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could you live without the internet.....

  • 28-04-2013 11:24PM
    #1
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭


    For a week?, a month?....any takers on a year?
    Personally i think i could a month no problemo....but anything more then that i might be hitting the xanax :(

    Could you live without the internet? 76 votes

    Yup!....no problemo bro!
    0% 0 votes
    No way!...i'd end up in the loony bin!
    25% 19 votes
    Read a book you fuppin nerd!
    69% 53 votes
    What is this internet you say?
    5% 4 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    Jimmy Iovine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,416 ✭✭✭Jimmy Iovine


    Live where with it?


  • #3
    rovoagho
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,151 ✭✭✭rovoagho


    I could live with the internet forever. Living without incorrectly titled threads would be a nightmare though...


  • #4
    A fella called fish
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 188 ✭✭A fella called fish


    Yes i could live with the internet. Quite comfortably actually..


  • #5
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,024 ✭✭✭✭irishgeo


    Richard Dower wrote: »
    For a week?, a month?....any takers on a year?
    Personally i think i could a month no problemo....but aything more then that i might be hitting the xanax :(

    i assume you mean without.:D


  • #6
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Live with it in a relationship sort of way, or as a flatmate or what?

    Please be more specific


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  • #7
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    I live with it everyday OP.


  • #8
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    I couldn't live without it


  • #9
    Steve O
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭Steve O


    Me and the internet live together, go for walks and have a great laugh together.

    So yes I could and do live with the internet. We are very happy.

    *Looks lovingly at laptop*:)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx5HuAPd6RM


  • #10
    13spanner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,006 ✭✭✭13spanner


    I don't think I could. I could try, but the withdrawal symptoms wouldn't be pretty :P


  • #11
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    Not a chance could i live 10 minutes off the internet, i'd be back in the stone-age if that was the case. Being connected to the world 24/7 is great :D


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  • #12
    bacon n eggs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 423 ✭✭bacon n eggs


    No I use it for everything from news, weather, mail and so on


  • #13
    kwestfan08
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭kwestfan08


    Not a fear could I go without the Internet for more than a few days. There have been nights where I'll shut down my laptop thinking Im done browsing for the night only to fire up the IPod for a last peruse before sleeping. I reckon I'd get genuinely edgy if I didn't have it.


  • #14
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    nope, being an outsourced IT monkey I couldn't work without the interwebz. The only TV I watch is through the xbox so that would be a pain also


  • #15
    Henlars67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,272 ✭✭✭Henlars67


    Why would anyone want to live without the internet?

    It's become more a part of people's lives than TV ever did or could.

    I don't even understand why people ask this, and it is something I hear discussed every so often.

    We have this great thing that connects us to the world 24/7, why would you do without it?

    Lets forget about social media, email and while we're at it phone calls and texting as well, because I reckon it's a real tragedy that people don't write letters to each other anymore


  • #16
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    If i had no internet not only would i go mad but i wouldn't be able to upload my amazing bonkers video clips to the world :D



  • #17
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    Not a chance in hell.


  • #18
    Diairist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 373 ✭✭Diairist


    why would anyone WANT to live without the interweb?:eek:


  • #19
    Almaviva
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭Almaviva


    Tried to and managed only 30 years without it. But then I cracked.


  • #20
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Longest I've gone without the internet was 6 weeks but in truth, I was in the hospital for that time. Even so, the idea of no internet for a prolonged period breaks me out in a cold sweat. Without Facebook, I'd be a complete social hermit. Granted, I *am* a social hermit but more in the physical sense..


  • #21
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    I could still breathe in and out. My food doesn't grow in the internet. The internet doesn't keep the rain off my head. I managed more than half my life without access to the internet.

    Yes, I could live without it. It certainly makes fartin' about and wasting time a lot more convenient, but life would poddle on just grand if it disappeared tomorrow. The main difference would be that I'd get more done...


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  • #22
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    endacl wrote: »
    I could still breathe in and out. My food doesn't grow in the internet. The internet doesn't keep the rain off my head. I managed more than half my life without access to the internet.

    Yes, I could live without it. It certainly makes fartin' about and wasting time a lot more convenient, but life would poddle on just grand if it disappeared tomorrow. The main difference would be that I'd get more done...

    You can learn a lot from the internet, many courses can be done on it and it can keep you in touch with loved ones no matter where they are in the world free. It's an amazing invention and it will be always here to stay.

    I couldn't imagine the world without the internet.


  • #23
    TheUsual
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,288 ✭✭✭TheUsual


    I know shelter, heat, food, water and clothes are top of the human needs but internet isn't far behind these days.
    There's so many day to day things that need work, emails, houses, bills, tax, flights, information and entertainment.
    I hate Facebook.

