Me personally, I think the latest anyone should ring a landline after 9pm; that's the limit imo.
By the way, I think it's so bloody rude when people mock things just because they don't have them!
I am less than middle age and I have a landline, and so do many people I know. Saying how 'twee' it is, is not only rude, it's stupid too. Because many people have one.
It's like people who mock people for not having a smart phone, or not being able drive, or mocking someone who doesn't drink alcohol. Just because they don't do it, they feel the need to mock. Rude.
Like someone said further upthread though, I give very few people my landline number. Only my doctors and dentist has it, and several relatives. One particularly pushy annoying women who tried to force her 'friendship' on me a couple of years ago, kept asking for it (even though I had given her my mobile number,) but I just kept saying the line was faulty. I put up with several months of 'what is wrong with it?' 'Is it fixed?' and 'What did you say was wrong with your landline again???'
We never give it out, because when we changed service provider, (some 5 years back,) we were allocated a brand new landline number from our new provider.
We had previously been with Virgin Media, (for some 7-8 years,) and we got nothing but recycled phone numbers.... A couple of them from people in debt. We got hounded every day by debt collectors who refused to believe we weren't the debtors. Another couple of numbers were numbers someone else had had only a few weeks before, and we kept getting people calling and refusing to believe we weren't the people they were calling. Virgin were useless and refused to give us a brand new number saying there 'weren't any.'
So when we got a brand new landline number, (from our new provider,) we were verrrrry reluctant to give it out. Even our employers and our banks and all of our friends only have the mobile.
@Flakebook
How do those of you who don't have a landline get Internet?
You can get internet without a landline, but your options are very limited. Only Virgin do it. (I think!) And as I think they're shit, I would always need a landline, because I would never go with them again. Apart from the fact they shove recycled landlines onto you, their internet was a piece of shit. It was off more than it was on, we were always calling them to complain, and they NEVER offered us any money off the bill.
www.google.co.uk/search?q=no+landline+need+broadband&oq=no+landline+need+broadband&aqs=chrome..69i57j0.6323j1j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Re the landline mockers; I can literally count on the fingers of one hand the amount of people I know who don't have a landline. I don't get why someone wouldn't want one. As has been said (by a few posters,) some people only have landlines (like elderly folk,) so they don't want to be calling a mobile phone (which is usually expensive to call.) And also some people have dreadful mobile reception, so they like to call from a landline, because it is a much clearer line.