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Title: SAY no to High cost phone calls!
Post by: Forth Bridges on January 15, 2006, 08:51:20 pm

fed up with pay for premrate numbers?

will help is here the rtone of Free / cheap rate numbers teh companys don't wont to tel you about!

http://www.saynoto0870.com/

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Post by: loulou on January 15, 2006, 08:52:46 pm

thanks

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Post by: oldspice on January 16, 2006, 07:01:55 am

Lets go back to BT and national phone network ownership. All these cowboys couldn't get a look in then.

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Post by: smurfboy on January 16, 2006, 09:37:12 am

If Skype keeps growing at the rate it is, BT will be stuffed.

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Post by: oldspice on January 16, 2006, 06:27:36 pm

I remember when you had to press button B. Goldencup?

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Post by: goldencup on January 16, 2006, 10:27:02 pm

No I don't remember that but I do remember having a 'party line' on our own phone.  This meant you shared the line with a neighbour and you had to press a button before you dialled to see if they were using it!

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Post by: chocoboo on January 17, 2006, 09:21:48 am

My cousin still had an analogue dial phone until last month and only stopped using it when it seized up.

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 17, 2006, 09:59:44 am

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Post by: Forth Bridges on January 17, 2006, 10:34:52 am

there now ccoming back into fashion the old fashion put yuo finger in to the hoel and push

I hope most flok have foudn that link useful

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Post by: oldspice on January 17, 2006, 07:25:53 pm

What? You mean you have to put your finger in the dial and turn it to dial out? No! I don't believe it! 

Like we did until about 10 years ago?

 

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Post by: StrollingMinstrel on January 17, 2006, 11:06:31 pm

I can remember in the days before STD. When you picked up the phone and waited to be asked by the operator "what number please?"

Stangely comforting... you felt like your call was in safe hands.

I'm welling up here!

 

StrollingMinstrel38734.9637152778

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Post by: smurfboy on January 17, 2006, 11:51:02 pm

I remember when Alexander Graham Bell brought the first one into my shop to show me... I said they'd never sell - what a mistake...

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 18, 2006, 08:03:29 am

Quote from: StrollingMinstrel

I can remember in the days before STD. When you picked up the phone and waited to be asked by the operator "what number please?"

"Just dusting"

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 18, 2006, 08:41:39 am

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Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 12:10:26 am

Quote from: oldspice

What? You mean you have to put your finger in the dial and turn it to dial out? No! I don't believe it! 

Like we did until about 10 years ago?

 

Those phones were better because when we rang someone we didn't get 'press 1 for this and 2 for that and 3 for the other'

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 19, 2006, 09:39:28 am

Very good point!

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Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 07:56:09 pm

Thankyou

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Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:13:20 pm

My step-mother-in-law is ga ga and she has this system where you dial A for this number and B for that number and so on. Trouble is, she can't remember whose numbers belongs to which letter so this is a typical conversation:

My phone rings and I pick it up:

Me  "Hello"

Her  "Hello! Stuart? (her son) You sound funny. Have you got a cold dear?"

Me  "No, it's not Stuart, it's Julie"

Her  "Julie? Oh. Hello. What are you doing at Stuart's house?"

 

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Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:15:29 pm

Sounds like my grandad. 'Well, I rang Val's number, I don't understand it...'

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Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:21:24 pm

She once asked for Mull of Kyntire soup. Guess what she meant?

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Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:27:54 pm

A few of my nan's:

'I got you a box of them Flake Prawn Line'.

'Want a slice of gatux?'

'Have you ever had one of them pizzers?'

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Post by: goldencup on January 19, 2006, 08:31:41 pm

Conversation witnessed by me in Iceland a while ago.

Old Lady No. 1.  I see they've got them Banoffee pies on offer again.

Old Lady No. 2.  Oh I can't eat them, they make me quite nauseating.

 

 

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Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:35:23 pm

Conversation heard between two old ladies on a bus about 20 years ago:

Ethel "How are you Lou?"

Lou "Oh I haven't been at all well. The doctor sent me for a brain scan"

Ethel "Oh dear! Did they find anything?"

Lou "No"

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Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:35:48 pm

My mom has terrible trouble with the word 'salivate'. When she's hungry she'll say she's 'savillating at the thought of some dinner'.

