How do you have fun on your own without internet?

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Phalanx

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Yeah, Tiscali are being ghey at the moment so i can play games or chat on MSN (keep getting logged out) and i cba with foruming that much. Hopefully this thread will conjour up some giggles.

After going to a party last night only to realise all of where I live is completely dead (this is saturday night, a tourist resort should be packed) and the party had like 10 people I had to retreat home feeling disapointed because Friday night was so great.

I actually had nothing to do because I was so bored so i actually went to bed at 10:30 on a saturday night!

Therefore

How do you have fun on your own without operational internets?
 
The Wii. Guitar, keyboard. A movie. Can't think of anything that doesn't involve electricity though. A book I spose, but need light even for that.
Which south west seaside resort do you live at?
 
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Dude

There is more to life than thar intarnetz

Play offline games!

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I wouldn't have any problem keeping myself entertained for months without people or internet - got loads of games to play, films to watch, books to read etc. Then there's TV to watch too.
 
ninja economist said:
Read a book? Smoke a cigar? Work out?
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can people still do that these days? when i was growing up thats all i ever did :eek: usually with a totally different audio tape in the background and a TV on...and somehow i could do all 3 :p...

anyway yeah, i have a friend who has never picked up a book not required by a college course...sick or what :o
 
bringerofdecay said:
anyway yeah, i have a friend who has never picked up a book not required by a college course...sick or what :o
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Last fictional book I read off my own accord was the 3rd Harry Potter book. When it first came out. I was on a really boring holiday with my parents.
 
bringerofdecay said:
can people still do that these days? when i was growing up thats all i ever did :eek: usually with a totally different audio tape in the background and a TV on...and somehow i could do all 3 :p...

anyway yeah, i have a friend who has never picked up a book not required by a college course...sick or what :o
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I can understand people prefer to be more involved in what they choose as their entertainment, but reading is one of my great pleasures. Perhaps I'm not as keen about it as some, I rarely, if ever, read Fiction for example.

I only watch TV for the News, but never to pass the time. The last thing I meant to watch was Tim Harford's show on BBC 2, but that was last September. There's been nothing since really.

By the way, I'd recommend his book 'The Undercover Economist' if you're in the market.
 
ninja economist said:
I can understand people prefer to be more involved in what they choose as their entertainment, but reading is one of my great pleasures. Perhaps I'm not as keen about it as some, I rarely, if ever, read Fiction for example.

I only watch TV for the News, but never to pass the time. The last thing I meant to watch was Tim Harford's show on BBC 2, but that was last September. There's been nothing since really.

By the way, I'd recommend his book 'The Undercover Economist' if you're in the market.
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i prefer fiction, but i love reading about history (thats my thing) especially anything about ancient Rome/Egypt, although through my college course i have started to become more enthusiastic about ancient Greece, and the likes of Thucydides and Herodotus (although he is becoming more well known as the father of lies :p)
 
1. Buy laughing gas dispenser from the internet.
2. Buy laughing gas canisters from the internet.
3. Breathe in the laughing gas from a balloon.

I did this yesterday and it was AWESOME!. :D
 
Fraggr said:
1. Buy laughing gas dispenser from the internet.
2. Buy laughing gas canisters from the internet.
3. Breathe in the laughing gas from a balloon.

I did this yesterday and it was AWESOME!. :D
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Do you not see a problem here? :p
 
bringerofdecay said:
i prefer fiction, but i love reading about history (thats my thing) especially anything about ancient Rome/Egypt, although through my college course i have started to become more enthusiastic about ancient Greece, and the likes of Thucydides and Herodotus (although he is becoming more well known as the father of lies :p)
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I have been meaning to buy the book "A Study of History" by Toynbee. Have you read it before?

I am somewhat interested in the classics, but only for certain things in particular. Politics, markets etc. I have only really read the works of Plato (though mainly interpreted by Karl Popper), which were interesting, if a little dull :p
 
Psyk said:
Do you not see a problem here? :p
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*whistles* I did it to tease him? :p ;)

edit: in all honesty, I really didn't realise what you pointed out. A guy came up to us in a park yesterday and asked us if we wanted to do shots of it.

I did 7 canisters of it, ended up on the floor crying with laughter so much that my abs really started to ache. It rocked. :D
 
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ninja economist said:
I have been meaning to buy the book "A Study of History" by Toynbee. Have you read it before?

I am somewhat interested in the classics, but only for certain things in particular. Politics, markets etc. I have only really read the works of Plato (though mainly interpreted by Karl Popper), which were interesting, if a little dull :p
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i have read parts of Plato's Republic, admittedly as part of a philosophy course, and while on the whole it was the drivel most politicians spout, i found the forms very interesting, especially the ship being like the state. the simile of the cave was also quite thought provoking. i cant say i have read an awful amount of secondary sources when concerned with classical civilizations, i prefer to read it from the horses mouth as it were :p

edit: books on ancient Egypt, by Bob Brier are very good, i am presently reading: The murder of Tutankhamen, and by E.T. Salmon: A history of the Roman World
 
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