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Is it rage bait or are the some of the younger ones really that stupid?
They literally do not exist at all in many places. Why wouldnt you question their existence? Sure its easy to figure out whether they were real, but people on social media constantly ask questions without doing any research for themselves.
I’ve never seen a gramophone or telegraph in my life but I know they’re real things
Nope. God put those in old photographs to test our faith
I have seen gramophones and telegraphs in museums, I wonder if one day I will live to see payphones in normal non specialty museums? Also right now we still have some payphones here, but what I haven't seen in probably more than 20 years are payphone cards.
I've seen and heard a gramophone in person. I have owned a victrola. Never seen a telegraph in use, but I've talked to someone a long way off on a ham radio. I've owned typewriters. Payphones vanished pretty abruptly with the rise of cellular. Still incredibly smoothbrained to question their being real.
Yeah, like in Italy i never saw one
Some people never grow into object permanence or conspiracy theory media beats it out of them. Moon landing? I didn’t see it happen, therefore it didn’t happen. Pay phones? Helen Keller? Spherical Earth? Vaccinations? Dinosaurs? I’ve not directly observed them, thus they must be wholly fake.
And yet somehow God is real...
Reality itself is rage bait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistentialism
'PC LOAD LETTER'? The fuck does that mean?!
Payphones have not been around/in good condition for a very long time in the uk. Hollywood has created more mundane shit before, why wouldn't they do the same for payphones?
Don't have to be stupid to think things they never saw in real life weren't as common as they are in movies. I have a kid in high school who never saw a working public phone that I'm aware of. When I pointed out a place where one used to be mounted outside shesaid "Oh, so it is like in the movies."
Movies do often exaggerated things, so asking is reasonable if someone is young enough.
Starting with "sorry if this is a silly question" should tell you enough.