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ResidentSadist -> -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/24/2013 10:15:02 PM)

So there it is . . . CollarMe refugees splattered all over my FetLife social network home page. I am barraged with all the useless crap about what my 50 or so real life friends are doing online. I get to see the plethora pics they 'liked' and holy hell bullshit conversations in the chat about the pics like "your cat is cute" and "where did you get that bruise", "my cat did this", "what do you feed the cat", "The cat is 12 weeks old", "isn't the cat cute" and all the other pets and obsessions like marks and bruises. "wow that's a pretty bruise", "where did you get that bruise", "my bruise is as cute as your bruise" and "what do you feed that bruise" . . . .

I get to see who befriended whom. John becomes friends with NewBeeJane. Then all mine and Johns mutual friends befriend Jane cause she is hot, new young and dumb. . . next thing you know, everyone is "liking" the new pics of NewBeeJane Jane at some gangband party with a slap and tickle nipple clamp on while sucking all everyone's dick in the backroom at a party like a crack whore in an ally . . . and the comments go, "she is cute cocksucker", "where did you get that cocksucker", "what do you feed that cocksucker". Then the thread comments in the "I Was a Victim at GangBang party and John's a bad Dom" followed by the subby bimbo support Dom bashing brigade . . . makes me want to tell John to go BUY A FUCKING CAT . . . it makes for better copy on the home page!

But that isn't the irony . . . that is the norm. That is the din that hums along daily at FetLife and in many online incarnations of adult sexual oriented communities. Nope, it wasn't that. It was the vanilla post snippets that sent me scurrying away from FetLife today with the metallic taste of irony in my mouth. Someone I like and pretty much have some degree of respect for, spent a great deal of effort posting serious replies in the "LIVING OFF THE GRID" group. How can anyone be "off the grid" while on the net? How can you even start to take that concept seriously enough to write a reply in? Maybe it's me, but I would buy a book with the information I wanted so I could take it along and read it when I was truly off the grid. I wouldn't broadcast and discuss my ideas and intentions with thousands of people online in advance. So what qualifies as 'off the grid now' . . . when you only got two bars of cellphone reception?



DomMeinCT -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/24/2013 10:26:10 PM)


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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

How can anyone be "off the grid" while on the net?


When you live too far to order your pizza online and get it delivered.



Spiritedsub2 -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/24/2013 10:26:54 PM)

It's a Brave New Grid [:D]

edit: besides, what threads should he post to? I don't think he has a cat...



TieMeInKnottss -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/24/2013 10:37:08 PM)

I am friending you on Fetlife!!! I never get the cat stories...everybody I am friends with are dog people!!



LadyPact -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/24/2013 10:45:59 PM)

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ORIGINAL: DomMeinCT
When you live too far to order your pizza online and get it delivered.

