The Arbalk morning register!

[AHPP]

I like them. Better sound quality and there's an amount of etiquette that goes with them. Plus fashion. People hang on to things like five digit landline numbers to quietly flaunt their establishment.

[Mick Dempsey]

I done a karaoke in Portugal. 

[AHPP]

Work it, baby.

[Doug Tait]

Had the crowd bouncing there Gloria 

[Mick Dempsey]

1 hour ago, AHPP said:

Work it, baby.

When you fully commit to a performance, they want to come with you!

Edited June 4 by Mick Dempsey
As an artist I mean!!!

[Bob_z_l]

4 hours ago, AHPP said:

 

 

Mum and dad have just lost the faithful old wire phone. Same handset for forty years. You could hear the little dits as you dialled it. I'm sat looking at the empty rawlplugs, like the height marks on a doorframe of a lost child. Replaced with some ting tong Fisher Price bullshit on a base station that plays music. That'll last a year or two before the battery goes.

 

Sadly, it is progress. Of sorts.

 

I could get gooey about the exchanges I worked where there would be 40 + engineers  from 17 through to 60 plus. A "family" of sorts. Some wrong'uns in there for a balanced mix. 
All with their "sections" of electro-mechanical eqpt to patrol. And NOW those voids where it all was have a couple of 19" wide cabs and few routers and switches passing millions of emails, web searches, videos, whatever.  Progress. 

[AHPP]

2 hours ago, AHPP said:

I like them. Better sound quality and there's an amount of etiquette that goes with them. Plus fashion. People hang on to things like five digit landline numbers to quietly flaunt their establishment.

On that sort of heritage, calm down, Branston. I want a sandwich shorter than it is square. 

 

[Bob_z_l]

3 hours ago, sime42 said:

That's unusual these days I think, not many people have landline telephones now. Well, based on my limited data set; I know hardly anyone who uses one. Those few that do are in the older generations. We're in the odd position of having to pay for a phone line that we don't use. Virgin don't allow the option of not having one. Now that they're not exchange powered, there's no advantage over a mobile. (Not that I think that's progress, it's probably not. Same as getting rid of FM radio transmition. I'm also of the Luddite mindset)

 

 

Not many still use them I think. From the ones I've moved that might have had faults that I have rectified as part of the move, I feel sure they'd have noticed. 
TBH I think they are relied on for broadband only and a wi-fi calling on a mobile if needed. 

[sime42]

32 minutes ago, AHPP said:

On that sort of heritage, calm down, Branston. I want a sandwich shorter than it is square. 

 

 

Get away with you. Lumps that big only belong on a plate, not in a sandwich. Branstons spreadable or nothing. Or homemade. 

 

Points for the Corned Beef though. 

[PeteB]

I'm up, too early again! Talking and driving sort of day! Rained in the night and is grey! Tom in the states tells me that they have been having some mega rain and thunder storms in Oklahoma. One place had a transport ban and all hotels etc got shut for the period and 6" of rain fell in a day! Be good y'all!

 

Mirror, Cull.