Those phones were durable AF.
I recall at least one movie scene where the hero beat the bad guy with one, and we all knew that would definitely work.
Now if they’re really mad in a movie you see someone yeet their $800 phone. They lost the middle ground of slamming or throwing a $50 corded phone out the window. Now there’s only the nuclear option.
Hello there
I like this. I can slam it down without breaking my cell phone
People slam game controllers and replace them all the time. Same would go for this handset. Might even find a “retro” one that’s sturdier. You could murder one with those old school ones.
Someone could make an app that detects a slam and hangs up the phone, then also sell a padded slam-receiver to replicate the experience. Or just use a pillow.
Edit: Found one. Unfortunately it no longer seems to be installable, probably because Google keeps fucking over independent app devs with new requirements. Source is here in case someone wants to see if they can build it.
exactly this
gingerly puts down a $600 iPhone, trembling in anger “…good day, sir.”
…yeah, we might need a generation of phones built to be a tank, just so we can properly communicate our wrath to the other person.
Huh. Maybe a ‘soundboard’ app, which allows you to hang up the current call with a sound effect?
Or a USB-c to RJ45 converter so you can get an old phone from the thrift shop to carry around in case of angry phone shenanigans.
RJ11 converter* -An RJ45 is too big.
Technically either would work, but may as well have the proper esthetics.
I would love to have a soundboard that played sounds in calls. I’d answer the phone like Wolfman Jack all “caller, you’re on the air! gorilla noise, honk”
Could be a thing soon, Android has added “sound enojis” that imo were probably the worst idea ever and only exist for kids to annoy their parents. It’s a soundboard with like 3 sounds on the call screen when you’re on a call. I could see them eventually allowing custom ones.
That’s crap. If you’re gonna give my kid a proper customizable soundboard so they can get creative with how they fuck with me at least that’s something. This is just lord of the flies conch shell shit
How’s your knees feeling OP?
It’s an inanimate fucking object!
Love the video
I slammed my phone down and need a new one constantly
Why is there a payphone inside of a highschool?
Cell phones didn’t exist. Kids need to call to get picked up after hours. There were payphones anywhere they would be used. Malls, Outside fast food restaurants, in shopping centers at gas stations.
I like in Australia we never got rid of them. More or less every payphone I saw growing up is still here. But they gave them 2 amazing upgrades:
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They are now free to use
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They are additionally free Wifi hotspots
Much better than dismantling them imo. They may not be widely used, but it’s worth it for those that do. I’ve even used it once when my phone went flat and needed to call my wife.
And the old pay phones came in very useful here in SE QLD after cyclone Alfred. Without power all the cell towers stopped working but the old landlines weren’t affected. People were lining up at the phone at the shops near me.
That’s the most anti-American thing I’ve ever heard.
Bro what kind of utopia are you living in excuse me?
Free wifi! That’s freaking awesome
Oh that’s nice. We visited Germany about 10 years ago and didn’t get international cell service, so we were relying on hotel wifi and other wifi hotspots. This kind of thing would have been great.
Free WiFi only if you are a Telstra customer for your home broadband
Nah they changed that a while ago
https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/free-wi-fi-is-now-available-to-anyone-across-selected-telstra-pa
It might not be every single one yet, but they were/are working towards that goal.
good to know next time I am waiting at my local bus stop
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Replace “inside of a highschool” with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.
Fair.
Just seems weird to have it in a hallway. Maybe it opens up to a cafeteria behind the camera where I would expect it.
Ours was on a wall across from the office, but the wall opened up to the cafeteria just next to it. I recall students sometimes using it during lunch.
So kids could use the phone.
And why is it the woman from B99
So kids can prank call during lunchbreak and call 900 numbers… and call the parents to say they got in trouble for inappropriate calls…
Because it was a time in between smoke signals and cell phones
Would you hear the slam in the other end?
The beginning, in some cases.
Yes you definitely would
So sexy
i mean if you slam a modern phone hard enough…
i mean you can still do this, my mom’s SO has multiple landline phones in their house, and i’m sure it’s not that difficult to convert an old landline phone to use modern standards with some adapters.
I don’t think anyone was claiming that it was literally impossible.
wow no shit
Lol your comment is entirely superfluous.
god i miss the days when you at least knew if you were responding to a real person, because now i don’t even know if i’m just calling an LLM an idiot
See this is when you would slam the phone
Just as a sidenote here, it really isn’t hard to use an old phone.
You just get an old phone and then there’s adapters with BT, so you just hook up the old phone to the adapter and hit pair on the BT to pair it with your phone and tadaa.
Actually just figured that out after reading this thread. Might get myself one.
What about their comments implies they are a bot?
Or are your feelings just hurt, little guy?
I’m old enough to have done this, yet I never have…
You probably weren’t that angry when using public phones.
I was once in New York using an AT&T payphone and trying to place a reverse-charge (or “international collect”) call to the UK and the operator REFUSED to accept that UK phone numbers are ten digits long. You better believe I put that thing through it’s paces.
I feel like this was more one of these movie things that don’t happen nearly as often in real life.
Oldhead here: we slammed the living shit out of those phones.
I just mean that in normal life, how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them? I can probably count that on one hand and I’m not exactly a youngun either. In movies it feels like every other phone call ended that way haha.
how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them?
“I love you.”
“I know.”
