has anyone in the UK dialled the speaking clock recently?

danr

guessing a few of you have, for resetting watches after the other night

what the bloody hell is all that about? Quite possibly the most immediately annoying 7 seconds of recent memory

Flynny

save me the bill and tell me? ;P

ChrisG

yer Im interested to know but not 1 pound interested:)

FAT_CAP

I was listening to Radio 4 on the way home the other day and heard about this. Don't they have some sort of tie-in with Disney and it's the voice of Tinkerbell voicing the time for a few weeks?

I always thought that the only person that could hear Tinkerbell was when she whispered into Peter Pan and she communicated to everybody else throught gestures?

danr

So i phone up a well established national institution to make sure i could set my clocks straight after the *other cocking established institution of ending British summer time, and i get a Disney advert shrilled at me? That i've paid for?

wonderful

Mark Dygert

I'm pretty sure she speaks in the new Disney Fairies stuff.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db61UBrUgzs[/ame]

notman

Yeah, there's a new Tinkerbell movie being released. I can see why that would piss you off if you've paid for the service. The service should have been free.

Mister Sentient

Wait a minute. You have to pay for the speaking clock in the UK?! I always thought it was a free call.

Joseph Silverman

Aren't we on the internet? Why would you use your phone to find out the time?

Justin Meisse

I was going to ask if you used a rotary phone to do it but I figured that would be too mean.

MoP

haha, i can see danr using a phone like that

danr

whats that? Being mocked by computer geeks?

carlo_c

lol tinkerbell, I can't remember the last time i dialed 123 for the time. But yeah, it should be free while her voice is speaking, talk about cheap advertising for them.