Will the "on the phone" hand gesture die out?
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Hawkings Boots
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Had to explain the concept of a cassette to my 12 year old last night after seeing a mixtape on Stranger Things
Her response 'so it's like a playlist?'
When her mam said she used to tape the radio it blew her mind
Her response 'so it's like a playlist?'
When her mam said she used to tape the radio it blew her mind
Sam Handwich
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Somebody been watching Peter Kay ??
Joe Public
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It’s certainly something which is playing heavily on my mind in these troubling times.
Another in a similar vein is where you take the little card left by the postman to your neighbour’s house to prove the parcel which has been delivered there is actually yours.
Gelan
Winger
I just knew you'd be a pinky pointer
Yip that's me tooActually, sometimes I just mouth the words "can I have the bill" whilst doing the mid air writing
Imagine young staff who have never seen a written bill wondering what is he doing.....
Saw a series a couple of years ago set in the sixties. There was a scene where someone had to make an urgent phone call. The phone was the type that had a handset with push buttons on the main part.
The young actress rushed over, grabbed the handset and pushed it into her armpit, held the bulky main part in both hands and tried to dial the buttons with her thumbs! Poor girl looked like she was have a wrestling match with it.
Obviously neither she nor the director had ever seen anyone using this kind of old-fashioned phone before!
The young actress rushed over, grabbed the handset and pushed it into her armpit, held the bulky main part in both hands and tried to dial the buttons with her thumbs! Poor girl looked like she was have a wrestling match with it.
Obviously neither she nor the director had ever seen anyone using this kind of old-fashioned phone before!
There's no real evidence to support that origin story when you actually look into it
Big Jeff
Winger
Divers do the ok sign unless they have run out of air then they do I kind of dying mime.
Tuono
Winger
I know but no point spoiling a good lie.
That’s a surfing gesture
mickb2112
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I miss the satisfying feeling of dialing a number on an old fashioned phone with a dial instead of buttons.You know the one. Thumb up, little finger out, mimicking a telephone handset.
We've not had a landline phone in our house for years now. But even when we did it was a small cordless one, similar to the old Nokia phones.
There's probably a generation of people early 20s or younger never used a phone connected with a cord.
The hand gesture to signal this with the thumb and little finger mimicks the shape of an old style phone.
What will the youth of today do in the future do to pretend being on the phone?
Hold their hand flat against their face?
Another great tradition dying out
Hyltonian
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Here, treat yourself. https://amzn.eu/d/2mdmhDzI miss the satisfying feeling of dialing a number on an old fashioned phone with a dial instead of buttons.
Sticking your index finger on one hand, through the circled fingers of thumb, forefinger of the other.
Classic.
mickb2112
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Hyltonian
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Also this one to indicate from a safe distance there is trouble at mill.
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