Quiet at the Library
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Loading ...To everyone who complained about book abuse in the 478 comments in the Don’t Like Reading, Read On post, here is a little ray of sunshine for you. As both books and classic red phone booths are becoming a thing of the past, a village in Somerset, England has merged the two rare commodities.
The bright red old phone booth was purchased for just 1 pound and remodeled as the smallest library in the world. Residents line up to swap their already read books for new ones left by other patrons. Over 100 books and a variety of movies and music CDs are available at this tiny library.
That is the kewlest thing I’ve ever seen!!
What an awesome idea!
thats totally gay
If you don’t have anything nice to say, do us all a solid favor and don’t type it either.
I wish I had one of these where I live.
Brian.Maybe if you read a little more yourself you`d be capable of making a slightly less cretinous remark
hahahah love it
Wish you had one of these where you live? You do! It’s called a charity shop, where people throw away all sorts of crap shit they don’t want.
THIS IS very neat! I like the idea of mixing two dieing loves into one :] and loooook at all the people lined up! It’s obviously a local hit!
thats really gay
That is absolutely fantastic! I love the idea that it is always changing, and people can leave books that move them to inspire others.
Are books becoming part of the past? I wouldn’t think so. Granted I live in an urbanish area, but I have several enormous chain bookstores near me, dozens of little shops, and a two floor library that must have millions of books. The five closest libraries to me are connected via a currier service, and I can order books from any library and have it shipped to my local.
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My wife and I have traveled via RV trailer for vacations for several years. Most campgrounds we stop at have some sort of book exchange. Since it is not practical to carry dozens of books, we take a few that we want to read but do not care deeply about. When we finish reading a book, we leave it at one of these swap places and take something different to read. It works out well.
that’s pretty gay
They are all FUHOs(fucking homosexuals)
right, gay. look at all those same-sex books doing it with each other.
lol brian trolled you all.
You could put more books in there if the library were a blue police call box, instead, because those are much bigger on the inside.
Yeah, but the red ones are cooler, and it’s clear functionality was not a main concern.
Sadly this would never work in my country, I think in fifteen minutes everything would be stolen.. including the booth eventually.
that’s really gay imagine those books all smelling of piss after all that’s all those horrible red phone boxes smelt like. When i was a kid i did manage to stretch a condom all the way round one once and tie a knot………….. how i laughed at the little old lady that tried to get in to make a call 10 minutes later
lisa - your comment made me actually LOL.
and i <3 this idea, i hopeee we see more of these around, xxx
This is so quaint! Makes me want to move to Britain!
A shame that within a week it will be nothing but Grisham, King and the like books.
Only the f**king English could line up and wait for such stupidity. Seriously, when I see that many Brits in a line I’m overcome by a powerful urge to mow the pasty c**ts down with an Uzi.
thats not gay at all. it is escentric though!
A blue police box would totally be better Dave. Everyone WHO’s anyone knows they’re bigger on the inside!
;p
wow lot of comment trolling
it’s a nice idea, very charming
your comments on the homosexuality of this idea are very interesting in that they reveal the total lack of imagination that you posess. This is most likely due to the censored, regulated, de-criticalised education system that you have been exposed to - one that has a huge paradox at its very midst in that it is not an education system at all, more a vehicle for making you accept consumerist, identikit concepts and attack anything individual and interesting. well, it clearly has been a ’success’…
Cool idea! even though some idiot keeps trolling this post. i wonder how many poor people in the world would give anything for a computer and internet access and some waste of life just abuses the privilege
Agreed usurper
that’s pretty gay
Love it!
Could see this idea working in an Ashram or a little village, perhaps a desert island sanctuary untouched by the the likes of Brian, Steve and their ilk.
NB
Guys it’s a democracy and I sincerely respect your right to vocalise your opinion.
No matter how cretinous,inbred,mistaken,and dammit just plain ignorant your opinion maybe.
NBB.
Actually Steve your ilk make me want to go postal,however I prefer the H&K MP5 fitted with a sionics noise supressor- hey no sense in disturbing the neighbors,they be reading..LOL
I love you Dave and Shana.
Can’t believe how mean,nasty & foul-mouthed some people are.
Get a life !
hahah that makes me laugh, good idea though it would be good to be able to go into a little place like that and buy a book or lend one.
That’s totally gay
nice idea, also phil and thezen i love both of your comments. very good points both of you.
trollers you have the right to your opinion, and to express it. but we have the right to pity your ignorance- so keep on trolling, we could all use another moron poster to laugh at.
Am I gay?
Fags
cats!!!!
That is lovely! I would like to get a phonebooth bookcase for my house. =D
Also–responding to the trollers is giving them the attention they want. Just ignore their idiocy, like a bully at school. They go away eventually when you do that.
@ Steve, “mow the pasty c**ts down with an Uzi”
Spoken like a true American. It’s no wonder why the majority of the world can’t stand us, as ignorant as 90% of us are. “Those damn Brits, wanting to use a library for reading.” I’m surprised you could string together enough letters to made a coherant thought, Steve!
uh, okay. if this post is “gay”, first of all: why are you looking at it? second of all: if you can come up with a good enough reason for the first one, answer me this; why would you take the time to comment on it just to say it’s gay and make everybody else endure your stupidity? next time, just click the stumble button again or click on the random post button, that way no one else has to deal with your comments.
That’s totally lesbian
The only reason I read the coments is for the random trolls!
Why should I care about what a bunch of morans that I will never meet (and hopefully never will) think about this post? Bring on the trolls!
Its not so much the people doing the trolling which I find so funny, because lets face it “this is gay” lacks imagination. Its more the responses from the trolls! What do you think you guys are doing!? do you realy think you are going to make the troller wet his pants or cry himself to sleep just because you can write some sturn words?
“OMG someone dosent agree with my thoughts that this post is gay, I feel so ashamed, I must end my life now!”
