Wimbledon

[bananaman]

yep

[lidbid46]

Son took mine whilst I have a little holiday with Mrs Lidbid and daughter in Norwich, where she is at uni. Totally cut off here, can't even get Radio 5 live! Followed yesterday via Gary and other Twitter friends on Twitter - really nervewracking whilst going round Sainsbury's doing a shop for a poor student. There are now some traumatised Norwich residents who ran away when I yelled in triumph when the result finally reached me. Also had to suffer some rude looks from wife and daughter!!

[Garawa]

Ha ha, know how you feel. We took the kids to a holiday park in Hayling Island (to visit the Historic Dockyard in Portsmouth primarily) and the park had wi-fi but was very hit or miss. The mobile internet signal was non-existent (I have had better in the middle of nowhere) and I felt like someone had lopped my legs off and left me in a field with gaffer tape over my mouth!!!

To make matters worse, after packing I tried to log onto this website and got a message that read "Forbidden: You do not have permission to access this page". God the panic ensued, been on holiday for 2 hours and feared the site had gone down with all the back-ups on the PC at home. I couldn't access any pages to try to find out what was going on and even the website hosts page failed (thought they had gone out of business taking the website with it)!

Thankfully, I texted Gillsalltheway who said he was able to access the site on a PC and mobile. Phew! I felt like someone had run off with the kids and then I found them. Silly I know, but it struck home to me how much I rely on instant information to find stuff out. Twitter is fantastic when away to instantly have the news you want when you want it. How on Earth we ever coped before I really don't know!

[Elgrande]

The trouble with "instant" news it is quite often incorrect. Twitter allows individuals to put their own slant on the news. As for how did we manage before; we had a life that didn't revolve around trivialities, but just enjoyed life as it came.

[Poshgill]

Yes but times change. I remember when we only had 3 tv channels and news was at 6 and 10, no 24 hr News channels. Looking back, it was pretty crap really. I like this modern era and embrace it wholeheartedly. Sod that sitting by the tv on a saturday afternnon watching that awful teleprinter that always used to stop half way, so the result would come up as AFC Wimbledon 0 Gillingham (long pause, and you'd be praying for a goal and shouting at the telly) 1

Nothing wrong with modern technology like twitter as long as it is uised correctly and you get your info from reliable and trusted sources.

[CadburyMan]

I did have to sit with the W'don supporters as I was treated by a good friend (yes I do have one !!) who had access to an unneeded season ticket for the day

[gillsfan1066]

Love modern tech, or I would not be able to be on here........... to a point. Went shopping with a buddy, he only needed to get a dozen things, he either called ,text, fiddled or diddled with his dam phone and "spoke" to his wife every single time he picked something up off the shelf, yeah Gods man it's a loaf of******* bread, pick one up, put it in the cart and lets go, prices went up 10% we were in the shop so long .

[Elgrande]

But how much of it is really news and not just stuff that would have been on page 17 of the papers, but fills up the schedules. I have no problem with the modern world, but people who "can't exist" without an Iphone, twitter etc for a day just seems a bit much. I had ten days away without internet, a mobile that just made and received calls and texts and very limited TV, but had no withdrawal symptons. I read, chatted to people and watched a bit of TV in bars, but socialised. All this went to a restaurant today, am at the station waiting for a train etc just seems a bit trite!

[Snackboyslim]

I must admit, I never felt the need to chain a public telephone box to myself and drag it around to keep in contact with the whole world 24-7 when I were a nipper.

[Rimshot]

I agree ElG . In the age of celebrity everyone feels they must have an audience, even if it's only to put their bowel movements on record.