Hen Hanna
2018-01-10 23:18:30 UTC
this response below (re: bedsit room) is so good that
i'll ask another question.
[Have you ever wondered...]
in movies ...... Just a few decades ago (maybe even today),
a person (usu. a guy) is talking
on the phone and the other person (more often a woman)
(out of anger) hangs up.
... and the guy says: --Hello? Hello? Susan? Are you still there?
Susan? Did you just hang up?
This seems very odd, because the guy'd be hearing
the dial tone.
Is there a similar (to bedsit room) historical basis for this?
(like a dial tone was previously very unreliable) ?
Also, this (other person (usu. female) hanging up on me)
happens (to me) only once in 20 years or so.
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... and the guy says: --Hello? Hello? Susan? Are you still there?
and does that Stupid! thing with
the hook-switch device
I guess, telephones of 1950s and earlier (?) worked that way?
- men didn't know how to cook
- single people often had a bedroom or bedsit room with very limited cooking facilities (maybe a gas or electric ring in the fireplace)
- such room was often poorly heated or had a coin meter for heating
- until transistor radios became affordable, no entertainment at home
- very few options of ready meals or things that could be heated up
Therefore diners/bistros/pubs offered not only food but somewhere warm and companioniable.
Owain
i'll ask another question.
[Have you ever wondered...]
in movies ...... Just a few decades ago (maybe even today),
a person (usu. a guy) is talking
on the phone and the other person (more often a woman)
(out of anger) hangs up.
... and the guy says: --Hello? Hello? Susan? Are you still there?
Susan? Did you just hang up?
This seems very odd, because the guy'd be hearing
the dial tone.
Is there a similar (to bedsit room) historical basis for this?
(like a dial tone was previously very unreliable) ?
Also, this (other person (usu. female) hanging up on me)
happens (to me) only once in 20 years or so.
__________________________________
... and the guy says: --Hello? Hello? Susan? Are you still there?
and does that Stupid! thing with
the hook-switch device
I guess, telephones of 1950s and earlier (?) worked that way?
in (French and) American movies, a single middle-aged man
(think Dirty Harry, or its older version: Frank)
typically eats dinner alone in a diner or a bistro type joint.
I've always felt that this happens 100+ times more
often in movies than in real life....
Depends on time and location.(think Dirty Harry, or its older version: Frank)
typically eats dinner alone in a diner or a bistro type joint.
I've always felt that this happens 100+ times more
often in movies than in real life....
- men didn't know how to cook
- single people often had a bedroom or bedsit room with very limited cooking facilities (maybe a gas or electric ring in the fireplace)
- such room was often poorly heated or had a coin meter for heating
- until transistor radios became affordable, no entertainment at home
- very few options of ready meals or things that could be heated up
Therefore diners/bistros/pubs offered not only food but somewhere warm and companioniable.
Owain