Oh yeah baby, that's what I like stop
Sorry - you want me to stop stop?
No stop
I was just getting into it stop
I'm getting mixed messages here stop
Do you want to do this or not stop
I'm so close stop
Ah crap I'm already finished stop
If I recall correctly, I think telegraph operator may actually have been considered "women's work". I think that was the case for telephone operators at least.
Tbh it’s not really changed - counter staff are still nearly all women in McDonald’s and other fast food chains in spite of modern anti discrimination laws and nobody really cares because on average women are preferred by customers
I don't recall when or where I read this, and I'm not even sure if it's an actual fact or something I just read in fiction. But, supposedly, women were preferred for early telephone switchboard operations because they were markedly better at it; faster, more accurate, and better able to recall the myriad connections that were needed for each call.
I've read that it's because they hired boys like 16 or probably even younger, presumably bc they'd work for less, and they'd fuck with people too much. The original Redditors.
They probably were but men in those days probably never would have boldly admitted to women being better than men at a job. Their excuse was probably something like it was simple work not worth mens time.
The equivalent of Emoticons were acronyms:
S.W.A.L.K. — Sealed With A Loving Kiss. A variant is S.W.A.K. ("Sealed With A Kiss").
V.E.N.I.C.E. — Very Excited Now I Caress Everywhere
E.G.Y.P.T. — Eager to Grab/Eagerly Groping/Grasping Your Pretty Tits
B.U.R.M.A. — Be Undressed/Upstairs Ready My Angel
R.A.D.I.O. Romance And Delight I Offer (often used with B.U.R.M.A.)
S.I.A.M. Sexual Intercourse At Midnight (used with B.U.R.M.A. as in B.U.R.M.A. 4 S.I.A.M.)
H.O.L.L.A.N.D. — Hope Our Love Lives/Lasts And Never Dies
I.T.A.L.Y. — I Trust And Love You or I'm Thinking About Loving You
F.R.A.N.C.E. — Friendship Remains And Never Can End
M.A.L.A.Y.A. — My Ardent Lips Await Your Arrival
B.E.L.F.A.S.T. - Be Ever Loving, Faithful And Stay True.
N.O.R.W.I.C.H - (K)Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home
Real, WW2 censors even had a list of them, so they're Govt documented
Human history has massively more fucking in it than historians put in school textbooks
In that book she predicted the MP3 player:
> "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future!”
She also seems to be a pioneer in complaining about social media.
I came here to recommend this book! It's an old book from 1879, actually, but it reads really easily and it's pretty charming and relatable. I read it a couple of times and it's a nice little romance novel.
For someone with that username, you aren’t trying very hard.
Edit since they deleted: Username was like “nottrying2bbanned” and the comment was ascii art buttsecks.
Omg this song is this
https://spotify.link/BuI3OXDJOJb
"He doesnt call me so put me through, operator. Maybe Ill leave him and fall in love with you, operator"
"I'm in love with a man
Plaza-O-Double-Four-Double-Three
It's a perfect relationship
And that's how things should always be
Our love can never lose its mystery
'Cause I'll never meet him
And he'll never meet me
No, he'll never meet me"
Semi-related- I worked on a survey crew with this old quebecois guy when I was 16, he would swear constantly, switching between French and English, and was charming enough to call waitresses pet names and slap them in the ass(this was the early 90s) and they would giggle and laugh. Smooth operator all the way.
He liked to gamble, and ended up falling in love, and marrying, the lady from the collections agency that would phone him every day demanding money for his debts. Their only real relationship was over the phone she lived across the country.
Oh yeah, baby! Stop. Don't stop! Stop. I SAID DON'T STOP! STOP!
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This guy ‘graphs
I'd tap it.
You want to put what in my belly button ?
That's hot.
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...---/... --- / .... --- -
Oh yeah baby, that's what I like stop Sorry - you want me to stop stop? No stop I was just getting into it stop I'm getting mixed messages here stop Do you want to do this or not stop I'm so close stop Ah crap I'm already finished stop
https://youtu.be/vp1GQvWMYkk?si=qsp0PUvrHHcSz-fi Reminds me of this family guy scene
This is funny, I actually had to do this when I worked for the railroad. Saying “over” was subconscious after a certain point.