Everyone, keep up the good work! FREEDOM OF SPEACH!
P.S. This is gay, anyone reading this, Including my self is gay. Infact, everyone who has ever lived and their children and their childrens children are gay! Except the Pope, hes just a peado!
“You could put more books in there if the library were a blue police call box, instead, because those are much bigger on the inside. - Dave”
LOL that is one of the best posts on this and I have a feeling some people didnt get it. I pray you are referencing Dr. Who…
I live in Brighton.
I thought that red telephone boxes had antique value.
Some time ago I was quoted 300 pounds for one.
You did well to buy one for one pound.
But then there are the transportation and installation costs.
Telephone boxes weigh a ton and need a crane to set them up.
Well done anyway.
I think everyone did get it but just no one except you found it remotely funny. Certainly not funny enough to “Laugh out Loud”
I bet you didnt “LOL” did you?
I must declare, and to no detriment to you and to make you reply in an angry fashion of rage, this specific article is homosexually inclined.
thats fake and gay. lulz i can trolls 2.
thats like sooooo gay.
That’s an awesome idea!
Many fine things come in small packages, including libraries. Outstanding.
I can’t believe how many people missed the Doctor Who jokes.
This is still boss, even if blue police call boxes ARE bigger on the inside. And might at some point have contained David Tennant, which is, as everyone knows, most women’s (and quite a few men’s, as well) dream.
COOL,I LIKE.
That’s offaly gay. I can’t stand all the pricks on the web who leave self righteous comments, using words like “cretinous” and “ilk” that I highly doubt they use in their everyday lives, just so they can sound more intelligent and “educated” than others. Sad, pathetic people.
Great idea - about time we used phone boxes properly but it will not stop the e revolution as I found at http://myamazingpeople.com/2009/12/23/apple-mac-pcs-and-charles-babbage/
Hahaha, I couldn’t help but comment on the folks calling this gay. That’s hysterical to me. “Mmm… Books be gay thing. Gay thing are baaaaad.” They didn’t just shrug their shoulders and move on, they felt so strongly that they HAD to voice their opinion that books in a phone booth are… incredibly… gay. I personally don’t get it, seems like a long line for a small selection of books, but hey… Whatever floats your boat. I don’t attack folks cause they read, that’s absurd.
Oh, what a delightful idea! All the brightness and joy it must bring to those goodhearted peapo.. mmm..
Come to think about it it’s kind of gay
Loved those classic old red phone booths as much as I love books. What a great idea. Really inventive and fun! Bravo!
This is absolutely amazing.
Books and reading are gay gay gay!!!
If you live in the good old USA, like I do, you would have learned to disregard these comments which are only meant to aggravate people. When a person drinks alcohol to excess, as they do here, they get to a point where a logical exchange of conversation dies, and is replaced by continually repeating the same phrase, replacing all communication. We, here, eventually learn to go about our business and ignore them. There is no cure, unless they stop drinking and after many years they may or may not return to normal. But anyway, get beyond it, as the person in question is most likely working out latent homosexual tendencies. Thanks.
Hopefully, the phone booth may generate other possible ideas of sharing and ‘community’
wtf, clearly photoshopped. i can tell because i am 15 and have had lots of shopping experience and phone boxes dont have books in them.
This is another way to look at the concept of reuse, reduce, and recycle… lol great concept … i wondered how long it took until people just started to take the books away and not return them … lol
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@TOMTOM
What about phone books?!!
The comments posted were far more entertaining than the actual article. It’s so enlightening to find people who feel that they have to protect the integrity of a process with such gusto.
Why is it that so many people have to use words that describe homosexuality to put down this eccentric idea. It really shows how small and unintelligent people are when they misuse words. Honestly if you don’t like it call it strange, lame, or dumb but please stop abusing words and their meanings. It honestly just tells people how unintelligent you really are!
Honesty is requiered to be able to enjoy of all the good ideas that we can have let’s be honest! It’s a beautiful idea, well maybe for people who loves knowledge.
All those guys reading and queueing and stuff are gay bitchmonkeys.
(I hope my cool trolling gets me a girlfriend)
Tezen that was probably the best post I’ve ever seen and am duly impressed with your knowledge of H&K. It warms my heart to see people know things like that.
It is more than slightly off putting to me that there are people who believe the idea that having a unique place to go and be part of the exchange of ideas and words is “gay.” what is even more upsetting to me is the fact that the people who are find this idea unappealing lack two main things 1. the appreciation for people who do love to read and grow in knowledge and 2. the vocabulary to not use derogatory language. I concur, maybe if you read a little bit more you may find that you don’t come off looking less intelligent than the idea you tried to insult.
Where can you buy a phone booth for a quid - if anyone knows pls let me know
Don’t feed the trolls
They are lined up for the photoshoot regarding this news story. They obviously don’t line up like this on a regular basis! They’re not bloody idiots.
Very clever. It’s a shame that anything like taht near me wouldn’t last.
We recently had the “littlest art gallery” in a disused phone box in cradley west midlands.
A local artist who lived opposite was fed up of seeing the eyesore and decided to showcase her work inside.
Sadly it has been removed.
Это может быть хорошей идеей в некоторых из окрестных деревень в отдаленных уголках России и Индии и Тибете. Вполне вероятно, что нечто подобное было бы оценил.
This may be a good idea in some of the surrounding villages in remote parts of Russia or India or Tibet. It is likely that something similar would be appreciated.
Oh yeah, I’m a Yank, not all of us are idiots. From my viewpoint the vocal majority are brainwashed buffoons. And because of the large number of ignorant brainwashed bigots, and religious nuts I often feel a strong urge to immigrate.
Ах да, я янки, не все из нас идиотов. С моей точки зрения вокальной большинство мозги скоморохов. И из-за большого числа невежественные мозги фанатики и религиозные орехи я часто чувствую сильное желание иммигрировать.
