• Derpenheim@lemmy.zip
    40·
    4 months ago

    I think what people don’t appreciate about this is that it’s not just about slamming the phone. The other person can HEAR you slam the phone, it’s loud as hell. And that knowledge is what made slamming it so satisfying

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      6·
      4 months ago

      Yeah especially if you did it while they were in the middle of speaking.

      I did it once to a boss who threatened to fire me if I didn’t cover a Sunday shift. I said I quit instead, and they started to backtrack.

      I close my eyes and relive that detectable moment sometimes. I remember everything about it. My roommate was smoking a menthol cigarette by the window and her dog barked at the sound of me slamming the receiver home.

      I think this might be my Nexus.

    • JollyBrancher @lemm.ee
      41·
      4 months ago

      With the og flip phones you should still somewhat do this. Must’ve been a slight delay between closing and the call disconnecting. Slight enough to hear those plastic casings clap.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
    9·
    4 months ago

    I had one of those Nokia candybar phones back in the late 90s early 2000s. nothing was more therapeutic than just chucking the phone across the parking lot at mach 1. walking over to the pieces, assembling it, and going on with your day.

  • KayLeadfoot@fedia.io
    8·
    4 months ago

    Having worked in construction, I can report, you can totally still do this!

    … One time per phone, unfortunately.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 months ago

      break a public pay phone

      At the zenith of that technology, the phone company(ies) had already battle tested countless other designs. The newest relics you find are hardened enough to be left unattended in the most vandalism prone areas imaginable. Each one, a little fortress perfectly protecting delicate electronics and a coin-box. Slam it all you want: they’re nigh-on indestructible.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net
      2·
      4 months ago

      You have to really try to actually break a public payphone. By the time the receiver cracks you’ve hung up on the other end at least one or two slams ago.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    gingerly puts down a $600 iPhone, trembling in anger “…good day, sir.”

    …yeah, we might need a generation of phones built to be a tank, just so we can properly communicate our wrath to the other person.

    Huh. Maybe a ‘soundboard’ app, which allows you to hang up the current call with a sound effect?

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    4 months ago

    i mean you can still do this, my mom’s SO has multiple landline phones in their house, and i’m sure it’s not that difficult to convert an old landline phone to use modern standards with some adapters.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      21·
      4 months ago

      I feel like this was more one of these movie things that don’t happen nearly as often in real life.

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          4 months ago

          I just mean that in normal life, how often do you really get mad enough at someone that you hang up on them? I can probably count that on one hand and I’m not exactly a youngun either. In movies it feels like every other phone call ended that way haha.

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      0·
      4 months ago

      Replace “inside of a highschool” with literally any location with reasonable footfall to get the same answer.

      • Kairos@lemmy.today
        1·
        4 months ago

        Fair.

        Just seems weird to have it in a hallway. Maybe it opens up to a cafeteria behind the camera where I would expect it.