Teens vs Rotary Phone

[RPM 26614]

We're doomed.

 

[Bullneck 19511]

I didn't watch the video but I'm guessing:

Rotary phone are to teens as Snapchat is to olds

[Bullneck 19511]

Just slightly off topic: RPM's avatar

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William Joseph Camfield was a popular television personality in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as Icky Twerp, host of the kids’ show Slam Bang Theatre, and Gorgon, host of the horror film series Nightmare. Wikipedia

 

Born: June 27, 1929, Mineral Wells, TX

Died: September 30, 1991

Education: Texas Christian University

Movies: The Outlaws Is Coming

 

[ztejas 44223]

Thought about posting this here. You could have done this video 10 years ago with 17 year olds. 

Granted, they probably could have figured it out quicker than they did.

[RPM 26614]

Imagine if it was a payphone.

2 hours ago, Bullneck said:

Just slightly off topic: RPM's avatar

 

He was my hero as a little kid. Well, him and Fritz Von Erich.

Need to change my avatar to the open of this.

 

 

['stache 22131]

Fake as fuck, but in any event, is it really surprising that a kid would struggle with something that went obsolete before they were born? Are we supposed to be laughing "lol, stupid millenials"? Because that's a ridiculous reason to yet again make fun of the yoots. If someone put a telegraph in front of you and told you to send the message "Hi, how are you" how many people could do that today? Brat probably, but anyone else? 

[Eastwood 4394]

1 hour ago, 'stache said:

Fake as fuck, but in any event, is it really surprising that a kid would struggle with something that went obsolete before they were born? Are we supposed to be laughing "lol, stupid millenials"? Because that's a ridiculous reason to yet again make fun of the yoots. If someone put a telegraph in front of you and told you to send the message "Hi, how are you" how many people could do that today? Brat probably, but anyone else? 

"Haha! Stupid kids! They'll never amount to anything. Now come over here and explain my cell phone to me for the 26th time."

[SwanderedTalent 5761]

1 hour ago, 'stache said:

 If someone put a telegraph in front of you and told you to send the message "Hi, how are you" how many people could do that today?

you don't have to know Morse code to dial a fucking phone

[Longboard Horn 41350]

I remember a few years back when I was at my dad's house we were watching an old movie on TCM and a scene pops up where the mother picks up the second telephone and listens in on the conversation. My youngest brother, who was born in 2000, exclaims, "how can she listen to someone else's conversation?! You would have to hack the phone to do that!" We all laughed and then explained to him what rotary and landline telephones are. We didn't have a landline phone (only cellphones) so he had never seen or used one.  

[Lerka Lerka 1097]

4 hours ago, 'stache said:

Fake as fuck, but in any event, is it really surprising that a kid would struggle with something that went obsolete before they were born? Are we supposed to be laughing "lol, stupid millenials"? Because that's a ridiculous reason to yet again make fun of the yoots. If someone put a telegraph in front of you and told you to send the message "Hi, how are you" how many people could do that today? Brat probably, but anyone else? 

[Stella Link 535]

 

[HornsOverIthaca 2339]

Rotary phones should make a come back.  If I did have a landline, I'd want the same rotary phone we had in 1989 before that part of West Texas went to touch dial.

[elfenix 34744]

i think there may have been 1 black person in that film, turning the spool of cable going into the manhole

[NeverMarryAStripper 22277]

i think there may have been 1 black person in that film, turning the spool of cable going into the manhole

That’s a euphemism isn’t it?