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#1 Feb 11 2010 at 3:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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Yesterday I thunk a think about our taking for granted the various media of Interwebs, TV, Radio, PC & Console games etc. I was reminded of conversations with my late Grandmother who was born in the late 1880s and grew up without any of the above. She described evenings at home with needlework, books and conversation.

If you had to forego all of the media we use for entertainment, how would you spend the evenings, (apart from shagging like monkeys or furious **************
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#2 Feb 11 2010 at 3:59 PM Rating: Decent
Drinking beer with friends.
#3 Feb 11 2010 at 4:00 PM Rating: Good
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Drinking beer with friends.
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#4 Feb 11 2010 at 4:00 PM Rating: Excellent
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Probably doing the same kind of things I do with the kids all day while the TV is off. Playing, wrestling, arts n' crafts, crocheting, pulling hair out and crying uncontrollably.
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#5 Feb 11 2010 at 4:00 PM Rating: Good
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I often will take a few evening off the Internet to read a book, or do needlework. As long as we have some source of light I'm able to stay entertained without needing electric toys.
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#6 Feb 11 2010 at 4:03 PM Rating: Excellent
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Locating a cow and tipping said cow, or calling Anna on the rotary phone and asking her how she did it in her millennium day.
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#7 Feb 11 2010 at 4:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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I would invent the Internet.
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#8 Feb 11 2010 at 4:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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I don't know if reading an old fashioned book counts, but I'd probably do that.

Oh, and the drinking thing.
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#9 Feb 11 2010 at 4:06 PM Rating: Good
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I am right at home browsing through sheets of wood-pulp parchments glued together and inscribed upon with various pigments and dyes, aided by the luminescent glow of a lump of wax with a burning string embedded within.
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#10 Feb 11 2010 at 4:12 PM Rating: Decent
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If you had to forego all of the media we use for entertainment, how would you spend the evenings, (apart from shagging like monkeys or furious **********************


Music. I pretty much play either the guitar, banjo or violin for a bit on any given night already. The only real difference would be that I wouldn't be recording any of it.
#11 Feb 11 2010 at 4:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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Back in the olden days I used to read a lot more (books, anyway... I probably consume more raw text today than back then) and do some pencil-n-paper RPGs. I guess I'd need to find some mid-30s dorks to slay kobolds and owlbears with.

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#12 Feb 11 2010 at 4:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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#13 Feb 11 2010 at 4:40 PM Rating: Good
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I would continue some of the hobbies I have now and maybe pop out a little more to the pub quiz.

#14 Feb 11 2010 at 4:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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I would get angry at things I read in papers instead of things I read online.
#15 Feb 11 2010 at 4:45 PM Rating: Good
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I'd most likely start working on puzzles again. I used to do those HUGE 3,000 pc. puzzles a lot when I was younger. And didn't have kids that would try and "help" or destroy it. Smiley: mad
#16 Feb 11 2010 at 4:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'd most likely start working on puzzles again. I used to do those HUGE 3,000 pc. puzzles a lot when I was younger. And didn't have kids that would try and "help" or destroy it. Smiley: mad
My frustration at jigsaw puzzles is evidenced by the fact that I always use a pair of scissors to complete them.
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#17 Feb 11 2010 at 4:53 PM Rating: Excellent
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I should sell 'puzzles for people with no patience'.

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#18 Feb 11 2010 at 4:58 PM Rating: Excellent
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I think Nad and I would get along famously. I love jigsaw puzzles. Smiley: laugh

Let's see: reading, writing (and writing letters in particular, paying attention to penmanship and choice of stationery), maybe the occasional card party. And I'd sit in on one of Joph's D&D parties until he killed off my character and made me cry.

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#19 Feb 11 2010 at 4:59 PM Rating: Excellent
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I think Nad and I would get along famously. I love jigsaw puzzles. Smiley: laugh

Let's see: reading, writing (and writing letters in particular, paying attention to penmanship and choice of stationery), maybe the occasional card party. And I'd sit in on one of Joph's D&D parties until he killed off my character and made me cry.

This post makes me want to stroke your hair.

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#20 Feb 11 2010 at 5:38 PM Rating: Excellent
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Apparently taking away the Internet would turn me into one of the Bronte sisters. Smiley: laugh

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#21 Feb 11 2010 at 5:42 PM Rating: Good
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Samira wrote:
Apparently taking away the Internet would turn me into one of the Bronte sisters. Smiley: laugh

Hello! Smiley: inlove

ETA: On 'related videos, I just found the most Eightiestastic clip of Kate Bush with David Gilmour & Nik Kershaw.

Edited, Feb 11th 2010 6:50pm by Nobby
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#22 Feb 11 2010 at 6:01 PM Rating: Good
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Definitely a lot more reading. And drinking. One thing I've always meant to learn is calligraphy. And then I would really get off my butt and rewrite the novel I started years ago and see where it goes.
#23 Feb 11 2010 at 6:09 PM Rating: Decent
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I'd read more.
#24 Feb 11 2010 at 10:25 PM Rating: Good
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Al Gore would beat you to it.

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Edited, Feb 12th 2010 4:26am by KryjeckI
#25 Feb 11 2010 at 11:05 PM Rating: Excellent
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I would certianly read more, that is for sure. I would cook a lot more too. I tend to just cook enough to keep me alive (which it turns out doesn't take a whole lot :P). Of course the downside to me cooking more is that I think I would put on the pounds a bit faster :l. Maybe start looking for the one car I want to rebuild. Who knows....
#26 Feb 11 2010 at 11:06 PM Rating: Excellent
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I embroider and sew, crochet simple things, paint, draw and read. I also write sporadically, dance and sing whenever I get the chance. I suppose if I had to add to that I might try to learn an instrument.
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