Where is the boundary between 0207 and 0208 phone numbers?
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
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Er yes. I don't have every number in the universe stored in my phone. For instance if had to call some - (lets say) removal men to see if they were available next tuesday would I find their numbers on my phone or in the phone book?
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
If I ever have to look up a number, I'm sat next to a landline
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
But surely you're at home when you do that?
quimcunx
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And would you call 8769 8189 for midgets R us, or go to the extra bother of dialing 020 at the beginning?
Orang Utan
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If I was looking in the Yellow Pages it would have the full number, so I'd just dial the whole thing, rather than have to think about all this 020/0208 malarkey
Brixton's traditionally a bit of a boundary. SW2/SW9 were 0207 zones, Herne Hill (SE24) and Streatham 0208 etc.
Sadly I'm actually old enough to remember roughly where the second set of codes correspond to as well (eg 020 7733 numbers are roughly 'normal' round my few roads) - even though people tended to move their numbers with them, you'll still find a trend in many an area.
Sadly I'm actually old enough to remember roughly where the second set of codes correspond to as well (eg 020 7733 numbers are roughly 'normal' round my few roads) - even though people tended to move their numbers with them, you'll still find a trend in many an area.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I'm 0207 733 
I've said it before, but as lovely as my place was in Chaucer Road I felt cheapened, nay sickened by the 0208 number and SE postcode.
Crispy
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I've half a mind to make this godawful moronic superstition a bannable offence.
020 is the london area code
Most numbers within london start with 7 or 8 but some start with 3. There is some geographical consistency to the distribution of 7 and 8 but it's all getting mixed up these days.
If you're dialling the 020 in london, on a landline, then you're wasting valuable finger skin
zenie
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quimcunx
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Orang Utan
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Cos they're better search terms - you don't want to write a question in a search engine, but words that are likely to be used in pages that might contain what you are looking for.Wai?
Orang Utan
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0207 and 0208 make much more sense to me - 4 4 3 is a much more elegent sequence than 3 4 4
zenie
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Oh ok, I don't usually have any bother
0207 and 0208 make much more sense to me - 4 4 3 is a much more elegent sequence than 3 4 4
I say mine 4-3-4 bad me
Crispy
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0207 and 0208 make much more sense to me - 4 4 3 is a much more elegent sequence than 3 4 4
It's not a matter of personal choice! Submit to the true order!
I'm 0207 733
the three digit number after the 020-7 of 020-8 bit of the phone number in most cases relates to the exchange and is based on the first three letters of the exchange name as dialled on a telephone - ie 733 = RED which means that it was originally connected through the Red Hill telephone exchange (think about the numbers you type to get different letters when text messaging on your mobile phone)
Another common one in Brixton is 020 7274 which is the Brixton exchange (BRI = 274)
So in the TfL number i gave above (020 7222 1234) 222 is the exchange number which relates to ABB the exchange name is (Westminster) Abbey which is near the TfL offices.
See http://www.wifi-forum.com/wf/showthread.php?t=5412 for further info
zenie
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But it's fun watching people squirm and try and shout you down when you don't care!
and cheers se5, I looked up my old phone code, RELiance
New one doesn't mean shit though starts with a 0.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
3 4 4 FTW.
and if i say my phone number to you as 3 4 4 please don't then repeat it back to me as 4 whatever and start confusing things because this will make me want to find you and shove phone your phone up your arse. people who do this always seem to start trying to stick extra digits into the number. first against the wall, etc.
and if i say my phone number to you as 3 4 4 please don't then repeat it back to me as 4 whatever and start confusing things because this will make me want to find you and shove phone your phone up your arse. people who do this always seem to start trying to stick extra digits into the number. first against the wall, etc.
T & P
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0208ist!
I take numbers in Brixton are 020 7 then? In lowly Tulse Hill they are 020 8.
I too would be interested in seeing where the boundary lies.
editor
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T & P
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When my mother gives someone a telephone number she reads it out in groups of 2 digits. Annoying as fuck.Yep. I agree with the dodgepot.
The only thing more annoying is when people break up mobile numbers into stupid blocks like 077 xxx xxx xxx or whatever. Wankers.
I remember reading that when Heseltine was setting up the London Docklands Development Corporation in the late 80s, the condition, or one of them, of moving half the City to Canary Wharf was keeping an 0171 prefix.
Shallow as well as greedy and stupid, these bankers, eh?
Shallow as well as greedy and stupid, these bankers, eh?
zenie
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