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 MeMeMe 25 Jul 2017
Has anyone else got a letter from the BMC about cancelling membership?
This arrived on my birthday, I was a little put out to say the least.
I haven't managed to get out much in the last year or two due to family commitments but this seems ridiculous!
If you already got one, what did you do?

http://tinypic.com/r/24zk9kn/9

 Chris the Tall 25 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

Nice work by someone !

 nigel baker 25 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

Is it April the first...again?
In reply to MeMeMe:
I reckon Mr Pettigrew has honed his IT skills and started to get his own back.
 Trangia 25 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

Quite right too!

Boulderers? Pah! Bloody subversive chappies. Damned impertinence to consider themselves climbers, what?

Whatever next? Top ropers? Eh?
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 d_b 25 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

Traditionally the solution to that sort of thing is to phone them up, rant at them for a few minutes, shout "You can't fire me! I quit!" and slam the phone down.
In reply to MeMeMe:
I thought my annual ascent of Catbells was sufficient to keep me in but I might have to re-think it and do it twice.
 SouthernSteve 25 Jul 2017
very good - refused to go outside with anyone recently?
 phizz4 25 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

How the heck do the BMC know what outdoor activities you have been up to in recent years? CCTV on the crags and hills? Face recognition technology at the climbing wall?
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 Kemics 26 Jul 2017
In reply to phizz4:

They use a similar system of informants to the Stasi... children giving up their own parents for tugging on a peg and claiming a free ascent. They only have themselves to blame.
OP MeMeMe 26 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

it actually had me going for a couple of minutes before I calmed down...

It turns out my partner (not climbing partner, I mean the mother of my child) was worried I wasn't getting out climbing enough and so followed up the letter with some 'climbing passes'.

As someone said 'nice work' so thought I'd share.

Anyone fancy a day at Peel Crag ( Peel crag) sometime in the next month?
Alex Messenger, BMC 26 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:
Don't worry MeMeMe, your membership is safe with us...

Email summit@thebmc.co.uk with your t-shirt size and we'll send you something to wear when you use those passes!
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 Lemony 26 Jul 2017
In reply to phizz4:

> How the heck do the BMC know what outdoor activities you have been up to in recent years? CCTV on the crags and hills? Face recognition technology at the climbing wall?

I hear the new Axis Round Edges come with finger print recognition software built in.
 greg_may_ 26 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

Good on her, that is frankly brilliant
Andrew Kin 26 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

Bravo to your wife
 Michael Hood 27 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe: she must have been pi**ing herself until the penny dropped

 BelleVedere 27 Jul 2017
In reply to Alex Messenger, BMC:

Send the partner one too!
 Dave Hewitt 27 Jul 2017
In reply to keith-ratcliffe:

> I thought my annual ascent of Catbells was sufficient to keep me in but I might have to re-think it and do it twice.

Ah, maybe that's why I'm not a member - Catbells is the only Wainwright I've not been up.
 subtle 27 Jul 2017
In reply to MeMeMe:

> Has anyone else got a letter from the BMC about cancelling membership?

> This arrived on my birthday, I was a little put out to say the least.

> I haven't managed to get out much in the last year or two due to family commitments but this seems ridiculous!

> If you already got one, what did you do?

> http://tinypic.com/r/24zk9kn/9

Nice one!

Also nice of the BMC to read this, get the joke, appreciate it and offer you a t-shirt, good on them as well as your understanding partner

Hmm, just imagine for a moment that the BMC actually did this - how many members of UKC would receive a letter, hmmmm

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