Quote: Moonstone @ December 17 2008, 11:54 PM GMTBoom boom!
I sooo wish that was deliberate but alas...
What a clanger! 
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Quote: Tuumble @ December 17 2008, 11:52 PM GMTWell, to be fair there wouldn't be that many with that exact telephone number even allowing for international dialing protocols.
Incidentally, my grandparents did it - 343364 - it had a nice ring to it. They were one of the first to have a phone in our village. Their number started off as Market Deeping 64 and gradually grew to the six figures we get today.
Um...
I think I've said enough.
So it seems I'm wrong and EVERYONE does it. 
Quote: Lee Henman @ December 17 2008, 11:55 PM GMTSo it seems I'm wrong and EVERYONE does it.
As long as you don't start doing it too, Henman - we don't want ya in our special (needs) group. 
Quote: sootyj @ December 17 2008, 8:00 PM GMTI like watching Oliver Hardy fiddle with his bow tie then readjust his bowler hat.
Beat that!
I like Olly and Stan doing this. I like it a lot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ikiny_d5FY&feature=related
and also this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSJd-UoZ4ck&feature=related
I couldn't think of anything for this yesterday, then last night I was noticing loads:
Such as when people saying something important/revealing under their breath which another character just catches and asks them what they said. Backtracking, they claim to have said something else, which seems completely out of place and the other person just ACCEPTS IT without question. Like:
DAVE: (muttered) Yes, well, you WOULD say that you stupid bitch.
SANDRA: What did you say?
DAVE: I...er...said I've got this terrible itch.
What?! That NEVER happens in real life! Also, in Friends they're forever having loud conversations in one corner of the room about someone standing in the other corner of the room and the other person never hears.
And I'm sick to death of plotlines that involve a person trying to tell another person something and instead of just getting it over with they drag it out for the whole episode/film/season making things worse and worse for themselves in the process. In real life you would surely reach a point where you'd just TELL THEM and get it over with, wouldn't you? It's so fake. Like in Friends when Chandler is in love with Joey's girlfriend but despite having, like, a million opportunities to tell him, just doesn't. At one point he actually does tell him, but Joey doesn't misinterprets it. Wouldn't it have been easier to just go "er, no mate, I was actually being serious" rather than dragging it out?
I know comedies are supposed to be comical extensions of real-life scenarios taken to their extremes, but there's got to be logic there. Plus, stuff like this is just LAZY.
Quote: SlagA @ December 17 2008, 10:37 AM GMTHas anyone mentioned the one about black guys being better dancers / being relaxed to the point of a pot-induced stupor (usually in a driving or striding through the street scenario) / being well hung etc? The list goes tragically on. It always makes me wonder why people who complain about racial stereotypes rarely complain when a stereotype is positive rather than negative. Either stereotyping is bad or it isn't. They can't have their cake and eat it ... well, obviously they do. Futurama did a good piss-take of this observation.
Echo the periods 'comedy' - sheesh. men bleed too.
How about when white writers want to make fun of black people, but because they're scared of being called racist, they just use white actors who act black, e.g. Todd from Scrubs.
Strangely, I have a friend named Stephen Bainbridge so I phoned him up to see if he said his telephone number upon answering. Sadly for me, he just said "Hello"
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Quote: Lee Henman @ December 17 2008, 11:55 PM GMTSo it seems I'm wrong and EVERYONE does it.
My mum does it, but she forgets the number half way through. Silly woman.
I have met someone (can't for the life of me remember who) who answered with his mobile number.
Quote: catskillz @ December 19 2008, 11:49 AM GMTHow about when white writers want to make fun of black people, but because they're scared of being called racist, they just use white actors who act black, e.g. Todd from Scrubs.
That is so, so true.
Best example Ali G, a white Jewish guy playing an Asian Muslim playing a Black yardee.
After a while that grates a bit.
Quote: EllieJP @ December 19 2008, 12:03 PM GMTI have met someone (can't for the life of me remember who) who answered with his mobile number.
That is just plain crazy.
Quote: catskillz @ December 19 2008, 11:49 AM GMTHow about when white writers want to make fun of black people, but because they're scared of being called racist, they just use white actors who act black, e.g. Todd from Scrubs.
Yes, very true. Thing is though they will get the backlash they are fearing because of the PC brigade.
I just don't answer the phone!
Quote: zooo @ December 16 2008, 9:56 PM GMTMy dad says his number when he picks up the phone!
He is MENTAL.
Yeah my parents as well; it was the way I was taught to answer the phone as a kid - the town to which the area code applies, then the number.
Took me a long time to stop doing it.
Why stop? It makes more sense than an abrupt "hello".
Quote: Aaron @ December 20 2008, 12:21 PM GMTWhy stop? It makes more sense than an abrupt "hello".
My sisters boyfriend answers with either "go" or "speak". He's a bit of a wanker anyway.
There's actually something quite brilliant about that.