My and my friend figured out a way to beat the phone lock, if you tapped the hang up buttons really quick for each number (so 4 quick taps for a number 4 then small pause and onto the next number) it dials it for you :hehe: tedious and prone to lots of restarting but it worked

dial-a-disc

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I'd have got a clip round the lug by the time it took me to figure that out.:joker:

Omg..

Nice one..and obviously why the phone lock was invented.:joker:

I can see you were obviously a mischievous child Niamh...:laugh:

My mum and dad did that too.

My dad still lives in the same house and so I still ring it every day. He answers with Hello now though.

Wasn't there a story time you could ring? Ring up and you'd get a story about Jack and the beanstalk or something like that.

We used to hang around the shops so my mum got the number of the phone box there and used to ring it so someone would tell me to get my ass home :laugh:

We also used to ring the operator and say the phone ate our 10p and they would connect you for free

tbf we only did it on my friends phone because her mom had put a lock on it, we didn't have one on ours, thinking back I feel really horrible now, her mother was a single parent, totally single parent (no support at all from her ex) and she was probably struggling money wise but you never think about stuff like that when you're a kid :(

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Oh clever :laugh:

Christ, yes..

Yes there bloody was.:cheer2:

I never had one on mine either, but I would still have got a clip round the lug for messing about with the phone:hehe:

We used to phone people in Dallas, in the north of Scotland and ask if JR was in.(cause every phone box had a phone book inside back in the day)

And the operator to tell her to get off the line, cause a trains coming.


I never realised how much fun I've had in a phone box over the years really.

We used to bunch in as late teens, about five of us and pass a bottle of poppers around, that was funny as **** tbh.

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So funny....

I stayed for a week in that there Dallas when we were up for a golf holiday about 10 years ago

Was JR in?

Or his brother JD

i did that and one time the operator came on the line and told me to stop doing it. Apparently, if numbers were called that way they didnt get charged :laugh:

I wonder if you can still do that if you get a new, old, phone installed.

‘Twas called “pulse dialing”, phones used to be either pulse dial (with the dialing ring that you pulled round) or tone dial (buttons, boop boop boop). Pretty much all landline phones are tone dial these days but apparently you CAN still pulse dial on most lines.

There's a loop hole their then.
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No boop boop boop for me.

It’s the same as now so yes. :joker:

4291?

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Not a clue.:shrug:

Yes