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Corded Phones and their Cords September 16, 2007
Yesterday I thought a lot about the cords which connect the telephone handset to the actual telephone itself.
It all started out with by obsession with American soaps, I love them I do, I love the safe humour, I love their lifestyles, I love their teeth, their apartments and general bonhomie. I love how when a man gets back from work his spouse asks him if he wants a beer from the cooler, wow, no one I have asked here in the UK has ever had that happen to them. Anyway, what brings me to this subject is that I always notice in the US soaps and sitcoms that their telephones have really long wires ( the curly wurly ones ) – I mean, why don’t we have such long cords here in the UK. Did we not invent telephones? Why is it that an American seems to be able to wander freely ( unless they make the potentially fatal mistake of performing a pirouette ) about with a seemingly unending piece of wire following them.
I thought for a while that it could be something to do with a difference in electrical currents, maybe there was something about impedence or resistance ( barely remembered words from school ) which limited the length of UK line cords to like a metre (4 foot I mean ) to prevent scalding or overheating. Some small research denied this theory.
It must therefore be a lifestyle thing, Americans like to wander around whilst on the phone. But on this side of the Atlantic we have now, a long tradition in DECT Digital Cordless Phones so we are used to wandering about as we chat on the telephone.
Finally I had a kind of hazy and meaningful thought about Americans being connected to a like, kind of umbilical chord to their telephone ( and hence the talker on the other end of the line ). That must be it I conclude. They like that actual, semi physical, connection which the corded phone evokes…. funny that……..
