Simviation Forum - Why "911"?

Reply #30 - Dec 20^th, 2003 at 7:52am

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One thing I have noticed from listening to phone-in programs on good ol' Radio 2 - formerly the Light Programme. The quality of telephone communication is now far worse worse than it ever was with the good ol' fashioned tin can + a piece of string. In fact some is so bad I can't tell what the person on the other end is trying to say. The operator service is equally bad & almost non-existent. If I wish to call my insurance company/gas company/electric company etc. I'm forced to listen to some awful racket known as musak for up to 1 hour (& often much longer) before being connected to a human being in order to get a simple piece of information. In some cases this is not possible & I am expected to communicate with a machine with no way of knowing if I made a mistake or any confirmation that it's actually been recorded. Such is the price of "progress". Give me the old "press button A to connect" system any time. Roll Eyes

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Reply #31 - Dec 20^th, 2003 at 8:05am

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Hi Hagar...!
...do you think that there may be a remote possibility that you and I, in our "advancing years", may be getting just a little bit "deaf"....?
...pardon...?
This can be confirmed by the gradual increase of the volume/tone control over the years, whilst listening to Radio 2/3/4....?
(Radio 1 is mostly a load of bo**ocks anyway...)... Wink

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LOL...!

Cheers mate... Grin

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P.S. I know that many of my sound frequencies are slowly disappearing.....not to mention my eyesight... Cry

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Reply #32 - Dec 20^th, 2003 at 8:07am

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It's still true about the Scotland Yard 'phone number...

Will

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Reply #33 - Dec 20^th, 2003 at 9:13am

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Hi Hagar...!
...do you think that there may be a remote possibility that you and I, in our "advancing years", may be getting just a little bit "deaf"....?
...pardon...?
This can be confirmed by the gradual increase of the volume/tone control over the years, whilst listening to Radio 2/3/4....?
(Radio 1 is mostly a load of bo**ocks anyway...)... Wink

...!

LOL...!

Cheers mate... Grin

...!
Paul.

P.S. I know that many of my sound frequencies are slowly disappearing.....not to mention my eyesight... Cry

...!

Speak for yourself Fozzer old bean. I'm a mere young sprog compared with some I could mention. Tongue

My hearing is perfect I tell you.......! Wassat you say? Come again? ???

Seriously, I'm sure you know that I'm right. The tiny microphones they use in phones these days are nowhere near the sound quality of the good ol' fashioned GPO patent chunky jobs. Not to mention that you spoke directly into the mic on the old handsets, it was not positioned somewhere around your eyeball. Shocked

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Reply #34 - Dec 21^st, 2003 at 10:39am

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Also to scare yall more all nokia Mobile Phones have the emergency operator number programmed so you can dial 999 without unlocking the keypad i belive this is for most countries maybe not but it works here in England!

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Reply #35 - Dec 21^st, 2003 at 2:26pm

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In the UK it's always been 999. Most likely since the telephone was invented. They probably changed it recently like they changed everything else. No wonder old fogies like me are permanently confused. ??? Roll Eyes

You, mean, they'll probably privatise it, and have lots of numbers like, 881-111, or 811-811 or for BT 811-500, and a call centre in Delhi?

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Reply #36 - Dec 22^nd, 2003 at 9:55am

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It is because the two number are at the extremity of the phone.

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Reply #37 - Dec 23^rd, 2003 at 12:56am

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It is because the two number are at the extremity of the phone.

Then why not 733? 8)

Now for something completely different! ! !

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Of course maybe N330 was talking Porsche <http://www.simviation.com/YaBBImages/grin.gif> ; .... Porsche originally wanted to call the 911 a 901 - but Peugeot had rights on all '#01' numbers so it became '911'

Why are Ferrari's red? One of those two old codgers over in Engulund should know this. Roll Eyes

.....so I loaded up the plane and moved to Middle-EEEE..........OIL..that is......

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Reply #38 - Dec 23^rd, 2003 at 2:30am

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Ferrari is an Italian brand. If it was ours it would be British Racing Green LOL Wink

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Reply #39 - Dec 24^th, 2003 at 8:13pm

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Just remember folks, in the olden days if you wanted to contact scotland yard by telephone then you would have to pick up the ear peice and dial "Whitehall 1212".

Oh for the olden days... Grin

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Reply #40 - Dec 24^th, 2003 at 8:15pm

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Also it is said that the Porche 911 was named so that all the american owners would know what number to dial when they crashed it. Grin

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Reply #41 - Dec 25^th, 2003 at 4:09am

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Just remember folks, in the olden days if you wanted to contact scotland yard by telephone then you would have to pick up the ear peice and dial "Whitehall 1212".

Oh for the olden days... Grin

I forgot that Woody. Good one. Wink

Of course, in the "olden days" (which was not really that long ago) you could confidently expect the call to be answered by a human being, well a police officer anyway. Tongue

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