i13 Hello - What Kind of Phone Booths do you think we have in UK?
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Couple of suggestions:
* Hide the glass and put a plane primitive behind the phone with whatever texture you want on it.
* Ask nicely next time. ;)
That looks just like the red phone booths we have here in Texas.
So maybe just a rename of the product
Thank goodness for Carrara and PhilW :-)
An English Village
Have to agree, not like a proper British telephone box. Now PhilW's one is, and that's the one I always use.
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I agree with acanthis, superficially it is; it would be fine for distance, and seeing as they are hard to find these days, most folks wouldn't notice. If you can find a phone box (not booth) it would look more like the of the other ones in i13's package; nice set though and likely still be getting it as the slightly off look of it fits in with the story I'm planning; I still like i13's products. :)
I also feel acanthis was respectful, but it is stated to be a UK phone booth (that should be phone box), as such one expects more accuracy, or a statement as to why it isn't.
So go at it with the geometry editor. Select the glass that doesn't belong and make it a zone. Turn it solid. Change its color. If you need a flat surface add the primitive. How hard is that?
Admittedly, I wouldn't know a genuine UK phone booth from a hole in the wall.
Wouldn't even take that much-- just turn the opacity on the glass on the back wall all the way up (or transparency down), and adjust the colors to suit.
Or if your'e feeling ambitious, you can edit the textures directly in the suite of your choice.
After a sarcastic subject line, three NOs, two NOTs, a my God, an AGGHGHHH, and a polite but firm order for a merchant to re-design a product because you don't find it acceptable. If that's asking nicely, I'm glad I didn't make this phone booth. ;)
That English village is almost enough to make me wish I did Carrara. It's gorgeous.
I've got an item in my product library that's supposed to represent a UK Belisha Beacon (I don't think they have them elsewhere anyway - not sure). They're big illuminated flashing orange globes on top of black and white striped poles, and found next to zebra crossings. Zebra crossings aren't request crossings - it's the law to stop your car to let someone cross if they're standing there waiting as you approach - but my product library Belisha Beacon has a request box halfway up it. I've honestly never seen a Belisha Beacon with a request box on it and don't see why one would need one, but did I say anything when I found it? Nope. Maybe it's more difficult than it looks to find the middle ground between being perceived as being demanding and being too lily-livered to mention something at all :)
Maybe like the rear of a British phone box, British humour is also a mystery to some Americans. Acanthis post far from being rude was an expression of admiration. The over the top expression you see is nothing more than the way the British overstate over trivial matters particularly if expressing an amount of affection because its funny. Had Arcanthis flatly described the problem with the box and politely requested a change if at all possible. Then you would have known the sentiments were verging on deadly, nobody passively aggresses like a Brit.
Don't British phone boxes look like this?
I'm not getting this thread. First, I don't get why SnowSultan is in such high dudgeon. The OP seemed quite polite to me.
Second, I don't get why, if a vendor sells a product that proports to be something that it is not, the community response seems to accept that and expect the buyer to fix it. I'd have thought it up to the vendor to rename it or make it correct.
The good news is the preview picture is pretty clear and nobody who actually knows what a proper British telephone box looks like would buy it.
They were rare even by the time I was born in the late 70's. Police boxes were what the police used to talk to HQ before they had radios. They could also be used by the general public but crucially only to phone the police. The inside was just usable space for the police to have a tea break, er, I mean write up their reports on a cold day.
I am old enough to remember red telephone boxes with dial telephones (real dials) and buttons labelled A and B Telephones were attached at one side of the box as there was always a shelf which contained telephone directories (if you were lucky) and was useful to put things on while you were using the phone. Also the back panel, already noted, had a frame which allowed people to slide advert cards in. Certain areas of London the Bobbies used to regularly check and remove the cards, because they were almost all adverts cards from umm "Ladies of the night"
The main design has never changed much, just the telephone itself got updated.
Edited to add that apparently the last known button A and button B telephone was not updated till1992
What were the "A" and "B" buttons for?
And as for the "politeness" of the OP's request. I didn't find it any more impolite than what could be said to someone who just painted my house purple instead of white.