    Twitter >>>> Facebook


  • #24
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    zenno wrote: »
    You can learn a lot from the internet, many courses can be done on it and it can keep you in touch with loved ones no matter where they are in the world free. It's an amazing invention and it will be always here to stay.

    I couldn't imagine the world without the internet.
    You can also learn a lot without it. I completed my first degree pre-internet access. Of course, pre-Wikipaedia, there was a necessity to research and understand a topic rather than cut and paste assignments...
    I kept in touch with people all over the world pre-internet. I don't dispute these. What the internet does is make them more convenient. It is of course an amazing invention and will always be here to stay. I'd miss it if it disappeared tomorrow. But I'd get on just fine without it.

    I don't have to imagine a world without the internet. I remember it. It was nice. Still nice now.


  • #25
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    endacl wrote: »
    You can also learn a lot without it. I completed my first degree pre-internet access. Of course, pre-Wikipaedia, there was a necessity to research and understand a topic rather than cut and paste assignments...
    I kept in touch with people all over the world pre-internet. I don't dispute these. What the internet does is make them more convenient. It is of course an amazing invention and will always be here to stay. I'd miss it if it disappeared tomorrow. But I'd get on just fine without it.

    I don't have to imagine a world without the internet. I remember it. It was nice. Still nice now.

    I agree with you, but access at a touch of a finger can make work and life that much easier and less troublesome, sure all i used to do before the net came here in Ireland was read books and i still do but anything that makes life that much easier is good in my book.

    The net has tastes for everyone whether you want to learn programming or how to plant a seed, it's not all youtube and facebook/twitter of which i have absolutely no time for as that stuff is for the fluoridated people :pac:


  • #26
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    I lived for a while without a tv and many people passed remarks on it and asked me questions like - do you ever get bored?

    Living without tv was something I loved. I had a portable dvd player and I watched movies on that, mostly at weekends. If there was something on tv, I wanted to watch, I went to the pub or home.

    I loved it. My life was so much better. I slept better too.

    I'd love to do the same now with the internet. Cut it out. Even if it was just for a month. I mean like, when I wake, the first thing I do is check out boards and other sites on my mobile. That can't be healthly.


  • #27
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    Yes. I can still get a hard on looking at pictures


  • #28
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Wacker The Attacker wrote: »
    Yes. I can still get a hard on looking at pictures
    And without looking at pictures/websites...?

    :P


  • #29
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    ilovesleep wrote: »
    I lived for a while without a tv and many people passed remarks on it and asked me questions like - do you ever get bored?

    Living without tv was something I loved. I had a portable dvd player and I watched movies on that, mostly at weekends. If there was something on tv, I wanted to watch, I went to the pub or home.

    I loved it. My life was so much better. I slept better too.

    I'd love to do the same now with the internet. Cut it out. Even if it was just for a month. I mean like, when I wake, the first thing I do is check out boards and other sites on my mobile. That can't be healthly.

    I was into the TV myself before and about 5/6 years ago i picked it up and walked across the road and dumped it into a skip and that was the end of TV for me, i never looked back as it is garbage, haven't watched a TV since.

    But i can never see myself do that with the computer/internet. Most people use the net for entertainment but i use it for learning and education reasons and a bit of entertainment, it's a valuable tool if used correctly.

    Young kids with the sponge of a brain they have are starting to learn and be taught computer programming now and this is a good thing and the free programming courses you can do online are great for their brain as to progress in the future of technology, hopefully far away from the brain-dead TV.

    Friends still think there's something wrong with me because i don't have a TV.


  • #30
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,443 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    zenno wrote: »
    about 5/6 years ago i picked it up and walked across the road and dumped it into a skip and that was the end of TV for me
    Same! About 3 years ago. Why is the first question people ask when you say you don't have a TV 'do you watch TV on the internet then?'


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  • #31
    zenno
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,377 ✭✭✭zenno


    endacl wrote: »
    Same! About 3 years ago. Why is the first question people ask when you say you don't have a TV 'do you watch TV on the internet then?'

    I don't watch TV at all. The reason i dumped it was because one night i was sitting there really stuck into a documentary and the bloody adverts were going on with no end and i lost interest in this documentary because the adds ruined it and some really dumb-ass adverts as well so i just said enough of this and put it to sleep.

    I don't watch TV full stop, on the internet either, i watch a bit of news is all, and if i want to watch something interesting with no adverts i pay a tiny fee to do so. I read most of the time and if theres a good flick out then i will pay a small fee to watch it online that does me grand once i don't have to watch adverts.

    Brain-washing me about shampoo and food, i just can't handle adverts, i'm allergic to them. Even talking about them makes me want to throw the TV into the skip again but i don't have one to dump.


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