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Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:37:47 pm

My auntie told me the doctor was sending her for an anagram!

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Post by: goldencup on January 19, 2006, 08:45:05 pm

An old lady friend of mine (with a great sense of humour) was sent for a brain scan and was told they couldn't find anything wrong.  She told me that her son was demanding a second opinion!

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Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:46:32 pm

I might send my nan for one, but I'm not sure the equipment could take it...

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Post by: oldspice on January 19, 2006, 08:48:39 pm

 They're lovely though, old folk, aint they?

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Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 08:50:30 pm

Barmy but lovely.

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Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 09:18:45 pm

Today I rang the bank to pay my visa from my debit account and my mam said if she was me she wouldn't give the bank her visa details.

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Post by: goldencup on January 19, 2006, 09:19:50 pm

 I suppose that's better than some people who'll tell anyone!  I heard someone shout out their PIN at the checkout the other day.

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Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 09:23:15 pm

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Post by: smurfboy on January 19, 2006, 09:25:17 pm

when my sister first got her bank account she used to have to ring me every time she wanted to use her PIN!

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Post by: loulou on January 19, 2006, 09:26:36 pm

i put my PIN in my mobile

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 20, 2006, 08:24:38 am

I have changed mine to set of numbers I will remember! 

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Post by: Cherry_Ripe on January 20, 2006, 12:27:21 pm

I keep the code to my car radio in my phone.

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Post by: smurfboy on January 20, 2006, 02:15:25 pm

I have to remember four-digit numbers for my PIN, credit card, apartment door code, apartment gate code, external door code at work and internal door code. How I do it bugger only knows.

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Post by: loulou on January 20, 2006, 03:23:24 pm

Well as long as bugger knows

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 20, 2006, 03:24:13 pm

I only have to remember my pin number! 

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Post by: oldspice on January 20, 2006, 04:27:09 pm

When I was tiny my mum had a Coop divi account and you had to quote your number to get the divi. Her number was 367493 and I have known that number for at least 45 years. Now I have my own divi account at the local Coop Department Store. I have to keep my account number on a card and get it out everytime I buy something there because I can't remember it.!!!!

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Post by: Forth Bridges on January 22, 2006, 12:18:00 am

I can remember teh times of the buses 10 Years ago!  but still can't remember wha tteh do right now have teh time

 

strange how you remember stuff from when your younger

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Post by: loulou on January 22, 2006, 12:21:49 am

strange

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Post by: oldspice on January 22, 2006, 08:51:23 am

You seem to like buses 623

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Post by: Forth Bridges on January 22, 2006, 10:35:37 am

well I dso design those routes: but there never pay me, it time liek this I shoudl should just do what my mate does. adn chill out

 

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Post by: loulou on January 22, 2006, 04:08:42 pm

yes chill out

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Post by: goldencup on January 22, 2006, 04:53:16 pm

Quote from: oldspice

When I was tiny my mum had a Coop divi account and you had to quote your number to get the divi. Her number was 367493 and I have known that number for at least 45 years. Now I have my own divi account at the local Coop Department Store. I have to keep my account number on a card and get it out everytime I buy something there because I can't remember it.!!!!

You've struck a chord yet again Oldspice!  My mum's divi number was 211909 and I'm sure I'll never forget it but I keep forgetting my car registration!

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Post by: loulou on January 22, 2006, 05:23:20 pm

EPT 719B  was the registration for my dads very first car. Funny how that sticks in my mind along with other peoples national insurance numbers but I can never remember a phone number. 

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Post by: oldspice on January 22, 2006, 06:17:13 pm

RVX 77OK - the registration umber of the Mini driven by my first serious boyfriend. We started going out in 1975 and split up in 1978.

How could I have written birthday? Thanks lou! What a dummy I am!!! 

oldspice38740.7824421296

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Post by: loulou on January 22, 2006, 06:19:37 pm

You wrote birthday instead of boyfriend didn't you? Where's your edit button?

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Post by: smurfboy on January 23, 2006, 01:21:51 pm

I forgot a classic one from my friend's mum. She swore blind that in 'It's my Life' Bon Jovi sing 'like Frankenstein, I did it my way'!

A friend of my sister's also said once 'ooh, I had a real Rio de Janeiro then'. She meant deja vu!

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Post by: chocolate chick on January 23, 2006, 01:31:08 pm