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:::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. --[[User:Ekorren|Ekorren]] 22:58, 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. --[[User:Ekorren|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 [http://www.quereinsteigerinnen-der-film.de/ Die Quereinsteigerinnen], by the way.--[[User:Zb|Zb]] 23:23, 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 [http://www.quereinsteigerinnen-der-film.de/ Die Quereinsteigerinnen], by the way.--[[User:Zb|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... --[[User:Ekorren|Ekorren]] 23:46, 4 April 2009 (UTC) | ||
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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)
- 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)
- 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)
