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Arivia posted:"Dorset's Devastating Fenella" never has a sexier description been given. Dorset? The sex capital of the world, everyone knows that. Devastating? The most arousing of adjectives. Fenella? A name that's a pleasure to say and tempts you with so much more. image search results:  looks quite romantic actually, but not if it was devastated probably.  Okay I find this image disturbing for reasons I can't name.
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Kwyndig posted:Coin storage Are we talking about the phone or fenella's fanny because I think given the last few posts it is important to clarify.
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Cojawfee posted:Why is it so huge? What is in that phone that requires such a huge housing? Kwyndig posted:Coin storage More or less. These things took multiple coin denominations (you can see the slits at the top) and had a little window where you could see them disappear (quickly) while talking. All the while clicking and clunking loud enough to make it hard to hear the other party. That's what you get when you have a state monopoly on telecommunications. e: Photos, including interior. Zopotantor has a new favorite as of 21:15 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Wow, I'm glad we instead had a private monopoly on telecommunications.
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She's just having a smoke  Do Carry On films count as obsolete and failed technology?
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Ah, the Fernwahlmünzfernsprecher 63. "Remote-selection-coin-far-talker" ... long distance coin telephone? e: I know just enough German to be dangerous, yes. Computer viking has a new favorite as of 22:41 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Here's a British telephone box I spotted yesterday: 
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I haven't seen a payphone in the wild in Vancouver in ages. The only time I've seen them recently was in the international terminal at YVR.
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Kazinsal posted:I haven't seen a payphone in the wild in Vancouver in ages. The only time I've seen them recently was in the international terminal at YVR. My daughter and I went on a mission to find every publicly available payphone in our town (ones not inside a business). We found one. It sits in front of a notoriously lovely trailer park located on one of our main stroads.
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spookygonk posted:Here's a British telephone box I spotted yesterday: of course it's got a bunch of cider cans on it
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There was a payphone in my high school. I was there from 95-99. Someday someone with too many quarters and too much time randomly called up what we called "The English Lady." Small town Indiana and no one ever figured out who she was. But she had a strong accent and always answered when someone called. She got a lot of calls from kids during lunch. Her attitude about the whole thing was it was kids being kids. She wasn't dumb she knew where the calls were coming from. I don't know if the number got passed down over the years. Most kids would just hang up after she answered, the brave ones would try and prank her, and the really brave would talk to her.
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spookygonk posted:Here's a British telephone box I spotted yesterday: Both of these look better than Verizon dilapidated poo poo boxes.
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At the Museum Of Trash, in Brazil:
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stephenthinkpad posted:Both of these look better than Verizon dilapidated poo poo boxes. The permeating smell of piss is probably unique to the enclosed britboxes though.
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OwlFancier posted:The permeating smell of piss is probably unique to the enclosed britboxes though. Alas, it is not. America has very creative, very anti-social public pissers. San Diego municipal buildings and bus/trolley stations still have payphones. The ones in the city-owned buildings are in better condition than the ones at the stations though.
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OwlFancier posted:The permeating smell of piss is probably unique to the enclosed britboxes though. Imagine how bad Dr Who's box smells after all these years. No way could you ever find every nook and piss soaked cranny. How many bathrooms are even in that thing compared to the internal size? I doubt the Doctor needs to pee so probably zero.
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Desert Bus posted:Imagine how bad Dr Who's box smells after all these years. No way could you ever find every nook and piss soaked cranny. How many bathrooms are even in that thing compared to the internal size? I doubt the Doctor needs to pee so probably zero. The 100th classic series story was meant to feature a scene with the Doctor et al. having a birthday party and him eating some cake. The producer vetoed it because he thought it would make kids wonder if the Doctor used the toilet. The same serial contained a scene with the Doctor drinking wine. I swear I'm not making this up.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:The 100th classic series story was meant to feature a scene with the Doctor et al. having a birthday party and him eating some cake. The producer vetoed it because he thought it would make kids wonder if the Doctor used the toilet. The same serial contained a scene with the Doctor drinking wine. Honestly as I was writing that post I was really REALLY hoping that Goons would be Goons and give me a much deserved education RE: Time Lord excretory systems and possible waste management strategies on the TARDIS. The TARDIS is a living thinking being and its companion keeps picking up rando humans and I doubt it likes getting poo poo on anymore than I would so i'd assume it's just in the habit of having every other door lead to a recreation of the men's restrooms at Hampden Park.
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Desert Bus posted:Honestly as I was writing that post I was really REALLY hoping that Goons would be Goons and give me a much deserved education RE: Time Lord excretory systems and possible waste management strategies on the TARDIS. I mean I know the TARDIS is supposed to be kinda malfunctioning but if my time machine's bathroom looked like the bathroom in a Scottish football stadium I'd just abandon it goddamn.
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Pham Nuwen posted:I mean I know the TARDIS is supposed to be kinda malfunctioning but if my time machine's bathroom looked like the bathroom in a Scottish football stadium I'd just abandon it goddamn. It learns from what it knows and how many doctors and companions have presented as Scottish? A lot right?
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Desert Bus posted:Imagine how bad Dr Who's box smells after all these years. No way could you ever find every nook and piss soaked cranny. How many bathrooms are even in that thing compared to the internal size? I doubt the Doctor needs to pee so probably zero. Well, we know the Tardis has a pool, so it's safe to assume it has something akin to plumbing. At the very least, as long as you just need to take a piss, it has one thing that can be used as a urinal. Plus it's a sentient time machine, the toilet probably just shoots the poo poo into the heart of a black hole.
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Randalor posted:Well, we know the Tardis has a pool, so it's safe to assume it has something akin to plumbing. At the very least, as long as you just need to take a piss, it has one thing that can be used as a urinal. Plus it's a sentient time machine, the toilet probably just shoots the poo poo into the heart of a black hole. There is no 'p' in the tardis's "ool".
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Diarrheaing the Turdis.
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Dr Who is the worst thing I’ve ever seen on a tv and I was watching when the second tower got hit.
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I tried watching it as a kid (it was the doctor who looked like everyone's aunt in a big scarf) and it was just so incredibly boring I'd browse text TV instead.
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What's the drive below the cdrom, is it a Jazz drive or something? I would rock that case.
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stephenthinkpad posted:What's the drive below the cdrom, is it a Jazz drive or something? A hard disk drive
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By popular demand posted:oh yeah, removable HDD drawers used to be a thing. I'd assume servers?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:A hard disk drive Does the lock keep it from being removed from the bay, or keep it from being accessed by the software?
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Probably just in the bay, if you added a simple hardware cutoff to an HDD it would damage the drive every time used if the drive still works. E: here's a similar one 
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DrBouvenstein posted:Does the lock keep it from being removed from the bay, or keep it from being accessed by the software? The datasheet (see below) only mentions swapping, so I'm assuming only the former. 
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By popular demand posted:oh yeah, removable HDD drawers used to be a thing. SCIFs, you pull the hard drives and keep them locked in a safe.
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