Do you/will you miss phone boxes?

py2006

When was the last time you used a public telephone? I think phone boxes are pretty much an endangered species on the verge of inevitable extinction.

Will you miss them? Does it bring a tear to your eye?

I don't believe I ever used them much even before my mobile phone days!

Here is something to bring back the memories

ilovesleep

Many old men will miss their piss pot after the pub.

Deus Ex Machina

No, I always swerve to hit them!!!! Ba doom boom!

demanufactured

Havnt seen one in years

charlietheminxx

About 5 years ago when my battery died and my bus home hadn't shown up.

Ahhh phoneboxes.... Will be sad to see them go. Though tbf, they're usually pretty grotty now.....

SEPT 23 1989

I don't miss the smell of p1ss and cigarette smoke

mikemac1

No

Anyone else thinking of Bob Geldof and "Phone wreckers are idiots"

Showing my age and feeling old

Duggy747

No, primarily because anytime I've tried to use one some scumbag would have left a big blob of phlegm on the ear piece.

Spunge

I cant wait for them to invent those CRT video pay-phones they have in blade runner.

mike65

Clark Kent is missing them, haven't seen Superman for years now...

Nothingbetter2d

Spunge wrote: »

I cant wait for them to invent those CRT video pay-phones they have in blade runner.

they already have... skype + pc did/does exactly that.

Cee-Jay-Cee

ehhhh, ok!

I once found a pair of raybans in a phone box on stephens green in dublin. I'd say they were near enough brand new, still have them after nearly 10years.

No i wont miss them.

jester77

I've an old style red UK telephone box in the corner of my office, looks class, would def miss it if it was taken away. Handy when you need to take a call and don't want to disturb people!

CardBordWindow

I used love running into phone boxes, closing the door and screaming 'I'M IN A GLASS CASE OF EMOTION' on nights out.

Nothingbetter2d

jester77 wrote: »

I've an old style red UK telephone box in the corner of my office, looks class, would def miss it if it was taken away. Handy when you need to take a call and don't want to disturb people!

i bet it has plenty of business cards from "escort agencies" pinned to it.

kfallon

I'll miss them cos where else am I supposed to get my reasonably priced brazzers from?

:P

gurramok

There are two still near me. If you're in Dublin, there is one on South Lotts Rd and another on Bath Ave.

Delirium

mike65 wrote: »

Clark Kent is missing them, haven't seen Superman for years now...

he was arrested for indecent exposure in a Carphone Warehouse :pac:

Pace2008

I was out without a phone recently, heading straight from college to meet up with a friend in town so I used a phone box to give them a bell. There are actually still a ****load of them around the city centre, probably about six on O' Connell Street, a few around Stephen's Green and plenty more scattered about the place. They're everywhere, you just don't notice them.

I know there's one on Dorset St. as well as I saw a pair of junkies absolutely going to war on the thing at about half nine at night last week. Needed a couple of shillings for a cup of tea and a hostel, I shouldn't wonder.

biko

ehhhh, ok!

Haven't used one in yonks. Still surprised when I see on tbh.

Gummy Panda

They were great for taking a piss :pac:

Amirani

No

We used to use them to coordinate our drug dealing with our leader Avon. Then Baltimore Police went and stuck a wire on them and we had to stop.

Mickey H

No

Duggy747 wrote: »

No, primarily because anytime I've tried to use one some scumbag would have left a big blob of phlegm on the ear piece.

The disgusting article that would do that should be made lick it off. They wouldn't be in much of a hurry to do it a 2nd time.

Archeron

Duggy747 wrote: »

No, primarily because anytime I've tried to use one some scumbag would have left a big blob of phlegm on the ear piece.

"You'll have to speak louder, I'm listening to you through phleghm"

Ellis Dee

I haven't seen one in Helsinki, Nokialand for the past five years or so. I don't think there are any left.:)

I don't miss them. I just use a cheap, untraceable prepaid SIM card when I call my dealer.;););)

Chuck Stone

ehhhh, ok!

Na. Out with the old and in with the new. I remember queueing to use a phone box pre-mobile days. **** that shit.

grindle

Pace2008 wrote: »

I was out without a phone recently, heading straight from college to meet up with a friend in town so I used a phone box to give them a bell.

You know a phone number?

I know my dad's, and a couple of work ones...
If technology gets eradicated somehow, I'm mostly fücked, friend-wise.

DEFTLEFTHAND

No

Ah yes I abhor the relentless encroach of modern technology. Stop this digital revolution and lets go back to the simpler times of the phonebox the typewriter telegram and carrier pigeon.

I also want the green buses and orange trains back, and the Gardai to drive blue ford cortinas.:)

Where To

ehhhh, ok!

I miss sending telegrams :mad:

Mickey H

No

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I also want the green buses and orange trains back, and the Gardai to drive blue ford cortinas.:)

Ah, back in the day when the "Blue Squad" were the local fellas and if you seen the "White Squad", you knew something serious was going down.

mikemac1

No

Sure lets change FÁS back to ANCO

In Limerick people still call the centre the ANCO building

EL_Loco

How am I supposed to drop a dime now to inform the local cool detective that Joey the hatchet is back on the streets.

Funglegunk

Spunge wrote: »

I cant wait for them to invent those CRT video pay-phones they have in blade runner.

And you can write numbers on the screen in marker. It's going to be great!

Stiffler2

I used to rub my anus on the mouthpiece of these phones.
Where will I rub my anus now ??

readygo

I will miss them, they are still in
in the north

Capt'n Midnight

Bloody heavy things, back in the day you'd only see vandalised ones in Dublin.

Used to pick up the radio on them, southside it was Radio Dublin and a different station northside , suppose it was which ever transmitter you were near.

uch

Yep, no where to piss in private on the way home

OneArt

No, just got myself a flash new Telex machine.

stovelid

Yes I will.

emigrate2012

I live on the the Northside and there's plenty of them around still 2 in santry village,2 in larkhill,2 in beamount.Bloody handy if you need to make a call & yiv no credit & not enough money to top up. If there's one within sight of work/school etc take the no. down and ring it,you'd be suprised how many people will anwser.......then ye can mess with them.Great craic!Always handy for a slash aswell. :rolleyes:

DonQuay1

py2006 wrote: »

When was the last time you used a public telephone? I think phone boxes are pretty much an endangered species on the verge of inevitable extinction.

Will you miss them? Does it bring a tear to your eye?

I don't believe I ever used them much even before my mobile phone days!

Here is something to bring back the memories

My dog will miss them. He always preferred them to a bollard or wall.

harney

py2006 wrote: »

Here is something to bring back the memories

Well, there's 30 seconds of skimming I'll never get back (or so I'm told)

thomasm

I assume someone using a phonebox is getting instructions on where to drop the ransom money

harry Bailey esq

No

they still have one of the old style blue and white wood panel ones up by gormanstown college.i might nick it,and make my bedroom en-suite...

M cebee

they used to be handy for loose change

Mike 1972

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

southside it was Radio Dublin and a different station northside , .

Atlantic 252 ?