09-24-2009, 09:19 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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OMG! Alberta Payphones rise to $.50 a call!!!!
Do they even have these things around anymore? I can't remember the last time i saw a payphone booth anywhere other than the airport. Or maybe you just don't notice when you have a cell.
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technol...388/story.html
Gerritsen said fewer people are using pay phones. The number of pay phones operated by Telus is also dwindling: in 1999, there were almost 38,000 in British Columbia and Alberta. Now, there's about 20,000.
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09-24-2009, 09:23 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Not a big deal. Can't remember the last time I had to use one. Maybe in an emergency, like if my mobile dies, but even then so many other people have phones.
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09-24-2009, 09:23 AM
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#3
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Lifetime Suspension
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I never trust anyone using a payphone, especially at 7-11's. They always look so shifty, and up to no good.
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09-24-2009, 09:24 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Behind Nikkor Glass
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Wow, last time I used a Payphone it cost $.25
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09-24-2009, 10:49 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Violating Copyrights
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Is it still free to pee in a phonebooth?
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09-24-2009, 10:51 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: The C-spot
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Holy moly! 50 cents!!!!!!!
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09-24-2009, 10:52 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Pay? For Phoning? Blasphemy!!
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09-24-2009, 11:12 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: AceTown, AB
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Hmmmm...
Damn... My "clients" won't be happy...I will have to up the price of the drugs I sell at my "office" (7-11 Pay Phone)... Not shifty or up to no good... It's for medical use 
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09-24-2009, 11:29 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Barnes
Is it still free to pee in a phonebooth?
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Yes. I hear you can also poo. Shall we turn this into a poo thread?! 
I honestly wonder if pay-phones are even profitable anymore. First, you need to set up the damn thing and pay for the actual phone. Then you get some poor sucker who doesn't have a phone on him plop in 50 cents into a vandalized phone. Now you have to pay some person minimum wage to go around and collect the money.
I guess they do generate profits or they wouldn't have them...
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09-24-2009, 11:31 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Think of it as a tax on drugs. The company gets the money, though. It would be better if this was something the government got.
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09-24-2009, 02:38 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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Last edited by arsenal; 09-24-2009 at 02:41 PM.
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09-24-2009, 03:01 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Who uses pay-phones besides hostage takers and stalkers?
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09-24-2009, 03:07 PM
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Franchise Player
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It's been 50 cents in Ontario for a while now... LOL
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09-24-2009, 03:08 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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I don't think I've used a payphone since.... 1996? Maybe sometime inbetween '96 and '02 when I finally got a cel-phone. No wonder they're upping the price, need to bring in some sort of revenue for keeping them things running.
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09-24-2009, 03:42 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Who uses pay-phones besides hostage takers and stalkers?
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Harry Potter
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09-24-2009, 03:45 PM
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Franchise Player
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I had to use one last year when my cell died and had to make an urgent call......damn they're hard to find now. Took me nearly 30 mins to track one down that wasnt busted
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09-24-2009, 03:47 PM
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One of the Nine
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Space Sector 2814
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the times they are a changin'...
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09-24-2009, 03:48 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Who uses pay-phones besides hostage takers and stalkers?
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Dr. Who.
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09-24-2009, 03:52 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by troutman
Who uses pay-phones besides hostage takers and stalkers?
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The alleged homless guys (aka crack dealers) that walk between the stopped cars on 14th street and 11th ave with there signs asking for money. I'm assuming they are calling for a pizza to be delivered or something.
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09-24-2009, 03:56 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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What's weird, is that I don't even know any of my friends' phone numbers. They're all in my contacts and I just touch their name. Off the top of my head I probably only know my folks number and my office number.
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