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Illegal or immoral things you used to do that technology put a stop to

  • 07-12-2010 10:41PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭


    In the early 80's a school friend of mine and his family emigrated to America.

    Phone calls back then where mad expensive so I came up with a cunning plan :cool: to allow us to talk on the phone at no expense. It worked like this; At a pre-arranged time he would ask the operator in the states to make a reverse charge call to a local phone box . We would answer and of course accept the charges. This went on for years until the family was deported back to Ireland.

    Some time later the pips where added to public phones to alert an operator that they where calling a pay phone and that was the end of it.

    Any more examples?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭syngindub


    tv licence


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 13,430 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,322 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Hmm. I can think of a huge amount of immorale or illegal things that technology has facilitated.........


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭cml387


    Pretty rough getting deported for aiding the abuse of the phone sytem.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    It's only a matter of time before someone mentions porn.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭lil_lisa


    OisinT wrote: »
    It's only a matter of time before someone mentions porn.

    Well no, that would be the other way around:

    Illegal or immoral things you couldn't do that technology opened up for you


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    lil_lisa wrote: »
    Well no, that would be the other way around:

    Illegal or immoral things you couldn't do that technology opened up for you
    Yeah, used to steal porn and now it's free for all to enjoy. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 383 ✭✭Svetti Arss


    OisinT wrote: »
    Yeah, used to steal porn and now it's free for all to enjoy. :D

    Amen to that..;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    Trenchcoat windmills. F*cking CCTV....


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,160 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    Handballs in football. French handballs in football. Very immoral in my opinion.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭JamBur


    Nagravision 3 has put an end to free cable TV in Ireland......





    for now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    make a reverse charge call to a local phone box . We would answer and of course accept the charges. This went on for years until the family was deported back to Ireland.

    some friend you are :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    OisinT wrote: »
    It's only a matter of time before someone mentions porn.


    Ok...

    PORN!!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭Pete M.


    Using the old 5p coins when on a school tour to Germany instead of Deutshmarks in the vending machines.

    Man we bought soooo many menthol marlboros.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    I was an orderly in a mental hospital and I used to drug and rape one patient,Sarah Connor,until the terminator came from the future and murdered me.The prick.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    DNA testing has ruined so many things.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    OisinT wrote: »
    It's only a matter of time before someone mentions porn.

    Digitally raping myself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,918 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    I was an orderly in a mental hospital and I used to drug and rape one patient,Sarah Connor,until the terminator came from the future and murdered me.The prick.

    Like a bit of an aul rape do we?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,752 ✭✭✭tony1kenobi


    orourkeda wrote: »
    Like a bit of an aul rape do we?

    Yea till I got murdered.Did ya miss that part?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    plagiarising coursework.

    fucking turnitin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    this thread sucks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    this thread sucks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,396 ✭✭✭✭FreudianSlippers


    this thread sucks?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    OisinT wrote: »
    this thread sucks?

    didn't mean to double post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭wil


    Robbing banks.*

    So much easier before those buzzer things and the double doors.

    Nowadays the bank just robs us, then robs us some more, then alot more


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,102 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    Pete M. wrote: »
    Using the old 5p coins when on a school tour to Germany instead of Deutshmarks in the vending machines.

    Man we bought soooo many menthol marlboros.....

    On this subject I remember a wise old man telling me in a pub once it was possible to fool the early cigarrette machines by drilling a very tiny hole in a coin and tieing a piece of very light string to it...Continuiously dropping coin into machine and with-drawing it. Dunno how true it is, I've learned over the years that a lot of what you hear in the pub is fairytale bullsh!t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,308 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    The itch...



    Now a days, you can just play Call of Duty...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    I robbed NTL digital tv for about a year once. Then one day, it just went off....

    They must have made some sort of system upgrade and found out.

    I had all the channels!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,677 ✭✭✭ronnie3585


    Some time later the pips where added to public phones to alert an operator that they where calling a pay phone and that was the end of it.

    What are these 'pips' you speak of?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    When you call a pay phone you hear a series of clicks at the beginning. Or when someone calls from a pay phone.


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