At the third stroke the time will be...

[ffutures]

For anyone who is totally freaked out by BT's new speaking clock with f*cking Tinkerbell as the voice...

The really old one (e.g. before sponsorship) can still be heard on 01352 83 8081. Allegedly it's a normal call charge, not the exhorbitant rip-off rate for the new one.

Personally I wear a radio-synched watch.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I thought Tinkerbell didn't speak?

(Though the actress who modeled for Disney's version of Tinkerbell, Margaret Kerry, did voices for the Clutch Cargo Space Angel cartoons. There here characters spoke, but barely moved. Must be a conservation law at work.)

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It says it's Tinkerbell, and Disney are apparently sponsoring it.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

She does in the new movie.

[whl.livejournal.com]

Tinkerbell is Disney's latest mega-marketing ploy...

So, let me see if I have this right; BT's speaking clock is now a Disney marketing device, and they are charging MORE to people that call it? Isn't product placement supposed to keep the cost of something down?

I guess I'm hopelessly twentieth century...

[murphys-lawyer.livejournal.com]

It's called Adding Value, just like the Water/Phone/Energy/Transport privatisations.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

They're privatizing water? Haven't they seen Tank Girl?

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Doesn't your cell phone just autosync the time with their clock? This was true for my last two carriers, and it is how I check the time.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Cell phone?

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

It is a small, portable device you can use to make phone calls or send text messages. If you're lucky, you can also use it to use the internet or post things to LJ. As the 21st century progressed, they replaced "telephones" or "landlines" as many people's main means of contact and communication.

Historians point to this shift as one of the main reasons polling was so off in the 2008 US elections, allowing Ralph Nader a shocking come-from-nowhere win of the Presidency.

[parakkum.livejournal.com]

Indeed -- things I don't use: a landline and a watch.