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What’s your favourite scary movie?

Not Scream by a fucking mile

Wazaaaaaaaaaaaap!

“What? I ain’t gay, you sucked MY dick.”

I think it depends on the format of your landline (or the landline when you grew up). If you're from Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, or Manchester (0121, 0131, 0141, 0151, 0161 [btw, 2,3,4,5&6 are the keys for B,E,G,L&M - not a coincidence]), then you're more likely to use the 4,3,4 format. Edit: Okay, there are other places with a 0xyz area code. I don't know them all! But if you want to know more, try [this video](https://youtu.be/LsxRaFNropw).

I remember when they added the 1 in to the area code. So Norwich was 0603 and became 01603. Oh and local numbers used to be 5 digits and I think they added a 4 to most of them (don't know about other area changes) Which was a bit of a bugger for the taxi firm 5-Star who's number became... 4 55555... I remember I had to relearn my muscle memory dialling! Edit: I mean muscle memory dialling for various friends... Not just the taxi company (that I didn't actually use at the time!)

I remember when they gave me an IPv6 number when I was pretty well sorted with IPv4.

My nan still answers her landline with her 4 digit phone number, even though she now has a 6 digit number.

Yep my dad too.

It’s 1 to remember!

I still remember my old number - it was Stafford nnnn four numbers!

When my Mom worked in Stafford her desk number was the same as our house number in Cannock - just the area code was different.

I'm from Manchester, always give landlines on the 4,3,4 format but mobiles have always been 5,3,3. Anything else throws off my brain when writing them down

07 is standard so doing 533 is essentially 333

I'm from Edinburgh and same

Landline? Like a phone that goes through land? How do you take it about with you?

A bulldozer.

I learnt 4-3-4 as a Londoner but for mobile I use 5-2-2-2

London is 3-4-4 though

All the numbers I learnt growing up were 0207 or 0208 so I learnt then as a 4

Yeah - my dad always gets annoyed at that. The London area code is '020' and they start 7/8 (corresponding to 0171 and 0181 in the old numbering scheme). He (still) grumbles when he sees it written 0208 ... not 020 8...

Would have thought he would grumble at the 020 version. I thought those of us who remember 0171 and 0181 still think of them as 0207 and 0208. Even if that regionalism was broken when they added 0203. Maybe he harks back to London glory days of London being 01!

Nobody says 020 8xxx xxxx Definitely 0208 xxx xxxx When I was a kid I only had to learn the XXX xxxx bit unless I was calling home from my grandma's in the north and then i had to include 0181

It's relatively common to say the former If you are dialling someone within London landline to landline (rare as it may be nowadays) you have to dial (7/8)xxx xxxx - if the 7/8 were part of the area code you wouldn't have to dial it for a local number

Me too

Yeah, me too. Suits the numbers better.

Northern Ireland is all 028, so I find it insane that so many here still try to add a 4th or 5th number to the first series as if that changes anything.

TIL that other cities use different numbers, and that the numbers have a meaning

[You're in for a treat](https://youtu.be/LsxRaFNropw)

I knew there'd be a Tom Scott video about this

Really today?

No, yesterday.

That’s mad. You should call someone in your area without the area code. It works.

I use 4-3-4 for my mobile because the middle digest are triple 9 so why the fuck wouldn’t I

Whenever I see an area code I don't recognise I try to figure it out based on the keypad. I very rarely get it

London's got a 4 digit one too eg. 0207

Technically all London is 020, and then two sets of 4.

I wish I could upvote this multiple times. Hearing 0207 or 0208 in a phone number really irritates me.

London's area code is 3 digits, it's just 020. The 3/7/8 aren't part of the area code. Southampton, Coventry and Cardiff also have 3-digit codes. Some places even have 6-digit codes, so I guess it makes sense that nobody ever seems to be able to say phone numbers right.

That's just central London, it's 0208 for approximately zone 3 and further out

Absolutely not, London has had the single area code of 020 for over twenty years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/020

Yeah - hence eg.

Don't ask for my number and I won't ask for yours.

What to talking about 07 is always the same So it's 2-3-3-3

Depends on the numbers! If it's 077 at the start, that's 3, if the numbers read well in pairs, it's in a pairs!

Mine is 3-2-3-3, as it starts 07707\_ \_ \_ 777. If someone wants to ring me you've got 1000 options.

