By #isthisthepoundkey? - 01/11/2013 16:49 - United States - Deltona

Today, while working customer service, I instructed a customer to press the pound key on her cellphone. She hesitated a moment before asking, "Um, the pound key? You mean the hashtag, right?" FML
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TheCaramelKing 11

Today's generation.

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Zimmington 21

Next year's generation

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KatieMajestic 17

#69, your profile pic goes perfectly with that. And so does the number of your comment.

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ReeceThePiece69 6

Ahhh you gotta love working retail. You work with the biggest idiots ever.

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HanBroman 20

It's not a universal thing. I've never heard of it; I've also never been to America. stop being so stuck up.

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dyehardxen 19

Over the phone. Just reach through the line and hit her in the face

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TheDoctor10 28

If that was in reference to the music-related comment, I applaud you.

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loneshade 7

What you on about pound key you Americans lol in England it's has always been known as the hash button

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Zimmington 21

What you on about Americans?

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Zomg_Okay 26

23 - Except it was. Not flawless but it wasn't exactly illegible.

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luckyone365 7

You're a complete idiot. Hashtag does not equate hash button. Learn to read before you criticize all Americans, ****.

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miss_sqwert 19

yea we call it a hash key in new zealand too

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hopeless511 3

actually, in britain we don't call it a pound sign. this is a pound sign here- £ we have always called this a hash # - maybe they were british....?

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OptimusVader 23

I'm pretty sure the point is that the person cannot stop thinking in Twitter terms as well as any other social networking. She can't distinguish the (natively) correct term from the "mainstream" term.

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CrabbityAnn 10

In the UK it's called a hash key, not a pound key (pound key being £). So the confusion doesn't seem -that- idiotic... Unless you we're talking to an American :p

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fucMyLifeSoHard 18

22- I understand what you are saying, but if she was British would she not have said "hash key" instead of "hashtag"?

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OptimusVader 23

"Hashtag" was her making a direct reference to social networking.

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Ki11erC 18

It was known as hash tag long before social networking or twitter even existed.

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TheHezzer 17

91 - probably not. I'm (northern) British and everyone I know calls it the hash key in this kind of situation - it could be different in other parts of Britain though for all I know.

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CrazyChiC42 10

You should always tell them to press the octothorpe just to see how much that confuses them :)

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