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Peter Kay - Telephone Etiquette

🕑 Added 2025-05-06 06:00:06 +0000 UTC

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Imogen

He does a lot of nostalgia jokes. I can do nostalgia. Remember when Peter Kay was funny ? There you go.

Theloyalmuppet

Great throwback! Technology has a lot to answer for! Was much easier then.

Thomas

I practically lived in stinky phone boxes when I started work as a newspaper reporter in the late 1970s. If a print deadline was looming and we were miles from the office, we had to phone collect to the newsdesk to update them on the story and then get transferred to a copy taker who you would dictate the story to, literally off the top of your head as you attempted to transcribe your notes, which had been written in shorthand. The copy taker would then read it back for any corrections and refinements. Lots of pressure, particularly if an angry queue was building up outside the phone box. At this time, mobiles and laptops were still in the realms of science fiction!

JokerDanny

The pips is the beeping you would hear in payphones to signify that you needed to put more money in or the call would end

Alex Darlington

Went to watch him live on Saturday.. was amazing haha :)

Andy

The pips reminds me of phone phreaking, which by the mid 90s was dead. But it was tone manipulation, blueboxing in the UK, the electromechanical switching of the phone systems at the time could be manipulated via tones. In the US it was on frequency 2600, in the UK it was 2280. But it essentially meant you could play the tones down the handset and didn't have to pay. In the US there's a cereal called Capn' Crunch, and in the 70s I think it was, they included a free toy whistle. Anyway John Draper found the frequencies from this matched the telephone system and that's his nickname. So you could blow some pips and the telephone system would think you've paid... But still to this day there's a hacker quarterly called 2600, for that reason.

TheHigh

:) i still use a mobile that you have to press 3 times for the letter o ect with no predictive hehe , miss my first phone , the legend itself the nokia 3310 <3

Thomas

The iconic red telephone boxes that American tourists love so much when they come to Britain are being preserved and repurposed all over the UK. Some very inventive uses such as book swaps, housing defibrillators, micro coffee stands and, ironically, even cellphone charging spots. A lot of them are protected by heritage rules.

Scott

I thought this too. That’s a must. Then maybe, max and paddy afterwards

Brucey Mitchell (Cheeky)

Great, funny reaction. It wasn't until i started watching reaction channels i realised just how universal most of Peter's material is. Every single part relatable. Loved it :)

Dave

David Brent’s answerphone message “Please leave a MASSAGE”😂😂

Daniel Cooper-O'Reilly

a lot of phone boxes have been repurposed as honesty libraries now

Thomas

In the UK, we used to answer our home phones by announcing the number eg. ‘London 356972’. My then Italian girlfriend (now wife) found this hilarious. She thought it sounded like a soldier reciting his name and number. In Italy, calls were answered with a simple ‘pronto’.

Andi Main

You really need to look at his sitcom Phoenix nights

Daz Parker

Very nostalgic!

Thomas

Back in the 60s, when homes were still linked by wires over the street to a wooden telephone pole, we had what were called ‘party lines’. This meant your home phone was paired with a neighbours, meaning they could (if they were that way inclined) listen in to your phone call. My mum never trusted our neighbours, so me or my brother would have to run down the street to check if the neighbours were out before she would make an important phone call. We would literally spy through bushes for signs of life 👀