You know you're getting on a bit when...

[motco]

john2443 said:

You could omit the STD part of the number.

You still can but it costs the same

Edited by motco on Tuesday 10th January 11:14

[Nimby]

motco said:

Nimby said:

john2443 said:

You could omit the STD part of the number.

You still can but it costs the same

Oh - shows how long it is since I used a landline. But you won't be able to for much longer:
Ofcom say "We are removing the requirement to provide local dialling on
landline phone services since we consider that the value of this facility to phone users has declined
and it is more complex to provide on IP networks..."

[Punctilio]

When you think the miser neighbour's onto something when he cooks his meals,
watches telly and vacuums in the wee small hours coz someone told him the
tricity is cheaper after midnight .

[croyde]

I was surprised to discover that nowadays it's far more expensive to use a landline than to use a mobile.

My first mobile in the early 90s cost me £300 then £20 a month then you paid 30p a minute.

Quite often, as a freelance camera op, I'd be the only one on the crew with a mobile so I'd charge it out to the producer for a pound a minute.

[NelsonM3]

Just booked up for retro rides with some mates. Apparently anything up to 1999 is considered “retro”. So basically anything up to when I was 14 years old…

[gazza285]

croyde said:

I was surprised to discover that nowadays it's far more expensive to use a landline than to use a mobile.

My first mobile in the early 90s cost me £300 then £20 a month then you paid 30p a minute.

Quite often, as a freelance camera op, I'd be the only one on the crew with a mobile so I'd charge it out to the producer for a pound a minute.

I was a band tour manager back in the mid to late nineties, with the roaming charges in Europe being what they were then bills of four or five hundred a month were common, and that was trying to keep usage to an absolute minimum. The phone was a Motorola International 8700, it was the smallest in the shop when I bought it, yet the SIM card was the size of a credit card. Flip front and pull out aerial. Happy days.

[Chicken_Satay]

When you realise that Pulp Fiction is getting on for being released almost 30 years ago!

[RDMcG]

You realize that you bought a new car and it is now 19 years old…….

[croyde]

gazza285 said:

I was a band tour manager back in the mid to late nineties, with the roaming charges in Europe being what they were then bills of four or five hundred a month were common, and that was trying to keep usage to an absolute minimum. The phone was a Motorola International 8700, it was the smallest in the shop when I bought it, yet the SIM card was the size of a credit card. Flip front and pull out aerial. Happy days.

I've still got one of those in my mobile phone museum. The battery was the size of a modern smart phone

I received a call on mine whilst up a mountain in Saudi Arabia, my first in a foreign land. I got sick and used it to make long calls home.

When I got back to England I called Orange to ask what the cost might be.

We don't have a roaming service until next week, that must of been a test circuit...was their reply.

So luckily no cost.

From then on you could choose which foreign operator to use. A bit of juggling and you could keep the costs low.

I'd be working in Malaysia and one company would be free to text UK and another would be free to receive calls.

When roaming became standardized the costs rocketed until you got them included in your minutes, well with some deals.

[motco]

croyde said:

I was surprised to discover that nowadays it's far more expensive to use a landline than to use a mobile.

For outgoing calls it usually is cheaper, but for people to call you on your mobile from their landline it costs more. Lesson; mobile for outgoing but expect your granny to call your landline.

[georgezippy]

When a classic car is half your age.......

[DickyC]

When one of the week's highlights was seeing whether Dick Van Dyke would fall over or step aside the footstool in the titles of The Dick Van Dyke Show.

https://youtu.be/wPsofhzu9f0

It turns out there were three versions. I thought it was two.

[WelshChris]

When you buy a new iMac, complain about the cost, and your son says "Think positive dad, it might be the last computer you ever need to buy"

[Celtic Dragon]

Used the expression “out on the razz” to a colleague and got a blank look back, she’s 24, I’m 46!

[Pixelpeep Electric]

WelshChris said:

When you buy a new iMac, complain about the cost, and your son says "Think positive dad, it might be the last computer you ever need to buy"

me might have meant the mac will outlast several windows machines?

[WelshChris]

Pixelpeep Electric said:

WelshChris said:

When you buy a new iMac, complain about the cost, and your son says "Think positive dad, it might be the last computer you ever need to buy"

me might have meant the mac will outlast several windows machines?

True - I didn't like to say it but it could well outlast me

[lockhart flawse]

When you can remember the cost of your phone calls being more expensive than the room bill in a hotel.

[Pitre]

I yearn for the days when I used to go upstairs and when I got there I'd forgotten why I went.
Now it happens when I walk from one side of the room to the other....

[DickyC]

Pitre said:

I yearn for the days when I used to go upstairs and when I got there I'd forgotten why I went.
Now it happens when I walk from one side of the room to the other....

The step after that, rather than being concerned that you've forgotten what you went for, is experiencing a great sense of accomplishment despite achieving nothing.

[DickyC]

...when you started going to Blood Donors, they used glass bottles.