√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agofeels foolish that I never remember itmedia.piefed.worldimagemessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1516arrow-down16
arrow-up1510arrow-down1imagefeels foolish that I never remember itmedia.piefed.world√𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.world to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square138fedilink
minus-squaresad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·5 days agoone of my last jobs needed me to use this for reading inventory locations to a crane operator over a phone. he always seemed slightly bemused that I didn’t know the phonetic alphabet and had to make up my own phonetics for him
minus-squaresad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoexactly. I KNOW that dude was clowning me as soon as I hung up the phone 😂
minus-squaretiramichu@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·5 days agoI can imagine the laughs at all the words you might have come up with. “It’s at uhh… Narwhal Sellotape Banana!” A reminder though, to anyone who needs it - don’t be condescending to others for not knowing things. Everything we know, we had to learn. For me, I learnt the phonetic alphabet after getting frustrated one too many times trying to give my postal code and car reg on a bad phone line.
one of my last jobs needed me to use this for reading inventory locations to a crane operator over a phone. he always seemed slightly bemused that I didn’t know the phonetic alphabet and had to make up my own phonetics for him
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exactly. I KNOW that dude was clowning me as soon as I hung up the phone 😂
I can imagine the laughs at all the words you might have come up with. “It’s at uhh… Narwhal Sellotape Banana!”
A reminder though, to anyone who needs it - don’t be condescending to others for not knowing things. Everything we know, we had to learn.
For me, I learnt the phonetic alphabet after getting frustrated one too many times trying to give my postal code and car reg on a bad phone line.