numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
The RNLI keep getting phones calls from France too 
French nuisance calls
- Thread starter matticus
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ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
did she ring back and say it again??
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
biggs682
Touch it up and ride it
- Location
- Northamptonshire
I had one from Rome yesterday 
Tribansman
Veteran
No calls but some snail mail for me
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
Don’t worry it’s only @Brandane having a bit of fun or @woodbutchmaster trying to cadge a cheap Italian steel frame.
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Qui? Moi? Never been known to be anything other than serious, monsieur!
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Bof !
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
If it's Jane Birkin making the calls, she can stay on my line all day!
- Location
- London
I went through a period of getting them from Italy for a while - or at least a fifth columnist embedded here.I had one from Rome yesterday
Always started off for some reason by asking what I thought of Italian food.
Tended to tell her that I thought it pretty good but that Italians could be damn anal about food and should just chill a bit.
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Here's the killer response, repeat incessantly:
Veuillez verser la taxe indiquée. (Please insert the amount indicated.)
In some French-speaking regions the early public telephones had an end-of-call payment system where this recorded message was repeated at the end of a call until coins were put into the slot up to the amount shown on a mechanical counter. What faith in public honesty! No guessing why that system was withdrawn — the last time I saw such a phone was 1977. Come to think of it, that must be about the time Boris Johnson first went to Brussels…
Veuillez verser la taxe indiquée. (Please insert the amount indicated.)
In some French-speaking regions the early public telephones had an end-of-call payment system where this recorded message was repeated at the end of a call until coins were put into the slot up to the amount shown on a mechanical counter. What faith in public honesty! No guessing why that system was withdrawn — the last time I saw such a phone was 1977. Come to think of it, that must be about the time Boris Johnson first went to Brussels…