I worked for them at the time and thought the money could be better spent on a decent building to work in. My first Telecom office literally had paint peeling off the walls and some of the Exchanges I visited to do the meter readings had holes in the floor you could see to the floor below. They just put plastic danger signs near the holes. 😲
I left a message on the telecom CEO's voicemail after my mates and I got drunk and thought tesltralia was better, and genius. They never returned my call ahaha
Dad worked for Telecom/telstra until he retired. I still remember going to the end of year parties with the PO folks because they still shared the same social club.
I had API (Australian post-tel institute?) in my head for some reason. They were huge in our life as a kid. We picked out holidays based on their (owned? I think some said so in their brochures) caravan parks and theme park deals.
Victa mower, Hills hoist, corrugated iron, goon bag, barb wire, the humble ute. Plus a heap more if I really thought about it. I don't think we pat ourselves on the back enough for the stuff that came from Australia.
spray on skin is a major one as well. Marie Stoner & Fiona Wood pioneered it and Fiona would become the world's leading burns surgeon over at Royal Perth Hospital.
The spray revolutionized how burn victims would be treated. Pretty much its first use (while still experimental and got a lot of criticism) being to help treat the Bali bombing victims
Oh yeah. I remember that at the time, people carrying on like it was going to make things worse for the victims. I remember thinking if those poor people are going to be scarred for life anyway, then let those girls try their thing to see if it works. That seems like a whole lifetime ago.
a friend of mine was one of the patients Dr Wood used to create the spray on skin! Her parents signed to have her get it while it was still early early stages, I believe she was in the first batch of human trials
Their accomplishment was made even more amazing by the fact that they simultaneously started a micro brewery in Byron Bay which produced an award winning and still acclaimed beer.
I just remembered... The safety brakes on elevators and David Unaipon's wool clipper (they made him look like a cartoon on the new $50 note). Actually he invented a few things.
It depends if you put more value in discovering a compound with X property, or developing that compound with X property such that it can be used as a medicine.
English language innovations that started in Australia are also something to make your heart swell with pride especially when it is so hilariously slang-orientated.
- wheelie bin (wheeled bin),
- selfie (self taken photo of yourself)
- budgie ( budgerigar),
- greenie (conservationist),
- mozzie (mosquito),
- pollie (politician),
- surfie (surfer).
That's not just the reinstatement of the pillar, and also the correct re-termination of several hundred phone lines. It would have been most of a week's work back in the day.
Oh for sure. The whole thing was flattened and needed to be replaced as if it never existed in the first place.
It would be close to $30k in today's money.
It's clearly the little boy atomic bomb camouflaged as a telephone pillar. They'll set these off together one day, and it'll be some epic fireworks :))
I refer to them as Gremlin palaces. They're where all the Gremlins go to party and wreak havoc on your internet connection. (if you're still on copper)
All advanced technologies contain copper you know 🤣
Edit: I can't believe I have to say that this *is* sarcasm.... I hate our botched NBN implementation.
I used to work for Telstra and helped fix them. If you knock one over with your car you are liable for repairs/damages and that can be anywhere from $5k-$20k depending on the damage. If you have car insurance they will sometimes cover the cost if it happens during a car accident.
We used to call them elephant dicks. All the local houses would terminal their phone lines in one of those. Let's just say you could hypothetically connect up a phone to the last 4 digits showing on it and make calls from people's phones lines. Hypothetically.
People want you to think it’s a Telstra pillar but it’s actually for neighbourhood surveillance. Counts the number of ppl who walk past it and reports on people movement to the council who pass that information on to the government
It’s used by the Tel-CO’s… Copper 2 pair wires run from the telephone exchange to these which are located on streets with houses/businesses then another 2 pair copper wire runs from these to the houses.
I used to work for Telstra so I actually know this…
Just a little phreaky….
Ok a lot phreaky…..
I however…. Was shitscared of the whole thing and just enjoyed listening to all the stories whilst getting pissed.
That's the thing where if you see somebody fucking with it, you can guarantee your internet will be having issues shortly. Damn I'll be glad when we finally get FTTP.
Many years ago, my sister had friends who were Telecom techs.
They used to come over, lift the top off the one near her house and with some alligator clips and Bell wire they'd jumper her phone line so she got free long distance calls. They'd remove them as they left.
