Phone numbers

p.s. - wipey, you have the most annoying phone number in the world

I had a client with the number 0412 000 000

His name is Sam if you wanna give him a call.

For some reason, if someone reads out their mobile phone number in a format other than the 0000 000 000 format it annoys me. I don't care if you have a nifty way of remembering your number that incorporates couplings of numbers, I want four numbers followed by two sets of three.

I realise this is my problem.

i am the same fe!!!

no, this is my problem too.

ready?

grrrrrrr

grrrrrrrrrrrr.

i think it's because the human brain learns to recognise patterns of behaviours/information and so when someone gives you the information without the surrounding or expected pattern, the brain has to readjust how it has learnt to take in the information. so it's pretty normal to be put off when someone uses a non-traditional way to remember things.

and it's not hard to do... it's only the way EVERY ADVERTISED PHONE NUMBER IS WRITTEN.

i just called Sam on 0412 000 000, but got scared and hung up before he answered. I hope he doesn't search for his number in Google.

my dad always says his mobile number as 0000 00 00 00.

ANNOYS ME SO MUCH.

i get filled with stupid unfathomable rage.

Does anyone else find that nearly every phone number they know has some sort of nice pattern or numerical conceit in it?

Maybe I'm borderline autistic or something, but those rare phone numbers with no catchy pattern in them make me mad. Email, I think you're great, but your phone number is utter hodge-podge!

And totally agreed on the format thing. I think it could be that facebook phonebook tool that seperates mobile numbers into 3 groups of 4? Infuriating!

Oh right, I do what foxy's dad does. Oops. It's the people who do not observe the 4/6 split in mobile numbers that annoy me.

Think middle-eights TR! middle-eights!

except for the first four, because there's no middle in four - obviously.

Oops, also the more astute you may realise that I can't add up. Anyway, I hate that facebook thing,

Heheh, yeah, I guess it's some sort of a pattern, but not one that gels with my aesthetic. What an insulting bitchy thing of me to say! HISSSSSSSS!!

+gre at est thre adever

i also dislike it when people actually say 'double 9' instead of 99 etc.

i realise i am insane, don't worry.

i just called Sam on 0412 000 000, but got scared and hung up before he answered. I hope he doesn't search for his number in Google.

Bwahahahahahhhaaaaaaaa

Go on, do it. Sam Herz berg. I separated it in case he googles himself.

I refer people to a place called ''333'' at work, it causes no end of confusion.

''Is it triple three, the words? or three threes? or a combination of the two. Three threes? three three three? ARGGHH I AM STUPID!''

Who cares, really.

In most of Europe (or France anyway) they say it in twos like 04 00 00 00 00

I thought the French used double figures
So 42 76 55 36 would be (en Anglais) read as forty-two seventy-six fifty-five thirty-six
The thinking is that you only need to remember four numbers then, rather than eight

Yeah that's the one! My expression isn't very clear these days.

The last four digits of my mobile are the same as my old home number. So I read it out as 000 000 0000. I realise this confuses people but my brain is stuck in that pattern now.

Ahhh phone numbers can be so utterly confusing in French. For example...my host family's number was something like this...04.90.05.81.75

Which is said: zero-four, four-twenty-ten, zero-five, four-twenty-and-one, sixty-fifteen.

When somebody is saying that to you quickly it's pretty easy to fuck it up, as in, 04420100542016015. DIFFICILE!

that is just flat out insanity anna

Writing or saying... This is the format, a'ight?
Mobile: 0000 - 000 - 000
Interstate: 00 - 0000 - 0000

You get it, right, that a mobile number is the same as interstate?

04 1122 3344

Easy huh?

i always say zero, none of this OH carry on.

wrong wrong wrong wrong WRONG

xpost

ZERO not OH. O is a letter not a number.

go on..

Go on, do it. Sam Herz berg. I separated it in case he googles himself.

I looked him up on facebook but no leads.

It's confusing when your overseas and mobile numbers have more digits...makes me confused about the number placement. Eg. Japan is 0904 0000 000 (I think???)

has to be zero, cause if your on a bad mobile, O can so easily sound like 8,

i always say zero, none of this OH carry on.

fucking.oath.

I say zero in the last six digits, but its 'oh 4 oh 2' for the first 4 mobile digits.

I'm also getting pretty good at Nato phonetics - you should hear me with call centres. Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo Lime Echo Sierra India November Charlie Hotel Alpha Romeo Golf Echo

ha! i'd love to be able to do that.

i say oh, cause it's easier than zero. i am verbally lazy.

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

pffft!
My phone number is easy and rad!

it's like 4 to 6.

Anyone got Matt Cox's (Witch Hats / Pikelt) number ?
My phone is at his house ya see.....

Anyone? Ev?