A Derail Thread

[Dillon Levenque 1,691]

Thank you for such a nice change of pace from the usual movie trivia around SL. Never mind, Star Wars or Marvel or whoever. We've got  Bambi :-).

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

So..Second Life is a “Grid”. Someone looks for an “off grid” relationship but will use SL. In American English, “going off grid” means without internet, away from society (perhaps without communications and even electricity). Perhaps elsewhere, “off grid” can mean “middle of nowhere” but still with internet and all conveniences?

[Callum Meriman 7,117]

 

29 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Someone looks for an “off grid” relationship but will use SL. In American English, “going off grid” means without internet, away from society (perhaps without communications and even electricity).

It's a bit of a spectrum. One can take one's city home off grid if you install solar power and a water tank (although sewage still goes through the pipes and you have internet)

As Wikipedia says

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A common misconception is that a true off-grid house is able to operate completely independently of all traditional public utility services. Although this is not the case. The term "off the grid" traditionally refers to the electrical grid only.

 

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

1 hour ago, Callum Meriman said:

 

It's a bit of a spectrum. One can take one's city home off grid if you install solar power and a water tank (although sewage still goes through the pipes and you have internet)

As Wikipedia says

 

They must have good internet to “play” SL way out in the woods!

[Callum Meriman 7,117]

9 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

They must have good internet to “play” SL way out in the woods!

Satellite is cheap and ubiquitous here in Australia, as is LTE. I guess Europe is similar.

[Selene Gregoire 6,873]

3 hours ago, Callum Meriman said:

A common misconception is that a true off-grid house is able to operate completely independently of all traditional public utility services. Although this is not the case. The term "off the grid" traditionally refers to the electrical grid only.

Huh. Guess all those pioneers that settled North America were all on public utilities. 

How the inside of an outhouse REALLY looked back then:

 

 

 

History's been lying to us all these decades. 

Edited January 17 by Selene Gregoire

[Callum Meriman 7,117]

Just now, Selene Gregoire said:

Huh. Guess all those pioneers that settled North America were all on public utilities. 

[spoiler=How the inside of an outhouse REALLY looks] 

 

[/spoiler]

History's been lying to us all these decades. 

As Love said it's likely something weird with the way Americans use English compared to the rest of the world.

Off the grid is pretty much you make your own power.

[Selene Gregoire 6,873]

@Callum Meriman

Aw man... you messed it all up. 

In more ways than one. 

[Callum Meriman 7,117]

1 minute ago, Selene Gregoire said:

@Callum Meriman

Aw man... you messed it all up. 

In more ways than one. 

Sowwy.

I am bruised and hurt and close to just quitting this hell of a game right now.

[LittleMe Jewell 22,788]

5 minutes ago, Callum Meriman said:

it's likely something weird with the way Americans use English compared to the rest of the world.

This could be.  In some parts of the US, the phrase is starting to be associated with disconnecting -- i.e. no internet, no cell phone with tracking capabilities, etc...

[Selene Gregoire 6,873]

1 minute ago, Callum Meriman said:

Sowwy.

I am bruised and hurt and close to just quitting this hell of a game right now.

[Selene Gregoire 6,873]

29 minutes ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

This could be.  In some parts of the US, the phrase is starting to be associated with disconnecting -- i.e. no internet, no cell phone with tracking capabilities, etc...

That is what it meant years ago. Before there were home computers and cell phones.

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

Off grid cabin in the woods, what could go wrong?

“Evil Dead”

”The Cabin in the Woods”

List: https://m.imdb.com/list/ls062654405/

[BelindaN 8,246]

Can we be a bit more cheerful????

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

43 minutes ago, BelindaN said:

Can we be a bit more cheerful????

Ok!

 

[Madelaine McMasters 20,519]

13 hours ago, Selene Gregoire said:

How the inside of an outhouse REALLY looked back then:

This is how the inside of my outhouse really looked just a few years ago. It's a little worse for wear now, but you'd still recognize it.

Edited January 17 by Madelaine McMasters

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

6 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

This is how the inside of my outhouse really looked just a few years ago. It's a little worse for wear now, but you'd still recognize it.

Looks like a one-holer.

[Madelaine McMasters 20,519]

3 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Looks like a one-holer.

Nope, it's couples friendly.

It once had a door, and was my changing room when I went swimming.

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

4 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Nope, it's couples friendly.

It once had a door, and was my changing room when I went swimming.

Corn cob, or Sears catalog?

[BelindaN 8,246]

Our  relatives....Grandfathers side so the green eyed blondes..... had a cottage in the wilds. Yeah the UK has wilds........even now.

It had kitchen and 'sitting room' downstairs. Two bedrooms upstairs. That was it.

The toilet was an earth closet down the garden, but it was a two holer, so you could chat.

When visitors went to sleep, the two sons made up a bed in the garden shed...............

All true...........

[Madelaine McMasters 20,519]

15 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Corn cob, or Sears catalog?

Both.

The outhouse was moved and repurposed as a changing room long before I was born. My great grandfather used it while he was remodeling the lake cabin that is now the family room of my home. There was a cornfield across the road until about 10 years ago, and I'm sure he made good use of the Sears catalog. The house has been through three eras of remodeling ("phase" neither captures the glacial pace of McMasters family remodeling, nor the lack of planning ), and I find artifacts from the first two now and then, mostly in the form of shims made of newspaper or catalog pages (1940s to 1980s). I also find dots from Dad's PDP-8 paper tape reader/punch which, like spiders, are absolutely everywhere. They were a great source of pleasure when I was a toddler, and I'm sure some of them have passed through me.

 

I am stardust.

I am paper tape dots.

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

3 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

I am stardust.

I am paper tape dots.

Corncobs when still wet, sound comfier than Sears.

Gratuitous picture of dots on paper tape.

[Madelaine McMasters 20,519]

51 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Gratuitous picture of dots on paper tape.

Quite a few of those went through me as well, some as recently as last year.

If we are what we eat, I don't even want to think about it.

[Love Zhaoying 10,078]

6 minutes ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Quite a few of those went through me as well, some as recently as last year.

If we are what we eat, I don't even want to think about it.

There’s a lot of paper stuck to the back of those dots, when you peel them off.

[Clover Jinx 12,343]

The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!