Make it stop! Please! Please! For the love of God, make it stop! I am so sick of them! What am I talking about? Robo-calls. Today is a primary election in Georgia which means I’ve been bombarded with robo-calls for the past week. Every day it’s been a minimum of five calls. One day I got ten of them. Fortunately, I have voice caller-id and if the voice doesn’t say anyone I know, I don’t answer and let it go right to my answering machine. If I’m near my phone and I hear the talking start, I pick it up and then hang it right back up. Unfortunately, the Do Not Call list doesn’t include politicians. Of course it doesn’t. Just one more things the dickheads exempt themselves from. When these assholes go to hell, which most of them will, if there is a hell (which I, as an atheist don’t believe in), one of their punishments should include having to listen to robo-calls from the other political party, over and over and over again.
Tomorrow it will be all over unless there is a runoff, which will prolly happen in the Republican primary for Senate. Then it starts again but at least I won’t get as many this time.
Exempting themselves from the “Do Not Call” legislation is just one more example of the congresscritters in D.C. passing one set of laws for us common folk, and another set for the ruling class.
Assholes…
My phone rings several times a day with solicitations (yeah, I’m on the Do Not Call list, which is ineffective), so I stopped answering unknown calls and also got a Call Blocker (available directly or through Amazon or eBay; there are other brands and varieties with different functions).
agree, here in FL I get so many robocalls on a daily basis I’m beginning to wonder why I ever signed up for Do Not Call
I bought an “ooma” about six months ago. I can block any number and it only takes a few seconds on their web page to add another. A lot of telemarketers use more than one number, but I’ve finally gotten to the point that we only get one call every day or so. As for politicians, shouldn’t take more than a week or so to nail them once it starts here in Florida. I’ve got mine set to automatically send them to endless rings (I don’t even know they called unless I check the call log on the web).
Oh, I always pick the phone up and let them waste their time talking to my unattended receiver. If there is a real person on the other end, I’ll try to frab with their mind. Speaking to them in some unrecognizable foreign language (other than Spanish) can be fun … and that’s the real purpose of learning foreign languages. Makes them waste their time and feel unappreciated.
I worked with a guy who did that. He actually enjoyed getting calls so he could mess with their minds. He told me the worst thing you can do to a telemarketer is keep him on the phone for as long as you possibly can. It wastes his time and keeps him from bothering other people. Listen to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBfsdkGeMc8 The best punking of a telemarketer ever!
This was sooooo funny! Thanks, Denny.
Anyone stipid enoughbto be influenced about who to vote for by a robo call shouldn’t be allowed to vote. But then that explains how so many fucking idiots are elected to congress.
Pardon the typos. Damn touch screen ipad!!!
I get around five a day too.
Answer the phone and don’t make a sound – say nothing.
After a few seconds you’ll get a busy signal and the robodick on the other end will hang up.
Or, if you’re in a particularly jaunty mood – go ahead and answer and then f**k with them.
Ragnar – That works with telemarketers but not with robo-calls. As soon as you answer, the computer starts playing the recording. Long time ago before I got an answering machine to screen my calls, I would answer and as soon as the human started his spiel, I would say, “Hold on a sec.” and lay the phone down. Eventually he would hang up.
I’ve never been ruled by my phone anyway. If I was busy eating dinner or sumpin’ I wouldn’t answer. My friends got me my first answering machine because I didn’t answer my phone if I didn’t feel like it. That way, they could at least leave me a message.
Just one more benefit of having no hard wired home phone.
Re-register to vote and leave your phone number off the form. A couple years after I did it here in AZ, I receive almost no calls, while neighbors complain about up to 5 calls a day. Try it; you have nothing, but an annoyance, to lose.