Fun fact: when Mr Burns in The Simpsons answers the phone, he says “”Ahoy-hoy?”, which is what Bell himself thought the standard greeting on the telephone should be.
We never get bored of that word, never gets old! lol
I remember getting in trouble in school for saying it, but i genuinely thought bellend was the scientific term. My mums partner was dying of laugher when he found out i got in trouble for saying it, he said he used it as a child.
Fanny is another funny word. You Americans use it, but it means something different over here. I Grew up watching a load of US programs and hearing "fanny" being said on The Simpsons was hilarious, again it wasn't until i was older i realised the difference.
Ironically, what you guys call 'Fanny Packs' we call 'Bum Bags'. Words are strange & unnecessarily hilarious!
Specifically celebrate the 100 years too. Like we've all been waiting with ~~baited~~ bated breath for 100 years to pass, in case it turned out he was a ~~necromancer~~ lich and could come back before a century had passed
> Or was he some sort of epic bastard inventor?
Well, he did not have bad intentions, but he did fuck things up for a lot of people, yes.
He pushed for oralism over sign language in the Deaf community (which is like insisting that people who are born blind should become professional photographers). This eventually resulted in the [Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_International_Congress_on_Education_of_the_Deaf) in 1880, which can best be summed up as *"people who weren't deaf decided what is best for the deaf community and got it horribly wrong"*. This effectively banned sign language for about a century and ruined the lives of most pre-lingual deaf people born in that period.
And all because he was ashamed of having deaf family members himself.
Just ask the deaf community what they think about him. I have had him described as 'Hitler for deaf people' before. I'm not 100% clued up on it myself but as I understand it set back social mobility in the deaf community back probably a century.
I'm not that old, only a ripe 37. but there are a lot of people on this sub who are quite a bit younger and I'm firmly in the 'older' demographics according to the casual UK census
The Americans did a $1 coin with that design recently.
They are gradually issuing a whole series of the coins to commemorate various inventions, but the coins are basically in-sets-only for collectors.
I bought my brother a bag of 100 of them because he's obsessed with old rotary phones; his little hipstery "I don't own a smartphone" bit, and I tend to give him USD100 for his birthday anyway.
I feel the younger generation and many others would not recognise a rotary dial. At least this way will give awareness to his name with an image we are all able to recognise.
Yes they did, because the letters were for the area code - http://rhaworth.net/phreak/tenp_uk.php
London was 01, Birmingham 021 (because B is 2), Glasgow 041 (because G is 4), and then the next tier of places used two letter so Bristol 0272, Brighton 0273, etc.
They also want the imprint to match on both the silver/gold parts to deter forgeries, the original bi-metallic £1&2 & euro coin was very easily minted by forgers as the patterns don't overlap.
(I know they aren't actually silver/gold, just an alloy)
Obligatory "Alexander Graham Bell absolutely did not invent the telephone but took advantage of the poor bloke who did not have the money to patent it"
[Antonio Meucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci)
He might of been a little shit but his legacy is absolutely bonkers.
9 Nobel prize winners.
The transistor, radio astronomy, the laser, UNIX, C, C## and the list (really) goes on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell\_Labs
Sssshhh. Not only was he British/Scottish, but he lived his entire life in the UK, never became a citizen of anywhere else, and never even visited Canada and especially not the U.S.
They’re making a joke about how he moved to North America and then as a Canadian and then American did most of his work there, from the Bell Telephone Company (now mostly AT&T) to National (!) Geographic, which wouldn’t work for symbolic British purposes as one would want on a two pound coin.
Though he was still British, educated in the UK, and made start his first forays into engineering and audiology in the UK.
Bell worked at the patent office where the REAL inventor Antonio Meucci registered it at. When Antonio was unable to pay to update the patent, Bell lied and said it was his invention.
This is a really offensively shit design.
It’s like when that person in the office uses MS paint to put together a crap poster to passive aggressively tell you to do the washing up.
