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Brightonfan1983

Brightonfan1983

Tiny member
Jul 5, 2003
4,809
UK
KZNSeagull said:
I have absolutely no idea what my mobile number is - when asked I have to look it up.
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I got my first mobile in the late 90s I think, bought it from some long-deceased company over the (land) 'phone, and had to give them a 4 digit pin on completion to 'prove' it was me (security was quite something back then). I used to always use 1983. The sales bod said "oh that's funny, that's the last digits of your new number". Safe to say, I've kept the same one ever since! Closest I'll ever come to anything approximating a 534GULL5 number plate I can tell you.
 






clapham_gull

clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
25,338
edna krabappel said:
My landline is one digit different to the local leisure centre, so on the rare occasions anybody calls it, they're usually asking what time the kids pool is open. Somebody once called me three times in a row, refusing to believe I was not in fact the Dolphin Centre, so in the end I just told him it was and accepted his booking for a squash court anyway.
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My old was was similar to a hospital in London.

I used to get calls from the USA. One night I got a distressed call from a women who needed help from her husband and off the back off that I rang an ambulance.

After that I thought it most helpful to get rid of it.
 
















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Berty23

Well-known member
Jun 26, 2012
3,208
It is about time we all started saying our numbers properly.

07814160022 (made up number rather than my own).

So say
Zero seven billion eight hundred and fourteen million one hundred and sixty thousand and twenty two.
 




Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,531
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
giveusfalmerplease said:
ah but isnt it just as annoying when they just say hello and you have to say Is that x??
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Good. I only say hello unless I see who is ringing via my contacts. I’m not going to identify myself to some scammer.

Cable hasn't‘r reached my neck of the woods yet, so I need a landline for the internet.
 




Eeyore

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
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Apr 5, 2014
23,601
Stat Brother said:
Answers the phone?

Mine is permanently on silent.
Nobody ever calls me, except for one person - because there's always one person.

I usually let their missed calls go above 5 before texting 'what's up?'
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I haven't had a phone connected to my landline since forever. I don't actually know what my number is. I think the suppliers have cottoned on to this and don't ask for your home number in security. I just laugh when they ask if I want free evening and weekend calls.
 


portlock seagull

portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
17,130
Elderly relation still does. Another 20years and nobody will. Pretty pointless having a landline even more so answering it with 6 digits when nobody ringing in dials that number or knows by heart. Besides, a new generations text not talk!
 


bhafc99

bhafc99

Well-known member
Oct 14, 2003
7,095
Dubai
Cooden 2744. Can still remember that from 40+ years ago, but would have to look on my iPhone contacts to tell you our current landline.
 




Stat Brother

Stat Brother

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Jul 11, 2003
73,780
West west west Sussex
Eeyore said:
I haven't had a phone connected to my landline since forever. I don't actually know what my number is. I think the suppliers have cottoned on to this and don't ask for your home number in security. I just laugh when they ask if I want free evening and weekend calls.
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I'm so misanthropic I'm talking about my mobile phone that's by my side 24/7. 😆
 




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Brovion

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NSC Patron
Jul 6, 2003
19,380
Good question. As others have said it was drilled into us as kids that you always answered the phone by saying the number. As has been mentioned this was a throwback to the days when calls were manually put through by operators so it was a check for the caller that they'd been connected to the right number. (And the first phone I remember us having didn't even have a dial, all calls were via the operator).

Then came Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD). This was a huge thing, you could actually just dial the person yourself and not use the operator! We were living in Lancing by this stage and our new dial phone came with a number: Seadown 439. First thing we said when picking up the phone was "Seadown 439". Still remember it!

I can't remember when I stopped saying the number, when I got my first house I think. Even my Mum's stopped saying hers now and she was doing it up until about the turn of the century.
 






Ludensian Gull

Ludensian Gull

Well-known member
Apr 18, 2009
3,691
Thorpness Suffolk
An elderly (81) year old friend still answers phone with last 3 digits . Always get a hello 870 ,even though my number comes up on his display :lol:
 


Questions

Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
24,896
Worthing
Pronto my old mum would often answer when it was one of the wops in the family ringing.
 


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