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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Drinking beer with friends.
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Drinking beer with friends.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
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.
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
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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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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I would invent the Internet.
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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.
Oh, and the drinking thing.
"I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
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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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.
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.
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.
I cast.... Magic Missile!
I cast.... Magic Missile!
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Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
"Population control."
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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.
I would get angry at things I read in papers instead of things I read online.
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. 
Nadenu Delivers on Time wrote:
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.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
I should sell 'puzzles for people with no patience'.
The box will contain a poster.
The box will contain a poster.
"I have lost my way
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
But I hear a tale
About a heaven in Alberta
Where they've got all hell for a basement"
I think Nad and I would get along famously. I love jigsaw puzzles. 
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.
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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Samira wrote:
I think Nad and I would get along famously. I love jigsaw puzzles.
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.
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.
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
Apparently taking away the Internet would turn me into one of the Bronte sisters.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Samira wrote:
Apparently taking away the Internet would turn me into one of the Bronte sisters.
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
"I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left" - Seasick Steve
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.
I'd read more.
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I would invent the Internet.
Al Gore would beat you to it.
Edited because I phail at quoting
Edited, Feb 12th 2010 4:26am by KryjeckI
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....
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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