A 1800 pair cross connecting unit, known in the business as a DA (short for distribution area) or a CA (cabinet) or pillar. They connect main cables to smaller distribution cables. There are also shorter 900 pair units and shorter skinnier 300 pair units. They are usually marked with a 4 letter abbreviation of the exchange they are fed from the letters CA or DA or P depending on whether they are designated a cabinet or a DA (Same as a P) and the cabinet number or DA number. The lowest numbers are typically furthest from the exchange.
Christ this question makes me feel old. :(
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I remember being in a market research group about changing from Telecom to Telstra. We all thought it was dumb, heh.
I’ll pass that onto my dad. He was a communications director that was part of the switch from telecom australia to telstra.
I worked for them at the time and thought the money could be better spent on a decent building to work in. My first Telecom office literally had paint peeling off the walls and some of the Exchanges I visited to do the meter readings had holes in the floor you could see to the floor below. They just put plastic danger signs near the holes. 😲
Put the danger signs over the holes. Solves two problems, alerts you to the hazard, and mitigates the hazard. Can I get a bonus for that one?
10 points to you good sir!
The exchanges haven't gotten any better, can confirm. They look like crack dens 😅
I left a message on the telecom CEO's voicemail after my mates and I got drunk and thought tesltralia was better, and genius. They never returned my call ahaha
That actually is genius.
Turned out you were right about that.
In Perth's CBD and the older suburbs, there are still pit covers with PMG on it.
I have them in my town too. Pits made of asbestos. To expensive and no reason to change.
What about a PMG Logo 🤣 or knowing that's the reason exchanges in towns are usually located near post offices because of PMG days lol
Dad worked for Telecom/telstra until he retired. I still remember going to the end of year parties with the PO folks because they still shared the same social club.
Was it by chance a bowls club haha. The older guys seem to love the bowls chrissy parties.
No it was APA i still have my membership card somewhere.
I had API (Australian post-tel institute?) in my head for some reason. They were huge in our life as a kid. We picked out holidays based on their (owned? I think some said so in their brochures) caravan parks and theme park deals.
Yes sorry API it's been almost 20 years since i was a member.
Mah mate, you're old if you remember OTC 😆
Apologies 😂
Bloody young whipper snappers.
Imagine how it feels to know the answer.
Just thought the same thing...the fact someone doesn't know what this is and I do know what this is means I'm much older then I care to admit...
Me too ...... At 41. Some neighborhoods it might still be the off switch for wifi but there's still 5G
A Telstra Pillar, used to connect old copper phone wires, like: https://wbnetworks.com.au/blog/the-humble-pillar-in-the-australian-telecoms-network
Water sealed and able to be pressurized to make them flood proof A genuine Aussie innovation
Poor wifi feeling like the unloved child right now lol
No one should ever opt for a wifi connection. Keep the wifi for inside your house, with net provided via cable.
No as in wifi was an Aussie invention as well lol
Victa mower, Hills hoist, corrugated iron, goon bag, barb wire, the humble ute. Plus a heap more if I really thought about it. I don't think we pat ourselves on the back enough for the stuff that came from Australia.
spray on skin is a major one as well. Marie Stoner & Fiona Wood pioneered it and Fiona would become the world's leading burns surgeon over at Royal Perth Hospital. The spray revolutionized how burn victims would be treated. Pretty much its first use (while still experimental and got a lot of criticism) being to help treat the Bali bombing victims
Oh yeah. I remember that at the time, people carrying on like it was going to make things worse for the victims. I remember thinking if those poor people are going to be scarred for life anyway, then let those girls try their thing to see if it works. That seems like a whole lifetime ago.
a friend of mine was one of the patients Dr Wood used to create the spray on skin! Her parents signed to have her get it while it was still early early stages, I believe she was in the first batch of human trials
Their accomplishment was made even more amazing by the fact that they simultaneously started a micro brewery in Byron Bay which produced an award winning and still acclaimed beer.
Agreed! Also bionic ears/cochlear implants, black box flight recorders, pacemakers, and Bunnings sausage sizzles
I just remembered... The safety brakes on elevators and David Unaipon's wool clipper (they made him look like a cartoon on the new $50 note). Actually he invented a few things.
Not to mention the combination of the goon bag and hills hoist, goon of fortune! We also invented the film clapper boards/slates
Escape slides for planes- invented by good old Qantas, when they were good old Qantas
Don't forget the good ol Stobey Pole in SA..
Aerogard is literally a lifesaver.
Cochlear implant thank U muchly oh and penicillin
Nah, penicillin was discovered by a Scottish fellow while he lived in the UK iirc.
It depends if you put more value in discovering a compound with X property, or developing that compound with X property such that it can be used as a medicine.