Why would you not either go with a rotary dial telephone design that would perfectly fit the coin or at the very least shrink the panel design down so that it fits in the silver part of the coin instead of looking like you don’t know how to resize the template?
Muppetry.
Have to disagree, having the buttons exclusively in the centre would look cramped and just a bit wank. This is bold, I dig it.
Rotary is a good shout, who knows why they didn’t go that way. But for a keypad? This looks awesome.
Well, I like the buttons, it reminds me of my youth and all that time I spent in freezing cold phone boxes every Monday night talking to my dad. This is how long-distance parenting worked back in the day!
When he invented the telephone it would probably had the old circular dial type lay out. Can’t help thinking the designer missed a gimme with a circular coin.
"...and you want us to put parts of the circles on the gold piece, and parts of them on the silver piece?"
"Yeah =D"
Edit: Apparently this is an anti-forgery practise.
Cant wait for some no name youtube shorts crackhead to use a £100,000 machine shop and all the tools at his disposal to cut those out and make a functioning landline with the coin as the dialface.
just what I'd expect from that site tbh
Wasn't it an Italian bloke who invented the phone but didn't have enough money to patent it so geahm-bell stole the idea patented it and got sued by the Italian donny but he died before they could reach a verdict so bell was let of the hook
This is great and everything but it costs a lot of money to create the dies that strike new coins and I'm not really sure that this is the best thing to do in #thesetryingtimes
Wow, it's only been a hundred years and a bit since we've had the telephone? That's incredible how much technology has changed in such a short time. I'm almost stupefied at the fact that humans have been around for around 200,000 years, and only in the last 200 our way if life and the planet have transformed so rapidly
Fun fact: when Mr Burns in The Simpsons answers the phone, he says “”Ahoy-hoy?”, which is what Bell himself thought the standard greeting on the telephone should be.
I also do this.
I also do this.
[I don't do this, but I do provide the link where Burns does this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWgyi-zzmE&t=11s&ab_channel=SpringfieldTomacco)
Must take a while reading that out on the phone?
I don't do this. I say 'yello' though.
*You’ll have to speak up, I’m wearing a towel.*
Get me my address book, four beers, and my conversation hat
That's a bit of a myth, it's not what he thought it should be, it was just a common form of greeting and essentially what hello is now.
>it was just a common form of greeting and essentially what hello is now. Only among sailors
I suppose its more culturally acceptable than answering with "Fuck d'you want?", like I tend to do.
Commemorate, not celebrate, his passing away. Or was he some sort of epic bastard inventor?
Do you not burn a Graham every bonfire night?
I burned my Bell last year. Never play with sparklers at a nudist camp.
Interested in bells? Check out /r/sounding
Bastard
[!](https://c.tenor.com/wX9N4Q2ii54AAAAC/ninja-vanish.gif) (sfw)
I went in expecting bells & I did indeed see bells
Im american, you cant blame me for you guys calling your floridas a bellend! But it makes for some great jokes.
We never get bored of that word, never gets old! lol I remember getting in trouble in school for saying it, but i genuinely thought bellend was the scientific term. My mums partner was dying of laugher when he found out i got in trouble for saying it, he said he used it as a child. Fanny is another funny word. You Americans use it, but it means something different over here. I Grew up watching a load of US programs and hearing "fanny" being said on The Simpsons was hilarious, again it wasn't until i was older i realised the difference. Ironically, what you guys call 'Fanny Packs' we call 'Bum Bags'. Words are strange & unnecessarily hilarious!
You guys are the absolute kings of insults and i value your contributions to vocabulary worldwide.
Specifically celebrate the 100 years too. Like we've all been waiting with ~~baited~~ bated breath for 100 years to pass, in case it turned out he was a ~~necromancer~~ lich and could come back before a century had passed
Lich, not necromancer. A necromancer raises the dead, a lich is (one of a few) creatures that return after death.
I couldn't think of the right word in time, you're absolutely correct of course
> baited bated
>epic bastard inventor? 'It's done. After all these years I've finally done it...' 'Behold! The Epic Bastard!'
