Do i have the power to end a thread? ^^

Joe- I feel for you. Every time that I have to work on a serious computer problem, I take a drammamine and a Valium beforehand.

Well, it looks like you have fixed your problem, and that is what counts! How's your chest doing?

On my way to the gym right now... .

Joe(animal)Nation

Sounds like you have recovered nicely. Arrgh. That reminds me. I have to do a bit of sweating today too. If I could only pull myself away from this damned computer..............

Go, Phoenix, the bike (or path, or whatever it is) is calling you, calling you away from the screen, calling you out into this glorious day, calling you to leave this thread and get on with the important things in life, calling..., calling..., calling...

Q. OK, I take telemarketing as a personal affront. Hard as it may be to believe, I used to find it impossible to be rude to people on the phone, even this base undersociety of people, who call into your home, trying to sell you stuff.

About a year or so ago, the spell was broken somehow, and I started using my imagination to find fun ways to humiliate these people. THEN, they become Indian. I CANNOT be rude to these people. The Telemarketing God has found my achilles tendon. Why can't I be rude to the Indians? What kind of weird reverse discrimination is this?

Does anyone else have this problem?

Lash- Absolutely not. I am on the "Do Not Call" list, and get far fewer telemarketing calls than I used to. A few do slip through though, and I have no trouble blowing them off, if they come from Bangladesh, or the Bronx.

I simply say, "Remove me from your mailing list. Goodbye"

I consider telemarketing an invasion of my privacy. They are cluttering up MY space, and I did not invite then in. Period!

I should go back to that line, as well, Phoenix.

I can't figure out why it's harder to be rude to that particular group of people.... Eh.

I've always had difficutly being rude to Quakers, the bastards! But then, they don't call that often.

I don't think I could be rude to the Quakers, either....well, I would tell them they're going to Mecha-Hell for using the phone....but, besides that...

Amish are another story entirely.

Oh. I think I've crossed my anti-phone religionists.

Lash- It is so funny how people are reluctant to blow off a telemarketer. I think that it comes from our early training to be "polite". Problem is, that these people at the least, take up our time, and at the worst, leave us vulnerable to scams.

Yeah. It's only the INDIAN telemarketers that I can't be rude to. I verbally assault all the others.


Could it have something to do with Ghandi...??? :0

Lash- Is it possible that you see yourself as a goodwill ambassador from the US, and don't want to give foreign people the wrong idea about us?

Or a secret love for Chicken Vindaloo ?

Lash- What if the caller had a foreign accent, but it was not Indian?

Hmmm... Goodwill ambassador....? Phoenix, you are a jewel! France has a picture of me with a red circle/ line through over my face at all of the airports.

Suck it, Frenchie!!!! [size=7]<except Francis>[/size]


But, when someone sounds like Ghandi, I feel the need to be patient and polite.

I have issues, I think.

I've never even had Chicken Vindaloo.

Is it really good? More satisfying that cursing a telemarketer?

Phoenix-- I don't know. I've been rude to Spanish accents... Good question. I may see them as American. I don't think I've had any other accents... You may be right!! Of course, a French accent would be met with derision!!! <unless it was Francis> I think you're right. Imagine! Lash: Goodwill ambassador!!

I have no problem hanging up on telemarketers - and I have been a telemarketer. At the same time I don't know how many wonderful free vacation packages I have swept away, new glass for my home so I don't have to wash my windows I have lost, and tremendous savings I have lost on my car insurance because of my rudeness. Next time they call I will say "tell me more!" THEN I'll hang up on them.

I am amused by people who waste their time arguing with telemarketers, and playing nasty tricks on them. Even if you hate what they are doing, after all, they are attempting to make a living. I blow them off, but I am seldom nasty.

Lash, we must be polar opposites. I would never be rude to anyone with a French accent (mmm!)...but I have no problem being rude to Indian telemarketers. It's bad enough they interrupt me all day while I'm working, but I can't even understand what they're saying!

Me: "Hello, this is Eva. May I help you?"

Caller: "Allooo, majhr dswlip slkmdlenos rehwa ar apeler?"

Me: "Excuse me, but I didn't understand that."

Caller: "Majhr dswlip slkmdlenos rehwa ar apeler?"

Me: "Could you speak a little more clearly?"

Caller: "Maj-hr dswlip sl-kmdlen-os reh-wa ar apel-er?"

Me: "I'm sorry, but I cannot understand anything you're saying. Have someone call me who speaks English." <hangs up>