Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[ianrauk]

Provident cheques.

Cheques and cheque books

 

[ianrauk]

When locking your phone meant using a physical lock & key...

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Good call. (or not so good call) Me mam and Dad had one of those.

 

[petek]

Tapping out a phone number to call someone for free from a telephone box.

 

[Profpointy]

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Tapping out a phone number to call someone for free from a telephone box.

Wasn't that a myth? I'm not sure how the charging gubbins would know if you'd tapped out the pulses or the dial spring had tapped them out.

 

[Dirk]

Wasn't that a myth? I'm not sure how the charging gubbins would know if you'd tapped out the pulses or the dial spring had tapped them out.

It could be done providing you could consistently tap at 10 pulses per second.

 

[raleighnut]

Proper 'Rock' music, not this 'Indie' crap,



View: https://youtu.be/ZUOAtDU5yFY

There's even a 'Key change' in this song.

 

[Profpointy]

It could be done providing you could consistently tap at 10 pulses per second.

Making a call that way works just fine, and timing is not that critical; I've done it. It's how that avoids charges is the bit I'm unconvinced by

 

[Dirk]

GPO Telephones.
No BT in them days.
I used to drive a Morris van the same as this, although it was in the original green colour when I first had it. It was hand painted in the new corporate yellow, by the MT guys, in 1973.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Good call. (or not so good call) Me mam and Dad had one of those.

They were dead easy to bypass though; just tap on the receiver buttons to correspond to the number you wanted to dial - a bit like morse code - with a short pause between each number. (A zero was ten taps)

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Coin operated gas and electric meters

... and televisions!

 

[Dirk]

Bengal Matches on Bonfire Night.

 

[petek]

Wasn't that a myth? I'm not sure how the charging gubbins would know if you'd tapped out the pulses or the dial spring had tapped them out.

It worked for us on local four-digit phone numbers. You tapped each number in rapid taps on the handset rest with a gap in between each 'number' in taps.

 

[slowwww]

Front number plates on motorbikes

Ah yes, the old 'throat-slashers', I'd forgotten about them!

 

[Threevok]

Road signs with cats-eyes on

 

[Jason]

A sentence that doesn't include ..
like
innit
ya know
safe
fam
blood
or profanity