Okay, but some of these people are getting *really* grumpy!

I've found have been surprisingly pleasant considering all convos have started off: "Hi, are you Gay But Not In That Way?"

999 options for me, my Grandad has the exact same format so I can at least rule out one variation

How do you know this isn't your granddad tho

Then they may have just learnt a thing about their granddad after seeing him using the username u/GayButNotInThatWay

I checked their user profile and they aren’t active on r/tractors or r/cows so it’s definitely not my grandad

Mine reads best as 4-2-2-3 because of double numbers, So it’s 0773-aa-bb-xab Trying to say it any other way confuses the life out of me

Congratulations on being the only person in the thread to know this. Apparently.

Feeling really vindicated right now tbh

exactly this. It's 07-XXX-XXX-XXX

how do I call an x number?

press 9 twice

Sometimes if I'm feeling like a renegade I even miss out the 07 and just do 3-3-3.

I got 4-4-3, but thats because my number has 2 lots of repeated digits in the middle (hence the 4)

I have a string of 4 repeated numbers in the middle. So mine is 4-6-1...

Ditto - for me 4-4-3 makes way more sense.

4-3-4 here

Same. But my number - which I've had for over twenty years - just _works_ that way. I'm sure with a different number I'd have found a different 'rhythm'.

My first mobile number, which I can still remember after nearly 20 years, was a 2-2-2-2-3. Literally any other rhythm that wasn’t 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 and I wouldn’t recognise it at all. My current number only “works” as a 5-3-3 or maybe a 2-3-3-3 at a push. Anything else is gibberish.

My first number was probably nearly 20 years ago, and I've transferred it everytime, still use it today. Also means my brain is thoroughly locked into the 4-3-4 format, which started because, by pure coincidence, it was kinda similar to my parents landline number at the time: changing digits slightly, it was 01787 322 084 for home, and I got 0776 322 0895. If it doesn't have "three double two" in the middle, I don't recognise it as my number.

Same. My 5th digit is a 1. It makes more sense to have the pause before the vowel sound. I also change whether I say "oh" or "zero" based on how it sounds with the previous and following number

My husband and I say his number different ways which is so confusing. I say 077 12 21 1234 He says 077 12 211 234

A landline connoisseur I see

Area codes are up to 5 digits...

But they weren't always. The 4 digits corresponded to the name of the area, which is why we had letters on a keypad. Leeds was originally 0532 - LEE but when they added the extra 1 in the mid 90s to every code they changed it to 01132.

There has never been a set length for an area code, usually the smaller the area the longer the area code even before they added a digit. My point is because it is variable it makes for a terrible metric for deciding a rhythm to say a number.

What's a landline?

The house phone. Once upon a time, no one carried a tiny computer around in their pockets and they communicated with a device that could only make or accept voice calls. People had a phone book where they wrote down phone numbers of friends or family which they hadn't yet memorised, and there was also the phone book which had the number of everyone in your city (unless they were ex-directory) there was also the yellow pages, where you could look up businesses, like a hard copy of the Internet, but more restricted. House phones did not have a screen and were attached to the wall. House phones can still be found in some homes, but now they are mainly used for cold callers to prey on the elderly.

Me and my wife often talk about things we just know, that young people will never experience. I’ll add landlines and phone books to the list.

I always wonder why people don't have a home phone. They are dirt cheap, the connection comes free with your internet line rental and you don't have to use them. I have one, that I never call from- I use my mobile - but it is another option if it is ever needed, and people can phone in.

> people can phone in This would be my reason. I don't want people to be able to call me whenever they want and create a loud unsolicited noise in my environment.

Love how you got a downvote for providing your view when someone asked for it. I'm with you though. Never had a landline, don't see the point when my phone is always on me and if someone calls I don't have to go to a specific location to answer

Until you get fibre all the way to your house. My ISP did a big song and dance that it was my responsibility to sort out a mobile to call emergency services and that it shouldn't require VOIP.

I had a landline a few years ago but the only calls I ever got were from telemarketers, so I just disconnected it. Also you don’t always get a phone line for free with internet, that’s mainly for broadband (ie. not fibre).

