What area code is 091?

any takers? :smiley:

91 is India.

It’s where magic lives™!

That or telespamming. Boy, did he hit the wrong demographic with this board.

Damn, I opened one of those threads and reported it because it was on the front page. I just looked at the GQ Forum. Gack! Block that IP!

…and he’s still goin…Jeez, you’d think a bot could take a hint.

Don’t call those numbers. They are 900 numbers which means you will be billed some unknown amount per minute.

That’s probably the goal of this. To get angry or amused people to call.

Clean in GQ. Bring a mop

On a whim, I looked at the profile for “amardas”. Over on the right side of the page, under “Friends”, it says, “amardas has not made any friends yet”.

Boy, ain’t THAT the truth?

It looks like a mod may have gotten to amardas. His last post was several minutes ago.

Oh!

091 is my area code! :eek:

It wasn’t me, honest-to-God!

KILL HER! SHE’S A WITCH!

Unless you’re a dood, then you’re fine.
(And, umm… what’s Ireland doing in India?)

Ireland? For some reason everybody has been assuming it’s India.

I’m guessing 091=Ireland, and 91=India.

+91 is the international dialling code for India. Our spammer is inviting us to dial a number in India.

However, if you’re in Ireland, 091 is the STD code for a number in Galway. If you’re calling from outside Ireland, it’s +353 91.

That’s because it is India. Galwegian’s 091 is an internal area code for Ireland. (country code 353)

What is… the reason Dan Brown should have used a condom when he tried to find out why that modern-day Mary Magdalene was so special?

Subscriber trunk dialling, for calls to numbers outside the local area. As opposed to IDD, international direct dialling, for calls to numbers in other countries.

(Some people have filthy minds.) :wink:

You are indeed being invited to dial a number in India - +91 being the international dialling code. STD is a standard term across much of the world for what the US and Canada know as long-distance calls, but it does mean that India is full of “STD Booths”, as they are known, some of which look decidedly dodgy. This always amuses me when I go back to India.

“Your choice of STD today, sir. Special discount on syphilis!”

Since the OP gave no context I have to assume that whatever threads this one refers to have been 86’d?

It was due to the rash of spam GQ was attacked with during the wee hours of the 22nd. The whole page was flooded with posts that had a phone number beginning with the +91 international dialing code in the title.

Mods deleted all of them around 8am EDT. See this thread for a bit more info.