To just want to hit the Reset button...

[Taddda]

No internet (social media!), no mobile phones, basic rations (no fast food, ready meals.....) 3 TV channels....basically the 70's....Just for say six months....

(This is actually a toned down question from my original 'to hope for a zombie apocalypse' thought)...

Is that not just brexit?

You don't have to engage with it. Although having a basic mobile is useful with DC. Like if they break and arm and you need to collect them.

@Orangeblossom78 But there would still be landlines, friends or family to knock your door? Of course a mobiles handy in an emergency, but there prompts a human contact there....As a kid (90's) I knew at least 20 phone numbers by heart, how many kids can say that now?

So my childhood then? That’s fine. I don’t see the issue.

I would enjoy this. Day to day life just feels so overwhelming and isolating sometimes. It would be nice to go back to pre-smart phone times especially. said whilst typing on my smartphone

Yes you could still use landlines. I use the landline as well! Was a teen in the 1990s. At uni we'd leave post its on each others doors in halls. I kind of miss it (not the big queues for the phone though)

But bet you chatted to each other and had a laugh in those queues @Orangeblossom78....

Blockbuster video started this convo for us the other day....when you waited for a film to come out on video (DVD's were still in the smaller section, 2003/4 was the last time we remebered, and had to search the films release date!) But it was always something to look forward to (sometimes had to reserve a new release!)....You couldn't buy new films until they had been out for rental for a certain amount of time.... But that was part of the fun, get a pizza, popcorn, snuggle in on the couch.. all for one movie..you'd wait months for that film and so looked forward to it, whether it was as good as you thought or not...

Yesterday, Once upon a time in Hollywood came out, bought and dowloaded it on sky, watched it, it was okay....next.....

Yes I kind of miss the 1990s. Mind you I still use the landline and phone friends for a catch up nowadays. Maybe the habits stay with us. And we still watch films and TV at weekends as a family.

We still watch films together...but it's just lost that 'event' feeling....everything is just so easy, it sort of takes the 'yay' feeling out of the simple things...

I spend more time searching through sky and Netflix for what to watch than actually watching anything...