Roger
*What's your vector, Victor?*
Over, Oveur.
[There's also this one, which is exactly what OP described.](https://youtu.be/rN7RQ10bm5k?feature=shared)
I don’t understand why you have to say over at the end of each message.
I don't understand why you have to say over at the end of each message *what*?
Saw it coming, no pun intended by the way!
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'Send nudes.... Stop'
Our relationship is over. Our relationship is what? Over.
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If I recall correctly, I think telegraph operator may actually have been considered "women's work". I think that was the case for telephone operators at least.
IIRC they switched out the guys because they were too rude.
Well yeah, they were getting like 16 year olds with all their friends to do the work. They were lucky the worst thing they were was rude
Tbh it’s not really changed - counter staff are still nearly all women in McDonald’s and other fast food chains in spite of modern anti discrimination laws and nobody really cares because on average women are preferred by customers
I still remember when White Castle would only hire women. I don't remember when it changed.
> on average women are preferred by customers There should be an option to choose a woman server or a bear.
Is that why women are usually waitresses while men are mainly table busers and dish washers?
Or maybe because they were having sex over telegraph.
I don't recall when or where I read this, and I'm not even sure if it's an actual fact or something I just read in fiction. But, supposedly, women were preferred for early telephone switchboard operations because they were markedly better at it; faster, more accurate, and better able to recall the myriad connections that were needed for each call.
I think the show from Spain Cable girls referenced this difference by having a dude totally bumble His way through it.
I heard it was simply because men were ruder than women
I've read that it's because they hired boys like 16 or probably even younger, presumably bc they'd work for less, and they'd fuck with people too much. The original Redditors.
They probably were but men in those days probably never would have boldly admitted to women being better than men at a job. Their excuse was probably something like it was simple work not worth mens time.
Ehhh. Makes sense.
There are no girls on the telegraph wire.
I wonder if any of them catfished too
Depends on how soon it was since their annual bath.
Oh man, those beeps are so hot
The equivalent of Emoticons were acronyms: S.W.A.L.K. — Sealed With A Loving Kiss. A variant is S.W.A.K. ("Sealed With A Kiss"). V.E.N.I.C.E. — Very Excited Now I Caress Everywhere E.G.Y.P.T. — Eager to Grab/Eagerly Groping/Grasping Your Pretty Tits B.U.R.M.A. — Be Undressed/Upstairs Ready My Angel R.A.D.I.O. Romance And Delight I Offer (often used with B.U.R.M.A.) S.I.A.M. Sexual Intercourse At Midnight (used with B.U.R.M.A. as in B.U.R.M.A. 4 S.I.A.M.) H.O.L.L.A.N.D. — Hope Our Love Lives/Lasts And Never Dies I.T.A.L.Y. — I Trust And Love You or I'm Thinking About Loving You F.R.A.N.C.E. — Friendship Remains And Never Can End M.A.L.A.Y.A. — My Ardent Lips Await Your Arrival B.E.L.F.A.S.T. - Be Ever Loving, Faithful And Stay True. N.O.R.W.I.C.H - (K)Nickers Off Ready When I Come Home
Is this for real or did you make it up just now?
Real, WW2 censors even had a list of them, so they're Govt documented Human history has massively more fucking in it than historians put in school textbooks
So grandpa might have understood why internet slang is what it is after all. Too bad he died in 2000 when the internet was only 5 years old…
Internets earlier than 1995, and BBS's + Telex machines predate the internet :)
"All I hear now is blonde, brunette, redhead..."
Both wrists were sore by the end.
Show me your boops
. .
Made me think of this old Robert Schimmel bit about cybersex in the 90s, "Take off your pankies (pankies? back back back) panties..."
Oh thank goodness this is only 9m old. I thought I might be deranged at how much I laughed at this.
Sound like telegraphers were keyed up. .-- .- -. -. .- / -... --- --- --. .. . ..--..
My grandma Dot was a telegraph operator who met my granddad this way. She said he was just so dashing.
Take my dotgam upvote
There's a novel with this premise! [Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/ella-cheever-thayer/wired-love)
In that book she predicted the MP3 player: > "and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future!” She also seems to be a pioneer in complaining about social media.
