There’s not many phone boxes left in the UK of any design now.
I’ve seen a few converted into tiny libraries or art displays.
The red ones converted to something else I always enjoy. We even have some of them here in Germany now.
What did they convert to? I can’t tell if this is a joke I just don’t understand or what
These things are awesome. Get some books, put some books back in. Unfortunately someone torched ours a few years ago.
Some people are shit stains.
That’s so cool!
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-telephone-box-coffee-shop-in-londons-hampstead-2016-2?r=US&IR=T
One I’ve gone past a few times.
Seen one converted to a defibrillator before too.
deleted by creator
my direct relative designed the red one. My only claim to fame.
He also designed the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool, I believe.
Oh yeah, well my direct relative flies the blue one.
Sir Scott *tips hat.
Seriously what the fuck uk? Now I’m never gonna visit!
Even better those “newer” phone boxes are now so infrequently used that they are mostly broken. Also more often than not they smell like piss.
tardis what happend to you?
The TARDIS is a police box, not a regular telephone box. Very few of them survive now.
Was about to say, the Doctor wouldn’t be having none of either of these.
I’d say that David Cameron and every PM since him were several times worse downgrades than making an uglier version of an obsolete box but that’s just me 🤷
David Cameron was a downgrade on Blair and Brown how?
How was the pig fucker from Eton NOT a downgrade??
Blair was Thatcher lite. How was he any better than Cameron?
Nah, Blair was more of a British Clinton (which is plenty bad enough!) with warlike/sycophantic tendencies. Cameron was Thatcher Modern.
I’ve never been to the UK. Is this real? No more red phone booths???
Some still survive but mostly just for tourists to take a picture next to. Hardly any of those left, even the “modern” ones, actually have a working phone.
What’s with prancing naked trumpet guy?
“DOO DO DO DOOOO! Telephoooone!”
Yeah, why would you spend money clearing out trash, piss, and shit from them when everyone has mobile phones.
I’m just sad I won’t get the authentic experience of pissing in one anymore.
And cigarette butts, don’t forget them.
They do exist in some towns, but they stopped making new ones a long time ago. They are expensive to maintain. No one uses payphones anymore so new ones aren’t being built anyway.
Which one is bigger in the inside?
The police box, not the telephone box
So the tardis lost her ability to adopt to the time and environment? What a shame.
I’ve always said that Tardis would take the appearance of a chemical toilet in today’s world.
It can be placed everywhere without raising any suspicion at all.
Are there even any of those ‘newer’ BT phoneboxes still around?
Granted I don’t go outside much anymore but even a few years ago they were few and far between, with most having the walls, door and phone removed by that point.At least one
People in Hull: “Why have you painted your white phone boxes red and put royal crowns on top of them?”
Yeah that’s a hard pass from me.
Every day I understand more and more why Romans left Britain.
deleted by creator
telephone austerity. SAD.
Glad you said “one of” the biggest downgrades… because I’d argue your Monarchy and your geopolitical situation got heftier downgrades. Not much heftier than the telephones… but still.