Going through my camera roll and found this I took in 2014. Do you just press the 1 key 999 times? Who knows.

by RandomLiam

20 comments
  1. Lift the handset and shout 999, hold down the 1 button, jiggle your anus towards the sea. They’ll know the score.

  2. You just repeatedly shout “I want a lifeboat” and then the BT operator will eventually put you through to the coastguard.

  3. The 9 button has fallen into the sea. You have to find and retrieve it before you can dial.

  4. – Lift handset
    – Dial 999
    – Ask for the emergency service required (Coastguard, Fire, Police or Ambulance)
    – Speak slowly and clearly

  5. If they only wanted one button on there, they should have just labelled it “999”

  6. You used to be able to use a tone generator on these to dial whatever number you wanted.  

    Same with those phones for taxis in supermarkets. They had a couple of local taxi companies programmed into the speed dial buttons and the keypad was removed, but a tone generator let you call anyone. I used to ring my friends on them before we had mobiles. Rang my cousin in Oz on them too lol.  

    If you didn’t have a tone generator you could dial the numbers on your home phone and record them on a Walkman and just play them back into these phones.  

    Talking mid 90’s here.  

  7. No, you obviously press the 9 key, one hundred and eleven times you doughnut!

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