plattlane01
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Mel machin umming and arring used to cost 35p. Put the phone down quick style if it was the same as an hour earlier. Quality
LongsightM13 said:And the rival phone service, Team Talk.
Both were a complete rip-off, a snail's pace, excessively padded rehash of tabloid gossip at eye-watering premium rates, with huge gaps between the 'stories' and a lengthy intro of music and blarney. Horrendous phone bills and bollockings from my parents as a result.
As addictive as crack cocaine in the days before the Interweb, though
oakiecokie said:The missus had gone away with the girls for a couple of nights and I came back from the pub a little worse for wear.
At about midnight I used the bedroom phone and made a call for an update on a Transfer (can`t think who it was)
Next morning our neighbour knocked me up at about 11.30am and said that the missus had been phoning me but couldn`t get through,so hence the call to the neighbour.
Fuck me I`d only fallen asleep without putting the phone back properly !!
Next quarter when the phone bill arrived I got a right bollocking.
£147 worth of call I`d used on City !!
Pigeonho said:ITV was 401, then 140. Between me and my brother we had worn the numbers off the remote control at our folks' house back then. The numbers 302 an 140 were basically non-existent.
I would sit there patiently to wait until the teletext page got to the club gossip page. Sometimes it could be 10 pages long and i'd wait there then get giddy as it got to page 9. 9 times out of 10 I would be left more than disappointed on page 10!
Kids these days don't even know they're born with the info at hand.
Impeccable said:oakiecokie said:The missus had gone away with the girls for a couple of nights and I came back from the pub a little worse for wear.
At about midnight I used the bedroom phone and made a call for an update on a Transfer (can`t think who it was)
Next morning our neighbour knocked me up at about 11.30am and said that the missus had been phoning me but couldn`t get through,so hence the call to the neighbour.
Fuck me I`d only fallen asleep without putting the phone back properly !!
Next quarter when the phone bill arrived I got a right bollocking.
£147 worth of call I`d used on City !!
I'd have been more concerned about falling asleep and failing to hang up after ringing a 'wank' number!!!!!
City63 said:City page 513 iircMarvin said:I remember that. BBC Teletext Sport was 302, but I forget ITV Teletext's City page number. Was it 141?Impeccable said:There were also them annoying Ceefax and Teletext pages.
''TRANSFER SENSATION'' with a premium rate number to ring.