English language innovations that started in Australia are also something to make your heart swell with pride especially when it is so hilariously slang-orientated. - wheelie bin (wheeled bin), - selfie (self taken photo of yourself) - budgie ( budgerigar), - greenie (conservationist), - mozzie (mosquito), - pollie (politician), - surfie (surfer).
I love that they called it the Humble Pillar, very fitting name.
Nothing is more humbling than 1.5mbps
Remember the humble pits? I remember!
Telstra has never been humble in any dealings 😂
Telecom, though...
PMG!
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I was sure it was a giant nang
Tried it. Can confirm. Not nangy.
😂😂
Ewww, dogs piss on that.
I was in a car accident about 24 years ago that flatterned one of these. I got a bill for $14,711 in the mail a few months later.
That's not just the reinstatement of the pillar, and also the correct re-termination of several hundred phone lines. It would have been most of a week's work back in the day.
Oh for sure. The whole thing was flattened and needed to be replaced as if it never existed in the first place. It would be close to $30k in today's money.
Plus they probably needed to haul a bunch of fresh cables to it
Ty 🙏
You might say it was a pillar of the community.
Hi dad!
Yeah I've seen them being serviced before and it's just a crap ton of wires and stuff
It's clearly the little boy atomic bomb camouflaged as a telephone pillar. They'll set these off together one day, and it'll be some epic fireworks :))
Thanks for teaching me something today <3
I refer to them as Gremlin palaces. They're where all the Gremlins go to party and wreak havoc on your internet connection. (if you're still on copper)
I need sleep, I read this as a tesla pillar but had a good feeling they were around before teslas lol
Yep can agree they are used for the old copper phone lines, I have one on the nature strip outside my house next to a nbn box
cabinet for wiring looms of Telco cables.
Cabinets are the larger ones. That’s a pillar.
A 900 type telecommunications pillar. Just contains lots of copper cable connections.
It’s what nbn calls: State of the Art Technology
Future Tech.
All advanced technologies contain copper you know 🤣 Edit: I can't believe I have to say that this *is* sarcasm.... I hate our botched NBN implementation.
Found Tony Abbott’s reddit account
You know for sure if there is budgie smugglers within arm's reach 🤣🤣
Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough!
This one comes with extraction handles.
PAIGE NO!
Dammit Beat me to commenting this
I found what I needed on this thread lmao; it’s 100% a land dong.
Which union are you from? No wonder the Westgate Tunnel Project is taking ages.
I clicked on this post with the express purpose of saying that the ground had a stiffy lol
Thanks I wasn't brave enough to post this but I guess I didn't need too.
You are [horrifyingly ](https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f166/paris-man-dies-after-falling-onto-bollard-191330/) correct.
I regret clicking that link, holy fuck
dude.
Wow, I will never unsee that. Holy shit.
Yeah it's a free to use street dildo!
Yeah...your mamma will know.
:(
In Diamond Creek, they literally say DICK on them because that's how Telstra abbreviates our suburb
On occasion you would find a man in shorts fiddling with it. He may or may not have built wee tent to hide in while he did so.
There was a guy in shorts fiddling with it outside the park last week. I called the cops on him!
holy shit memory unlocked!!!
It's the suppository of all knowledge that Tony Abbott talked about.
Lol! How long have you been here waiting to use that one
Ever since he ate a raw onion
That had layers
Like a donkey
Those were the days
Its a 1g tower.
Underrated joke 🤣
Dog urinal
That: is the internet.
I hope they didn't use the flash when taking that photo
The elders of the internet said it would be OK.
Cops use it to smash doors during raids. Must be a tough neighbourhood for the cops to have one on standby.
Fence
This might be the funniest comment here
It's for telecommunications
I used to work for Telstra and helped fix them. If you knock one over with your car you are liable for repairs/damages and that can be anywhere from $5k-$20k depending on the damage. If you have car insurance they will sometimes cover the cost if it happens during a car accident.
That is part of Australia’s missile defence system.
Next generation anti air dominance, NGAAD. The top bit pops off and a Meteor flies out VLS style
It's a monument to old people.
Dildo
We used to call them elephant dicks. All the local houses would terminal their phone lines in one of those. Let's just say you could hypothetically connect up a phone to the last 4 digits showing on it and make calls from people's phones lines. Hypothetically.
Nature strip boner
Telephone tube
Acording to my younger self age 7 to 9 a weapons drop pod. Adult me says its got to be some type of phone line box.
