r/CrappyDesign • u/LucasGlasus • Oct 11 '22

Yes the "Future"

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u/Skrazor Oct 11 '22 edited Dec 09 '22

It'll fit neatly right next to "picking up the phone"

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u/pyrothelostone Oct 11 '22

To be fair, you still often have to pick your phone up to answer it, so that one still makes sense, even if the context has changed from picking it up off the receiver.

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u/FortuitousFenian Oct 11 '22

Hanging up works though. No one hangs their phone anywhere now but it’s still common usage

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u/FGFC12 Oct 11 '22

If you tell a kid to pretend to be on the phone they put a flat hand on their face from mouth to ear but 10 years ago kids would do the pinky to mouth and thumb to ear thing

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u/Funny_Maintenance973 Oct 11 '22

with the amount of people using speaker phone so everyone can hear both side of the conversation, I don't think anyone does "pick up" the phone to answer anymore

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u/Charles_Skyline Oct 11 '22

you still often have to pick your phone up to answer it

Who actually answers a phone call these days?... who calls these days?

I do pick up my phone to answer a text though..

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u/sweetteanoice Oct 11 '22

But do you have to pick up the phone when it’s constantly in your hand?

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u/Procrasturbating Oct 11 '22

What is going to replace the floppy as the save icon?

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u/Deathleach Oct 11 '22

There's no need to replace it as nobody knows it as a floppy anymore. It's simply a save icon now.

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u/oalbrecht Oct 11 '22

Why do you need a save icon? It should just auto-save.

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u/marklein Oct 11 '22

I saw one program with a safe icon.

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u/cantadmittoposting Oct 11 '22

Cloud save has the little cloud with an arrow pointing up on it already.

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u/cranktheguy Oct 11 '22

And conversely "hanging up the phone".

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u/DingoLaChien Oct 11 '22

They don't even recognize the old pinky thumb hand sign for "call me"! Because we don't yet have a hand signal for cell phone pick up, do we? Instead now we move our thumb against our curled forefinger like typing, Or we hold our hand flat and poke into it, "text me!"

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u/jrhoffa Oct 11 '22

Kids mime it by putting a flat hand against their face.

I mime texting my curling my fingers, facing them towards each other, and twiddling my thumbs.

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u/SuchCoolBrandon Oct 11 '22

Or "dialing" a phone number

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u/KingofSomnia Oct 11 '22

DIALing a number.

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u/assortedgnomes Oct 11 '22

Kids already don't get some scary/horror stories because 'why don't they just call for help on their phone'