Turkish Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Been in our lives for, what, 15 years now and made lives a lot easier and better. We now have access to a whole pool of knowledge and information that previously would have meant hours upon end reading books and in the library. Shopping, banking, booking holidays, gaming, even dating can now be done online and our lives are much quicker. But what did some of you do when it came to making friends? For some this forum and others like it and probably facebook seem to be the sole medium you have for interaction with people. How did you cope and interact with people before the internet when you actually had to go out and meet people to be able to speak to them? How did you meet and make friends before being able to tap the prefix www. with your chubby little fingers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 I've never had any friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dog Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Advertised in telephone boxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatch Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Pubs, and you didn't see or speak to some people for months, it was just normal back then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robsk II Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Used the landline more. I'd assume many w*nked more to while away the hours, but possibly it's actually less due to availability of inspiration. I'm not sure which. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 17 September, 2010 Author Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Used the landline more. I'd assume many w*nked more to while away the hours, but possibly it's actually less due to availability of inspiration. I'm not sure which. you were one of those i had in mind when i started this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 The emergence of the internet has coincidied with me having kids so my social life went right downhill then anyway and was replaced with parental duties. But before the internet, computers and mobile phones, going out to the pub was far more frequent. Growing up in Winch, you got know quite a few people around as it is a small-ish place. Pretty much everyone I knew would be in the same places at the same times, so you were able to pitch up somewhere and know someone. Friday and Saturday nights were a guaranteed night out with the same faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 ...oh, and there were lots more house parties around back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 17 September, 2010 Author Share Posted 17 September, 2010 but some people on here are really quite odd and would panic at the thought of having to actually speak to someone face to face without having spoken to them for 5 years on the internet first, how did this type of person survive back in the day of no internet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 (edited) The emergence of the internet has coincidied with me having kids so my social life went right downhill then anyway and was replaced with parental duties. But before the internet, computers and mobile phones, going out to the pub was far more frequent. Growing up in Winch, you got know quite a few people around as it is a small-ish place. Pretty much everyone I knew would be in the same places at the same times, so you were able to pitch up somewhere and know someone. Friday and Saturday nights were a guaranteed night out with the same faces. Coming in from the west in the 70s and early 80s, the usual crawl would include a selection from the following, depending on which night of the week it was: - Top of town:- Roebuck Eagle Hotel South Western Theatre Bar Talbot Green Man (for sunday lunchtime bands) Wheatsheaf Bottom of town:- Willow Fighting C ocks Cricketers Rising Sun Edited 17 September, 2010 by RonManager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Coming in from the west in the 70s and early 80s, the usual crawl would include a selection from the following, depending on which night of the week it was: - Top of town:- Roebuck Eagle Hotel South Western Theatre Bar Talbot Green Man (for sunday lunchtime bands) Wheatsheaf Bottom of town:- Willow Fighting C ocks Cricketers Rising Sun Ours was mid to late 80's and generally followed - Green Man, The Exchange, The Vine, Royal Oak, Jesters and back to The Vine (occasional diversions to either Bakers or Market, depending on whether you heard there was decent clacker there or not). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsbridge Saint Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Friday nights at the Juniper Berry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 I spent my day on teletext. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Ours was mid to late 80's and generally followed - Green Man, The Exchange, The Vine, Royal Oak, Jesters and back to The Vine (occasional diversions to either Bakers or Market, depending on whether you heard there was decent clacker there or not). Same era as me, almost the same pubs, Home Tavern (Eastliegh), tinny on the train, Royal Oak, Jesters, Vine, Eclipse, Market, throw up around the back of Woolworths, the start again in The Bakers followed by The Guldhall & the one opposite (was it The Rising Sun?) to finish with a Burger in Champs. Back on topic, get my porn from the Newsagent (obviously not local to my home - just in case ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Same era as me, almost the same pubs, Home Tavern (Eastliegh), tinny on the train, Royal Oak, Jesters, Vine, Eclipse, Market, throw up around the back of Woolworths, the start again in The Bakers followed by The Guldhall & the one opposite (was it The Rising Sun?) to finish with a Burger in Champs. Back on topic, get my porn from the Newsagent (obviously not local to my home - just in case ) The 'Riser' is on Bridge Street just before the steep rise up to St Giles' Hill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Same era as me, almost the same pubs, Home Tavern (Eastliegh), tinny on the train, Royal Oak, Jesters, Vine, Eclipse, Market, throw up around the back of Woolworths, the start again in The Bakers followed by The Guldhall & the one opposite (was it The Rising Sun?) to finish with a Burger in Champs. Back on topic, get my porn from the Newsagent (obviously not local to my home - just in case ) That was The India Arms! I used to get my porn from Dirty Norms up on the Stockbridge Road. For a small newsagent he had an unsurpassed collection of mid to low quality grot to suit the less discerning punter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 17 September, 2010 Author Share Posted 17 September, 2010 That was The India Arms! I used to get my porn from Dirty Norms up on the Stockbridge Road. For a small newsagent he had an unsurpassed collection of mid to low quality grot to suit the less discerning punter. Wasn't that a Skates pub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chorlton Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Wasn't that a Skates pub? Yep, there was a bit of a to do with Pompey fans after they had played at Reading about 10 years ago, and that all came about from the landlord of the India calling up his Pompey mates (apparently). Sadly, many of the Winch pubs mentioned above are no more and the city is poorer for it. Even Dirty Norms has gone FFS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 I used to find porn in bushes!!! Then I used to buy it.... now it is just on a constant drip feed!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special K Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Yep, there was a bit of a to do with Pompey fans after they had played at Reading about 10 years ago, and that all came about from the landlord of the India calling up his Pompey mates (apparently). Sadly, many of the Winch pubs mentioned above are no more and the city is poorer for it. Even Dirty Norms has gone FFS! I went to the India to watch on Sky when we got tonked 4-1 at Notarf Krap - bad move. I agree with you about the pubs, although i haven't been out in Winch for ages. Anyway, it's a young mans game now, so i've given it all up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimond Geezer Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 That was The India Arms! Sounds vaguely familiar, but by the time I'd staggered that far I'd had a skinful, for all I know it could've been Disco Darrens Dance Emporium. As long as they served alcohol I was a happy punter. Did the Wykham Arms once, didn't stay long. It was partonised by men only. In every group was a Freddie Mercury look-a-like. Pints were downed hastily & we left by the back door - as it were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 I used to find porn in bushes!!! Then I used to buy it.... now it is just on a constant drip feed!!! I got you beat. My job requires that I sometimes look at porn, so I get PAID for it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 To all extents and purposes for me, there was no time 'before' the internet. Honestly, i've no idea what I would do without it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 17 September, 2010 Author Share Posted 17 September, 2010 To all extents and purposes for me, there was no time 'before' the internet. Honestly, i've no idea what I would do without it. Are you one of those that met their bird and friends on it too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Who? Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Well we are getting very close to people being on here that know no different. They will have no idea what it was like without the internet!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint-scooby Posted 17 September, 2010 Share Posted 17 September, 2010 Work pub sleep, work pub sleep, work pub sleep, weekends pub sleep pub football pub sleep pub. Guess thats why they are all closing down. I found a diary of mine from twenty years ago this week "filofax" and that's all it was. Lived for payday, the existed until the next payday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 18 September, 2010 Share Posted 18 September, 2010 Are you one of those that met their bird and friends on it too? How dare you I met them all at A.A. Like any modern man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 18 September, 2010 Share Posted 18 September, 2010 I spent my day on teletext. +1 (true story!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dark Sotonic Mills Posted 18 September, 2010 Share Posted 18 September, 2010 I had a life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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