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2 minutes – Ha! If only one were so lucky. No in my days we had to share a phone in the village, and it was 4 miles through the snow up hill to get to one – in the summer as well.
If lead pipes, baseball bats, machetes and box-cutters can make a comeback, so can chamber pots! (It’s better for the environment and the accompanying dysentary serves to reduce the excesss population, so it’s a win-win!)
Wait, so there’s a cheap and convenient way for me to relieve myself without leaving the comfort of my bedroom or couch? I wish someone had clued me in before I put a tv in my every room of my house!
In the movie “Idiocracy” the makers show a future where the U.S. population has been degraded to couch potatoes, complete with toilet-seat and flush-cord. They sit there all day, munching snacks and grunting at stuff on TV. When I saw that I didn’t find it funny, not funny at all. Too close to reality, I thought…
I didn’t understand what inspired the cartoon, but I love the comments it inspired. I watched a young man try to make a call from a rotary dial phone three years ago. He punched the buttons through the hole in the dial and said, “Your buttons are all stuck.” And while many homes in my 1963 Miss. town had phones, they were all on a party line. If you were bored, you just picked up the phone and listened in. And having to wait in the "queue’ to be able to make your call created interesting moments of “phone rage.” amused, C.
I’m soon to be 67 and I remember phones without a dial. When you picked it up an operator said “number please”. Our phone was on a 4 party line with 3 other neighbors. Then in 1952 the Arlington Heights central office cut over to a number five crossbar switching system and our phone had a rotary dial and was on a 2 party line with the people next door. “Church keys” were also use to open cans of soda pop. Back then most cars had 3 speed manual transmissions.
We had one of those “number please” systems until about 1959. My mother worked at various jobs at a hotel, including the switchboard that had those cables you pugged in like in a Lily Tomlin act.
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Tue Elung-Jensen said, 4 months ago
2 minutes – Ha! If only one were so lucky. No in my days we had to share a phone in the village, and it was 4 miles through the snow up hill to get to one – in the summer as well.
BrassOrchid
said, 4 months ago
If lead pipes, baseball bats, machetes and box-cutters can make a comeback, so can chamber pots! (It’s better for the environment and the accompanying dysentary serves to reduce the excesss population, so it’s a win-win!)
omQ R said, 4 months ago
…I had to explain to my 5 year old what “dialing” really meant. She thought it’d be more fun than digiting numbers.
joshschr
said, 4 months ago
Wait, so there’s a cheap and convenient way for me to relieve myself without leaving the comfort of my bedroom or couch? I wish someone had clued me in before I put a tv in my every room of my house!
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
@omQ R
Back in the days i had a tuned phone with a stronger spring and and well oiled mechanism. Saved a lot of time dialing…
MortyForTyrant said, 4 months ago
@joshschr
In the movie “Idiocracy” the makers show a future where the U.S. population has been degraded to couch potatoes, complete with toilet-seat and flush-cord. They sit there all day, munching snacks and grunting at stuff on TV. When I saw that I didn’t find it funny, not funny at all. Too close to reality, I thought…
masterskrain said, 4 months ago
How many people under 30 today cannot drive a car with a clutch??
Chillbilly
said, 4 months ago
And then use your iPhone to tweet the experience.
Respectful Troll said, 4 months ago
I didn’t understand what inspired the cartoon, but I love the comments it inspired. I watched a young man try to make a call from a rotary dial phone three years ago. He punched the buttons through the hole in the dial and said, “Your buttons are all stuck.” And while many homes in my 1963 Miss. town had phones, they were all on a party line. If you were bored, you just picked up the phone and listened in. And having to wait in the "queue’ to be able to make your call created interesting moments of “phone rage.”
amused,
C.
Nantucket19 said, 4 months ago
@MortyForTyrant
There is a LOT of Idiocracy that is too close to the truth.
PocketNaomi said, 4 months ago
@masterskrain
I’m not under 30, and I can’t drive a car without a clutch. I can, however, drive a horse. I think that’s going one better. :)
Robert Mills said, 4 months ago
IF the quill made a come back people would learn to think before writing.
Clark Kent said, 4 months ago
I’m soon to be 67 and I remember phones without a dial. When you picked it up an operator said “number please”. Our phone was on a 4 party line with 3 other neighbors. Then in 1952 the Arlington Heights central office cut over to a number five crossbar switching system and our phone had a rotary dial and was on a 2 party line with the people next door.
“Church keys” were also use to open cans of soda pop.
Back then most cars had 3 speed manual transmissions.
Rockngolfer said, 4 months ago
@Clark Kent
We had one of those “number please” systems until about 1959.
My mother worked at various jobs at a hotel, including the switchboard that had those cables you pugged in like in a Lily Tomlin act.
Rx71Wm29 said, 4 months ago
I hear that there will be a new national party called the NCPA,
National Chamber Pot Association! Wayne LaPierre will run it!