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Do any of you have a profile on Fetlife or am I the only pervert?

you're the only pervert

*snort*

I never heard of it. But I bet there are lots of perverts out there.

Well... maybe BigV. :lol2:

I think I'll sign up, I'm sure glatt won't mind me using his name and work email. :rolleyes:

I had to Google 'Fetlife' and wished I hadn't, but at least it allows me to post this:

http://s22.postimg.org/hj6hw84dt/S_M_Hospital.jpg

I always had a chuckle as I drove past that sign. The full name is Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Street View 2008.

Some spoilsport in the County Council changed it. Street View 2012.

I'm on the fence about fetishes. On the one hand, hooray, the internet lets you find people who have similar interests. On the other hand, I think it's foolish to try to build an entire relationship based on nothing but the fact that you both are turned on by feet, or whatever. I think there's no such thing as someone who is 100% compatible, and it's better to find someone you love that you can then trust to explore kinks together. But then again, I don't have any fetishes (preferences, sure, but nothing out of the ordinary) so I can't really imagine the pain of being completely turned on by something that most people find stupid at best, repulsive at worst. If a fetish is that important to you, then I suppose it's a good idea to limit your pool to people who are also into it, as long as you can still objectively evaluate that person and not decide it's true love just because of the feet and nothing else.

I don't have a profile. At all.

In fact, when I walk by a picket fence, people say "Now ya see him, now ya don't, now ya see him, now ya don't.".

Actually, they say "Who is that fat guy by the fence?".

Oh well, I guess I won't be posting any interesting Christmas pictures. Too bad. I was all set to post the one of me in my panda suit and leather!!

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 915835)

Well... maybe BigV. :lol2:

I think I'll sign up, I'm sure glatt won't mind me using his name and work email. :rolleyes:

xoB's right, I do.

It's fairly idle, has been for a long time. If you send me a PM, perhaps we can connect there.

I have more to say than I have time to say it in since I have to leave for work soon. Let's pick this up again later. :)

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Originally Posted by BigV (Post 915947)

I have to leave for work soon.

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Originally Posted by Big Sarge (Post 915897)

Oh well, I guess I won't be posting any interesting Christmas pictures. Too bad. I was all set to post the one of me in my panda suit and leather!!

Since when is that a fetish? Sheesh!

I don't know, man.

Even cows are really into the leather scene.

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 915850)

I'm on the fence about fetishes. ...

I'll bet it's the chain-link ones that turn you on ...

Bikers and most cows, appreciate the value of leather.

The fetish business is now 'mainstream' and wholly legit.

It must be, because somebody has just sued somebody else over a patent infringement:

Quote:

A metalworker who infringed a design right to a frame which supports a leather sling used for "bondage sexual activities" must pay a penalty, a judge has ruled.

Detail of the dispute between engineer Derek Ball and designer Uwe Haiss emerged in the summer of 2013 following a hearing in a specialist patents court in London.

Mr Haiss - who was a director of Uwug Ltd - claimed that Mr Ball, a mechanical engineer who carried out testing on airliners and owned a firm which produces metalwork for the fetish industry, had breached registered design rights to the frame and sling. Mr Ball disputed the claim.

Recorder Amanda Michaels concluded that Mr Ball had infringed a design right to the frame but not to the sling.

Now another judge has ruled that Mr Haiss should get damages.

Judge Richard Hacon says Mr Haiss is entitled to 10 per cent of the sale price on each "infringing frame sold by Mr Ball to a third party".

The judge, who had been told that a batch of 45 frames had cost nearly £10,000, said the sum due would have to be calculated by lawyers.

Detail of his decision emerged in a written ruling delivered today.

No doubt Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel are establishing a specialist division for this type of work, even as I type.

Daily Telegraph (With a picture ;))

Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel represented Mr Ball. It was Canwe, Fukum, and Howe representing Mr Haiss.
The picture at the Telegraph link must be a stock photo, because those two devices are nothing alike. :headshake

As usual, cats got dey own thang:

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I, too, have a fetlife profile. Just sayin'.

;) Pam & BigV - I'm glad to see their are others who don't settle for vanila.

I settled for vagina.

Better calm down there Grav. Don't want to get too adventurous.

I'm not vanilla, but I've never heard of this fetlife thing.

Oh, I got the odd bag full o' straps and collars.

And stuff.