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-14 points

No one calls it spelunking who actually does it, at least in USA

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46 points

I won’t cave to peer pressure, and will always call it spelunking.

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-17 points

Best way to show you don’t care about the actual sport imo

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6 points

LoL. I do have a lot of respect for those SCUBA cavers. I had a friend in school who was so disappointed when I didn’t say sphygmomanometer, and I love words so much that I try to use the longer/ less used ones when I can get away with it. :-D

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You ruined racing and rugby already. Not letting you americans ruin spelunking. Youre propably gonna turn it into a gender reveal thing somehow.

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29 points

what do they call it, “Get stuck in impossibly tiny hole upside down and die”?

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-4 points

No they call it caving.

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7 points

Good thing we aren’t in the USA then.

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-2 points

Do they call it spelunking where you are? I’m curious if any caving communities actually call it that

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I thought the USA was where it was called Spelunking. In the UK it’s called Potholing because of the small entrances to vertical caves, or caving.

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It’s not lame enough, let’s also not call it by the cool name

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1 point

The bougie name

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