The part of the Internet that contains pornographic websites and chatrooms that discuss x-rated topics. Could also be used to describe one's activities while surfing.
"Dude, I had some Skinternet time last night and came across a free download of that Paris Hilton video"
"Jim is tired today because he was up late into the night doing Skinternet with some chick, who was probably another guy"
Agree also with Gregg (thumb up).
This Britishdefinition applies to BBC / ITV ceefax or teletext. Refer Skint = no dosh for subs and internet = supposedly free information network. No payment to use ceefax henceforth skinternet.
Thought for the day guys and girls - what if the guy who invented the internet (good ol' boy) patented it or whatever and charged us sorry arsed buggers for a crack at this newfangled wonderful invention every time we clicked on a link, say 0.001 penny a time. Well he would be so fucking rich that even Bill Gates would look poor by comparison and the rest of the prolateriat would be ultimately forced to use the skinternet.
Skinternet – a modern version of being broke, watching free online content. Watching movies, listening to music, watching YouTube videos—spending all day, every day online, on social media, basically your whole life online because you have no money.
Lee: Bruv, at the end of the week, after I’ve paid all my bills… all I can do is go online.
Frank: Innit, bruv. I’m in the same boat—totally skinternet, LOL.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. PenguinBooks,1992. p. 38)