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    #11
    Originally posted by Ruprect View Post
    corrected above.


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      #12
      Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post


      swine
      "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny. "


      Thomas Jefferson

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        #13
        Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
        Got a call last night at about 8:30pm. It didn't start well, as when I answered the phone the caller wasn't paying attention. Then he said "Guten Abend, Herr There, ich representiert Talk Talk..." Then I hung up. It's not just in the UK.
        Me too. One from Deutsche Telekom as I had been in their shop recently. Couldn't get him off the line and all he was doing was reading a questionnaire to me. Then a couple of minutes later some girlie wanting to ask me about sport, blew that one out quicker than a kebap
        Brexit is having a wee in the middle of the room at a house party because nobody is talking to you, and then complaining about the smell.

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          #14
          Originally posted by darmstadt View Post
          Me too. One from Deutsche Telekom as I had been in their shop recently. Couldn't get him off the line and all he was doing was reading a questionnaire to me. Then a couple of minutes later some girlie wanting to ask me about sport, blew that one out quicker than a kebap
          Had one from T-mobile last week. Took an hour. At least I could bill the time to the client.
          "Condoms should come with a free pack of earplugs."

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            #15
            I've had the same bl00dy share dealing service on the phone two nights running....

            At least he had the nerve to apologise when I rollocked him!

            'elf and safety guru

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              #16
              Home is ex-dir so I never get cold-call sales calls.

              Had a few on the mobile though.

              I usually say in my best "posh voice",

              "Hello Control, are we go live ?"

              ..they usually stumble for a moment then launch in to their spiel.

              I interrupt and say "Hello ? I don't think you are Control. How did you get this number ? It's a secure line. I'm afraid you have committed a security breach. Please stay on the line whilst we trace your call and dispatch a team".

              No one has ever yet stayed on the line...
              Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

              C.S. Lewis

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                #17
                I had some guy knock on my door today mid-afternoon, right in my doorway in my face trying to tell me I should donate £1 a week to the local kids football team to keep them off the street.

                "Sorry mate, I'm unemployed".. at which point he did a full 180 and left me in peace.
                The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead.

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by chris79 View Post
                  I had some guy knock on my door today mid-afternoon, right in my doorway in my face trying to tell me I should donate £1 a week to the local kids football team to keep them off the street.
                  Isn't that called "a protection racket"?
                  Drivelling in TPD is not a mental health issue. We're just community blogging, that's all.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
                    He got angry with me in the end and hung up..

                    It's the only way they'll learn. Honestly this country, no where else would you get this crap. Period.
                    That's my favourite game with these calls - try and get the salesperson to hang up on me.
                    ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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                      #20
                      With me it`s power companies. Eon, NPower, British Gas, etc. Last chap tried to stick his clipboard in the door when I told him to "go away".

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