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What the crap! Where the hell is Superman going to change now? There’s a fucking crap load of dirty, smelly books in here now. CRAP.
Please monitor the comments.It is sickening to read the comments of sick(mentally) people.
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer
You can take that one any way you like children.
Hahahahaha! The article was quaint, if not overly awe-inspiring. It’s a great idea, though not feasible in most neighbourhoods I imagine. Certainly not mine - the books and booth would be stolen within a month, and I’m being optimistic with the time frame
The comments posted are…. interesting to say the least.
Firstly, the gay thing. Well, for starters, the original meaning of the word Gay is happy, playful, wanton, flambouyant etc. It is a rather gay idea by that definition (minus the wanton i suppose). Homosexuals begun being referred to as Gay because of a tendency to behave in said manner. Sad how the english language has been abused and distorted so much, primarily by Americans.
Next, it’s utterly hilarious how quickly folks have risen to the bait. Instead of discussing/commenting on the above article, in the way of most comment posts i read, it has become an arguement about whatever silly irrelevant comment has been made, followed by further baiting by the troller, leading to eventual slagging by both sides ie. bad Americans, stupid Brits etc etc. So entertaining i almost had to remind myself what the original article was about that I’d just read.
I also think it’s pretty obvious that folks are lining up for the sake of the photoshoot, however I also can imagine that in the right setting, this would be a very popular idea.
Finally, very funny comment about Superman, even though the wording lacks eloquence. I have to admit, when I saw the picture, my first thought was the same - where is Superman going to change now?!
Happy trolling to the folks who will continue to do the best they are capable of (Gay has one whole syllable and three differnet letters to remember in the right order after all, so they’re doing well); best of luck to those trying to make them realise their idiocy (it won’t work - you can’t educate sheep - but I wish you luck anyway) and congratulations to those intelligent enough to form an opinion about the actual article and make a relevant comment
Very thought provoking and interesting.
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honestly in five minutes everything would be stolen here in Turkey.
As the newspaper reporter who put the story of the phone box library to the world in his paper, after a very lovely correspondent wrote a story about it for me in October, can I just say how delighted I was to find it again while stumbling.
And lads, If you think reading books and sharing the joy of them is gay, you got a heck of a lot to learn about homosexuality. Books by Armistead Maupin, now THEY’RE gay…
Oh yeah, and of course they lined up for the photograph - People in Westbury aren’t that desperate for culture. There are 300 or so souls in the village, and the library is visted 10-20 times a day.
So….what happens when people bring books that no one wants to read? Eventually you will just have 100 books that are boring and no one wants. A book swap is a good idea for intelligent people who can make it work. However, there are a lot of greedy people who will bring all their boring unwanted books and take all the good interesting ones for themselves. This idea is definitely flawed seeing as how its so small scaled. If maybe you were to take an old train station and turn it in to a book swap it would be way more successful, or at least thats my opinion. I also live in America and unfortunately quaint ideas like these would fail easily because of the incompetence of my peers.
What a cool idea! I assume these are being used in counry areas, not in larger towns. I think it’s a great way to bring books to those who may not be able to easily get to a library.
really cool idea. I agree the commenter above me you can exchange books easily. Thanks for the amazing post and informative website.
Funny how you assume all the trollers are uneducated buffoons because of what they type. Isn’t it just as likely that some of these are highly intelligent people who are so intellectually unchallenged at work and at home they felt the need for a bit of excitement by putting the cat amongst the pigeons? What better way to do that than to act the idiot!? One thing that people are united in is a hate of idiots!
Us trollers are providing a service and uniting the people of the world! We should be nominated for the Nobel peace prize!
Where’s the fun in writing seriously about such a boring story!?
……On second thoughts….. we are all intellectually challenged homophobic morons who’s fathers are our mothers brothers. Completely ignore what I just said, I think I must have had a funny five minutes! It’s such a strain pretending to be intellectual
BOOKS…..GAYYYY!!!!
Ahhh me fell batter noo
GAY
I find this entire concept homoerotic.
Hmmm, very gay.
Don’t try to teach pigs to sing,they get upset and you get covered in crap!
A great concept in these days of dying reading habits.
The recycled books will live for ever
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Very cool article and a good use for an old phone box. I wish there was some moderation of comments on this site, to eliminate the rubbish left by morons.
Sweet! btw, what’s with this “it’s gay” thing? That’s just ignorant.
Just imagine how many books would fit in the TARDIS!
I don’t get what you mean by Gay?
Do you mean queer or fruity?
I personally suport gays. I think an all gay military would serve no higher purpose for those who have oped out of the process of perpetuating the species. Imagining them protecting us from indigents in some god-awful aids infected piss hole brings a tear to my eye.
Now if they painted it pink that would be gay.
It would also be gay if they didn’t lock it up at night, but that might take a while.
It wuold also be gay if it had curtians.
So gay, really!
@nothing good to read:
People are different. What you like might not be what I like and visa versa.
Good community spirit that 99.9999999% of the world is missing.
Respect!
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Awesome! Never seen anything like it:-)
I dont get it….I love the idea, and wish one of these was near me, but CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHATS HOMOSEXUAL ABOUT THIS?
This is great. It would be ideal at airports for when people board and step off to go to another plane or wait for a connection. They could drop the book they finished and pick up another for the next leg. A great idea anywhere.
BTW, as a teen neice of mine said when I asked her what ‘gay’ meant when she used it to define something in a clothing shop she said it had othing to do with being gay or putting gays down. She said it meant “silly, dumb, not with it or uncool”. We had similar idiotic words when I was a teen. Groovy meant cool, or neat or very terrific. and gross was awful, hip was the best and hep was fifties slang for the same thing. Words and their meanings change all the time. Remember Rad, or chilly or other words designed to confuse adults and label you as in or out of it. LOL
What a marvelous idea! I’m always looking for a good read and would love to leave previously enjoyed books for others.
