How lost are you when your internet goes down?

Faustus said:
You have heard the old sayings 'cemeteries are of full of indispensable people' and 'all work and no play make Jack a dull boy'?

There's so much to do in life that doesn't revolve around devices or technology. Life isn't a dress rehearsal for something else so for goodness sake get out there and doing.
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Oh I do, but then I wouldn’t know the internet was down and therefore wouldn’t be very lost... I’m talking 7 o’clock at night or chill weekends... 90% of my mates are either living far away or have partners who can’t do things spontaneously. Plus my idea of fun when there’s no social to be done is music, coffee and chill or work :p


I enjoy work and it makes me far from dull that’s why I’m so willing to do it, plus it allows me to play hard.
 
I have taken into account for the internet going down one day.

I have over 40,000 song about 50 movies and enough p0rn to last me a life time. I also have hundreds of games.

10.5TB covers all you need for the internet to be off for years. ;)
 
Reality|Bites said:
On Thursday my Virgin went down for 6hrs and I didn't know what to do with myself.
Anyone else found themselves in this situation before and felt the pain?
I couldn't even play games with myself as the games are linked to steam grrr.
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Pretty lost. Or irritated. Sky drops out every now and then in the early hours for a hour or so. Seems to be at the same time so I assume its scheduled. Steam is offline and so are my games so thats not an issue but access to everything else online is.
 
Thinking about it a lot of my services require a internet connection. We use now tv which needs it, Netflix and gaming.

Wouldn't be the end if the world as for browsing mobiles all have 4g just would be gaming and now tv that would not work. We have a normal aerial so could still watch tv.

I do have about 700gb of movies on a external hdd as well so got a vast selection of films and programs to entertain my son
 
Maybe 10-12ish years ago when I was still living with my parents we had a 2 week power outage during winter. It was like going back 100s years. There was litteraly nothing to do when at home except listen to a battery radio or sleep :D

Luckily they had a proper fireplace, so we could at least keep the house warm by burning wood/coal.
 
I'd go out for a ride on my bike...as long as it wasn't raining.

Or access the 24TB of entertainment I have stored.
 
I've got plenty of music/movies/tv series's stored on an External HDD so if the internet went down for a period of time the wife and I would be OK... luckily my daughter isn't old enough to know what the internet is :D

We only really use the internet to stream Kodi and check facebook/messenger/Clash Of Clans etc in between doing housework and keeping the Spawn entertained.

If we had an extended power cut... that's a completely different story... Probably have to go out and interact with... other people *shudders*
 
With Sky and it went down on Wednesday while out at work. came home and literally felt lost all evening :D no netflix, no online gaming, even sky catchup (only thing i really use sky box for) was all unavailable. Got sky engineer out first thing thursday before work for him to confirmed it was an open reach problem so off to 3rd party it went. didnt have it back working till saturday!!!

Went out on Thursday with the misses and went out friday after work so didnt notice it that much except for the misses messaging me to say she still couldnt watch her soaps on her days off :D :D :D
 
It's pretty much impossible to lose internet completely these days, VM went down for an afternoon a few weeks ago and I just tethered everything to my phone, worked surprisingly well. I'm doing this more often anyway just because VM block everything and mobile operators don't.

I would cope well enough probably, I don't care to much for social media beyond visiting a few forums and Reddit.

Plenty on my watch list, movies, TV and music to pass time, I can always go-to the pub I get really desperate. :p
 
SHOTinTHEface86 said:
With Sky and it went down on Wednesday while out at work. came home and literally felt lost all evening :D no netflix, no online gaming, even sky catchup (only thing i really use sky box for) was all unavailable. Got sky engineer out first thing thursday before work for him to confirmed it was an open reach problem so off to 3rd party it went. didnt have it back working till saturday!!!

Went out on Thursday with the misses and went out friday after work so didnt notice it that much except for the misses messaging me to say she still couldnt watch her soaps on her days off :D :D :D
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What do you think we used to do before the days of multi-channel TV and the Internet? We had only two channels (in black and white) when I was growing up and we didn't have that until I was seven years old. You can't miss what you never had. :) That's why I don't bother in the slightest whether the TV is working or the Internet. Plenty to do in life without those things.
 
I tend to feel quite lost without the internet as it gets used a lot for shopping and talking to friends (we tend to sit and chat on comms whilst gaming/doing models etc).

Although I at least always having something to watch on DVD/BD even when I can't access netflix or the cable TV is down as well.
 
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