What do you call it?

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So, do people also still say "dialing the phone" even though there isn't a dial? Or does that date people who still remember rotary phones?

Haha - I do remember those. We had them growing up - we lived in the country, so my grandparents still had party lines too, which were shared with the neighbors.

I am pretty sure we were the last place in the country to still have those old phone technologies!!
 

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Oh my I remember the rotary phones. The red phone my dad had put in the pooper. :eek:

He had a phone installed in the bathroom? Was he the President? :tongue:

Btw, are you only posting in threads about poop issues today? :wink:
 

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So, do people also still say "dialing the phone" even though there isn't a dial? Or does that date people who still remember rotary phones?

Speaking of old school phones... Remember the good old days, when you got in an argument with your boyfriend over the phone? Remember the deeply satisfying feeling you got from being able to slam the living shit out of that phone when you hung up on him??? Oh man I miss that! Some how hitting that stupid little button on your cell phone isn't nearly as satisfying or dramatic!!! Lol
 

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He had a phone installed in the bathroom? Was he the President? :tongue:

Btw, are you only posting in threads about poop issues today? :wink:
Haha yeah he did. No but he may have had a phone fetish. jk :biggrin1: I will say it was the most secure room to take highly sensative calls because of the fear of highly toxic gases.:cool:

I didn't realize I had referenced poop twice until it was too late. Guess I got shit on the brain. :redface:
 
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I actually talk like that sometimes.

I do things like say "the machine that washes clothes" and "the machine that washes dishes" because I can't remember which one is supposed to be called the "washing machine." Aren't they both washing machines? :confused:

The one on the laundry is a washing machine, the one in the kitchen is a dishwasher... That's my interpretation anyway! (Unless you're British, when both are likely to be in the kitchen...)

The storage compartment on the front passenger side of the car (glove box) is the dickie box to me... I think I got that off my mother.
 

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So, do people also still say "dialing the phone" even though there isn't a dial? Or does that date people who still remember rotary phones?

I've always said "I'll ring you up" but I do remember the rotary telephones quite fondly, we had a special silver dialing stick from Tiffany's so my mother could place a call without ruining her nails. (It rested in the "O" when you were not using the telephone)
 

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I said something about my dialing finger getting sore and half my colleagues burst out laughing....apparently that dated me as a dinosaur. :frown1:

When I was very young I thought 'ring finger' was the finger you would use to ring/dial a phone-number. :redface:

Now I know it's the finger you stick up your partner's hole.....
 

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Terms usually stick and stay the same throughout time, even when they no longer carry a "literal" reference anymore.

I'm 25 (born in 86), so I'm old enough to remember cassettes and VHS tapes, so I still say rewind when going back on a dvd or blueray.

And "dialing" just rolls off the tongue better than "I'll use my touch screen to enter the proper numbers to make a call"
 

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Speaking of old school phones... Remember the good old days, when you got in an argument with your boyfriend over the phone? Remember the deeply satisfying feeling you got from being able to slam the living shit out of that phone when you hung up on him??? Oh man I miss that! Some how hitting that stupid little button on your cell phone isn't nearly as satisfying or dramatic!!! Lol

OMG! Isn't that the truth?!? hahha...and closing briskly your cell doesn't work either.:mad:

I call it rewind and fast forward. It is dialing.


I call everything a coke, regardless of what it is. Do you say soda, pop or what?
 

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When I was a kid I called all soda "coke" but now I usually say "soda." I didn't stop saying "coke" until people would respond, "We don't have Coke."
 

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We use 'pop' and 'soda' interchangeably. We were infiltrated by an American from the Northwest US (by marriage). Most Canadians, at least in my province, say 'pop'.
 

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When I was younger we said soft drinks or called it by it's brand name (coke, 7-up or root beer or my favorite cream soda) It was not until I moved to NY that people predominately said soda. Anther interesting tidbit is in CA and HI we had Best Foods mayonnaise and the exact same product in NY was Hellman's Mayonnaise.
 

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Different people have different names for things.

For example, what do you call it when you're watching a video and you want to rewatch something that just happened so you hit the arrow pointing left? I believe those are called "seek" buttons, are they not? Yet I usually say "rewind" even though it isn't on tape because I still remember using VHS and cassette tapes. What do you call it when you do that?

I say rewind if it's VHS (I still have a VCR in every room, rock on!) or "go back" if it's a DVD. "Hey, can you go back a sec, I missed what he said."

So, do people also still say "dialing the phone" even though there isn't a dial? Or does that date people who still remember rotary phones?

I actually talk like that sometimes.

I do things like say "the machine that washes clothes" and "the machine that washes dishes" because I can't remember which one is supposed to be called the "washing machine." Aren't they both washing machines? :confused:

I don't say dialing. I simply say calling. Giving him a call. Etcetera.

When I was a kid I called all soda "coke" but now I usually say "soda." I didn't stop saying "coke" until people would respond, "We don't have Coke."

I used to say pop, now I say soda. In my experience, calling it "coke" was a southern thing. I've lived all throughout the midwest and the only time I heard a populus generally say "coke" in regards to carbonated beverages was in Texas. Everywhere else I've lived, it was soda or pop.

What do you call it when you heat something up in the microwave? Do you say... heat it up in the microwave? Microwave it? Nuke it? My dad calls it the nukerwave. Lol.