This is so straight.
Can anyone tell me when exactly the word gay went from meaning: having or showing a merry, lively mood
to meaning: of, indicating, or supporting homosexual interests or issues: a gay organization.
and also, who decides these things?
It’s rellay an extreme positive way exchanging resource we have.
Totally retarded & GAY!!!!!!!!!!!! FAGGOTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
I’m a sheep, and quite annoyed Bed said I cannot be educated. I’m highly intelligent and have several degrees. I am not, however, a homosexual sheep. I feel so discriminated against…
er…”Bec”… Perhaps I can’t be educated, now that I think of it…
gay
I liked the romantic part of it But.. hold on.. dont you guys think its a complete waste of time for those who are waiting outside. 100 books!! Oh dear. For one of the richest countries in the world this is A SHAME. 1 pound is all they got for a library in a town where people are starving to have book in their hands.. it seems a bit too cheep and humorous to me rather than “kewel” or “awwzum”..
Love this! Preserving the dying classics…beautiful.
Great idea. I do agree with those that stated it would be stolen clean in half hours time in the U.S., however.
As for my fellow countrymen who think calling it “gay” is humourous - get a life! My God, you truly make me loathe this place! Must be a large group of Southern inbred rednecks who just managed to figure out how to get online. You represent EVERYTHING that is truly crap about this nation today…..thank you SO much for showing your cretinous disposition to the rest of the world! I would apologize for you but, quite frankly, there’s not a single one of you that are worth the effort!
Only Nazis would create a book exchange like that.
If I were visiting England, I would go out of my way to stop at this lovely little library, and would save up my “read and release” travel books for the occasion.
And as long as it’s MY travel fantasy, I’d then take my new books to the nearest tea shop, and cozy in for an hour’s nibbling and reading.
Thanks for sharing this!
Charlotte
would the blue box be less gay?
It’s totally gay.
Actually, the U.S. does have several things like this in different small towns, for everything from exchanging books to actually buying meat on the honor system. Theft has never been a major problem, and as far as I know all of them are still in operation today. 20/20, or one of those news programs, did a story on a bunch of them about a year or so ago. When the implication of trust is made, people are very hesitant to break that trust, especially when a sense of community ownership is present. In other words, they’d generally break into someone’s locked home before they’d ever go and steal from something like this. So, stop bashing on something you don’t know about. Clearly, it would NOT be stolen in the U.S., and you can’t say it would be anywhere else either, unless and until you actually try setting one up to see.
We don’t have this kind of library in Brazil, but we have a incentive to change books in the streets. We can to leave a book in any place - a bar, a bench or a phone box - and anyone can take it to home. This person must to return and can to leave another book in the same or another place.
Seriously,One of d koolest thing i hv evr read..as m a bookworm..wud luv to c such kind of activity in mumbai or atleast in ma area..cheers
Keep up d gud work..
That would last about ten minutes in the states, a sad testament - our crime epidemic.
hahaha do people not seem to realise the more you give out to people for making silly comments the more they will keep goin??
also hate to point it out but using fancy words to put down others doesnt make you better then them everyone has a right to say wat they will!!
on another note its a clever idea like but its jus a mini library??
only without out gettin notices for late books!!
Crime epidemic??
Is crime catching or somthing?
epidemic: a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time.
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@ Dave
Hehehe, once might even say “SILENCE IN THE LIBRARY”
As an American, I find this idea very quaint but as an avid reader who enjoys books, whether their content in educational or “gay” as some of the comments proclaim them to be, I think that this idea is wonderful and while yes in most cities it America they would either be stolen just to do so or they would be burned because of the common man’s ignorance in what these items contain. To those of you who hate reading but are educated enough to understand the comment I am about to make please consider this….
Futurism was a movement that occurred just before WW1 and they sought the advancement of technology and look where that got us.
This is definitely the future of library although it is difficult to be implemented in every town.
Amazing idea, and I’m glad it’s working for them, in most places this sort of thing would be destroyed.
jammer dat we niet van zulke telefooncellen in Nederland hebben om boeken neer te zetten.. Geweldig idee!!
That would be the coolest thing to see as you drove down the street. I would love to have that in my town. It would even be a cool bookcase for the house.
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so i lost count of how many people stated that this way “gay”. How original of you all. you use a word that in its original meaning means glad and happy. i have to say, i do think this is pretty ‘”gay” in the sence that, if i had a phone box libary in my town, i would be pretty happy about it, and glad, that somebody had bother to spend there time, money and energy on the helpig and educating the community. but then again if education was high your list of prioritys then perhaps “thats gay” wouldnt have been the first thing your small mind could come up to comment on such an original and nifty idea as this one.
C’est une idée grandiose, gaie (!) et à imiter le plus souvent possible
THIS IS SO F-ing GAY!!!
i lovvvve it
wheres it at?
i lovvve it
wheres it attt?
I disagree to the fact that its the smallest library of the world. Coz if you come down to India, there are smaller libraries than that!
ugh! fucking gay
They have that in the states. Its called Redbox.
Superb idea! Wish we could have 1 @ work too.
Thats is so cool, i love it.
x
I want one, lol
snaps for the smallest and coolest libabry in the world
Well I have to say that I am very impressed and inspired by the levels of literacy displayed by some contributors to this thread.
Keep it up, oh dear, maybe that wasn’t quite the thing to say.
Neat! The smallest Police Station in the States is in Carabelle, FL. It’s a US style phone booth. Wonder what else a phone booth is being used for on Earth?
I like the phonebox library.
It’s a nice thought that in some parts of the world a small idea can become reality and help put a place on the map. Bravo!
ps- Trolls, there is more to life than internet porn and WoW. If you read a book occasionally your might learn about something worthwhile, develop your conversation skills and general knowledge and eventually you might even get to have sex with a real live girl. Wow! Your tylenol-addled mother will be so proud.
