• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I practice this by reading off license plates while I’m driving.

    It’s not a useful skill at all because the only time I use it is calling somewhere, and nobody else knows them.

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      8 days ago

      You have to say it anyway, make them the weird one for not putting two and two together. This shit was created for a reason.

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        8 days ago

        I have found it really useful for confusing AI phone support agents too. Reading a postcode as “Alpha bravo 1 2 3 charlie delta” and it had no idea what to do so put me through to a person.

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      8 days ago

      I’ve found that anyone on the other end of a service call understands it clearly. About half use it correctly, which is how I learned back in the day.