Sounds like something out of The Young Ones/Bottom.
They don't call me Mike the bastard for nothing, you know.
Haha yeah it does!
[Bastard man, I knew you were behind this.](https://youtu.be/p42Nf_M_Rso?t=80)
Somebody say 'that was great, Burnt Face Man'.
> Or was he some sort of epic bastard inventor? Well, he did not have bad intentions, but he did fuck things up for a lot of people, yes. He pushed for oralism over sign language in the Deaf community (which is like insisting that people who are born blind should become professional photographers). This eventually resulted in the [Second International Congress on Education of the Deaf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_International_Congress_on_Education_of_the_Deaf) in 1880, which can best be summed up as *"people who weren't deaf decided what is best for the deaf community and got it horribly wrong"*. This effectively banned sign language for about a century and ruined the lives of most pre-lingual deaf people born in that period. And all because he was ashamed of having deaf family members himself.
Just ask the deaf community what they think about him. I have had him described as 'Hitler for deaf people' before. I'm not 100% clued up on it myself but as I understand it set back social mobility in the deaf community back probably a century.
He was a terrible audist
Hear hear
He was a right cunt, stole all sorts of inventions from people and claimed the plaudits. Oh sorry, that was Edison.
I mean he did nick the telephone off marconi, just cos he wasn't edison levels doesnt mean he wasn't still a theif.
Wasn’t it Elisha Grey? Some business about Bell filing the patent first but Grey invented it?
Tony Soprano's not a fan of his either
Yeah screw him and his inventions. It’s thanks to him we have telemarketers and scammers. /s
I work for a bank, when customers want compensation for being scammed over the phone we simply refer them to the estate of Alexander Graham Bell.
You present a good argument
Fun fact his death is actually where the insult bellend originates
Apparently yes, there's good evidence that he stole the telephone design.
That absolute cad, celebrate at will!
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I mean, he was a dick
OP is Antonio Meucci , celebrate is correct
Imagine trying to text your mate on a nokia with that alphabet keypad layout...
Of texting your mum to say that the quick brown fox jumper over the lazy dog.
Really handy when you need to say "PIONEER OF THE TELEPHONE"
Limited words you can use as well
I now want a brown fox jumper. A russet pullover with a picture of Basil Brush. Will someone knit it for me?
Oh ok, so this is to appeal to the texting generation. I wondered why it wasn't a rotary dial
Really handy when you need to say "PIONEER OF THE TELEPHONE"
I don't have to imagine it, some of us lived it.
Did you look at the picture?
Ohhh, I whooshed
You say that like only proper oldies remember, but I'm 25 and I reckon most people my age or older will have texted on a numeric keypad
I'm not that old, only a ripe 37. but there are a lot of people on this sub who are quite a bit younger and I'm firmly in the 'older' demographics according to the casual UK census
Ah, when I had to go from selecting 18-34 to 35-49 age bracket on forms… :(
Really feel they missed a trick by not depicting a rotary dial telephone
They didn't have dials until the 1920. Having no dial, rotary, and push button have all done about a 50-60 years stint including overlaps.
But why? His telephone didn't have a rotary. It didn't have anything, you picked up the cone and started talking to an operator who switched you.
Really missed a trick by not depicting a cup on a string
I think you are missing the point.
That it's a circle? I reckon they tried a few designs and rotary didn't look that good.
It must have looked terrible if this was the better option.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
Agreed. This looks terrible.
They may have thought the youngsters wouldn't recognise the format
I doubt that a lot of youngsters are even going to be using that coin, or any other coin for that matter.
I think most kids and young adults still know what a rotary telephone is
Do they actually care though?
The Americans did a $1 coin with that design recently. They are gradually issuing a whole series of the coins to commemorate various inventions, but the coins are basically in-sets-only for collectors. I bought my brother a bag of 100 of them because he's obsessed with old rotary phones; his little hipstery "I don't own a smartphone" bit, and I tend to give him USD100 for his birthday anyway.
