30 Days- Can you last?

Kaiser_Sma

I could survive without all of those just would need alot of company and boos

abetarrush

ur gonna be doin a lot of readin t pass the time

although, PS2 aint on the list!

Lust4Life

I could do it if I were not home.
Say if I spent a month roughing it up in Amish Country where NO ONE has those conveniences, then I could surely do it.
The first week would be a b1tch, though! I'll bet I'd be crabby.
But if I kept busy I could do it.

I'd write a lot of letters.

Maybe the day beforehand I'd print up the novel I've been writing on my computer and finally get the editing part completed!


Oh, Hey, OP, you didn't mention credit cards / electronic purchases. Will you give that up as well?

Kaiser_Sma

abetarrush wrote:

ur gonna be doin a lot of readin t pass the time

although, PS2 aint on the list!

try playing your PS2 without a TV

ronbyrne2005

not very original idea, morgan spurlock inspired no doubt. Hardly very scientific either, who's gonna measure your concentration changes etc or are you gonna adopt a highly subjective approach? when not using all those technologies and doing other things like reading more and socialising would make it impossible to determine what caused what.

Darragh29

Deleted User wrote:

The point is to prove to myself and to everyone else that I can actually do it. Plus I want to see if 30 days without television will have any impact on my concentration and attention span whatsoever.



Without using them.

I'm going to cover myself my giving my family the numbers of the people I live with, but also the number of the school just in case I need to be contacted in case of emergency. Also, I'll set my voicemail to give people my house number instead.

I've a good mate who did something similar for two weeks, he gave up watching or listening to the news for 2 weeks and noticed a serious improvement in his mood and much lower stress levels....

crosstownk

I could live without the cinema and television - but the rest - not a prayer. Unless someone left me with a 30 day supply of beer and a radio.

Personally I'd consider it an experiment in torture!!!!

Lurk

I could but I'm not in the humour.

slipss

Deleted User wrote:

The experiment is that I'm going to see if I can last 30 days without:
1) Internet
2) Mobile Phone
3) Laptop
4) Television
5) Cinema
6) MP3

Easily, wouldn't miss a single one of them and reguraly go for several days at a time without using any of them.

Internet: I really only use in the small am hours due to insomnia but I could quite as happily read a book or go walking around my estate instead.
Mobile phone: I usually have it turned off in my pocket and only turn it on when I decide to ring someone and for business I use other peoples mobiles, never my own and seeing as I live in Dublin and the place is littered with payphones I have no real use for it.
Laptop: Never had one, and never had a need for one.
TV: Only watch it as an excuse for procrastinating and sometimes go weeks without watching it.
Cinema:Rarely a really good film on, that would hold my interest.
MP3:I'd miss this the most, but with radio, CD's ect It wouldn't bother me that much.

elivsvonchiaing

If i grew up without all of these I guess it would be easier;

Internet cannot live without (I go to cafes on holiday after day 2). The rest it is just the deprivation interval that counts - not sure what the threshold is for each.

Just can't imagine what it's like to live/grow up in a community without all this tbh!

That said I do remember the days before many of these things; they existed - just not available to me - I wasn't aware they existed; the GUI and internet are as old as the apollo missions; people only got them in the late '80's and early '90's - (except for mp3 and the laptop - these are '90's - i've seen laptops from the '80's so don't go there... ;-)

We have accepted and become addicted to these technologies - that is how I feel about them - maybe I'm in a minority here - but that is how I see it.

In order to truly question your reliance/addiction to technology you need to go to New York (driving) and obey your GPS - when you come to a 3 tier intersection you will be pissed off if you don't ignore it and use your own common sense!

"In 400ft - keep right... recalculating... drive for 1.3 miles and keep right ... keep right... continue for 1.2 miles... in 400ft - keep right ... recalulating..." - wow this looks familiar!!!!!!

Add to that the hassle of moving from one technology provider to another. E.g. phone upgrade - I now just go Nokia to Nokia - can't be arsed to figure out how to transfer my phonebook otherwise!

biko

Yes, but particularly if I was on "Lost" island with Kate

Our man in Havana

Deleted User wrote:

Okay, as part of the course I am doing in my PLC (its cheaper than college.. hah), I am going to partake in an experiment to be made into my own documentary.

The experiment is that I'm going to see if I can last 30 days without:
1) Internet
2) Mobile Phone
3) Laptop
4) Television
5) Cinema
6) MP3

... basically most modern technologies that can be used for entertainment.

So my question is this, do you think you can last 30 days?

You are Morgan Spurlock and I claim my €5.

