I'm now going to exhaust the interesting things I know about this by saying: he won a competition with his design of the Anglican cathedral despite being a Catholic himself; the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool was conversely designed by an Anglican. The city was a lot more sectarian then than it is now and the cathedrals stand at either end of a road called Hope Street.
Well yes, that's the explanation given for masquerading as a police box from the 60s at all times, chameleon circuits are broken and brakes are stuck on
Yes, happened in the very first episode. What a coincidence.
I love how the plot of the first two seasons is that doctor shows the teachers of his granddaughter (yes, he has family) that the tardis works and goes with them to the stone age. Then he tries to go back and it takes him 2 seasons.
Shame about the lost episodes. I could totally see William Hartnell doing a couple episodes where he visits the BBC repositories to save the chronicles of his adventures from the various fires/ other reasons that we lost episodes.
I'm clearly getting old because mose whovians these days haven't seen any of the original doctors, or at best Tom bloody Baker. Sod off!
Honestly, I'm too young to remember Old Who but at some point I was invested enough to start at the beginning. I did not make it to the Time War but I can confirm that Ton Baker is the best!
That link claims it's about, "British and American Police Boxes"‽‽‽‽
Where does this mythical American Police Box exist? I've been to 49/50 states for months at a time, and I've never seen a TARDIS(Police Box), unless it was a TARDIS(whovian) in the US
Edit: upon reading the article, one needs a TARDIS to see an American Police Box.
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 🤷
Blair was to Thatcher what Clinton was to Reagan: while both cynically perpetuated most of the society-destroying new norms of their non-immediate predecessors and even vehemently resisted attempts to undo them, they didn't make big reforms to make things much worse still like Dubya and Cameron did.
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.
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.
Anyone else remember the BT ChargeCards from the nineties? I always remember going to the red boxes and the phones inside being too old-fashioned. I'd dial 144 but could never get any further...
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.
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my direct relative designed the red one. My only claim to fame.
Oh yeah, well my direct relative flies the blue one.
Exactly
He also designed the Anglican cathedral in Liverpool, I believe.
correct! he did indeed.
I'm now going to exhaust the interesting things I know about this by saying: he won a competition with his design of the Anglican cathedral despite being a Catholic himself; the Catholic cathedral in Liverpool was conversely designed by an Anglican. The city was a lot more sectarian then than it is now and the cathedrals stand at either end of a road called Hope Street.
Sir Scott *tips hat.
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!
Buddhism of course.
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.
Same for public pay phones in the US. Cell phones killed them off.
Every day I understand more and more why Romans left Britain.
I thought we were all Britons.
Who made you king then?
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.
And no one would want to go in it, brilliant.
They are even mostly blue too!
Well yes, that's the explanation given for masquerading as a police box from the 60s at all times, chameleon circuits are broken and brakes are stuck on
Yes, happened in the very first episode. What a coincidence.
I love how the plot of the first two seasons is that doctor shows the teachers of his granddaughter (yes, he has family) that the tardis works and goes with them to the stone age. Then he tries to go back and it takes him 2 seasons.
Shame about the lost episodes. I could totally see William Hartnell doing a couple episodes where he visits the BBC repositories to save the chronicles of his adventures from the various fires/ other reasons that we lost episodes.
I'm clearly getting old because mose whovians these days haven't seen any of the original doctors, or at best Tom bloody Baker. Sod off!
Honestly, I'm too young to remember Old Who but at some point I was invested enough to start at the beginning. I did not make it to the Time War but I can confirm that Ton Baker is the best!
Let me share a piece of trivia: Tom Baker had an apparence in the 2013 episode "The Day of the Doctor" as curator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cbQVfVfSrI
The one from Inspector Spacetime https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.Wcu7UaSLOU3CewYy2kxCwwHaE8?pid=ImgDet&dpr=1.8&PC=EMMX01
Chapeau, I did not think of that. I just thought "close enough to make the joke" but you made the joke better than intened
The TARDIS is a police box, not a regular telephone box. Very few of them survive now.
That link claims it's about, "British and American Police Boxes"‽‽‽‽
Where does this mythical American Police Box exist? I've been to 49/50 states for months at a time, and I've never seen a TARDIS(Police Box), unless it was a TARDIS(whovian) in the US
Edit: upon reading the article, one needs a TARDIS to see an American Police Box.
Was about to say, the Doctor wouldn't be having none of either of these.
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.
The smell lingers rather well. It doesn't need to be refreshed that often.
It actually works better if you don't
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.
Blair built on Thatcher’s legacy. That’s a simple fact https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/18/blair-thatcher-legacy-labour-zarah-sultana
Noam Chomsky saying the Labour party became "Thatcher-lite" during the Blair years and did not represent the working class https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/noam-chomsky-saying-the-labour-party-became-thatcher-lite-news-footage/682672090
Blair was to Thatcher what Clinton was to Reagan: while both cynically perpetuated most of the society-destroying new norms of their non-immediate predecessors and even vehemently resisted attempts to undo them, they didn't make big reforms to make things much worse still like Dubya and Cameron did.
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.
People in Hull: "Why have you painted your white phone boxes red and put royal crowns on top of them?"
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
https://maps.app.goo.gl/vgzwoAC5niXFt8DRA
Is the mailbox safe?
Anyone else remember the BT ChargeCards from the nineties? I always remember going to the red boxes and the phones inside being too old-fashioned. I'd dial 144 but could never get any further...
They WOT?!
Yeah that's a hard pass from me.
propa
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.
In both cases, it's better to be an equal than to be a ruler!
Monarch and empire