• Smoogs@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    And you could mumble what an <insult> they are afterwards.

    I had a friend that would do this regardless of the phone call he had even if it was a pleasant one. It was pretty comical.

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      2 months ago

      I just imagine you having a slightly heated phone call with someone then as you say your goodbyes you hear a loud bang of their expensive iPhone being slammed followed by the shattering of a glass table and the phone screen then you barely make out the words

      bitch

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      You can tell because they post a screenshot style image with some random comment. The community it basically a dumping ground for anything they thought was funny. No one wants to spend a little extra time to make a meme.

      I miss the memes on Reddit but I’m not good enough to make anything worth posting.

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      Answering on flip phones was equally boss. When you master that perfect wrist flip where you can just crack the hinge a little with your thumb and let the flip do the rest of the work.

      So satisfying every time.

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    We had one that had a really long cord on it and when my older sisters would walk into another room with it, I’d run up and unplug it from the base then disappear. Fuck I had some good hiding spots.

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    Slam it so hard you could make it ding. If you were still mad, you could then yank the cord out of the wall. If you still weren’t done, you could throw it across the room, and it would be just fine, when you calmed down, plugged it back in, and set it on the table again.

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    This was so unbelievably satisfying….Fuck you! SLAM … brrring …SLAM … brrring … over and over again

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    Boomer moment: I’m 30 but never got used to the feeling of modern smartphones against out ears. It’s terrible and I can never hear or be heard well enough. It’s to a point where I always answer in speakerphone or with headphones, facilitated by not answering the phone often. Recently I’ve been wishing to get an old phone-like accessory for my smartphone so I could do calls in a comfortable way.

    … Then again, during covid I learned to answer phones around the lab on speakerphone, too, and these were classic-style phones. So maybe I’m a lost cause

    Edit: old cellphones were fine, it’s just smartphones that have the worst possible shape and texture to hold them against my ear. Sadly, my parents still see that as the primary use for a phone.

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      Yeah to me it’s weird that phones are flat slabs now. That whole concept would have looked stupid in the 80s or even the 90s.

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          Exactly, I say modern cell phones are “phones” like those colored plastic data slabs on original Star Trek were “tapes”.

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        I saw a toddler pretending to take a phone call from an imaginary phone a few weeks ago, and it really threw me that she was holding her “phone” like one would a smartphone (As opposed to putting your thumb to your ear, and outstretching your pinkie towards your mouth).

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      I’m 30 but never got used to the feeling of modern smartphones against out ears.

      I’m almost 5 decades into this weird mess and yeah, I still am not that comfortable with sliding a cold, smooth, oily, touch-screen with all kinds of sensitive buttons and screen options across my ear when having a phone call. I’ve always hated it compared to the comfort of an old corded-phone speaker that was pleasantly curved for privacy and had a solid, comfortable handle. You could throw that thing against the wall, drop it while you’re talking, set it down for an hour and forget about it (for those kinds of calls.)

      On the other hand, I almost never get phone calls anymore. People straight up stopped calling each other. I get maybe one a week at work, but even there most calls are scheduled Teams or Zoom calls. People hate talking to each other given the choice, everyone has withdrawn to a world of text messages and private discord servers.

      Not saying things were better in the old days, but this is a major factor in our societal de-socialization crisis.

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      We have a “landline” (actually VOIP) at our house and I have a desk phone in my office that I use often. This is one of the reasons. It’s also nice not having to run around the house trying to find my cell phone in emergencies, not to mention VOIP service is dirt cheap.

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      There are several reasons why people don’t call each other nowadays. This is one.

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    If you had a Touch Tone phone, you could hold any button while on a call and the noise would annoy sales callers, or the creepy heavy breathers that would call.

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        Cell phones only register a momentary tone. Landlines (POTS) still do this though, yes.

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      Also, each button was a combination of 2 frequencies, each row and each column had a certain frequency. So, each button was a combination of those two.

      But, if you pushed two buttons on the same row, or two buttons in the same column, you could get a single “note”. So, you could play very basic tunes.