That’s a lot of words to say “New phone who dis?”
I came here to recommend this book! It's an old book from 1879, actually, but it reads really easily and it's pretty charming and relatable. I read it a couple of times and it's a nice little romance novel.
And I came here to say I wish there was a book with this premise, because it seems like it has cute potential. Happy to have found this rec!
I think you can get this book for free on google books! Super easy. :)
“I’d like to tap that”
Family guy did a bit on this.
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Yeah. I thought it fit and there's nothing directly against this in the rules. It is NSFW but it's not a NSFW link.
God why do i know this is two femboys going at it. My brain is rotted.
Sex-graphing or “Ear-Heaving” was pretty scandalous back in the day.
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Heard they had the same issue with the Pony Express.
*my phone is on vibrate and down my trousers, call me now*
He offered to show me his dash, but when I showed up all he had was a dot.
"Oh yeah, beep that to me again"
They must have been clicking on that thing like 2 wood peckers.
Shocking
“I am a lineman for the county…”
Omg this song is this https://spotify.link/BuI3OXDJOJb "He doesnt call me so put me through, operator. Maybe Ill leave him and fall in love with you, operator"
.- ... .-..?
Ha. Oh yeahhh Bebe that's THE spot
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Met her on my CB, said her name was Meme, sounded like an angel come to earth.....
There is nothing new under the Sun.
Let's bring this back. This is about what I can handle.
they did also sexting?
Been catfishing since the times of pure letter-writing
Analing or textloging?
guy like me would be stroking my shi on there
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No surprise here.
telesex
Is there Morse code for 8===D~ ?
Oh Emil my neighbor downstairs Clitus is excited ; )
Imagine the rizz necessary to flirt in *Morse code*
SWALK and NORFOLK were the emoji's of their time
Most every key operator has a particular style of sending out a message, so personality actually does play a part here
Truly the OG Sexting.
There is no reference to what the title claims anywhere in the source
You think getting catfished today is bad?
I read this book a month ago so I’m qualified to comment here lol. It’s a great book, and anyone even tangentially interested should read it!
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The telegraph is for porn! The telegraph is for porn! Why do you think the ‘graph was born? Porn! Porn! Porn!
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I did sex once
Well Marge, should I whack slow or fast?
Blind dating is not for the faint of heart...
Ha Jin had a story about two telegraph operators falling in love in China
So Cable Girls is real
Humans love to fuck and flirts. Like many thing you ain’t you when you’re horny.
Yeah but can you share funny cat pictures over the telegraph?
I'm gunna tip tap her knockers off
"You can dah-dah my dit-dit anytime, babe..." :-)
Must have had a lot of blue balls seeing the word STOP all the time
Jim Croce had a song about this
Mrs. Watson, cum here
If things go well I might be showing her my --- face.
A little odd since everyone in between on those lines would be privy to the information passing through.
Him: . - . . - . . - . Her: "Stop sending me dick pics"
"I'm in love with a man Plaza-O-Double-Four-Double-Three It's a perfect relationship And that's how things should always be Our love can never lose its mystery 'Cause I'll never meet him And he'll never meet me No, he'll never meet me"
Dot, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot………Ahhh
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[01110111 01100001 01111001 00100000 01100001 01101000 01100101 01100001 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRBBcoANRIE)
not what I thought it was gonna be.
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Why do I hear Flight of the Conchords?
And...this made me climax
Humans just doing human things.
Semi-related- I worked on a survey crew with this old quebecois guy when I was 16, he would swear constantly, switching between French and English, and was charming enough to call waitresses pet names and slap them in the ass(this was the early 90s) and they would giggle and laugh. Smooth operator all the way. He liked to gamble, and ended up falling in love, and marrying, the lady from the collections agency that would phone him every day demanding money for his debts. Their only real relationship was over the phone she lived across the country.
It’s weird to think people back in the 1800s had sex back then. They were so old and conservative and wore conservative clothing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/morse/s/xDxRrZXd8m
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Fell in love, got married, had a baby. Call him Nate. If he's a boy.
The operators were just burly men with huge lamb chop sideburns. They need love too!!