my direct relative designed the red one. My only claim to fame.
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Oh yeah, well my direct relative flies the blue one.
Who?
Exactly
He also designed the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool, I believe.
Sir Scott *tips hat.
There’s not many phone boxes left in the UK of any design now.
I’ve seen a few converted into tiny libraries or art displays.
The red ones converted to something else I always enjoy. We even have some of them here in Germany now.
What did they convert to? I can't tell if this is a joke I just don't understand or what
These things are awesome. Get some books, put some books back in. Unfortunately someone torched ours a few years ago.
Some people are shit stains.
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Buddhism of course.
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-telephone-box-coffee-shop-in-londons-hampstead-2016-2?r=US&IR=T
One I've gone past a few times.
Seen one converted to a defibrillator before too.
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Which one is bigger in the inside?
The police box, not the telephone box
So the tardis lost her ability to adopt to the time and environment? What a shame.
I've always said that Tardis would take the appearance of a chemical toilet in today's world.
It can be placed everywhere without raising any suspicion at all.
And no one would want to go in it, brilliant.
They are even mostly blue too!
Well yes, that's the explanation given for masquerading as a police box from the 60s at all times, chameleon circuits are broken and brakes are stuck on
Yes, happened in the very first episode. What a coincidence.
I love how the plot of the first two seasons is that doctor shows the teachers of his granddaughter (yes, he has family) that the tardis works and goes with them to the stone age. Then he tries to go back and it takes him 2 seasons.
The one from Inspector Spacetime https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Wcu7UaSLOU3CewYy2kxCwwHaE8?pid=ImgDet&dpr=1.8&PC=EMMX01
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tardis what happend to you?
Was about to say, the Doctor wouldn't be having none of either of these.
Seriously what the fuck uk? Now I'm never gonna visit!
Even better those "newer" phone boxes are now so infrequently used that they are mostly broken. Also more often than not they smell like piss.
I'd say they're frequently used then. Just not for the intended purpose.
The smell lingers rather well. It doesn't need to be refreshed that often.
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I'd say that David Cameron and every PM since him were several times worse downgrades than making an uglier version of an obsolete box but that's just me 🤷
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Are there even any of those 'newer' BT phoneboxes still around?
Granted I don't go outside much anymore but even a few years ago they were few and far between, with most having the walls, door and phone removed by that point.
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I've never been to the UK. Is this real? No more red phone booths???
Some still survive but mostly just for tourists to take a picture next to. Hardly any of those left, even the “modern” ones, actually have a working phone.
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Yeah, why would you spend money clearing out trash, piss, and shit from them when everyone has mobile phones.
I'm just sad I won't get the authentic experience of pissing in one anymore.
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They do exist in some towns, but they stopped making new ones a long time ago. They are expensive to maintain. No one uses payphones anymore so new ones aren't being built anyway.
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People in Hull: "Why have you painted your white phone boxes red and put royal crowns on top of them?"
They WOT?!
Is the mailbox safe?
Anyone else remember the BT ChargeCards from the nineties? I always remember going to the red boxes and the phones inside being too old-fashioned. I'd dial 144 but could never get any further...
telephone austerity. SAD.
Yeah that's a hard pass from me.
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