that was never my favorite way to do it. instead, when we were talking to somebody we didn’t like, we would just rattle it in the cradle for a good five to ten seconds before hanging up.
Oof, this speaks to me. I hang up on marketing calls 3-4 times a week, and boy this does sound way more satisfying than just tapping a touchscreen.
I’ve found that playing porn very loudly when marketers call is a good way to get added to the Do Not Call list very quickly.
Dropped my old Nokia 5 floors. Mom on call didn’t even notice. Thing worked afterwards too.
Like straight down? On what kind of surface?
I spiked the fuck out of an old Nokia in like 2093 against the carpeted floor in my office. Sadly I slightly cracked the corner of where the battery case met the phone. The phone still worked but the battery wouldn’t stay connected. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person on the internet who ever broke a Nokia.
The boomers are arriving.
lmao. no, mostly gen x and millennials. boomers are stuck on Facebook and xitter.
You can tell because they post a screenshot style image with some random comment. The community it basically a dumping ground for anything they thought was funny. No one wants to spend a little extra time to make a meme.
I miss the memes on Reddit but I’m not good enough to make anything worth posting.
And you could mumble what an <insult> they are afterwards.
I had a friend that would do this regardless of the phone call he had even if it was a pleasant one. It was pretty comical.
I just imagine you having a slightly heated phone call with someone then as you say your goodbyes you hear a loud bang of their expensive iPhone being slammed followed by the shattering of a glass table and the phone screen then you barely make out the words
bitch
And, the phones were built to take it.
Nowadays, we see the answer to the question “What if we made the hinges plastic?” in almost everything we do, everywhere we go.
Landline phones were mostly plastic and took lots of abuse for years just fine.
A good hang-up and slam was just poetic.
You can always tap your phone on a hard surface a few times to wake up the telemarketers.
Or start screaming somewhere near your phone that you’re suddenly in the market for a new house or changing your brand of pet food, and just sit back and waste the time of all the marketing and scam calls you get.
I pretended to be brutally murdered while on the phone with a scam caller.
bloody gurgling screams and all.
you’d think they would be more sympathetic but hung up after shouting, “fuk u!”
I bet they angrily pushed their disconnect button and were only left with the ringing in their ear.
And if you were on the receiving end, you heard the slam. Or, so I’ve been told…
Nah bro, they actually felt it. You probably never got slammed so you don’t know, but the person on the other end would suddenly fly across the room like a truck hit them, that’s why we saved the phone slam for when someone REALLY deserved it. Good times.
I got phone slammed once. I died.
Condolences, you will be missed.
Through the announcers table.
might be exagerating the value of this
If you had a Touch Tone phone, you could hold any button while on a call and the noise would annoy sales callers, or the creepy heavy breathers that would call.
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
“…so, anyway, as i was say–”
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
“…”
Boomer moment: I’m 30 but never got used to the feeling of modern smartphones against out ears. It’s terrible and I can never hear or be heard well enough. It’s to a point where I always answer in speakerphone or with headphones, facilitated by not answering the phone often. Recently I’ve been wishing to get an old phone-like accessory for my smartphone so I could do calls in a comfortable way.
… Then again, during covid I learned to answer phones around the lab on speakerphone, too, and these were classic-style phones. So maybe I’m a lost cause
Edit: old cellphones were fine, it’s just smartphones that have the worst possible shape and texture to hold them against my ear. Sadly, my parents still see that as the primary use for a phone.
I’m 30 but never got used to the feeling of modern smartphones against out ears.
I’m almost 5 decades into this weird mess and yeah, I still am not that comfortable with sliding a cold, smooth, oily, touch-screen with all kinds of sensitive buttons and screen options across my ear when having a phone call. I’ve always hated it compared to the comfort of an old corded-phone speaker that was pleasantly curved for privacy and had a solid, comfortable handle. You could throw that thing against the wall, drop it while you’re talking, set it down for an hour and forget about it (for those kinds of calls.)
On the other hand, I almost never get phone calls anymore. People straight up stopped calling each other. I get maybe one a week at work, but even there most calls are scheduled Teams or Zoom calls. People hate talking to each other given the choice, everyone has withdrawn to a world of text messages and private discord servers.
Not saying things were better in the old days, but this is a major factor in our societal de-socialization crisis.
There are several reasons why people don’t call each other nowadays. This is one.
Yes, the usability and affordances are worse.
Yeah to me it’s weird that phones are flat slabs now. That whole concept would have looked stupid in the 80s or even the 90s.
Its cause they’re all pocket computers that just happen to be a phone too.
Even this phone only mobile phone from punkt still has that form factor so it can fit in your pocket.
Exactly, I say modern cell phones are “phones” like those colored plastic data slabs on original Star Trek were “tapes”.
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If I wanted a bluetooth phone device I would use a headset. Why not leave both hands free?
Oh, sorry, I’ll delete it
Please don’t, it’s cute and I’m sure some people would love it.
We have a “landline” (actually VOIP) at our house and I have a desk phone in my office that I use often. This is one of the reasons. It’s also nice not having to run around the house trying to find my cell phone in emergencies, not to mention VOIP service is dirt cheap.
I enjoyed the flip phone, like, this convo sucks, clap and closed
Answering on flip phones was equally boss. When you master that perfect wrist flip where you can just crack the hinge a little with your thumb and let the flip do the rest of the work.
So satisfying every time.
And slam it over and over. And the phone was fine.
“YOU’RE AN INANIMATE OBJECT!!!”
Reminds me of the first time I worked in a newsroom in the early 2000s. When the repeated slamming wasn’t enough, the whole phone would go flying across the office. I, unfortunately, had the desk by the wall, in the prime firing line. My reflexes became boss in those first 3 months.
Beating the earpiece against the metal pay phone and not even a scuff mark.
“Why don’t they make the whole plane out of Bakelite?”
JERRY!
jerry seinfeld is a child-abusing rapist billionaire you piece of shit.
No soup for you.
They still sell land line phones.
Yup! Most are office phones and don’t make the most satisfying part. When you made the bell on the phone ring you slammed it so hard.
I use a desk phone every day in my office.
