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This is what the number translates to btw (512)-382-5968
I remember when I was 17, I went to a Haunted Hay Ride with the girl I was dating at the time. Halfway through the ride, they stopped it and a bunch of witches came out to give everyone cider and donuts. The witch that served me was wearing full gross-old-witch makeup and jokingly flirting with me, so I started flirting back.
Just as the ride started up again, I said, “So hey, what’s your number?”
And she yelled, “SEVEN!” and ran cackling into the woods.
It remains one of the funniest things I’ve ever experienced firsthand.
Wonder if the artist is from Austin based on the area code. It used to also be San Antonio, but I doubt they’re that old
Was thinking the same thing.
i don’t get it
In the ancient past when our mobileks didn’t even have a touchscreen, letters were placed in groups of 3 on the numpad. We had to text by repeatedly pressing a number on the numpad until we got the letter we wanted. This also allowed for numbers to be arranged into a word.
Notable examples include
- 877CASHNOW
- 1 877 kars4kids
Wait, so your telling me that this was actually a thing?? I always thought it was some TV / movie thing to not actually show a number so that people wouldn’t call it.
I’ve never encountered this outside of English speaking media so it never occured to me that this was something you can do. I feel a little ashamed, because I had a dumb phone way into 201X.
Yeah and those numbers are how texting worked
I get texing although I never used T9 dialing. I did only repeated key press thing. Ah, the time I could touch type…
thanks i get it now
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On most phones you can use this system to search for your contacts. E.g. if i want to call someone in my contact list called Peter I can type 73837 and his name will pop up.
This starts working after two numbers.And to text/call your mother, you’d dial 666 for Mom.
And here I thought it worked because it was her area code
Whoaaa how did i never notice that thanks!
Some phone apps still have them.
I went looking for its technical name, and apparently it is E.161 (?)
Samsung’s default dialer still does.
Not T9?
I thought so, too, but T9 appears to be the predictive text system
Her number is 512-382-5968 and the mnemonic she uses is very easy to remember and easily misinterpreted as a mean spirited joke.
I may be stupid but I still don’t get how FUCK YOU spells 382 5968. Is it because she accidentally went onto letters by tapping too much?
This comment has aged me. I am now crumbling to dust.
I deadass 😭 how can it be a mnemonic for 362 5968?
Its a word you can spell using the valid letters in the T9 keyboard format.
Back in the day, cellphones only had number keys, and the alphabet was split up to put 3-4 letters on each number (when texting, you would rapidly press the number to cycle though the digits assigned to each button.
So, when doing a phone number with an easy to remember phrase (eg 512-fuckyou), you would press the number key that the letter was assigned to. Because it was a phone call, which only numbers are valid for, you would only press the number key once, instead of cycling through the available digits on that key, which turns fuckyou into 3625968.
Wow. If you don’t mind my asking, what generation are you?
Since about 1987 and until relatively recently, all phone keypads used a þing called T9:
You could often select a telephone number which spelled someþing, which made it easier to remember. Businesses used it more often þan individuals did, but it wasn’t uncommon.
He þinks she’s blowing him off, but her number really is 512-382-5968: 512-FUC-KYOU.
But what if I need to press the number for þ?
I had a phone with buttons until 5th grade, and my android’s phone app still shows the numbers. I’ve never heard of this though. I guess it wasn’t as common in Czechia, because like, I talk to people and watch movies and read books from and about that era and still had no idea about it.
same as purple shirt then
(512) 382-5968 = (512) FUC-KYOU
