IrishAyes
IrishAyes's JournalYou're rashly assuming everyone has caller ID or a functioning phone recorder.
Telemarketers don't know that either. So yes, they are barging in since they know some people have no way of screening calls and are subject to grave concern perhaps about a dear one's wellbeing, so they're going to pick up. At the very least, it's barging in under false pretenses. AND IT'S STILL INTRUSIVE AND RUDE!
No there aren't, unless you suppose I was tripping or don't understand English perhaps?
Listen, I didn't 'choose to take it that way'. That's what you said. At least admit it. Only a coward hides behind thinly disguised slurs. When I go to insult somebody, I say it outright. Your methodology is cowardly.
You're calling me a liar - when you weren't witness to the occasion(s)
So I consider you rather rude as well.
While it's true that people calling to sell you something don't start out intentionally rude, ignorance of decent phone manners is no excuse for actually BEING rude. When they encounter legitimate opposition, they know they're not getting a sale and sometimes they DO become knowingly quite rude.
Shame on you for calling me a liar! No, you didn't use that exact word but that's what your reply means. And it's beyond rude.
Here in RedNeckLand where I retired,
There's always pushback, often vitriolic, sometimes threatening, occasionally dangerous. Even the few people who write me personal private notes of support don't sign their names for fear someone else might find out. On rare occasions in public, someone will look around to make sure nobody else notices and then whisper an encouraging word. But that's the best I can expect.
As for replies in the paper, the last one carried a headline in large bold font: "LYING HYENAS OF SOCIALISM!"
So yeah, I'm as ready as a person can be. I try to keep my affairs in order.
This did not come from an email
If you can't find aloe vera juice/gel for some reason, Vitamin E gel works the same. I got a bit of sunburn once and slathered that on; never even peeled.
But the flour business sounds dangerous.
Now I did read from a credible report that science has discovered the reason the tree frog cure works for wounds. Y'know, place him belly down over the wound and tie him as gently as possible. When he quits squirming, get a fresh frog. What happens is that the tree frog perceives himself in danger and this causes him to exude a natural antibiotic from his stomach - for his own sake. The reason you have to replace him when he grows still is that he's given up and no longer exudes that antibiotic you need.
Here's one
One of my favorite uses for old pillowcases is to make bedwarmers for winter since electric blankets, even top brands, have been known to catch fire.
Fill the pillowcase (twin size) only about half full of rice. Then fold the open edge over a couple times (each fold narrow) and stitch by hand with long running stitches. You want the bag to be very flexible when 'filled'.
Place the bag in a microwave oven on low, with a turntable or stop and give it quarter turns yourself every minute or so. Occasionally remove the bag and turn it upside down, back and forth, to redistribute the contents so you gauge the true heat. After enough practice you'll know the routine to use with your own equipment w/o constantly testing.
The feds
are getting increasingly fed up with companies illegally using the DoNotCall list. I saw a couple reports that suggested action may be in the works. I hope so.
Here's a good one for you. A woman called up last week with the usual opener of (my name)? I don't answer to anything but "Hello, my name is so-and-so from such-and-such. May I please speak to (my name)?" They're barging into my house uninvited and unwanted, so they'd damn well better be polite. Since they never are, I interrupt (w/o acknowledging my own name) with "Who's calling?" This woman last week did answer my question but I told her quite directly that she was violating the law and I wouldn't buy anything from her if it was free. She scolded ME then! I hung up on her.
No, I do not need to coddle people who barge into my house electronically and start expecting information beginning with my name. It's rather akin to a holdup. I'm not mean to them - not in my view anyway - but I set them straight quick, and if they still don't behave, I hang up.
I used to toy with some of them, saying if you want me to listen to your sales pitch, you have to listen to mine first. Then I'd start hawking whatever fool thing popped into my head. And believe me, there's never any shortage of that! They'd always hang up pretty quick. But now that I'm retired, I don't have time to do so very often so I just start trying to teach them common telephone courtesy.
BTW, I do that to anyone who calls me and fails to offer a greeting followed by their own name, I don't care who it is. I didn't retire to be tortured by jerks. If they get smart with me and start insisting that I identify myself, I ask if they forgot who they were calling, don't they know? If voice recognition is the only thing required to get a sweet reply, why haven't they recognized the voice of the person they were calling (or not)?
My number is listed in the phone book under my deceased brother's name, so he gets a lot of junk mail. On very rare occasions he gets a telemarketer too, and they can get quite testy when I refuse to let them speak to him. One even warned me of unspecified dire consequences if I refused to give him the phone.
This is only fun because I've managed to cut these electronic intrusions down to one or two a month at most. Until campaign seasons heat up. Then I really play hobbes with the GOP. I'm still writing to Mike Huckabee urging him to split from the stodgy old GOP and run for president as an independent. Not a word why I want him to do so, just that I do. He'd draw a lot of fundies off with him and wreck the mainline party's chances pretty well.
DeMint exposes himself
I looked a good ways back to see if this subject had already been posted - didn't find anything - so please excuse me if I missed it. The first 2 paragraphs read thus:
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"Heritage Foundation president and former Senator Jim DeMint suggested to a town hall audience in Wilmington, Delaware Thursday that health care programs like Medicare and Medicaid are “un-American” and built on the principles of “socialism and collectivism.”
“I cannot think of anything that’s more un-American than national government-run health care,” DeMint said. “Those who believe in those principles of socialism and collectivism we’ve seen over the centuries, they see as their holy grail taking control of the health care system.”
read more:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/08/30/2555561/jim-demint-programs-like-medicare-veterans-health-care-american-grounded-socialism/
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So - does that go for veterans also, since government deals as directly as possible with the consequences of their hazardous service? Certainly sounds like DeMint took a broad brush to everything that government touches regarding healthcare.
I HAVE TO WONDER IF THAT SOB HAS RENOUNCED HIS OWN GOVERNMENT-PROVIDED HEALTHCARE?
Yeah, right. When hell freezes over.
More and more the hypocritical Repugs let their mask slip to reveal the ugliest rot on the face of the earth. Except I begin to wonder also to what degree they remain hypocritical since lately they seem to glory in their pure evil. Mistake it not for something less.
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