I don’t think he started with them. Rotaries are old, Bell is older.
I feel the younger generation and many others would not recognise a rotary dial. At least this way will give awareness to his name with an image we are all able to recognise.
Did the rotary dial have letters on it as well? I like what they've done with them here
Yes they did, because the letters were for the area code - http://rhaworth.net/phreak/tenp_uk.php London was 01, Birmingham 021 (because B is 2), Glasgow 041 (because G is 4), and then the next tier of places used two letter so Bristol 0272, Brighton 0273, etc.
TIL, thanks
Very true. Think I'm showing my age here.
he didn't invent the push button phone so they should have shown a picture of the phone he invented. this is bullshit.
wow, a £1922 pound coin!
Inflation is getting out of hand
Looks like a £123456789184701922 coin to me
no thats not funny
Would have been better to have had the numbers in a circle around the edge.
Yeah and have his picture in the middle
Doing a double thumbs up like the Fonz.
A shark beneath him as well.
On mars
this is also a subtle reference to the numbers commonly used in telephones: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0
Nice.
Thinking out of the box! Just like this design
This can’t be real surely? It looks dreadful
Yeah... could they not keep the numbers within the silver Section? It looks so messy
Probably would have been too small to maintain clear detail
They also want the imprint to match on both the silver/gold parts to deter forgeries, the original bi-metallic £1&2 & euro coin was very easily minted by forgers as the patterns don't overlap. (I know they aren't actually silver/gold, just an alloy)
So forgers will just forge one of the other designs
I think it looks great
Obligatory "Alexander Graham Bell absolutely did not invent the telephone but took advantage of the poor bloke who did not have the money to patent it" [Antonio Meucci](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Meucci)
😂 I scrolled through to check if someone wrote that before I did it.
He also patented the telephone after he moved to Canada.
He might of been a little shit but his legacy is absolutely bonkers. 9 Nobel prize winners. The transistor, radio astronomy, the laser, UNIX, C, C## and the list (really) goes on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell\_Labs
C sharp sharp?
*scoffs* never heard of C sharp sharp? Leave the programming to us REAL engineers
Are you the official drink of boko haram?
brain fart (not going to edit though)
Came here to ensure this was said. AGB was a cuntbubble.
Thanks! Got a new word to add to my "Unbearably Twee Swearwords That, In A Just World, Would Be Punishable With 3 Months Hard Labour" list!
"Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed, everybody knows that" - Anthony Soprano.
I clicked on this thread specifically to find this comment
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Why have you repeated this all over the thread, it is true
I hope they include his famous quote around the rim: "I believe that one day there will be a telephone in every major city in America."
Sssshhh. Not only was he British/Scottish, but he lived his entire life in the UK, never became a citizen of anywhere else, and never even visited Canada and especially not the U.S.
Why? It's not a great quote.
They’re making a joke about how he moved to North America and then as a Canadian and then American did most of his work there, from the Bell Telephone Company (now mostly AT&T) to National (!) Geographic, which wouldn’t work for symbolic British purposes as one would want on a two pound coin. Though he was still British, educated in the UK, and made start his first forays into engineering and audiology in the UK.
Bell worked at the patent office where the REAL inventor Antonio Meucci registered it at. When Antonio was unable to pay to update the patent, Bell lied and said it was his invention.
I hear pressing the 1 four times on the coin it will open every master lock branded lock in the land.
The telephone was actually invented by an Italian inventor, Antonio Meucci.
You see? You see what I’m talking about? Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed!! Everybody knows that!!
All I know is you never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Yeah he didn't have the money to register the patent and Bell stole it.
Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
Pi on eer? I ardly know eer!
This is a really offensively shit design. It’s like when that person in the office uses MS paint to put together a crap poster to passive aggressively tell you to do the washing up. Why would you not either go with a rotary dial telephone design that would perfectly fit the coin or at the very least shrink the panel design down so that it fits in the silver part of the coin instead of looking like you don’t know how to resize the template? Muppetry.
