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Fixed phone thread  (also bakelite ones)

Fixed phone thread (also bakelite ones)

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Fixed phones disapperad from crime novels.

I have the one at home, I pay subscription, but I can't remember when the last tima I used it.

In my rented Copenhagen-apartment last year I had a bakelite fixed phone, with obsolete number written by graffit pencil (!)... I phoned a couple of times jus to taste it again...

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Originally posted by vandervelde
Fixed phones disapperad from crime novels.

I have the one at home, I pay subscription, but I can't remember when the last tima I used it.

In my rented Copenhagen-apartment last year I had a bakelite fixed phone, with obsolete number written by graffit pencil (!)... I phoned a couple of times jus to taste it again...
At our house we have a landline for internet plus 5 handsets, plus 2 cellphones. If we want to make calls we both use the landlines. Cellphones may be convenient but they're too fiddly to bother with unless we're away from home. I can see the attraction if you need to rent, though. Our house phones are modern, they're not Bakelite, can't recall seeing a Bakelite phone in the last decade.

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what is bakelite?

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Originally posted by coquette
what is bakelite?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakelite

this is the type of information which is well recherchable in wikipedia

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Originally posted by coquette
what is bakelite?
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride

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Cell phones depends on some rare mineral, whose deposits are finite.
So people will have to resort to old fixed phones anyway.

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
lol stop it

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Originally posted by apathist
lol stop it
I only do chemistry jokes periodically. 😕

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I only do chemistry jokes periodically. 😕
Well, mendelayoff of it!