Comment on Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth?

• Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In Australia, our telephone booths didn’t have doors at all. Just a box like the size of a portaloo with s phone in it

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  • fubo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    portaloo

    A “porta-potty” to Americans; not a relative of the vindaloo.

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    • m_r_butts@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Any curry dish is a relative of the porta-potty to me.

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      • Gork@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        🔥 Goes in spicy, comes out spicy. 🔥

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  • ALostInquirer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, Australia, the place notorious for dangerous critters, made small, public enclosed spaces…Without doors? 😂 I’m guessing these were mainly in cities, so maybe the critter problem wasn’t as much of a concern, but I love the image this produces of an Aussie going to make a call and some snake or spider is sitting there around the phone.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Wait, Australia, the place notorious for dangerous critters, made small, public enclosed spaces…Without doors?

      Would you rather be inside with the dangerous critter? Particularly if they thought they were cornered, and became aggressive.

      People tend to be quite tetchy about having a spider land on them while they’re driving. Having one fall on them after they’ve just shut themselves into the phone booth may result in both abject terror, and casualties.

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