Thread: How long can you live without the internet...?

Wired internet is available in Mandalay- but you'll pay around $100 for a 2MB connection that will be very unreliable. Like Simon, I also make a bit of extra $$$ on the side by teaching online- although I mostly seem to teach Russians these days.

^ English Natali (?)

I use Italki as I like the freedom to set my own hours.

Nice one

I remember back in the 90s thinking that getting a computer would make me more organised! I've done programming and things since I was in primary school, and am part of that first generation for whom computers were a normal part of life.

Although like most people, I have to use it for work and (to a much lesser extent) for social reasons, I know I have plenty of non-computery interests that would fill the echoing void - creative things, outdoorsy things, mostly.

However, it does create opportunities for ways of working, learning, and keeping in touch that would be impossible or prohibitively expensive and time-consuming otherwise. It's like the impact of a motorway - it fills your life with more traffic.

Originally Posted by Neo

One of the first things I do every morning is switch on the PC so I can browse while I'm having a cuppa... the modern man's morning paper I guess. Does my life revolve around my PC..? Too much I think, though not as much as it does for some.

Switch on a the PC like back in 2000 ?

Who still switch off a pc in 2017 ?

Do you also stop the internet router ?! So funny...

Originally Posted by Simon43

EARN is the operative word. You have more patience than Job.

I'm earning and saving because I simply don't believe that the UK government will give me a pension when I reach (67 years is the rule now?). As others maybe know from previous threads, I've been married a few times in Thailand, and that costs money (buffalo etc).

So I want to put some $ in my savings account for the day when (if?) I finally retire. Actually, with the online teaching I'm doing now, I can carry on earning a modest income so long as I am compis mentis in my dotage.

I enjoy teaching - it is not difficult for me, I stay out of the office politics, and of course the internet access means that I can do some many things during the school day (I teach in class no more than about 4 hours every day and the rest of my day is surfing the internet for goat porn....)

I'm not sure when/if I'll return to Thailand. I have calculated that I only have to work for a few years in Myanmar to save enough money to last me in my old age, assuming I settle down in somewhere peaceful (Mekong?) and stay off the beer.

Now, if there were no internet access in Myanmar, I would go crazy and be back in Thailand in a second.

Sorry no offense, but as it seems that you never learn, have you included the next alcoholic or drug addict wife in your retirement business plan ?

Originally Posted by stickmansucks

have you included the next alcoholic or drug addict wife in your retirement business plan ?

...as an expense or an asset?...

I doubt i could live outside Australia without it. Suppose I could if I wanted to cut all ties with home but fook that.

Need to check my Business, investments, rental income, keep in contact with friends, check the local news, buy plane tickets, pay my licenses and insurances.

Simply be fooked without it.

Actually I wonder how we all ever survived without it.

Fookin love it.

Need to check my Business, investments, rental income,

.... whilst living in a squalid shoebox rental in a third world country.


Fookin love it.

onya ya fooked up loon.

^ It has a TV the size of one wall...What more do you need?...

My 5 year old son asked me a few days ago...

"Dad, what day is it tomorrow?"
I replied with whatever day it was going to be.
"But Dad, how do you know that without checking your phone?"

How long can you live without the internet...?

same time i can live with it i guess.

How long can you live without the internet...?

I could live until my life expectancy.

Not having internet does not cause death as far as I know.

I would continue to live, but I would miss it, and it's important for many jobs these days.

Originally Posted by stickmansucks

Switch on a the PC like back in 2000 ?

Who still switch off a pc in 2017 ?

Do you also stop the internet router ?! So funny...

There are two languages allowed on Teakdoor and gibberish is not one them.

Originally Posted by stickmansucks

Do you also stop the internet router ?!

In the UK, almost never. In Thailand, almost always.

Originally Posted by taxexile

Need to check my Business, investments, rental income,

.... whilst living in a squalid shoebox rental in a third world country.


Fookin love it.

onya ya fooked up loon.

Indeed.
Part and parcel to the fantasy.