Everyone will certainly be appreciated.Expect that……
If it had a loo it would be perfect
that is spectacular
Audrie B- I like your idea to bring it to airports.
I would gladlstart someting like this in my area, but I fear it would just be robbed or vandilized
HAHAHA THIS THING IS SOOOOO GAY! AND ALL OF YOU FAGGOTS ARE GAY TOO!
i dont know what the guy was smoking, thats cool…ill have whats he/she’s smoking.
I wish I had one near me. Kinda hard seeing as how I don’t even live in England. Maybe we could have a roaming deux cheveaux.
this is an awesome idea…
oh and….i hope you all realize that by calling this gay, you are in fact calling it happy, lighthearted, carefree, joyful, etc….
.ʎɐb ¿ɥɔɹɐuoɯ ɐ sı ʎɐb ʍoɥ
.ooʇ uǝǝnb pıdnʇs ɹnoʎ ʞɔnɟ puɐ sʞɔns puɐ|buǝ puɐ ǝɹǝɥʇ pǝʌı| ı .sʞɔns ǝɹnʇ|nɔ ɹnoʎ
.ɐǝʇ ʎʇsɐu ʇɐɥʇ ||ɐ ɯoɹɟ ɥʇǝǝʇ uǝʇʇoɹ puɐ uıʞs ɹǝʇɐʍ pɹɐɥ dn pǝ|ʞuıɹʍ ʎʇsɐu ɹıǝɥʇ ɥʇıʍ sǝɥɔʇıq ɥsıʇıɹq p|o ʎ|bn ʎ||ɐıɔǝdsǝ .ʞɔns noʎ ’sǝıpɐ| p|o buıʞuıɥʇ doʇs .ʎʇı|ɐǝɹ ɟo ʎɐʍ ǝɥʇ uı buıʇʇǝb ,uosɐǝɹ, sǝıpɐ| p|o ɟo ǝ|dɯɐxǝ uɐ .ssǝ|ʇuıod uıɟɟǝ ʎ||ɐʇoʇ
?? is that upside down ???
O.o
That is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. people in the UK are retarded
the thing that I’m amazed at, is that they bought the whole phone booth for only a pound!
I think it’s a bit sad that the commentary here turned into degradation of the Americans and the British. I’ve lived in both places, and both cultures have some really awesome ideas and practices. In addition, you can’t group an entire nation into one narrow-minded stereotype.
This is a great idea in a small area and definitely shows some creativity! I tend to hang on to my books because I don’t like to throw them away, but something like this is a really worthwhile way to recycle and save space. Plus, it gets you out of the habit of going to the same section in the library (or book shop) and picking up the same sort of book - hopefully it will make people more open-minded with their reading material!
I don’t require any reply or abuse based upon my comment… Just wanted to support a creative idea.
If this were in any bigger city in america, the bums would have already raided it and pawned the books
Brilliant Idea. Quaint and unique. I love the community spirit.
I also have enjoyed this thread. So many tense and uptight people trolling each other, too funny. Take chill pills and march gaily forward through your day. It’s all right, there are more differences than you dreamed of.
Don’t worry, Be happy.
GAY GAY GAY GAY GAAAAY, just like my gay ass. I LOOOOOVE IT.
Quiet at the Library | Offbeat Earth…
The bright red old phone booth was purchased for just 1 pound and remodeled as the smallest library in the world. Residents line up to swap their already read books for new ones left by other patrons. Over 100 books and a variety of movies and music CD…
interesting approach. Probably also well visited by tourists.
Did any of my camera laden country men show up?
Para quando uma destas em Lisboa?
I like this idea, it’s very attractive
I think that’s gay too
I don’t understand. What’s this ‘gay’ thing all about?
These people are showing community spirit, keep an old telephone box in their village. In short, they are decent honest people. How is this ‘gay’? And since when has ‘gay’ been bad anyway? It’s obviously a use of the word I haven’t come across even though I was born in the UK, lived there for 28 years before living on another continent for a further 25 years. The angry criticism of this nice little story indicates a poverty of spirit. I wish your lives were better than they obviously are.
This thing is cool there and Personally speaking, I don’t think this is practical in most countries or most areas, only exists in some high-developed areas. But whatever, I like this idea.
A truely amazing idea. I wonder if that phone booth can be used for time travel, haha!
Wow that is like the best idea ever
I love how the troller has dedicated his/her life to continuously posting to this article about how “gay” it is. He/She obviously has nothing better to do than diminish the creativity and imagination with a few, and I’m sure carefully, selected words to describe his/her opinion about it. This denotes a few things: a)he/she has no friends to entertain him/her and must find a suitable replacement via the computer, b)he/she is too lazy to get off his/her butt to find friends and more suitable entertainment, and c)he/she makes the rest of us look really good by continually contributing to the conversation and proving that idiots can breathe and talk at the same time. Someone has to fill the “bottom-of-the-totem-pole” position.
So gay. Splooged
Myself and Philip believe that this is better than bangers and mash. I would love to start up something like this in the boot of my auto. I love have a ‘Gay’ old time, and that is in a good way.
That’s an amazing idea! Sadly that won’t ever happen here in India. All those books will end up stolen within a day.
There is another one of these in the US. On a tiny island in CT, which is no bigger than a football field, they have the same kind of library! And residents have been exchanging books inside that old phone book for years.
Dis Shtiz iz totally GAY
I got more entertainment reading the comments about this article than the actual article, the phonebox library has been long forgotten and I’m swimming in a blooming ocean of ideas, from superman to airports and time travel.
AND words! Quaint and gay are my favorites, these two words define the opposite poles of description; it does not strike me as suprising that their perpetrators are so wildly attracted to one another, as dedicated to their peers as they are to taunting each other. This is a MARVELOUS demonstation of the circle of “life” that language procures, beginning with deviation from the formal use of a word, followed by the sloshing of its use and back again. I’m sure that you are all aware that this is the way Shakespeare introduced words into the English language and how the word “Gay” came into its present use!
