These pictures make my teeth itch

These pictures make my teeth itch

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hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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Hooli said:
Is it the books or the uneven tea towel?
I find the blue books most irritating in that picture.

hornetrider

63,161 posts

204 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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LordGrover said:
On this topic, 01179 xxxxxx really grinds my gears. The area code for Bristol is 0117.
The old numbers were prefixed with a 9 so what was 0272 609911 became 0117 960 9911.
The number is often written as 01179 609911 by the hard of thinking.
Conversely, I far prefer 01179. I work with phone numbers every day and when I call them out I always do so as 5-3-3, so, code, then break the 6 digit number into two. All mobile dialling codes are 5 digits so it fits in easier that way. 07970, 07866, 07815, etc

F3RNY7

545 posts

163 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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hornetrider said:
Conversely, I far prefer 01179. I work with phone numbers every day and when I call them out I always do so as 5-3-3, so, code, then break the 6 digit number into two. All mobile dialling codes are 5 digits so it fits in easier that way. 07970, 07866, 07815, etc
As a Bristolian, 01179 sounds so wrong to me. 0117 all the way!

All a bit of a moot point as

A) I grew up in South Bristol so was 01275, and
B) They seem to have run out of "9" numbers. We recently had a new phone line put in and our number is (0117) 3....

irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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hornetrider said:
I find the blue books most irritating in that picture.
that was the first thing that I noticed TBH

McAndy

12,336 posts

176 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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F3RNY7 said:
As a Bristolian, 01179 sounds so wrong to me. 0117 all the way!

All a bit of a moot point as

A) I grew up in South Bristol so was 01275, and
B) They seem to have run out of "9" numbers. We recently had a new phone line put in and our number is (0117) 3....
I thought that 9 and 3 suffixes to the STD were introduced simultaneously and defined by post code?

F3RNY7

545 posts

163 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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McAndy said:
I thought that 9 and 3 suffixes to the STD were introduced simultaneously and defined by post code?
Ah, is that what it is? No idea to be honest, haven't had a landline in about 6 years!

McAndy

12,336 posts

176 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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F3RNY7 said:
Ah, is that what it is? No idea to be honest, haven't had a landline in about 6 years!
I may be wrong! I only lived in Bristol fleetingly but I remember it being a source of post office gossip and bus stop confusion while I was there. smile

jhfozzy

1,345 posts

189 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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hornetrider said:
LordGrover said:
On this topic, 01179 xxxxxx really grinds my gears. The area code for Bristol is 0117.
The old numbers were prefixed with a 9 so what was 0272 609911 became 0117 960 9911.
The number is often written as 01179 609911 by the hard of thinking.
Conversely, I far prefer 01179. I work with phone numbers every day and when I call them out I always do so as 5-3-3, so, code, then break the 6 digit number into two. All mobile dialling codes are 5 digits so it fits in easier that way. 07970, 07866, 07815, etc
But if you were in Bristol and tried to do a local call by dropping the 01179 off the front (using the example above 01179 609911) it wouldn't work.

I agree, it would make sense to be 01179 xxxxxx, but it's Bristol.

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Thursday 11th June 2015
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There's a rogue white book that doesn't match any other book too.

cobra kid

4,906 posts

239 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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iva cosworth said:
There's a rogue white book that doesn't match any other book too.
It's converted.

R2T2

4,076 posts

121 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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F3RNY7 said:
As a Bristolian, 01179 sounds so wrong to me. 0117 all the way!

All a bit of a moot point as

A) I grew up in South Bristol so was 01275, and
B) They seem to have run out of "9" numbers. We recently had a new phone line put in and our number is (0117) 3....
+1.

My number used to be 01275-5...
we recently changed and it's not 01275-8.....

Whenever looking at 0117 numbers at work it's always 0117-9....

when people tell me a number and go 01179 it throws me off.

Bristols area code is nice and easy to remembersmile What's awkward though is remembering, at work, that I need to dial 9 to get an external number. Even after 2 years I still forget; Rah!

wseed

1,501 posts

129 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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Gretchen said:
My 12 year old son just spotted this. He's twitching. #proudmum

Wow, that's the cheapest Coke ever. £150 for 500 megalitres , likewise with the cider and larger.

RemyMartin

6,759 posts

204 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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jhiker said:
A couple of examples - from my own kitchen, sadly....

One for the council thread. Who buys Bramwell sauce. No HP brown, Heinz tomato or Colmans English mustard. GTFO!
Edited to add no Hellmanns either.

AstonZagato

12,649 posts

209 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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R2T2 said:
F3RNY7 said:
As a Bristolian, 01179 sounds so wrong to me. 0117 all the way!

All a bit of a moot point as

A) I grew up in South Bristol so was 01275, and
B) They seem to have run out of "9" numbers. We recently had a new phone line put in and our number is (0117) 3....
+1.

My number used to be 01275-5...
we recently changed and it's not 01275-8.....

Whenever looking at 0117 numbers at work it's always 0117-9....

when people tell me a number and go 01179 it throws me off.

Bristols area code is nice and easy to remembersmile What's awkward though is remembering, at work, that I need to dial 9 to get an external number. Even after 2 years I still forget; Rah!
London is as bad.

It is 020 7XXX XXXX, NOT 0207 XXX XXXX. If you dial XXX XXXX in greater London, it won't connect but 7XXX XXXX will.

JumboBeef

3,772 posts

176 months

Friday 12th June 2015
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The whole number code thing is wrong. Who was the muppet who decided on this?

What's the point of going from 021 123 4567 to 0121 123 4567? It just means as they run out of numbers everyone has to ring the whole number, including those who live within the area code number.

They should have added the extra 1 after the area code, so: 021 1123 4567.

stain

1,051 posts

209 months

Monday 15th June 2015
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irocfan

40,152 posts

189 months

Monday 15th June 2015
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OK, I give up - it's a Ferrari owned by someone in Berlin....

iva cosworth

44,044 posts

162 months

Monday 15th June 2015
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Is it because "Monte Carlo" is much longer than " edition"....making it uneven ?

Funk

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26,254 posts

208 months

Monday 15th June 2015
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Whatever it is, it's pretty tasteless!

stain

1,051 posts

209 months

Monday 15th June 2015
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iva cosworth said:
Is it because "Monte Carlo" is much longer than " edition"....making it uneven ?
Yep. Makes the prancing horse look off centre.