File talk:2009-04-04 48 8 Phonebox.jpg

So what's wrong with it? - Robyn

As said, that's for germans ;) PM follows. --Ekorren 21:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Haha, either your camera has a f#cked up color reproduction, or this phone booth wishes to dress like a dump truck. Or a robot, maybe. Heck, at least it is a phone booth; if you ask the Telekom, a phone booth (!) looks like this, while anyone with a brain thinks that this is the only possible way for a phone booth to look like (note the sharp edges as opposed to the less pretty round edges on the model you took a picture of--Zb 22:14, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Pfft, that's from a museum. Want me to document one of those (TelH55) which is still in use, out in the wild? (I didn't have a camera with me when I discovered that, but I might get a chance to revisit it) --Ekorren 22:54, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, and btw, you may take the exclamation mark off the word booth. It's still not obligatory to use american english when writing english. --Ekorren 22:58, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

No offense, please! The exclamation mark isn't there for language reasons. It's there because a public phone is still considered a phone box/booth, but that thing they use nowadays is far from a booth (or box, whatever). And yes, if you find one with sharp edges in the wild, please take a picture. And you might enjoy the movie Die Quereinsteigerinnen, by the way.--Zb 23:23, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought you wanted to promote booth against box (There were discussions like that before, you can imagine...). So I take that back. About the movie: Well, heard of it, but I'm kind of the opposite of a movie geek - I simply don't care about them. Also, the reviews are, like, subterran. My interest in those phone boxes originates from a bookcrossing challenge in the german bookcrossing forum, which runs since mid-2008, and is about finding yellow phone boxes in Germany, leaving a book in each of them. My own counter is currently at 135, and i located some more I couldn't stop by. Oh, and btw: When I documented the orange one, villagers told me it had been repainted from purple a few years ago... --Ekorren 23:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Aha, Doctor Who seinen TARDIS gemalt hat! Exterminieren! Or... Is this just and old type of phonebox? --

So, (again) for all of our foreign readers... For decades, phone boxes in Germany had been in a bright yellow. You see the standard model on this picture: Image:2009-02-13 48 8 Horb Hohenberghalle.jpg. In the 1990s, after being split off the postal service, german telecom changed the corporate identity and started to replace the old boxes by some grey-magenta model that was supposed to look more modern (actually, I think they look just dull and when you need one, you don't find them). Later, they switched to mere columns, without any sheltering. They discontinued consequently replacing the old ones after a while, so that quite a number of the yellow boxes have survived, mostly in suburbs. The strange thing about the one I found at Beuren was that a) a village of that size actually still had a payphone, and that it wasn't yellow but orange painted, although being the classical yellow model otherwise. Imagine to find a british phone box painted purple instead of red and you basically get it. It's something that appears to be plain wrong. --Ekorren 09:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)