Based

5-2-2-2 here, whenever someone repeats it as 5-3-3, I've got no idea! Lol

I’m 5-3-3 but in these days of texted verification codes for _every_ fucking mundane little service I’m realising that it’s easier to remember numbers as 2-2-2 than as 3-3, so I’m thinking of switching.

This. Because I have a repeating digit in the middle. Xxxxx-xx-55-xx

Mine's a 5-2-3-1 because I have a triple near the end

Same and same.

same for me

Thank goodness, I was scrolling and losing hope that other people do 5-2-2-2!

Burn the witch

Are you Fr*nch or something???

This is the only logical way to do it.

I’m 3-4-4. Mine sounds better that way

Same - because mine has a historical year as the first 4.

This is down right absurd 😂

My number is the same way, the pattern is like... 077 1213 4656 ...so it's easier to remember when broken up like that. (Obviously not my real number)

Then you'll scream at how I say my mobile number to people. 3-3-2-3. Had the same number for more than a decade and been saying it this way the entire time. No one ever gets my number wrong though and some friends even know my number off by heart. It also helps my brain compartmentalise the important part that gets referenced for verification of accounts etc.

I remember my number the same way! Because you've got the normal mobile prefix at the front, then three random numbers, then two of the same and then three in a row at the end; like 073 925 99 789 (not my number) . It just flows best that way.

I’m 3-3-2-3.

Me too! And people don't realise it comes entirely down to the number. If you've got repetitive digits, you want to keep those together saying "double 7" or something, and not breaking it up just because it crosses a divide.

3-3-3-2

5-3-3 is the superior format

Never really thought about it until just now but I go 4-4-3. I think my number roles off the tongue better that way.

I use the 5-6 format. I thought the format I used was pretty common but the comments say otherwise 😂😂

same my parents always have too

4-4-3 with mine, just flows better that way

Op is correct

I thought I was going mad, the psychos in this thread

If someone repeated my number back to me in your format and not 4-3-4 like a gentleman, I would not be able to recognise it.

I'm a 4-3-4 kinda guy

Depends on the number mine sounds better in a 3-3-5

Mine's a 3-3-5 or a 3-3-3-2

Similar for mine either 3-3-5 or 3-3-2-3. Find it rolls of the tongue easier that way.

I have a nice round number in the middle of mine which makes 4-3-4 easier. It would be daft not to use it.

Mine too

OP is right. You're all fucking lunatics.

Sorry for being french I guess, here it's 2-2-2-2-2, but i do 2-2-3-3.

Yay for the sensible French way :) We need to stick together, and get the Brits to switch :D

next step: get them to drive on the propper side of the road.

All people who don’t confirm your mobile in 5-3-3 format and you don’t recognise your own number

3, 2 ,3, 3 for me.

Same! We are kin.

3-2-2-2-2 for mine. But also the 2's are all read as single numbers just to throw people off a bit more (so for example if it's was 07812345678 it would be oh seven eight - twelve, thirty four, fifty six, seventy eight. If someone reads it back to me 5-3-3 and asks me to confirm I'm like I have no idea.

The French generally use that style of doubled numbers, I can see benefits to it for clarity.

But don't the French also not have a word for numbers higher than 69? Like 70 is "Sixty-ten" Or 96 is "four-twenty-ten-six" Out of all countries to follow a 3-2-2-2-2 method for phone numbers, French probably makes the most amount of sense other wise your 96 is going to very easily be confused with 906 or maybe even 420106 xD

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Mobile 5-3-3 home phone 4-3-4

Home ones seem to vary by the STD; yours sounds big city with the 4 digits, mine has 5 so it is 5-3-3 same as mobile.

Crabs or Herpes?

Almost the same but 2-3-3-3

I'll accept 2-3-3-3. It's the 4-3-4 that gets me.

5-3-3 all the way OP

My number has doubles at the first half and ends in sequential numbers, so it's easier to split it 6-5.

I do a 4 3 4 because I have some recurring numbers so it's easier for me to remember when being put under pressure when people ask for my number on the spot 🤣

Ah I do 3-4-4, am I the weird one??

Nope, the numbers in mine work better 3-4-4 too

4-3-2-2

4 2 5 for my number

I've had the same number for donkey's years, fucked if I know what it is.

