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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
And the ringer in the phone was a physical bell with a little magnetically-actuated hammer, so if you slammed the receiver down hard enough, the bell would actually resonate for a little while after. You know how some people use a bell slowly fading out as a meditation tool? That's the association I have for that sensation.
"AND NEVER CALL ME AGAIN!" slam
ding
+1 enlightenment points
"You know how some people use a bell slowly fading out as a meditation tool? That's the association I have for that sensation."
Oh man, this comparison is going to stick with me; it's one of my favourite things I've read in recent weeks
Thanks! I debated whether to include it, because it's definitely one of those "well my brain sure isn't normal!" things, but now I'm glad I did.
Flip phones are where it was at. Conversation had you mad? Bye! CLACK!
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.
The phone would, but the wall impacted would have a hole
And, the phones were built to take it.
Nowadays, we see the answer to the question "What if we made the hinges plastic?" in almost everything we do, everywhere we go.
AFAIK, one reason for that is that AT&T was the monopoly provider of telephone equipment. They didn't have to compete with anybody who might undercut them for price. In addition, people often rented their phones, paying a small rental charge every month. That meant that AT&T built the phones to last. They were extremely solid because AT&T didn't ever want to have to replace a phone that someone was renting.
Dropped my old Nokia 5 floors. Mom on call didn't even notice. Thing worked afterwards too.
Like straight down? On what kind of surface?
I spiked the fuck out of an old Nokia in like 2093 against the carpeted floor in my office. Sadly I slightly cracked the corner of where the battery case met the phone. The phone still worked but the battery wouldn’t stay connected. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person on the internet who ever broke a Nokia.
Yes straight down to smooth Concrete. Fell out of my hand as i was opening a door at the top. Thing wasn't even damaged. Battery popped out was all. Thing was epic for a cheap phone.
So it kept your mom on the call with no battery?
Old Nokias are so great, they don't need battery.
And if you were on the receiving end, you heard the slam. Or, so I've been told...
Nah bro, they actually felt it. You probably never got slammed so you don't know, but the person on the other end would suddenly fly across the room like a truck hit them, that's why we saved the phone slam for when someone REALLY deserved it. Good times.
I got phone slammed once. I died.
Condolences, you will be missed.
I got the 2024 moto razr+ flr my work phone when ATT had it on sale for almost nothing since nobody was buying them
I'd forgotten how satisfying it was to hang up by snapping the phone shut.
This was so unbelievably satisfying….Fuck you! SLAM … brrring …SLAM … brrring … over and over again
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.
Oof, this speaks to me. I hang up on marketing calls 3-4 times a week, and boy this does sound way more satisfying than just tapping a touchscreen.
There's a pizza place in the nearby city that has almost the same number as mine, there's just one number difference. For the last few years I've been answering numbers I don't know as the pizza place. When they ask for me I act frustrated and say,
"look I'll tell you what I tell all the other telemarketers, you bought a bad list and got the number for a pizza place. "my name" doesn't work here, and never has. Now do me a favor and drop this number, I'm getting sick of giving this speech 10 times a day".
If they haven't hung up by that point, which they usually have, I say have a good day then hang up. I've noticed my spam calls have significantly dropped off after starting this, maybe it's coincidence and they're dropping my number because it's not generating income, but just in case it is working I'm going to keep doing it.
I've found that playing porn very loudly when marketers call is a good way to get added to the Do Not Call list very quickly.
I would usually call my friends from lowest to highest digits in their phone number
The boomers are arriving.
lmao. no, mostly gen x and millennials. boomers are stuck on Facebook and xitter.
And you could mumble what an 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.
You can always tap your phone on a hard surface a few times to wake up the telemarketers.
Or start screaming somewhere near your phone that you're suddenly in the market for a new house or changing your brand of pet food, and just sit back and waste the time of all the marketing and scam calls you get.
that was never my favorite way to do it. instead, when we were talking to somebody we didn't like, we would just rattle it in the cradle for a good five to ten seconds before hanging up.
A good hang-up and slam was just poetic.
You can still do that if you don't mind buying a new phone after.