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by rurp 10 days ago
Rock climbing involves a lot of building anchors and setting gear that you trust your life to. The shorthand my first partner and I started using to say an anchor was perfectly solid was a tongue in cheek "Eh, good enough". That worked fine for a couple irreverent youngsters who knew each other well.

Later on my friend got a professional rigging job. One of his first days out he was asked to check an anchor and said it was "Eh, good enough". It was a real record scratch moment where everyone froze and someone asked wtf he just said.