• Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    I love the end of the plug detail, easy to miss.

    Curious, though, that appears to be a 2 prong plug almost like a north American power outlet. Do/did some countries use that design for telephone cords? I’ve never actually considered that phone cords might be different in other countries, but it makes sense

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    It was not long after this that the narrator started to think that Stanley Jucika wasn’t actually Jucika.

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    For anybody who isn’t familiar with land lines, if you pull the phone cord out of the wall before answering, you should just be able to plug the phone back into the wall and still answer it if the person who called you decides to keep waiting. They wouldn’t notice the difference. It would just continue ringing for them. And if you called somebody after they went to sleep, you’d probably be prepared to wait a while. A lot of people didn’t have phones in their bedrooms, so it would take them a while to answer. (Kids usually wanted phones in their bedrooms. Adults seemed to want the phone in the kitchen area.)

    Conversely, my memory is that if you were to answer the call first, and then accidentally pull the cord out of the wall, the call will get disconnected. This is because answering the phone completes an electric circuit, which is how the phone company knows it’s answered, and hanging up breaks that circuit, which is what would also happen if you pulled the cord out of the wall.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The phone turned 90 degrees off from what I think it should be bothers me. It would be on the table facing away from the wall, normally, I would think.

    The rest of the setup for the gag makes sense, but that detail serves no purpose in the gag.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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      2 days ago

      what i imagine, and isn’t shown in any of the panels, is that the little table with the phone on it is actually next to and ‘faces’ a comfy upholstered chair sitting in the corner of the bedroom.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Maybe there’s a desk just out of frame, and when she’s sitting at the desk, it’s facing her.

      From a pure practicality-for-the-comic standpoint, having it oriented the way it does lets us clearly see the cord from the handset leading to the phone - not that that’s super important, but it maybe helps with clarity?