Ridicule each other all you want, but the truth is YOU NEED EACH OTHER!! Your opposing forces are what lays the ground work of language and intellectual development…..AND LOOK! At what you are arguing about; a box where words were once exchanged, to a box where words are now contained…and exchanged for that matter!!!
One more thing; I hope that box is waterproof!! Coz if it isn’t, then that’s what’s really gay.
who cares about a phonebooth?
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Gay?
@ Mac
…d) or they could be bed ridden due to an incurable disease and board of peoples inane comments on a quite frankly un-interesting subject e) or they could be on a night shift with nothing better to do and board of peoples inane comments on a quite frankly un-interesting subject f) or just board of life in general.
Out of all the comments on this there is only one which was poignant and, dare I say it, intelligent and that was Emma’s which is a few comments up. The rest of the comments are all mindless, boring drivel. Surely there is only so much that can be said about a library in a phonebox? On second thoughts nothing interesting can be said about the subject itself at all!
I have a smaller library than that! It’s in a shoebox. If I put it outside for anyone to take does this make it anymore interesting? In my opinion no, the only difference is its location. Anyone can borrow books out of my library as well, they just need to ask.
@ Emma, Fancy a quickie in the phonebox? Now that wouldn’t be gay!
@ Emma, Fancy a quickie in the phonebox? Now that wouldn’t be gay!
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merci bien
wow guys.
if you dont like it then LEAVE
i think its a really cute idea
I LIKE THIS PAGE VERY MUCH.THIS IS EXCELLENT.LOVE IT.
Great concept, Every town should have one.
Really good idea. Green too recycling books
hey thats really great…!
I love this! I would so work there. I agree about the book thing. I’m going to school to be a writer and it is very sad that people are slowly weening themselves off of literal books.
I love this. I love the people who love this, I love the people who love annoy the people who love this by calling it gay. I especially love the people who love to tell off the people who call it gay, as though calling the thing they love gay has any affect whatsoever. I love that they make themselves feel a little bit special by doing it. I love the people who reference Nazi’s, other people’s mothers, call each other trolls, and I love that spreading a little bit of hate around makes them feel a little bit of power. I love the Brits, and the Turks, and especially the Americans (even the pontificators). I especially love that in a little corner of the world somewhere, someone will find something that will give them a little bit of relief from the monotony of living amongst a bunch of identical human beings determined to assert their individuality.
And yes, we all got the first Doctor Who reference, and yes, I did laugh out loud, thanks for asking!
Sadly it’s the contents of the books that’d probably turn me away - take, for example, the exchange system at our local library. None of the books, or hardly any, are of any value in terms of quality. This wouldn’t be a reviving of the classics, anyways.
I found these comments very entertaining. I am a very educated American from a southern state, or a country redneck that just learned how to get online, as someone described it earlier. Honestly, I couldn’t care less about the stupidity of this argument that has obviously consumed your time.
But, I was entertained, so I began reading and it astounds me at the ignorance brought about by the elitist thinking of those who have experienced a few years of memorizing information in an institution. A fellow named phil commented earlier degrading the education of these commenters, saying that they showed a lack of individualism and independent thinking, which is completely opposite from the truth. Lack of individualism would be to say “cool”. To say something so abstract and abrupt that it shakes your comfort in society enough to make you dedicate this much time to a thread of comments obviously shows your use of societal norms as a crutch. These comments most likely do not show their actual feelings towards the article. And if they do, your attempts to change their thoughts over this medium WILL NOT WORK.
Do me a favor and take some shrooms and question the boundaries that you have put on yourself through society and always accepting what is taught. Sometimes the most educated are the most constricted mentally.
Groovy doc… You hippy tool!
…gay hippy tool.
cudos.
how can a book exchange be homosexual?
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WOW I love this idea. One more thing, I see we have a few idiots on this blog, too bad we can’t just delete these assholes….
i hate books. think we should burn them all. I hate telephone boxes aswell, think they’re really gay
Lisa = awesome
Anyway . . . Lovely idea. Our on campus coffee shop has a book exchange - it’s really great, but the phone booth idea is brilliant.
Bet that thing lasted 10 minutes before the books were stolen, pissed on or set on fire. Us British are bad people.
WHATS UP WITH THE BUTT POUNDER COMMENTS.MOVE YOUR MONITOR AT A DIFFERENT ANGLE; IF YOU DONT SEE YOUR REFLECTION…..I BELIEVE YOU ARE SEEING A SUBJECT MOST OF US ARE MISSING.
I love the idea of a small library in any place !
Theme one long limit
Long for time one
HATS OFF TO THE KING TROLL AND OTHER WORTHY TROLLERS….
I READ THE COMMENTS FOR THE FUNNY TROLLS NOT THE BORING LIFE LECTURES.
O BTW THE DR. WHO JOKE WAS QUAINTLY GAY (AS IN HOMOSEXUAL)
This is so very unique and quaint. The use of such an obsolete form of communication and the near obsolete medium of an author communicating is both inventive and creative. The idea that one may peruse verses of text from history in a national treasure such as the phone box is truly a delight to say the least. When i stumbled across this article i damn near came in my pants i was so excited then, i realised that this was probably the most gay thing i have ever seen. Totally gay.
bravo thevoice. “A small library in any place”??!! what about my pants young man? Gay?
Well you can really see which trolls are American and which are British (and even a few from other places when you read the comments).
The Americans sadly just want to shoot all the other trolls (so very American), the Brits are desperatly correcting spelling and critiquing the education systems which spawned the trolls that want to shoot everyone and then there are the funny little comments inbetween who really want everyone to take notice of the Dr Who references and seem incredulous (perhaps rightly so) at how dim every body seems to be (except Lisa). Poor trolls really ought to bite ass a little less and they wouldn’t have so much of a shitty taste in their trunks.
