imagine if pay phones were back and functional
It's 2025. What things don't you miss now that used to be commonplace?
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imagine if pay phones were back and functional
In the UK and lot are repurposed as defibrillator, or book shops stuff like that.
Same here. My first non-trivial visit to Canada, I had no reason to expect my "3 1/2 G" cell phone to instantly turn into a paperweight, the minute I crossed the border. And my Toronto hotel not only did not allow calls charged to the room; they didn't allow collect calls, either. And so while I was able to call home from train stations (if it was a service or crew-change stop), once I got to Toronto, I had to wander the streets looking for either a functioning pay phone (there weren't any), or an open convenience store that sold prepaid phone cards (harder than you might think).
But I definitely don't miss tobacco smoke. (The last time I was in a restaurant that had a smoking section, it was my first non-trivial visit to New Orleans, and the non-smoking section in the restaurant was a joke!) Nor do I miss tobacco ads.
And likewise, I don't miss orchestras and classical radio stations that treat film scores (or anything else written since about 1925 that uses tonality) as inherently worthless trash.
Our "local" classical music station does to a degree, only playing small selections here and there.
Any seasoned film score nerd knows Ennio Morricone's score to The Mission, particularly the track "Gabriel's Oboe". But some for baffling reason the host refereed to both the film and score as a "bit of a deep cut". Man, he doesn't know what a deep cut is -- I can name deep cuts just on the American side. And he failed to mention it was a rec-recording; a seasoned fan would have know that, but a newbie would not have. He also credited the "Hawaii Five-O" theme to the cover group and not Morton Stevens. Sad. they also get information wrong sometimes, leading to frustration in looking things up. A host got the title of this so messed up, I was searching for it online for like fifteen minutes before finally finding it:
“Largo – Andante”
Two Ballades
Composer: Fazil Say
Any seasoned film score nerd knows Ennio Morricone's score to The Mission, particularly the track "Gabriel's Oboe". But some for baffling reason the host refereed to both the film and score as a "bit of a deep cut". Man, he doesn't know what a deep cut is -- I can name deep cuts just on the American side. And he failed to mention it was a rec-recording; a seasoned fan would have know that, but a newbie would not have. He also credited the "Hawaii Five-O" theme to the cover group and not Morton Stevens. Sad. they also get information wrong sometimes, leading to frustration in looking things up. A host got the title of this so messed up, I was searching for it online for like fifteen minutes before finally finding it:
“Largo – Andante”
Two Ballades
Composer: Fazil Say