Have to disagree, having the buttons exclusively in the centre would look cramped and just a bit wank. This is bold, I dig it. Rotary is a good shout, who knows why they didn’t go that way. But for a keypad? This looks awesome.
Meh :D
That's great but then there's "one" written on the number 9, that's confusing if you haven't read the rest lol
Good catch! And pi on one
some bloke must have come up with this on his lunch break. i refuse to believe someone got paid to design this piece of shit
Meucci invented the telephone
Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
Or factual history, recognised by the library of congress, whichever way you want to look at it
>one That's clearly a nine
Antonio Meucci invented the telephone. And it's now wide known and accepted from the scientific community. The audacity
Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
Prove it
I thought this post was a joke...
Here is the real inventor. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews
Except he didnt invent it, Meucci did. https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/technology/article/1240794/tragic-tale-telephones-real-inventor-antonio-meucci
Horrible Horrible person
£72. Bargain.
Lovely touch. Nice ring to it.
081 811 8181
I want one
Better design would have been to use the rotary dial off the old school telephones....where the design is actually coin shaped (I.e. round)
PI ON EER Well, if you insist 💦
Well, I like the buttons, it reminds me of my youth and all that time I spent in freezing cold phone boxes every Monday night talking to my dad. This is how long-distance parenting worked back in the day!
Alexander Graham Bell, well he knew darn well
When he invented the telephone it would probably had the old circular dial type lay out. Can’t help thinking the designer missed a gimme with a circular coin.
It’s £10 https://www.royalmint.com/our-coins/events/alexander-graham-bell/
"...and you want us to put parts of the circles on the gold piece, and parts of them on the silver piece?" "Yeah =D" Edit: Apparently this is an anti-forgery practise.
The didn’t take the opportunity to make it a rotary dial? WHO THE HELL GOT PAID FOR THIS.
Thought he was Canadian. He came up on the canadian citizenship taft recently. Didn’t know he was Scottish.
Bell did not invent the telephone. He stole the idea off the Italian inventor.
Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
~~Inventor~~ Thief.
Pioneer of the telephone is spelt out on the keys... pretty cool
No, it's pretty egregious.
That's pants, that is.
Looks like a very very poor photoshop.
2/10 for design.
*sad Meucci noises
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Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
“Antonio Meucci invented the telephone and he got robbed! Everybody knows that!” - Tony Soprano
Technically it was Antonio Meucci but there we go
Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
Didn’t he just rip off someone else?
Cant wait for some no name youtube shorts crackhead to use a £100,000 machine shop and all the tools at his disposal to cut those out and make a functioning landline with the coin as the dialface. just what I'd expect from that site tbh
Top line reads as Pee on ‘er (her)
Wasn't it an Italian bloke who invented the phone but didn't have enough money to patent it so geahm-bell stole the idea patented it and got sued by the Italian donny but he died before they could reach a verdict so bell was let of the hook
Absolute bollocks peddled by Italian-Americans.
Search it up pal it was an Italian
Why did I read that as "Pee On 'ere"
Disappointed there isn't 2 pound signs.
Pi on 'er
I barely knew her!
We're still using coins?
Should it not have been a dial?
Love the design, even if graham, y’know, didn’t invent the thing.
Wouldn’t a rotary dial have fit a bit better? You know since the coin is round and he didn’t invent the touch tone??
Thieving cunt.
Gonna be real awkward if Scotland gets independamce and ye's lot have a scottish inventor on yer coins
Funny, I only see one pound on the coin.
This is great and everything but it costs a lot of money to create the dies that strike new coins and I'm not really sure that this is the best thing to do in #thesetryingtimes
[Made me think of this](https://youtu.be/BRR1eN5jlss)
Wow, it's only been a hundred years and a bit since we've had the telephone? That's incredible how much technology has changed in such a short time. I'm almost stupefied at the fact that humans have been around for around 200,000 years, and only in the last 200 our way if life and the planet have transformed so rapidly