Is the box in Westbury on Severn?
lawrence is gay
Awsome idea
Sorry that no one else picked up on Dave’s awesome doctor who reference.
I’ve never seen a library inside a phone booth before
That is an awesome idea, if it were feesable…If I was a patron waiting in line to get a book, well lets just say it wouldn’t be pretty in the line. It’s probably a good thing they don’t have those in the United States. Apparently it works in other countries and I’m glad that they have found a system that works. Americans have too much anger to stand in lines all day long!
But good work & good job to the person who came up with a way to use the old telephone booths instead of there being more waste on Our Planet…
It just proves the love for the written word, priceless!
that is agood idea if it wer passable
People did pick up on the tenuous Dr Who reference but chose to ignore it because those jokes weren’t even funny when they were original! Imagine how funny they are now that they have been rinsed one hundred and sixty two million two hundred and seventy three thousand four hundred and ninety nine times before!
If I lived in that village I would cover the box in lighter fluid and burn it. I would then do my naked dance and paint my body in worship to beelzebub! because i hate books and love saturn!
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Maybe a police box ala Dr. Who could be a mobile first-aid station or drug store!
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Every person who wrote over 3 sentences arguing against trollers = gay
Lol, if you were so above trollers and their posts, you wouldn’t bother arguing back in the first place. you wouldn’t lift a pinky, because you’d be sensible enough to realize that your irritance is the sole and foremost obective of a troller. so really, trollers are a step and a half ahead of you, because they are completely aware of the effect that their comments will have on suckers like you. and rephrasing a comment already poste dby someone does not have a stronger effect the 154th time round. like, no one really cares that you are offended by the misuse of the world “gay.” It’s the 21 century dudes…gotta get used to it.
and also, I agree that using words you obviously thesaurused and wouldn’t use in every day speech makes you look neither knowledgable nor witty. This is a forum, not Writers Craft. Chill..
And to wrap this up: to every person who pulled the “gay means happy” card, YOU ARE THE POSTER CHILDREN OF GAY. Y O U A R E G A Y.
CHEERS!
i hate england, and i hate england’s food, but who could hate the smallest library in the world, or anything else that has the inherent aim of bringing a community together with a spark of originality. its not “gay”, its clever, even if it is “british”. i give it a thumbs up.
Wow. I…
I love how this community is using their wits and sharing their resources this way. I hope they’re not too famous, and get everything stolen now! I’m a fan of libraries, large and small.
Also, I just want to say that everyone calling this gay is not really insulting anyone gay because the library is a great idea. Maybe you should read a book! Your bragging about being illiterate is what concerns me the most, besides your obvious attempts at cyber-bullying.
Whoever put this post up should also be monitoring the comments. And since they’re not, we should be saying something to the naysayers. It’s called peer review, and it helps establish civility.
2 words FREEDOM OF SPEACH!!
Everyone has their own views and opinions and we all have the same rights to view them on here whether you agree with them or not!
I will leave you with this comment… I can remember this one guy who wanted everyone to have the same views and opinions as him and he went to great lengths to do so, Yes that’s right, I’m talking about HITLER!! YOUR ALL AS BAD A HITLER!! There I said it. I WIN!!
:):):):):):):):):) DISCUSSION OVER!!!:):):):):):):):)
Thank you for your explanation. There really useful information.
Wish we had this in the States…
i wish i could start something like this in our neighborhood..but i dont know what to use instead of the red phone booth since its not available here..
Will somebody please explain to this Luddite - what is the relationship between gay and phone boxes - I do have an imagination and I can “think outlside of the box~” but I must admit I fail on this one. Have I been missing a slice of life all of these years? - Perhaps I should have studied Freud in college in greater depth? Vincenzo
Well said Vincent. This person clearly has both a lack of creativity and of knowledge of the English language.
You guys having this… “spirited discussion”: would you like it if we put up a proper forum for it?
Such a sweet idea.
well that’s quite an innovative idea.
Yesh!! Letsh have a forum entitled “Library Phone Boxesh, are they realy gay or ish it jusht an act to get meat inside them?”
super cool idea, i think this is the way that the world muss follow
cool library..I want to see it personally and borrow some books…
bravo 10/10
I wish they had that around when I was still alive!
a witt’el lybraye! att’s neat!
I like this library…
Excellent article, thanks for sharing it.
It was a very nice idea! Just wanna say thank you for the information you have shared…
Excellent article, thanks for sharing it.
I actually thought this was a joke until i really looked at the picture. Pretty solid idea given the fact that traditional libraries are somewhat dying
I really like that as an idea. I do a lot of work with a client in London and they have a shelf set aside for the same thing. I’ve ended up reading things I wouldn’t normally which is great…
Wish I had stumbled upon this story while I was in the U.K. so I could have visited. Great story.
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But yeah pretty awesome.
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@Keri
Spoken like a true American. It’s no wonder why the majority of the world can’t stand us, as ignorant as 90% of us are. “Those damn Brits, wanting to use a library for reading.” I’m surprised you could string together enough letters to made a coherent thought, Steve!
I totally agree. Its a shame that such a great idea that was meant for our country has been tarnished and corrupted with the ignorance and childishness of people like Steve, Brian, and every other pathetic person who seems to think that because its cool to not read or to trash other people that it must be done. To all such people out there, your very presence taints the earth you stand on and I believe that the world could be a much better place if you could all gather and inhale some toxic fumes. To everyone who supports reading and individuality, I hope that you will continue to grace such great ideas with your inspired comments.
this is so awesom, i wish i could go there, too bad i’m from the states! but this is just one of the billions of reasons of why i want to go to England!!
