

What’s the significance of taking a peanut to the top of a mountain versus anything else?

For what purpose?

I can see this person in a future job interview. “So can you tell us anything else that would distinguish you from the other candidates.” “Yeah I once pushed a peanut up Pikes peak with a contraption attached to my nose.”

The more pressing offense is the perpetuation of the term contraption.

Should be sequestered to colloquial emeritus status, to be used exclusively in connection with 'down-homey, Cracker Barrel needle-pointed tchotchkes,' right alongside dagnabbit, flibbertigibbet and colsarnit

;)

Sometimes you see an idea and immediately think, "That idea was born in a bar!"

Seriously.

Whenever I hear about silly shit like this I'm reminded of an exchange between Jack Ryan and Skip Tyler in Hunt for Red October.

JACK: Could you fire an ICBM horizontally?
SKIP: Sure. Why would you want to?

This guy won’t event be the first person person to do something this specifically pointless either. At least the first guy had the excuse of it being the 20s and people were bored.

I went to school with a kid who put a peanut up his nose.. He was a dumbass..

Was his name Jaime?

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Now that I think about it, taking a peanut down the mountain would be a lot easier. So maybe the challenge in going up is making sure it's not rolling back all the time.

Contraption is a great word. I will have no more of your tomfoolery.

I apologize, I have a sensitivity to the eras when parlance is fangled.

I’d be more impressed if they took a bag of peanuts up the mountain. What good is one peanut when you’re going to be starving by the time you get to the top.

If you don't get scratches on our nose and need a skin graph reaching the summit you did it wrong.

I don't see a big difference in using a contraption and just crawling. If you were to actually push a peanut with your nose sans contraption, it would be a lot more difficult.

Might as well activated a drone with his nose to push that peanut.
Same difference.
No big deal.
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One question
Was it a salted peanut?
That could make your nose itch
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As an overdue update, this guy got to the top of the mountain, but I refuse to recognize it due to the contraption.

https://www.cpr.org/2022/07/15/color...k-peanut-push/

Check out the picture. He could easily scoop the peanut and fling it three feet at a time. This makes a mockery out of pushing peanuts up mountains with your nose.

It doesn’t even really attach to his nose, it’s strapped to his entire head. He could be missing his nose entirely and the contraption would work exactly the same.

This might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen LMAO LMAO

Rep for my fav movie of all time.

I think you are daring the folks in charge of making the shit you have to do for eternity in the afterlife schedule to assign you to the pushing peanuts up mountains with your noses detail.

Bob Salem's attempt to push a peanut up the 13-mile Barr Trail to the top of Pikes Peak using only his nose is nothing short of cheating. While it may be a novel and unusual challenge, it is not a true test of physical endurance or skill.

Instead of relying on his own strength and determination to reach the summit, Salem is using a contraption taped to his nose to do the work for him. This takes away from the spirit of the hike and the accomplishments of those who have completed the Peanut Push in the past, such as Ulysses Baxter and Bill Williams.

Furthermore, the use of a contraption introduces an element of unfairness, as it gives Salem an advantage over other hikers who are not using such a device. It's not a level playing field, and it takes away from the sense of camaraderie and accomplishment that comes with completing a challenging hike.

In short, Bob Salem's Peanut Push is a stunt, not a genuine feat of endurance. It is unfair and undermines the achievements of those who have come before him.

I would be much more impressed if he pushed his nuts up Pike's Peak with his nose.

If I've led a bad life, I figure those people already have me slated to watch Broncos and Raiders matchups for the rest of eternity. This would be a nice break from that.

Frankly, I don't know if I will ever see nose-pushing events the same way after this fiasco.

That’s not putting your nose to the grindstone Bob

looks like my cpap mask

CPAP actually stands for "Can Push A Peanut". You've been using it wrong.

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