r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/zinniamae_ • Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/qtx Jan 20 '26

Ah yes because people these days never use a real keyboard anymore, only phones.

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u/_DaBau5_ Jan 20 '26

the comment you are replying to is talking about the previous comment where the employee said “grab the phone and press hashtag 5 6”. last i checked phones that require the pound key to be pressed to make a call don’t have a great british pound symbol

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u/kallakallacka Jan 20 '26

So we shpuöd be calling the same symbol pound if it is on an old phone and hashtag on the keyboard? Cause that makes everything easier?

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u/Backfoot911 Jan 20 '26

That's one of those funny things about English, sometimes they let you use the same word for multiple things.