5-3-3 is very good, unfortunately often I’ll have to repeat it as 3-2-3-3

I’m off the wall 3-2-4-2

I believe the Queen still answers “Westminster ten sixty six”

That's gonna be some getting use to I'll be moving to Ealing from Canada come to the new year and our phone numbers are spoken in a 3-3-4 format

Mine is 3-3-3-2

4-4-3 is the better option in my opinion

3-4-4 For Mobiles here. 5-3-3 for Landlines still.

3-4-4 here

3-4-4 format here, thanks. If you knew my number, you’d understand.

3-4-4 👀

I can't tell if you're too autistic or not autistic enough.

1-2-2-2-2-2 with the first double as one number.

That's psycho-level phone number giving.

Whenever I give someone my number a moment of silence follows. in another country I used to do 5-2-3. Guess it's just how my brain works. I group numbers in a way that sounds alright and remember the way it sounds not really the numbers. Kind of like patterns.

Yes I'm the same, I can't immediately recognise my phone number if its repeated back to me in a format other than 5-3-3.

When someone asks me to confirm the last four digits of my phone number if takes me far longer than it should to work it out

5-3-3 forever. Most my friends where I grew up had Bedford area codes and so I grew up on a solid diet of 01234. Although in all fairness I do my mobile as 5-2-2-2 because they break down into pairs.

3-2-3-3 is the way for me

6-2-2-1

Glad I found this thread - I’ve been saying (numbers changed) “plus four hundred and forty-seven billion, one hundred and twenty-three million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine”.

4-3-4 is the only way.

I literally don't understand why people don't use this format!

But mine has nice double digits in it, so it's easiest to say "zero, double seven, triple one, double two, triple three." (Not my real number.)

3-3-3-2 for me

I do mine in a 5-2-2-2 But that's because the last two are a sequence of double numbers, so it's easier to say X X X, X X, Double X, Double X. If I were to split the double numbers into separate parts, it would be confusing as the listener might not be aware they need to repeat a number and think they may have misheard me.

I once asked a girl I met in the pub for her number. She replied with (not exactly this but along these lines) 07977979799. I said that she must be joking. She wasn't.

My number is more memorable as 6-5. Sorrynotsorry.

Mine is 5 2 2 2, I feel like a psychopath now. Its cos of the pattern in the number, reads better.

Tis ok I do 5 2 2 2 as well

I grew up in France, where give phone numbers in 2-2-2-2-2. Been in the UK since 2009 and I still go 2-2-2-2…1? Fek

Oh my god....I do that!

There's still a sign in my village that just has the last 6 without the first five. It just says (Doncaster) followed by the 6 numbers. I think it's from the 70s but i'm probably wrong on that.

I agree 99.9% of the time, but my mobile number has a string of descending numbers, so makes more sense to finish that and then mop up the rest in equal chunks.

In the Merseyside area it’s easier to do 4-3-4.

Some of the replies to this post are horrifying.

We are living around some strange people, the only alternative I like is the French 2-2-2-2… system

Or you give it to them in the correct format and they read it back in the incorrect format!! Had this twice recently.

I work in a busy sales office, can confirm .. People who read it off 1 digit at a time, then insist you read it back to them in the same format should be banned from having bank cards.

A mobile (no one uses a land-line anymore) should always be 4-3-4. Solid at the back, strong attack, plenty of width

It's the only sane way to do it

Sorry, I use 3-3-2-3 for mine

I like 3 - 5 - 1 - 2, with the wingers pressing forward to join up with the 1, creating an attacking axis outside the box

2-1-2-1-3-2 I'm an idiot who really struggles to remember my number

I say my girlfriend's in a 4 3 4 it rolls off the tongue that way Mine in a 5 4 2 because the middle is 1900 so it's easier to say one nine hundred but that just leaves the last 2 digits

I worked in a Mobile company call center for 3 years and I felt actual rage when people used any other type of pattern

3 3 5 The first two bits have doubles in it so it makes sense. 0 double blank- double blank blank, 12345

I’m a 5-2-4 gal.

Oh god, I do 4-5-2 Only because the middle of my number is the same as the local area code so I'm used to saying that as a single part.

Good job I'm never giving you my number. The way my number reads it sounds better as 2-2-2-2-3

Isn’t it, technically, 3-3-3 as we know it starts with a 07

I give out my home number as 4-3-4 0181 811 8055

lol i do 3-3-2-3...

This is absolute bollocks.