@Kurai Hinotomi
I tend to agree that more people should read, however, I don’t see any of these “childish” or “Ignorant” people wishing harm on anyone unlike yourself. “the world could be a much better place if you could all gather and inhale some toxic fumes” reminds me of a certain famous person, and not many people liked him.
If the world was full of intolerant people like you then there would be no hope for the human race because you would have all “gassed” each other for as little as looking at you in the wrong way.
No matter how educated you think you are, No matter how much better you think you are than anyone else, you are still too ignorant and moronic to even notice that 99% of these comments is bait to lure intolerant ppl like yourself in. Its ppl like you that make trolling so fun! keep up the good work!
I will leave you with this message:
“Im a little teapot short and stout, heres my handle and heres my…. Damn it Im a suga bowl.”
i love how original all the haters on here are. i approve of the comment that its lesbian. at least some hater is thinking outside the box. really cool even though im not a big reader
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haha love it!!!!! wish there was one in my area i would be there ALL the time lol
very nice idea.. hope to see more like this
On of the Most loveliest Idea Ever
Fantastic Many Thanks for sharing with us
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The fact that people made the effort to type out the sentence ‘This is gay.’ is stupid. If you’ve got nothing good/interesting or otherwise useful to say, shut the fuck up. Excuse my vulgarity, but… Somebody has to say it. The idea of a neat little library is indeed ‘gay’. In the word’s origional sense. It is a very pleasant/happy idea.
omg that is soo homosexual!
No. Shut up.
I think its an awesome Idea, and even if there is one million better ways of doing this is doesn’t matter cus this is fun and creative and how is creativity gay or even a bad thing? (like gay is even a bad thing also) its cheap and fun and is individual, I dont understand why people that for some reason have issues with this dont just f**k off! no1 is asking you to even look at the thing? If you like to be a sheep then go and do it but the rest of us with a brain and the want to enjoy ourselves how we like too will carry on and we will be gay when we do so! woooPEEEEE!!! xD
brilliant. I wonder how long it will be before all of the books in the library are by John Grisham. Love the idea though.
I need all the topics
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nice and informative.
Why would you use gay for some type of dis? You know what is gay? Justin Beiber. Red Phone Booths are awesome. Books are awesome. Neither are gay because neither can have sexual relations. I mean really.
We have this at my school… its fun at first.
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WONDERFUL!!
Funny how most people who “are not” gay and call others or other things gay, usually ARE gay, good luck Coming Out, we will try to be nice to you.
What a fabulous recycle for redundant phone booths! Perfect for villages too small to justify a normal-size library. Love this idea!
I would have to agree this is totaly gay!
REDUNDANT PHONE BOOTHS ARE GAY!!!!!
That’s kinda retarded. It’s not just a stupid idea but also……
I take that back it IS just a stupid idea.
I am male and I have been having an affair with a gay phonebox for over two years now. We are very happy.
so the books are sexually attracted to other books? or are you just a bunch of ignorant homophobic moron’s who’s opinion isn’t worth shit.
It’s so small, though!!! Why don’t they buy a few more of those awesome phone booths and kind of push them all up together? I think it’s a great idea but I am too impatient. I would not wait in that line…
I think this is such a neat idea for several reasons. Not simply making the books available, but preserving these wonderful old phone booths. This is what we call them across the pond, and I can’t recall the British term. Are there any books on Dr. Who?
Classic red phone box - check
Free books - check
What’s not to like?
We just call them phone boxes btw.
Wow, its amazing to think think that all you guys care about is your own opinion, im 14 and i know the difference between a right anda wrong comment i just read through most of these comments and right after the other all I saw was “thats gay”…”thats pretty gay” and somthing having to do with books having sex. First of all GROW UP second get a life all your doing by making rude comments like that at somthing truely amazing is setting yourself up to fail. Many people believe that this picture reresents somthingg pretty cool….not “PRETTY GAY” so shove your non-wanted opinions that you should really keep to yourself…BACK DOWN THAT PRETTY LITTLE THROAT OF YOURS.
We’ve done this for years on a table in the breakroom at work. It’s how I discovered John Grisham. I think we have more books than that, too.
krystal i dnt think this is a good idea and maybve you should stop trying to act so smart. Two things piss me off when people act smart. 1 you’re probably stupid. 2 I’m wicked smart and I don’t give a shit wen some one swears. Suck it up and this idea is gay
you guys do know that 9 and 10 year olds can read this stuff and then when they grow up thell be swearing left and right?
(and,i actually like the idea)
I agree with christina
queebus you are pathetic
I like this. A lot. It’s adorable.
I also like not using the word gay to be a negative thing. If you’re going to insult or disagree with the concept of it, go ahead. Just don’t be unnecessarily offensive about it.
And learn how to spell.
This is getting boaring!
Who do you guys think you are telling people what to think and say? If people want to call this idea gay then they are perfectly entitled to! Surley if they were being “sheep” they would be thinking what you guys appear to want them to think? You dont see any of them having a go at you for liking the idea do you? So get down from your big fat horses and understand that this is a forum to submit ones views, and that is what these people are doing!
Would it offend you if I said that this idea is totaly cabbage? or is it just the gay comment you dont like? in which case this idea is a GAY cabbage!
Seating looks to be a bit cramped, but otherwise, a splendid idea!
queebus you are pathetic
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Can’t believe this thread has gone on for 6 months! Love the original article. Had a great laugh reading all the comments. Interesting how most people dont seem to read the previous comments before posting. Glad I did. Now I’ve got a good understanding on what a Troll is. Thanks all for coming together to enlighten me!
To All the Trolls:
…
To all the well to-do, well read, well versed, Learned, Higher-order thinking persons:
You should know better than to feed the fire, leave them to squabble in their own filth, Do not validate their words with your taking the bait.
“In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer
I cant believe the British use a phone box for a library, and even more astonishing. Yanks talk about it for six monrhs!!
Nice one!!