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Nicole

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Posted on 01-01-11 02:18:53 PM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Arp1033
I remember hearing it because people were wondering where Superman was going to change his clothes in an emergency. Such a stupid thing is the reason it stuck to me, I guess...

Of course, the problem with that is that the phone booths have been gone for awhile even before they started removing the payphones themselves. The only place I've seen a phone booth was inside, and it had glass doors so it wouldn't have been much use to Superman.

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Posted on 01-01-11 02:24:08 PM Link | Quote
My uncle just broke a toe and was taken to a hospital. The year's not heading to a very nice start
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Posted on 01-01-11 07:38:14 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
My uncle just broke a toe and was taken to a hospital. The year's not heading to a very nice start


Ouch, that sucks. Last year I had my appendix decide to rupture and mess up my semester within the first week of school.
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Posted on 01-02-11 12:22:44 AM Link | Quote
We haven't removed pay phones at all.

We've just bumped up the price. Happened a few years ago, 50 cents now to make a call. Annoying...

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Posted on 01-02-11 12:27:16 AM Link | Quote
I think phone booths died because it became a fad in the 1970s or so to stuff as many people into a phone booth as possible, causing all kinds of injuries and suffocation and such.

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Posted on 01-02-11 12:39:14 AM Link | Quote
Phone booths are all over the place here actually. Certainly haven't gone out of style.

Then again, I don't see people trying to stuff themselves into phone booths either.

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Posted on 01-02-11 12:42:33 AM Link | Quote
I still see a lot of public phones, but no one ever uses them anymore.

A shame, I can't stick my finger in the coin return slots anymore and expect to find change.

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Posted on 01-02-11 12:43:49 AM Link | Quote
Back in the 1990s, my parents briefly lived in a house next door to a Mobil station. They'd harvest change that people dropped when trying to use their phone booths from their cars

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Posted on 01-02-11 01:07:14 AM Link | Quote
The number 1 iPhone app: Phonebooth Locator.

There are a few phonebooths in the city centre, but I've never seen anybody use them.

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Posted on 01-02-11 01:57:06 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Zero One
The number 1 iPhone app: Phonebooth Locator.


Hahaha, that would be pretty ironic. I read that iPhones have been having problems with the alarms since the year started.
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Posted on 01-02-11 02:10:35 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FieryIce
Originally posted by Zero One
The number 1 iPhone app: Phonebooth Locator.


Hahaha, that would be pretty ironic. I read that iPhones have been having problems with the alarms since the year started.


Mine hasn't. 10:00am like normal.

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Posted on 01-03-11 02:24:50 PM Link | Quote
Yay, I'm going to the mall today! Finally, something to do besides sitting all day in front of the computer.
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Posted on 01-03-11 05:07:29 PM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Zero One
Originally posted by FieryIce
Originally posted by Zero One
The number 1 iPhone app: Phonebooth Locator.


Hahaha, that would be pretty ironic. I read that iPhones have been having problems with the alarms since the year started.


Mine hasn't. 10:00am like normal.

If I remember right, the problem was with one-shot alarms rather than ones that repeat... I'm not entirely sure, though, since I don't really use the alarm on my iPod touch. (Since it has no speaker... )

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Posted on 01-03-11 10:16:48 PM Link | Quote
A shame, I can't stick my finger in the coin return slots anymore and expect to find change.

I can't do that either but that's because the beggars always get to them. Multiple times in a day, mind you. :\

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I use an old '90s phone-clock for my alarm. No iPhone problems here!

Also, I used to use Payphones all the time. I only got a cell phone because my mother worried about being able to contact me--even though payphones worked just fine.

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Posted on 01-04-11 12:54:30 AM Link | Quote

Originally posted by Metal_Man88
I use an old '90s phone-clock for my alarm. No iPhone problems here!

Also, I used to use Payphones all the time. I only got a cell phone because my mother worried about being able to contact me--even though payphones worked just fine.

There are still payphones here, but I don't think I ever actually used one even before I had a cell-phone...

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Posted on 01-04-11 01:01:26 AM Link | Quote
There are still some payphones around here in Puerto Rico, but they're all vandalized and I'm not sure if you could actually use it now

Everyone, even 7 year olds, have cellphones here... ... ...
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Posted on 01-04-11 01:26:14 AM Link | Quote
fun fact: there's still a law here that everyone must have access to a payphone.

Well they do stand around here, but most of them don't even accept coins anymore rendering them completely useless. Some are also broken.

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Posted on 01-04-11 01:43:20 AM Link | Quote
I need access to one! I don't have a cell phone!

(Then again, if there was an emergency, you could always ask a stranger for one. But still. Rarely needed.)

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Posted on 01-04-11 01:47:04 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
Well they do stand around here, but most of them don't even accept coins anymore rendering them completely useless.


What do they accept? Leaves?

I vaguely remember German pay phones accepting the old Deutsche Mark in addition to the euro.

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