Show on Discovery. Some town way up in Alaska, former mining town...Populaton of like 50?

One of the females in the show is featured getting ready to take a bath. This entails going outside, taking the tarp off a tub and lighting a fire next to the tub, hauling water from the creek to fill the tub.

She says, she hasnt taken a bath in 3 months...? now, she doesnt have running water, so not sure if that meant shower or not? Often had this question about these OFF THE GRIDDERS....

she then says "We all smell up here, so it's all good"...

Kind of answering my question, but kinda gross.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

One of my friends has a twenty-two year old son who worked out west for the U.S. Forest Service- in Montana or Wyoming- all last summer clearing trails. It was just him and one other guy and they had to wake up in the morning, and start clearing brush. When it got dark, they made camp, ate, and slept until morning and then did it again. They hardly bathed all summer. Their beards were so long they looked like Rip Van Winkle or relief pitchers.

Anyway, we were at a party at another guy's house one night after the kid had come home and he was tending bar. He was showing people pictures from the summer on his iPhone. My wife was kind of buzzed and she was really excited about the photos. They really were pretty cool. Out in the wilderness, crazy beards, axes and shit. He had some black and white Instagram filter on some of them and the pics looked like they were from the 1850s and these guys were miners/49ers. My wife tried to e-mail a couple of the photos to herself and the kid caught her doing it. He didn't say anything but I'm sure he thought, "Why is that crazy old broad e-mailing my pics to herself?"

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

I would totally live off the grid. My wife, however, is more "practical."

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I want to live off the grid with full ammenities through solar, wind and geothermal energy.

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the world will always the world. your entire existence is defined by your response.

at least I know now they are all stinky motherfuckers like I thought....

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

kind of wondering that myself

Did she ask to hang them up in the bathroom?

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I don't think the e-mail ever went through. She got flustered when he noticed what she was doing. If you saw the black and whites, you'd probably understand why she liked them. They were really cool. If I showed them to you and you didn't know better, you would think they were from the Civil War era. Plus there were two hot young guys in them.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Couldn't you have just shown her your Civil War selfies?

As an aside, North to Alaska - very humorous and underrated John Wayne film.

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You know me like that.

That tuna trap shoot constitute bear baiting.

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I worked one college summer in a Kenai, Alaska fish cannery with two high school classmates. We started in a tent, many coworkers lived right in the company lot- one guy had a neat three story ranch built from old pallets and tarps and shrink wrap. Eventually we moved into a rental mobile home, mostly for the plumbing. A diet of 80% beer, 10% proteins and 10% tobacco makes for some nasty porta-potty time. Pretty much everybody smelled, except the locals with real houses. The packing room was kept at like 30 degrees, so it was not that terrible. The fish smell covered some the BO.

that guy was a sad story. eating berries that were actually deadly. why do I know that?

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I have the hardcover book on my dresser right now. I read it when it first came out and had the desire to read it again. I got halfway through it and
got sidetracked. Interesting story, good soundtrack to the movie as well. I don't recall the movie being all that great.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

I really enjoyed both the book and the film.

Movie wise, Hal Holbrook brought the goods in his small but crucial role. And Sean Penn directed it, which was a bit surprising.

All these shows about people living off the grid, sure it looks cool, but they all have yellow teeth, ratty hair, jeans that look like they havent been washed in 2 years, so I will just assume most of them smell...I wouldnt even be able to stand being by myself if I didnt shower for 2 weeks!

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

http://www.success.com/article/off-the-grid

3,500 for a hemp guitar:

http://www.dhlovelife.com/v2/cart/produ ... uantity_=7

Eddie did the entire soundtrack. Surprised you didn't stick with the movie on that fact alone.

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-- source

ah, here's how I knew this, cuz I didn't read a book or see a movie.

http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-tur ... dless-died

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Roughing it?

I guess that's like moving from my 65 inch tv to my 32 in the bedroom.

Fuck Wilderness.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

I honeymooned in Alaska. There are a lot of people living a drifter kind of existence. It seems like there is borderline mental illness with most of them .

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I would think 24 hours of darkness for an extended period of time, living in a cold 1 room cabin would drive anyone a little nuts.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

i've long theorized that somwhere around the year 1300-1500 some sort of a mighty wizard was summoned to cast a spell that would go around the world and collect all of the vagina stank from every woman in the whole of "reality" and compress it into a giant small-planet/large-asteroid sized ball of AL;KHF;DZLGHBVGHLSIDB ZVN,d;SUUD which was then banished far out into space, powered by the collective prayers of millions; thousands were sacrificed in the hopes that it shall never return.

just about every religion/culture/denomination of human beings has some sort of endtime/s prophecy, and while they all get into various means of bringing forth our ultimate doom, the one i fear the most is that ~500+ year old giant compressed ball of post/medieval twat stank finding its way back to earth and then impacting with a force roughly equal to that of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs; ultimately unleashing the kind of plague that no man in his right mind could ever dream of, let alone even possibly fathom...

.....seriously why do you think i was the one who thought this shit up? =D

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RANDOM FACT OF THE DAY: during the jacksonian era (~1820s) when mr. $20 Himself was doing his thing well-to-do people in washington often referred to the non-urban peasantry as "the great unwashed"

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I have the soundtrack and enjoy it. I should give the movie another shot sometime. As often happens, once you read the book, the movie pales in comparison
to what a good writer has helped you build up in your mind.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

lots of people living in retrofitted mini busses just off the road. I have no idea how they make it through winter

I have a friend who is a state's attorney (borough attorney) in Alaska. He's a Chicago guy through and through. Since he's been there he learned to hunt and fish. There really is nothing to either of those because the wild life so abundant. He harvests more meat than he can go through in a year. It really drops his cost of living.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Not sure about this movie/show book but once in a while I enjoy that show about the family that has a homestead up there. And the one wife (Ivan's or something) is young, dirty, cute, hot.

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Elections have consequences.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Pretty good deal with no state income tax and an oil/gas check every year fro residents (used to be $1700, too lazy to look it up). Always somebody willing to kill something for you even if you don't want to hunt.

I do know the 22 hours of daylight will mess with your clock in the Summer