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I looked up "half in the bag". It apparently means "slightly drunk." TIL!
Red Letter Media's show name makes so much more sense to me now. Thought it was just some random saying!
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You mean the receiver is billed? I've lived in many countries (but never in North America) and never encountered that. Bizarre.
It doesn't seem that weird to me. The line is active so you pay. If you don't want to pay don't pick up the phone.
That, combined with the fact that it appears to be unique to just the US & Canada (maybe NANP in general), makes it bizarre to me.
How could the mobile phone radio station make money calling and playing music and ads to people who couldn't afford to make calls themselves?
When I was a teenager in the 90s in the UK, if I wanted my parents to collect me from somewhere then I could let them know by calling the operator from a payphone and asking for a reverse charge to my parents landline. Calls to the operator were free but reverse charged calls cost a lot to those who accepted them. When asked for my name I would usually use my first name and use my last name as the place to pick me up…
When I was a teenager in the 90s in the UK, if I wanted my parents to collect me from somewhere then I could let them know by calling the operator from a payphone and asking for a reverse charge to my parents landline. Calls to the operator were free but reverse charged calls cost a lot to those who accepted them. When asked for my name I would usually use my first name and use my last name as the place to pick me up…
[0] Remember this was the 80s, no mobile phones. And a collect call was free from a payphone, since the callee was expected to accept and pay the charges.