to think that almost 14 years after

[FuckThisShit]

the area code for London changed to 020, there seems to be a ridiculous number of total idiots people who still can't get it right?

The code is NOT 0207 or 0208 FFS, it is 020 followed by an 8 digit telephone number. For example, my number starts 020 3xxx xxxx, where the fuck is the 7 or 8 in that then? If I want to dial a number within London I will dial 7xxx xxxx, 3xxx xxxx or 8xxx xxxx. The 020 is irrelevant you inefficient twats

I have seen four, FOUR, brand new shops/restaurants this morning whose twattishness have ordered sign writers to do the 0207/0208 thing. Why? What's so fucking difficult.

AIBU to think they're all idiots?

AIBU to get the RAGE?*

• this one I know I am, but I will continue to do so I fear.

Snazzy . And slacks. I used to be embarrassed to use the word 'disco' but felt a bit of a fraud saying 'club'. I felt a fraud saying 'gig' as well and used to talk about going to Jam concerts.

Luckily, advanced age has put paid to that dilemma.

I think now would be the appropriate time to confess I sent off for the Which? Guide to Smart Phones the other day.

Yes, dd is 17 now and doesn't get half as wound up by me as she used to

I ignore them a lot of the time and refuse to reply to any text that has text speak in it. That totally fucks them off. I love it.

I hear you with disco, but do so gig. I'd keep the Which? One quiet though...

Oh dear, I had to give a London number to someone today and did the 0208 then the number but where I live the area code is 0118 so it's kind of habitual to say a phone number like that. I must have sounded like a right wally.

limitedperiod ours has a Butlins too, should I be on the look out for your MiL?

I remember when the number to call for Going Live changed from 081 811 8181 to 0181 811 8181. Or was it Live and Kicking by then?

I have an 0207 number. I've lived in London 6 years but I have no idea which part is what so I just reel off the whole thing if asked. Didn't realise I might be working people up into a rage by doing so

Well I don't care because I never call anyone in London

Yes, Earnest, but NOW you know.

I don't reply to any texts that have "txt spk" in it.

Actually ds1 has text me 3 times today saying Ftbl @ 4. Can u pik me up 6? Kl yh?

I have not replied. Mainly because I have only the vaguest idea what it means. But also because I have said 400 times if you text me use actual words. So looks like he will be taking the bus.

I hate the word "butters" and "peng"
And loads of others that I don't want to remember.
Although I have found the best way to stop the teenage children saying it, is to use the words very loudly in front of their friends.

Sick, innit blud.

PENG oh god that word is awful.

Do you know what I found out?

One of dd's friends text 'cheers hun xx' at the end of a text to her.

DD didn't understand my rage whatsoever.

YA still BU if you expect business signs to miss off the 020 because, as GetOrf says, who uses landlines? Everyone uses mobiles, so everyone will need to dial the 020 part. Except those "older folk", who will probably look up numbers in the Yellow Pages anyway.

Fenton she walks briskly (very good word for her) with a stick and is very aggressive with it, so if you are in the same town you've probably been whacked on the ankles for dawdling.

When she visits she always gets a bit tipsy and reminisces about places in Soho in the '50s that have been turned into gay bars. One night she was drunkenly telling the manager of a bar that she'd been coming there 50 years. He was far too polite to say it had been going 'only' about 35.

Bloody hell GetOrf, that's a bit harsh about telephone numbers having names in the time of the Mitfords. Ok I'm pretty old but I can remember them all having names.

If you look at the letters on your phone, you will see that the numbers of most codes correspond to the first three letters of the name of the area they cover. Just thought I'd add that in case anyone hadn't noticed.

who uses landlines? Everyone uses mobiles, so everyone will need to dial the 020 part. Except those "older folk", who will probably look up numbers in the Yellow Pages anyway.

I use a landline .

Quite so pigs

I feel the need to assert myself and demand respect for my advanced age. And a seat.

Oh and I use my landline for most calls as it's much cheaper than using my mobile. And no I don't look up numbers in the Yellow Pages. Bloody cheek!

What is peng and kl yh?

I used my landline earlier. I'm 27. So there.

Also, 'innit blud' is teenspeak from when I was a teen - so, like, ten years ago, yeah?

I love the idea that 071 numbers were the elite. The closest place to where I grew up with an 071 number was Peckham (the far nicer Dulwich is 081).

Peckham cinema's telephone number used to be 071 772 1010, by the way. That's the number stuck in my head...

Thank god there's someone else on here who needs to sit down Limited. I was beginning to think I was the oldest person on the planet.

bloody hell pigs did they really have the exchange names in phone numbers that recently. I thought it had died out in the 50s (or summat).

I really, really want to be Evangeline Elliot swooshing into a room and picking up a candlestick phone and breathing 'Mayfair 783' or whatever.

Kl yh means cool, yeah apparently

Peng is an attractive person.

Innit blud is how my ds1 likes to finish every sentence. The phrase is banned from my house.

Same issue in Leeds,

The area code changed from 0532 to 0113, and all the 6 digit numbers got a 2 added to the front, so we had 11 digit numbers like the rest of the country.

I get sooooooooooooooooo mad when even now, shops put (01132) xxxxxx on their signs/leaflets etc. Just try ringing the 6 digits from another leeds landline and see if you get connected YOU WON'T

Thanks. And butters?

I used to say marijooarna until I realised people thought I was being serious. Because obviously they didn't have drugs when I was young.