If you are too young you really missed out being able to do this
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The payphone is by the school lockers. That brings back memories
My school had an official "smokers' corner." Oh no, not for the teachers. It was for the kids.
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I feel like this was more one of these movie things that don't happen nearly as often in real life.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit out of those phones.
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My school had an official "smokers' corner." Oh no, not for the teachers. It was for the kids.
And it was inside the building.We had a smoking room, but it was only for seniors.
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break a public pay phone
At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they're nigh-on indestructible.
The only non-functioning payphones I ever saw were the ones where the handset had been sawn off.
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Maybe this is why articles are always saying "So and so SLAMS Such and such". Nostalgia
I think that comes from pro wrestling.
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I'm old enough to have done this, yet I never have..
You probably weren't that angry when using public phones.
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gingerly puts down a $600 iPhone, trembling in anger "...good day, sir."
...yeah, we might need a generation of phones built to be a tank, just so we can properly communicate our wrath to the other person.
Huh. Maybe a 'soundboard' app, which allows you to hang up the current call with a sound effect?
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Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit out of those phones.
I just mean that in normal life, how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them? I can probably count that on one hand and I'm not exactly a youngun either. In movies it feels like every other phone call ended that way haha.
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I just mean that in normal life, how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them? I can probably count that on one hand and I'm not exactly a youngun either. In movies it feels like every other phone call ended that way haha.
how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them?
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Why is there a payphone inside of a highschool?
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Why is there a payphone inside of a highschool?
So kids could use the phone.
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So kids could use the phone.
And why is it the woman from B99
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Those phones were durable AF.
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Why is there a payphone inside of a highschool?
Cell phones didn't exist. Kids need to call to get picked up after hours. There were payphones anywhere they would be used. Malls, Outside fast food restaurants, in shopping centers at gas stations.
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Lol your comment is entirely superfluous.
god i miss the days when you at least knew if you were responding to a real person, because now i don't even know if i'm just calling an LLM an idiot
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god i miss the days when you at least knew if you were responding to a real person, because now i don't even know if i'm just calling an LLM an idiot
Just as a sidenote here, it really isn't hard to use an old phone.
You just get an old phone and then there's adapters with BT, so you just hook up the old phone to the adapter and hit pair on the BT to pair it with your phone and tadaa.
Actually just figured that out after reading this thread. Might get myself one.
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Why is there a payphone inside of a highschool?
Replace "inside of a highschool" with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.
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gingerly puts down a $600 iPhone, trembling in anger "...good day, sir."
...yeah, we might need a generation of phones built to be a tank, just so we can properly communicate our wrath to the other person.
Huh. Maybe a 'soundboard' app, which allows you to hang up the current call with a sound effect?
I would love to have a soundboard that played sounds in calls. I'd answer the phone like Wolfman Jack all "caller, you're on the air! gorilla noise, honk"
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gingerly puts down a $600 iPhone, trembling in anger "...good day, sir."
...yeah, we might need a generation of phones built to be a tank, just so we can properly communicate our wrath to the other person.
Huh. Maybe a 'soundboard' app, which allows you to hang up the current call with a sound effect?
Or a USB-c to RJ45 converter so you can get an old phone from the thrift shop to carry around in case of angry phone shenanigans.
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Cell phones didn't exist. Kids need to call to get picked up after hours. There were payphones anywhere they would be used. Malls, Outside fast food restaurants, in shopping centers at gas stations.
I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it's worth it for those that do. I've even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
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