You rang?

~~~~~

OK. The Fetlife feed. I tell people flat out that I don't look at that thing. It's not that I don't like the friends or enjoy the things that they enjoy. It's that there are 250+ of them and they do all of the things that are covered in the original post. I tell people that if they want Me to see a certain thing, they will probably have to send Me an email because I can't keep up with all of the liking, and commenting, and pic posting, and discussing that they all tend to do. Bless those who are able to keep up with all of that, but I'm not one of them.




ResidentSadist -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/24/2013 11:18:36 PM)

So I started a thread with dual topics . . . my Fet rant and what being "off the grid is".

My bad for seeing irony where there was none because to me, getting "off the grid" was equivalent to "going underground" electronically and becoming untraceable. I looked it up and nowadays it just means to get off the electric grid, not the electronic grid. Solar power etc.

As far as Fet's wall of shit spam filled home page, I am with LadyP on that one. God bless those of you that have the ability to sort that chaos and make it something of benefit to you.











Hillwilliam -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 6:55:52 AM)


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ORIGINAL: ResidentSadist

So I started a thread with dual topics . . . my Fet rant and what being "off the grid is".

My bad for seeing irony where there was none because to me, getting "off the grid" was equivalent to "going underground" electronically and becoming untraceable. I looked it up and nowadays it just means to get off the electric grid, not the electronic grid. Solar power etc.

As far as Fet's wall of shit spam filled home page, I am with LadyP on that one. God bless those of you that have the ability to sort that chaos and make it something of benefit to you.










I just ignore that home page and go straight to groups. I have to go visit a friend in the hosp this afternoon who is our local group leader. The fucker had the audacity to have a heart attack this past week.



ARIES83 -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 7:50:53 AM)

Well in regards to off the grid, I'm trying to get tha moolah togeather to buy a nice out of the way bit of land, something I can put a little cabin on as a retreat... And though I'm still a few years away from it, I have done a fair amount of day dreaming about what I would make it like.

And my plan for it at the moment is...
-Solar panels and batteries to run the fridge/freezer, as well as solar hot water.
-A water tank.
-Since I plan on it being a place to get away from it all... And I don't really watch TV anyway, it will have a bookshelf and a record player and thats about it as far as media. I've been amassing a collection of hardcovers which I've been scavenging from library book sales and school fates etc... But the time to read any of them alludes me at the moment.
-I don't know to what extent I will be able to plant gardens, since whatever I planted would need to go through long periods of neglect when I wasn't there... As well as kangaroos etc...! But I plan on doing my best to have some type of food growing there.
-I will probably be going with a composting toilet arrangement.
-Maybe a little pot bellied stove for heating.

That seems like pretty off the grid to me!
As far as the idea of internet and computers... I would probably need it if I was living there for a long time... I use the internet for researching my interests and writing, plus I'm sure I would miss watching movies after awhile...

**Not to mention I do a lot of internet banking and a laptop with wireless (phone tower) internet might actually make 'being off the grid' a bit easier, it would mean you could pay rates, bills, taxes and generally monitor your accounts and receive emails... Even when your miles away from civilisation. (You can't really escape taxes...[:(])
But yes I do see how 'being off the grid' and 'being online' should kinda be mutually exclusive.***



theshytype -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:06:28 AM)

I had a great laugh at your post. That is pretty much how it goes on any social site I've been on. That's why I'm typically not on them. I just don't have the patience.

I've never used "off the grid" but I have heard it used two different ways from people around me. Either a) they're going camping and will not have access to power (but always have access to a car charger for their phone) or b) they're going to shut off their phones and computers for a stress-free weekend (which doesn't usually work out as planned).
I just tell people I'm going to disappear for a little bit.



Moonlightmaddnes -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:06:31 AM)

You get cat pictures??? Lucky you!! I wont mention what shows up in my news feed[8|]



MsBlackheart -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:15:09 AM)


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ORIGINAL: ARIES83

Well in regards to off the grid, I'm trying to get tha moolah togeather to buy a nice out of the way bit of land, something I can put a little cabin on as a retreat... And though I'm still a few years away from it, I have done a fair amount of day dreaming about what I would make it like...


Lovely, truly. This is my dream as well, with a few differences, but with the same intent. Mine is probably a little more misanthropic, but quiet and content, definitely. Not a day goes by that I am not dreaming of it.



kalikshama -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:15:45 AM)

I never look at the feed. I did drop by CollarMe Refugees recently and got my irony meter pegged.



kalikshama -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:25:16 AM)

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Someone I like and pretty much have some degree of respect for, spent a great deal of effort posting serious replies in the "LIVING OFF THE GRID" group. How can anyone be "off the grid" while on the net? How can you even start to take that concept seriously enough to write a reply in? Maybe it's me, but I would buy a book with the information I wanted so I could take it along and read it when I was truly off the grid. I wouldn't broadcast and discuss my ideas and intentions with thousands of people online in advance. So what qualifies as 'off the grid now' . . . when you only got two bars of cellphone reception?


The wiki definition of "off the grid" works for me:

Off-the-grid homes are autonomous; they do not rely on municipal water supply, sewer, natural gas, electrical power grid, or similar utility services. A true off-grid house is able to operate completely independently of all traditional public utility services.

So, to be "off the grid" one would have to generate one's own electricity. As to internet...I had to think about that for a minute but would give that a pass as it's not a traditional municipal utility.

I'd guess these these people mentioned in the wiki article have internet:

Actress Daryl Hannah promotes off-grid living and constructed her home in Colorado according to those principles, as does survival expert and Dual Survival co-star Cody Lundin[3] who lives in a self-designed, passive solar earth home in the high-desert wilderness of Northern Arizona, collecting rainwater, composting waste and paying nothing for utilities.



jlf1961 -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:31:17 AM)

RS, admittedly the property I am planning to build my "leave me the fuck alone" home will have internet only because a few more miles down the road some brilliant land developer is putting in another "exclusive" sub division of "country estates" and comcast has run fiber optic out there.

I have already put up some wind turbines and solar to provide power to the former us air force atlas missile installation which I am renovating. My plan is to put an adobe style home over the crew entrance and make it look nice and old. I figure if anything I can use the command and crew area of the silo as a wine cellar, dungeon, rec room, and bar, and gun storage locker.



ThatDaveGuy69 -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:33:07 AM)

In defence of Fet, their site does not crash nearly as often!

:D




Hillwilliam -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:39:18 AM)


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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

I never look at the feed. I did drop by CollarMe Refugees recently and got my irony meter pegged.

You ain't seen nothing yet. Try this group. https://fetlife.com/groups/27262/group_posts/4306666?page=1#group_comment_47202839

It's basically one butthurt ex CMer wailing at the moon.



kalikshama -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:48:04 AM)

Lol, I knew who that was going to be before I clicked. If one's behavior causes one to get exiled from CollarMe Refugees, it's time to reassess.





ARIES83 -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 9:58:37 AM)

I'm leaning more towards a minimalist contemporary sort of cabin, but I stumbled on this link> http://cabinporn.com/ and while they are all a bit rustic for me... there may be some good daydream fodder for you.



OsideGirl -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 10:35:08 AM)


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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

I never look at the feed. I did drop by CollarMe Refugees recently and got my irony meter pegged.


Same here.





LadyPact -> RE: -=Sometimes FetLife is so ironic, I just can't stay there long enough to even pick up the mail=- (8/25/2013 10:43:25 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
You ain't seen nothing yet. Try this group. https://fetlife.com/groups/27262/group_posts/4306666?page=1#group_comment_47202839

It's basically one butthurt ex CMer wailing at the moon.

Geez, you still read that crap? Whole thing reminds Me of a toddler that has a never ending temper tantrum.




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