Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

[El Pibe]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> Nope. You have to include the area code when

> dialing from your mobile. But the area code is

> 020. And if I where to quote a number to you, I

> would give it as 020 (pause) 8910 (pause) 1234 and

> get extremely upset if (as often happens) you made

> me repeat it by saying

> "sorry, 0208, then what?"

> I can't understand why after 14 years, so many

> people still cannot process a London phone number

> unless it is expressed in (the entirely erroneous)

> terms of the area code, plus the first digit of

> the number.

>

^^

this times a million

[Otta]

Haha, I thought of you EP (and your better half) as soon as this subject came up.

[Dopamine1979]

Otta Wrote:

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> For me it just flows better doing it as

> 0208,xxx,xxxx. Like a mobile number should be

> 07xxx,xxx,xxx. It throes me off when people do it

> differently.

This.

[Earl Aelfheah]

I am going to have to retire from this discussion. It is turning my hair grey.

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

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> > For me it just flows better doing it as

> > 0208,xxx,xxxx. Like a mobile number should be

> > 07xxx,xxx,xxx. It throes me off when people do

> it

> > differently.

>

> This.

[red devil]

Dopamine1979 Wrote:

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> Otta Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > For me it just flows better doing it as

> > 0208,xxx,xxxx. Like a mobile number should be

> > 07xxx,xxx,xxx. It throes me off when people do

> it

> > differently.

>

> This.

Defo this. It's all about the flow. 020 pause? Get out of here and take your strange ways with you...

rahrahrah, Quids recommends Just For Men, they'll never notice...

[Otta]

Haha!

[El Pibe]

my old numbr was 020 72 74 20 76 which had a nice rhythm and pneumonic about it, and some git would always say

sorry 0207 what? at which point I'd totally lose my place.

I'm obviosuly evil as i do mobiles 07xxx xx xx xx

[El Pibe]

Plus my mate invented the whole 020 deal when he was at OFTEL (or so he claimed)

[Otta]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> I'm obviosuly evil as i do mobiles 07xxx xx xx xx

Actually, so do I with my own number. Doh!

The main thing is that the fist 5 digits are together. I can accept xx,xx,xx or xxx,xxx.

[????]

Don't think I didn't notice that RD

*puts RD's name in Little Black book

[red devil]

???? Wrote:

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> Don't think I didn't notice that RD

>

> *puts RD's name in Little Black book

Just so you know, I don't put out on a first date...

[maxxi]

Back when it was still '01' the rest of the number was a group of three then a group of four stretching back to when the group of three numbers in the middle referred to a local exchange (like Mayfair 3232) so the habit of quoting a group of three then four numbers persists leaving whatever comes before it - whether 01. 0171, 0207 etc. - as another group, something we have also adopted with mobile numbers. It's a habit borne out of historical usage rather than hysterical abusage.

[Loz]

People who say 0207/0208 annoy the hell out of me, too. Worse are the PEOPLE WHO WRITE IT!!! It is just wrong.

Besides, there are 020 3xxxxxxx numbers out now.

[KalamityKel]

I'm deffo one of those who annoys the hell out of most of you - I can assure you it's done mostly out of habit especially when dealing with callers from all over the world using various devices AND one shouldn't assume just because you're sitting in a particular area that the person you're giving a number to knows where you are or where they are!

Cant's really understand the frustration here...

More annoying are those amongst the human race who insist on pronouncing the zero part of a postcode as an o and try to correct you when you repeat it back with a zero!

eg. SE22 ZEROer V SE22 oer

[KalamityKel]

Every time I'm off work there's bloomin' builders chopping, drilling, sawing, hammer banging in the surrounding areas... is this deliberate? ;-)

[Salsaboy]

Yes. We all wait until we know you're off work, then start.

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> Every time I'm off work there's bloomin' builders

> chopping, drilling, sawing, hammer banging in the

> surrounding areas... is this deliberate? ;-)

[KalamityKel]

I knew it!

[KoolBananas]

self adhesive stamps

[Seabag]

People standing at the bus stop

[KoolBananas]

the bubble thing on the top of an ink cartridge

[Zebedee Tring]

Would you prefer that they sit on the pavement?

[Seabag]

Zebedee Tring Wrote:

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>

>

> Would you prefer that they sit on the pavement?

Whatev's , just leave f**king a space for people to get by

[Alan Medic]

People who stand on the left hand side of an escalator. Isn?t there an unwritten law against this?

[Otta]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23444086

[Zebedee Tring]

I agree with that wholeheartedly, but you didn't spell it out in your original post.