Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

[audi321]

Doofus said:

My phone number is, like yours, 5 digits followed by 6. How do you recite your number? I do 5, 3, 3

I also do that format and I guess 95% of people do. However it infuriates the hell out of me when someone reads it back to me and does 4,3,4!!

[Doofus]

audi321 said:

Doofus said:

My phone number is, like yours, 5 digits followed by 6. How do you recite your number? I do 5, 3, 3

I also do that format and I guess 95% of people do. However it infuriates the hell out of me when someone reads it back to me and does 4,3,4!!

Me too. They have no rhythm, those weirdos!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

audi321 said:

Doofus said:

My phone number is, like yours, 5 digits followed by 6. How do you recite your number? I do 5, 3, 3

I also do that format and I guess 95% of people do. However it infuriates the hell out of me when someone reads it back to me and does 4,3,4!!

And they say "is that correct?" and you want to reply "I have no fking idea as I can't process a phone number when it's said that way"

[Halmyre]

audi321 said:

Doofus said:

My phone number is, like yours, 5 digits followed by 6. How do you recite your number? I do 5, 3, 3

I also do that format and I guess 95% of people do. However it infuriates the hell out of me when someone reads it back to me and does 4,3,4!!

You mean the obvious way?

[captain_cynic]

Halmyre said:

audi321 said:

Doofus said:

My phone number is, like yours, 5 digits followed by 6. How do you recite your number? I do 5, 3, 3

I also do that format and I guess 95% of people do. However it infuriates the hell out of me when someone reads it back to me and does 4,3,4!!

You mean the obvious way?

4-3-4 is far more human readable.

(The) US-style with brackets and dashes is just pants on head retarded though.

[deadtom]

Halmyre said:

You mean the obvious way?

I suppose you pronounce people's names as 'Joh NDoe' or 'Jan EDoe' too?

Absolute lunatic.

Edited by deadtom on Wednesday 12th June 15:54

[Clockwork Cupcake]

My variation of a phone number is the dialling code, then 3 numbers, then the rest of the numbers.

PistonHeads lists its phone number as 0808 178 3318 which is probably how I would space it too, since 0808 is the dialling code. I certainly wouldn't arbitrarily change that to 08081 783 318 like some are advocating, as 08081 is not a valid dialling code.

The published phone number for GCHQ is 01242 221491 so I would space that as 01242 221 491, since 01242 is the dialling code for Cheltenham.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Wednesday 12th June 16:13

[audi321]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

My variation of a phone number is the dialling code, then 3 numbers, then the rest of the numbers.

PistonHeads lists its phone number as 0808 178 3318 which is probably how I would space it too, since 0808 is the dialling code. I certainly wouldn't arbitrarily change that to 08081 783 318 like some are advocating, as 08081 is not a valid dialling code.

The published phone number for GCHQ is 01242 221491 so I would space that as 01242 221 491, since 01242 is the dialling code for Cheltenham.

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Wednesday 12th June 16:13

I think we’re talking mobile numbers not landline

[Strangely Brown]

I always articulate the dialing code as one part followed by the number either as 3,4 or 3,3 depending on number of digits, but I never split the last digit of the code onto the number just for cadence. That is both stupid and unhelpful.

Edited by Strangely Brown on Wednesday 12th June 16:32

[mko9]

captain_cynic said:

4-3-4 is far more human readable.

(The) US-style with brackets and dashes is just pants on head retarded though.

The brackets are a legacy of land line telephones. If you were calling local within your area code (the three digits in the brackets), then you omit the area code. The area codes are generally contained within a state, although there are a couple that cross state lines. If you are calling long distance outside your area code you use 1 + the area code. But in the modern era of cell phones, you pretty much use all the numbers all the time. These days I have noticed that numbers are more frequently referenced as 123-456-7890, rather than [phone]. But the old ways have not faded away.

Honestly, I don't know if you can make a "local call" on a cell phone and omit the area code. And I haven't had a land line home phone in years.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

audi321 said:

I think we’re talking mobile numbers not landline

Mobile numbers have dialling codes too.

mko9 said:

Honestly, I don't know if you can make a "local call" on a cell phone and omit the area code.

You can't. In fact you have never* been able to.

(* - in the UK. That I am aware of. And I got my first mobile phone in 1995)

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Wednesday 12th June 16:32

[Trustmeimadoctor]

The days when you could just dial the last 3 digits and get through !)

[captain_cynic]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

You can't. In fact you have never* been able to.

(* - in the UK. That I am aware of. And I got my first mobile phone in 1995)

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Wednesday 12th June 16:32

A long long time ago.

Back in Australia local calls were still a thing in the 2000s. Telcos were still pretending it cost more to ring another city. If you dialed an 02 (Sydney) number on a phone in Sydney you'd get the local rate, an 07 (Perth) number you'd be charged an additional STD rate. Having a mobile was expensive in the 90s in Oz.

It used to be an issue when routing information was included in phone numbers, so additional charges could be levied if calling a long distance number. Subscriber Trunk Dialing is long gone so it's area codes are just kept around as a legacy now.

Edited by captain_cynic on Wednesday 12th June 16:45

[Rusty Old-Banger]

Trustmeimadoctor said:

The days when you could just dial the last 3 digits and get through !)

Yep remember those days!

[P-Jay]

Halmyre said:

audi321 said:

Doofus said:

My phone number is, like yours, 5 digits followed by 6. How do you recite your number? I do 5, 3, 3

I also do that format and I guess 95% of people do. However it infuriates the hell out of me when someone reads it back to me and does 4,3,4!!

You mean the obvious way?

A few years ago 'the youths', as ever, tried to put a new, more efficient spin on things by completely omitting the '07' bit at the start, because all mobiles are 07 and then went all 3,3,3 which was simply incompatible with my brain, by the time I'd worked out what they were talking about they'd finished and I had to ask them wtf they were on about. They'd then a strange face and say something like "Duh, 07 then". These are the same people who walk around the office holding their phone as if one might if they were trying to see up their nose with a small rectangular mirror and having conversations like a Kardashian. Kids eh?

[Halmyre]

deadtom said:

Halmyre said:

You mean the obvious way?

I suppose you pronounce people's names as 'Joh NDoe' or 'Jan EDoe' too?

Absolute lunatic.

Edited by deadtom on Wednesday 12th June 15:54

What sort of username is dea dtom anyway?

[Doofus]

Halmyre said:

What sort of username is dea dtom anyway?

It's "dea de tom". Rhythm, see?

[deadtom]

Halmyre said:

What sort of username is dea dtom anyway?

the second 'd' is silent. It's pronounced "day-ah tom"

[Nethybridge]

Do all flatscreen TVs have a colour saturation/brightness variance when viewed at from the side ?

I didn't notice it on my old 1080p 42 inch, but on my 55 inch 4K it's quite noticeable even when I stand up.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

depend on the technology in the panel ips, va, oled what filters they have infront of them etc