The Hill Billy

Internet
Mobile Phone
Laptop
Television
Cinema
MP3

I could quite happily do without all of the above, apart from TV (but still do-able).
I would however, need a lot of booze, fags, a fishing rod & a dozen books to pass the time.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

I think its possible alright, the only problems being I work with a PC... Have often gone months without really watching TV I'd only ever watch it if i was in a friends house and they had it on.

1) Internet - Use it in work, hardly at home
2) Mobile Phone - No!
3) Laptop - Need it for work, otherwise I'd get fired!
4) Television - Dont really have time for it
5) Cinema - I watch the odd dvd but I could go without watching movies or the cinema
6) MP3 - Yes if i was allowed to listen to tapes or even CD's


You never put car but I'd never survive without mine!

To fill my time away from modern technology
I would work out more, spend more time with my godson and loved ones, have more sex, catch up on my sleep, learn how to properly cook, organise my room, and do a clean out of my ton's of clothes I don't wear anymore

Demetrius

I could last thirty days without them for I have in the past. The only difference would be email. I didn't used it before last year (I'm a cretin, I know:)) but now it is difficulkt to get by without it.

Resorting to snail-mail would be quite an inconvenience. It would be almost like being in the early 19th centuary again.

valor

whats the point

Lump

The experiment is that I'm going to see if I can last 30 days without:
1) Internet - No
2) Mobile Phone - Yes - I only use it to text. The internet can get me out of that one.
3) Laptop - Yes
4) Television - Yes - I watch all my tv on the PC and Internet.
5) Cinema - Yes - I never go to the cinema
6) MP3 - Yea



30 Days is madness

seamus

Much more interesting would be finding out if you can live without a clock (or without knowing the time from any source) for a week.

rogue-entity

Deleted User wrote:

1) Internet
2) Mobile Phone
3) Laptop
4) Television
5) Cinema
6) MP3

I dont know.. but this could be interesting. As for me...
1) Hell no, I cant last a day, let alone a week.
2) Nope, I am too cheap to buy a watch so I use my phone as a clock (plus I like browsing 3's garden when I am bored at work
3) Yep, I could just use the PC.. although my MacbookPro is just soo much better then my ageing windows box.
4) Yep... although that will change when Sky One starts showing the new Stargate Episodes in mid October
5) Yep, definatly.
7) Yep, definatly.. Compy plays back my music just fine anyway

free2fly

I could live without everything but the internet and television.

orangerooster

1) Internet - No

2) Mobile Phone - Yes

3) Laptop - .Yes

4) Television - Yes

5) Cinema - Yes

6) MP3- As I've learned this week not a hope in hell, even waiting the few days for new hard drive has been a total pain.

skywalker

HavoK wrote:

I think at the end of it, it's only net access and mobile phone I'd have problems giving up for any length of time, much less an entire 30 days.

Hit the nail on the head.



EDIT/ would the likes of psp and nintendo DS be on the banned list too?

Sleepy

Could have done it while in college no bother and would happily do it now but working life would make it impossible nowadays.

kevmy

I think most people are vastly underestimating the power of TV. Its been around much longer and is nearly always on in any house you go into. If your interested in sport you wouldn't see games/results/team news, current affairs would also go out the window. Almost everyone I know watches TV a couple of hours a day from my parents to young cousins. Some people say they watch programmes on the PC instead of the TV IMO thats still TV as the progs were made for TV. Same with DVDs of TV programmes.
I reckon that if you weren't using internet a lot of people would fall back onto TV very quickly.

I could prob go without internet, laptop (don't have one),cinema, mp3s but thats about it.

skywalker

Actually what about radio aswell. If thats allowable that would be a crutch for current affairs.

dr.bollocko

Are u allowed ****? Seeing as how u cant do anything else fun, u might as well not allow yourself the privilege of **** for a month either. Remember to update us regularly on how you are doing without the net.
Oh wait, you cant, you'll be too busy looking for a noose....
Haha.

Lump

Lump wrote:

30 Days is madness

Pretty much, yeah.

I figure 30 days should be more than enough of a challenge for me.

As to people who are asking what the point is;

This is my own personal experiment to see if I have the willpower and the determination to go a whole 30 days without any of those objects.

Hrm, not sure why this posted twice.

Damned internet.

Lump

Lump wrote:

30 Days is madness

Pretty much, yeah.

I figure 30 days should be more than enough of a challenge for me.

As to people who are asking what the point is;

This is my own personal experiment to see if I have the willpower and the determination to go a whole 30 days without any of those objects.

Radio probably wont matter to me as I rarely listen to it anyways.

Also, included in television is PS2, Xbox, DVDs, anything like that.

skywalker

Deleted User wrote:

Radio probably wont matter to me as I rarely listen to it anyways.

Also, included in television is PS2, Xbox, DVDs, anything like that.

Id imagine you will end up using the radio a lot more though to make up for lack of current events/news/entertainment in other areas.