Press button A to be connected to the person you were calling Press button B to end your call or get your money back.
Kids used to regularly check out the telephone boxes and press button B to see if they got any money out. Sometimes they got lucky.
I did, once or twice. We used to get lucky in other ways too in those boxes
LOL and ooh look, talk about a blast from the past
Well, in fairness to the vendor, they might have found some mislabeled images to work from, or a telephone booth which deviated from the norm and used it as the reference (not knowing it was unusual and not the standard.)
I can't remember the last time I saw a phone booth. Now there are 1/4 the size phone "stations" (aka, open air, the phone and a shelf below) at some gas stations, but that's about it for typical suburbs around here. (Florida panhandle.) I'm sure there's booths around somewhere and I'm not seeing them.
The glass panels are better for what a lot of people may want to use it for. It's easy to change it if you don't like it. No need to remodel anything. Leverage the stock assets and manipulate them to your needs.
There are still a few of the originals in use, with new phones, around Scotland and a few in gardens as ornaments, without phones
Yes there are one or two around here as well. Nearest one to us is about a mile away, outside the Post Office at Pant y Scallog.
Without knowing the reference source used, I'm guessing the model was based on a reproduction... I've seen quite a few in pubs, restaurants and even on the streets in the U.S.,that were not proper British phone booths and quite obviously reproductions. What makes me say that, is the actual phone is more like an 80s-90s American pay phone, and not (at least the way I remember them) a British unit.
I'm not sure if the glass and steel one is supposed to be an American unit, but when actual phone booths still existed in the U.S., most had integral bases... This allowed for easy installation and structural strength in transport. This unit looks more to be a rarer type that was cemented in place... Some of those actually still exist... Because well... They were cemented in place... Most of those don't have phones in them anymore and tend to now be doorless and urine scented.
Both units may be/ probably were what the artist had locally as reference.
Or they could be for a set meant for sale in an alternate universe... Probably the one where DAZ has a rainbow octopus for a logo.
EDITED TO ADD- My bad... This IS the one with the rainbow octopus logo... Maybe I'm thinking of the one with the Gerbil riding a halibut... Or the dancing cactus one... It's definitely not the one with the bowl of pudding, because they don't have pay phones, just suicide booths...
POST EDITED TO ADD- Didn't see Chohole's picture... Thats more or less like what I remember the phone looking like... Only in color and the credenza/dresser under the phone was smaller... And push button, not dial... And that guy wasn't always in there.
POST, POST EDITED TO CORRECT- No, that's not the one... The phone I remember was on top of the credenza, not in it... Where would you keep the spare socks and underwear in that?
I recall John Cleese once said in an interview that an american producer bought the rights to Fawlty Towers, wanting to adapt it to suit american viewers. The first thing they did was removing Basil from the manuscript...
In the past they had pay phones, those only became suicide booths since the Telephone Sanitizers were send away to a different planet. :-)
The phone box in Chohole's picture looks a bit too well-stocked with directories to be typical, because they were generally stolen quite quickly. The open door adds a touch of authenticity though, as it was usually necessary if you wanted to avoid suffocating under the influence of the ammonia-like fumes left by whichever drunk had been inconsiderate enough to pee in there. The relaxed stance adopted by the man in the image is at odds with this - those phone box doors were pretty heavy and did not stay open on their own and so it would often take considerable strength, stamina and flexibility to prop the door open with one leg while balancing on the other next to a dodgy looking puddle and trying not to fall in. The UK public telephone box call was probably the forerunner of the fitness DVD.
In addition, the handsets likely had special properties too, and could seemingly retain the warm and claggy moisture from the breath of the previous caller for hours, even in the middle of winter.
I miss looking at those phone boxes, but I really don't miss using them :)
Well that image is taken from the BT archive, so I would imagine it was posed for the photo, which incidentally was taken in 1938 and is of one of the first of the Iconic K6 phone kiosks.
I'm sorry... I thought it was customary... In NYC it used to be common practice if you used that phone booth a lot... It was to signal to other phone users that the phone was part of your territory, so make a call and get out... I believe there have been a few nature programs that covered this subject.