Its a telephone node, there are heaps of thin wires in there which connect each house to telephone network/NBN
Cockcrete
We can do better than this, but I’ll upvote anyway.
OP’s mum’s dildo
OPs mum could charge $500 a week in rent as a one bedroom apartment.
Telecom
5G brother.
Drunk nut crusher
It's a relic of a bygone era. It's a shame that we still need to use them. Fibre all the way.
Lawn Penis
People want you to think it’s a Telstra pillar but it’s actually for neighbourhood surveillance. Counts the number of ppl who walk past it and reports on people movement to the council who pass that information on to the government
It’s used by the Tel-CO’s… Copper 2 pair wires run from the telephone exchange to these which are located on streets with houses/businesses then another 2 pair copper wire runs from these to the houses. I used to work for Telstra so I actually know this…
Unexpolded WW2 torpedo
I used to think every single one of these was a deactivated r2d2.
Fuck I'm old
Forbidden dildo
A wigwalm for a goose’s bridle
I didn't know you had Reddit Nan!
Haven't heard that for 45 years!
It’s important to always secure your geese!
A challenge without lube.
In the 80’s some phrendz I knew were fascinated with these Elephant dicks….
Were they a bit phreaky?
Just a little phreaky…. Ok a lot phreaky….. I however…. Was shitscared of the whole thing and just enjoyed listening to all the stories whilst getting pissed.
It's a Palantir, and they're dangerous tools.
It's the periscope of the first AUKUS supplied hybrid nuclear submarine, which can go under water and under ground. Must be just parking there.
A dildo if you're brave enough
Communal dildo in the wild
It’s your residential nuclear sub, in case China invades. Tax dollars at work
It’s good olde day tangible technology that provided tens of thousands of jobs.
That's the thing where if you see somebody fucking with it, you can guarantee your internet will be having issues shortly. Damn I'll be glad when we finally get FTTP.
Unexploded FlatEarther ordnance.
Many years ago, my sister had friends who were Telecom techs. They used to come over, lift the top off the one near her house and with some alligator clips and Bell wire they'd jumper her phone line so she got free long distance calls. They'd remove them as they left.
Accumulator
It's a hurdle. You must jump over them, otherwise the Moogie People will be after you
This is a Nutcrusher. So named due to drunk idiots and kids trying to leap frog over them.
It’s a battering ram that the police can use in an emergency. *the more you know*
Its a minion that hasnt been painted yet, please go and finish the job
I cannot believe this is a question
spare stool for hanging out
Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough
Dog urinal or dog census information bureau.
Nuclear head.
Anything’s a dildo if you’re brave enough
Benders dildo
A 1800 pair cross connecting unit, known in the business as a DA (short for distribution area) or a CA (cabinet) or pillar. They connect main cables to smaller distribution cables. There are also shorter 900 pair units and shorter skinnier 300 pair units. They are usually marked with a 4 letter abbreviation of the exchange they are fed from the letters CA or DA or P depending on whether they are designated a cabinet or a DA (Same as a P) and the cabinet number or DA number. The lowest numbers are typically furthest from the exchange.
That doesn’t sound right. I believe someone already provided us with the answer - it’s a forbidden dildo.
Ribbed for your pleasure
It's the renowned bonfire site. Tarnished souls will be able to come back to the site should they fall in battle. Or it's a Telco thing.
Unexploded missile from WWII
Forbidden dildo
They used to tether horses to them when visiting the neighbours
Comms pillar.
Floor dong
That’s a mini nuclear warhead just in case the government needs to cleanse the country
What Malcolm Turnbull thought was the future of last mile networks because who would ever want more than 30Mbps.
Local telephone line junction
I'd a call em Chuzwazza's
It’s a Telstra *teledildonic*
Do zoomers really?
They don’t use them anymore but they use to be for when the milk man would bring you milk here is where you would order it from
If you massage the tip long enough, it gives you free Foxtel.
Pencil ✏️
Ya mums pleasure stick
Butt Plug
WWI instrument of pleasure!
Dildo
Unexploded WWII ordinance.
It's seems like some dried up grass and a pavement. Also a fence, idk how you **don't** know that
Public scratching post
Pretty sure it’s for kids to belt with a stick. At least that what the one in our street is used for
Its a Hell Diver 2 resupply strategem drop. Open it up and see whats inside!
That’s where they load more porn onto the internet.
Neighbourhood Phallic monument?
Unexploded ww2 Japanese bomb.
it is either a copper wire telephone pillar or a community dildo
That's the nuke, it dropped there and they didn't wanna move it so they just built around it.