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- Horp
Cordless Phones. I really bloody HATE cordless phones. I got a new phone for my new office and every bloody time it rings I have to run around my office throwing everything into the air trying to bloody find the handset.
ARRRRGH.
I have just attached my cordless handset to the phone unit with an arm's length of string and sellotape. Enough is enough.
- Horp0
^ That only works if you're a deskmonkey, chained to your computer all day. I have different areas to work in depending on what I'm doing. So the handset gets carried around and left in different places. My studio is four different rooms.
Really, tying the handset to the console with string is the only way to go for me.
- Also, annoyingly... the handset doesn't ring, only the base unit, so I can't even follow the ring sound to the handset.Horp
- sleepyfatso0
In college, we could never find lighters in the house, so we got a 30 foot length of curly telephone cable from a building site and tied it to the coffee table and taped the other end to the lighter. Done and done.
- uan0
that is a funny solution...other solution would be a neckstrap...
- < Visionary thinker!
I like it. I would probably refer to it as "a lanyard".
http://www.caresprin…Horp
- < Visionary thinker!
- ian0
Lanyard. Or sellotape it to your head for a true handsfree feeling.
- NotByHand0
Is it possible to buy additional handsets for this phone? (I think you can for most models today). If so, you could have a phone in each room. Could potentially cut down the madness significantly (I'm no math-genius, but by 75%-ish it seems).
- paraselene0
new christmas jumpers that are already pilling up!
- this is open-forum griping, right?paraselene
- Perplexing solution for Spooky, or your personal gripe?NotByHand
- Ah...NotByHand
- I love the abstract nature of this post. Rock on para!ian
- Are they presents or did you buy them yourself (odd fetish)?NotByHand
- one of each, actually. the one i bought for myself is winning the race, though.paraselene
- chossy0
get a huge assed field telephone like the ones used in veitnam yo!, with a massive whip ariel he he,
My Friday gripe is that I am close to punching a client on the fucking lips, 'You make one more change which takes it back to what I suggested ages ago makes me want to punch you on your lips'.
- Horp0
^ All is welcome Para. I've always thought of the Christmas jumper as merely being a sitcom mythology, but here you are breathing life into it in the real world.
You need a Remington Fuzzaway for that pilling Para.
- hmm... will have to check it out. have you ever used one? do they actually work? i always presumed they don't.paraselene
- max_prophet0
I hate offices that don't have proper phone systems, they just have a bunch of fucking cordless phones that always have that shitty ringtone that sounds something like:
bedalep-bedalep bedalep-bedalep
And there's no fucking hold function, so everyone knows you're lying and that Bobby fucking Jean is sat right there and not in a fucking meeting at all.
FYI BT or whoever makes these shitty phones with no hold function – THUMBS ARE NOT SOUNDPROOF!
- pylon0
You know what you should do? Tape a string to one end of the cordless and then tie it to the phone base. That'll work just fine...
- mistermik0
if you can afford a four room studio - you can afford to get a sexy secretary to cater to your every whim boyo.
- I think he meant one room acts as four.max_prophet
- If I got a secretary I'd have to lose three rooms. Then I wouldn't lose my phone, so the secretary would be redundant.Horp
- She'd still be sexy, though.pylon
- And you still have whims.
Don't you?pylon - stop whining about made up sceneriosmistermik