Phone call...

[jsbowden]

I answered the phone yesterday that showed a CID I didn't recognize and since it wasn't unknown/unknown (The Mark of the Beast^WTelemarketer), I figured it was a real person.

I had my chance. I could have affected the outcome. I could have participated.

Oh wait, all I could have done was waste my time answering biased questions designed to sway me in some silly fucking political poll. Instead I was rude and told the caller to fuck off and die. I don't feel remotely bad about this. It's my phone. It's for my convenience. I pay for it. People who call me take their chances.

It's tempting to stop by the registrar and submit an absentee ballot so I don't have to bother come The Day, but considering how much shit you see about how both sides tamper; I'd hate for my pointless vote to disappear and never be counted since it was for the wrong lizard.

I really fucking hate how the politicians exempted themselves from the Do Not Call rules. My personal feeling is that hypocrisy that blatant is justification for lining them up against the wall, breaking out the AK-47s, and solving the incumbent problem once and for all.

Never mind me though, I'm just cranky.

Comments

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

I really fucking hate how the politicians exempted themselves from the Do Not Call rules

This is one of the many reasons we ditched our landline and went completely wireless.

[warpedpuppy.livejournal.com]

AKs are too slipshod... just use Remington 11-87s with flechettes

[carpone.livejournal.com]

I don't answer my landline anymore unless it's from a number that I recognize. I successfully avoided two pointless political polls on Sunday this way, and countless marketing drones trying to sell me the shill of the day.

Anytime a form asks for my phone number, I give them my landline number and let my answering machine do my work for me. That's my way of putting technology to work. :) I give my cell number only to friends. That way when someone calls my cell I'm 99% sure it's someone I know (the 1% being wrong numbers). Works for me pretty well.

Now, if I could only convince jennacc not to answer the land line...

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Anne will likely think you're nutty, but I personally salute your rudeness on the phone.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

Isn't uttering death threats against the president, like, a felony?

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

When telling random political pollsters to fuck off and die (and I will not take any of these polls, I am against them on principle) gets translated as a death threat against the president, the terrorists will have won.

[larabeaton.livejournal.com]

I was referring to:

My personal feeling is that hypocrisy that blatant is justification for lining them up against the wall, breaking out the AK-47s, and solving the incumbent problem once and for all.

[carpone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the Secret Service tends to get ansy about that sort of thing.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

That was just me venting on how their actions make me feel. Last time I checked, that was still legal here, and if it's not, fuck 'em, I'm saying it anyway because I'm not one of those lying hypocritical bastards.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

Do the responsible thing. When they call you with a political poll, lie. Lie a lot. If just 2% of the population lied to pollsters, it would throw their whole process into the crapper. Especially now, when everything is so close.

The only phone surveys I don't lie on are the ones about which radio stations do you listen to.

[robeli.livejournal.com]

Hee hee - that's what I do too!