Peter Kay - Telephone Etiquette
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He does a lot of nostalgia jokes. I can do nostalgia. Remember when Peter Kay was funny ? There you go.
Imogen
2025-06-24 17:49:10 +0000 UTCGreat throwback! Technology has a lot to answer for! Was much easier then.
Theloyalmuppet
2025-05-06 21:30:16 +0000 UTCI practically lived in stinky phone boxes when I started work as a newspaper reporter in the late 1970s. If a print deadline was looming and we were miles from the office, we had to phone collect to the newsdesk to update them on the story and then get transferred to a copy taker who you would dictate the story to, literally off the top of your head as you attempted to transcribe your notes, which had been written in shorthand. The copy taker would then read it back for any corrections and refinements. Lots of pressure, particularly if an angry queue was building up outside the phone box. At this time, mobiles and laptops were still in the realms of science fiction!
Thomas
2025-05-06 17:54:29 +0000 UTCThe pips is the beeping you would hear in payphones to signify that you needed to put more money in or the call would end
JokerDanny
2025-05-06 15:57:23 +0000 UTCWent to watch him live on Saturday.. was amazing haha :)
Alex Darlington
2025-05-06 15:36:54 +0000 UTCThe pips reminds me of phone phreaking, which by the mid 90s was dead. But it was tone manipulation, blueboxing in the UK, the electromechanical switching of the phone systems at the time could be manipulated via tones. In the US it was on frequency 2600, in the UK it was 2280. But it essentially meant you could play the tones down the handset and didn't have to pay. In the US there's a cereal called Capn' Crunch, and in the 70s I think it was, they included a free toy whistle. Anyway John Draper found the frequencies from this matched the telephone system and that's his nickname. So you could blow some pips and the telephone system would think you've paid... But still to this day there's a hacker quarterly called 2600, for that reason.
Andy
2025-05-06 11:49:15 +0000 UTC:) i still use a mobile that you have to press 3 times for the letter o ect with no predictive hehe , miss my first phone , the legend itself the nokia 3310 <3
TheHigh
2025-05-06 11:47:09 +0000 UTCThe iconic red telephone boxes that American tourists love so much when they come to Britain are being preserved and repurposed all over the UK. Some very inventive uses such as book swaps, housing defibrillators, micro coffee stands and, ironically, even cellphone charging spots. A lot of them are protected by heritage rules.
Thomas
2025-05-06 11:10:03 +0000 UTCI thought this too. That’s a must. Then maybe, max and paddy afterwards
Scott
2025-05-06 10:53:14 +0000 UTCGreat, funny reaction. It wasn't until i started watching reaction channels i realised just how universal most of Peter's material is. Every single part relatable. Loved it :)
Brucey Mitchell (Cheeky)
2025-05-06 10:52:50 +0000 UTCDavid Brent’s answerphone message “Please leave a MASSAGE”😂😂
Dave
2025-05-06 10:00:06 +0000 UTCa lot of phone boxes have been repurposed as honesty libraries now
Daniel Cooper-O'Reilly
2025-05-06 09:58:54 +0000 UTCIn the UK, we used to answer our home phones by announcing the number eg. ‘London 356972’. My then Italian girlfriend (now wife) found this hilarious. She thought it sounded like a soldier reciting his name and number. In Italy, calls were answered with a simple ‘pronto’.
Thomas
2025-05-06 08:59:41 +0000 UTCYou really need to look at his sitcom Phoenix nights
Andi Main
2025-05-06 07:29:27 +0000 UTCVery nostalgic!
Daz Parker
2025-05-06 06:47:54 +0000 UTCBack in the 60s, when homes were still linked by wires over the street to a wooden telephone pole, we had what were called ‘party lines’. This meant your home phone was paired with a neighbours, meaning they could (if they were that way inclined) listen in to your phone call. My mum never trusted our neighbours, so me or my brother would have to run down the street to check if the neighbours were out before she would make an important phone call. We would literally spy through bushes for signs of life 👀
Thomas
2025-05-06 06:44:35 +0000 UTC"Pips" were a beeping noise you'd get on a payphone to warn you your money was about to run out and you would soon be disconnected.
Steve Small
2025-05-06 06:14:01 +0000 UTCI was just about to head to bed.....in 17 mins 25 seconds
Brucey Mitchell (Cheeky)
2025-05-06 06:06:59 +0000 UTC
