General Chat

The milkman, in our case, has walked a path into our front grass! When we get round to having the drive re-done, we might use some of the old slabs to pave it properly for him ;-)

Sharron - one such 'lifestyle' survey took our address down incorrectly. It that's quoted, we know where it came from.

But do you really think that trampling your grass makes him an inglorious 'basterd?

No - more of a Grrr. :-)

I'd say the cold callers I get are 50:50 male and female.
My letterbox is regularly overstuffed with junk mail, but now, my e-mail inboxes are also stuffed.
Anything addressed to my name on my e-mail address (the one I give when 'forced' to by retailers), either in my in-box or on letters, I know is spam.
A rellie who also has an inbox, can confirm this.

If I'm going to make an official complaint, I need to know which company is paying these people to harass me. I hardly think I'm 'beating up hapless cold callers'.
I may be showing annoyance at being disturbed, bothered, and disrupted - but I also do this to people who knock on my door for no reason, like charity collectors who knock after dark, 'chuggers', even people who walk into me whilst on their phone - and these people aren't trying to cost me a fortune in PC repairs!!

I can say, with my hand on my heart, that the milkman, newspaper 'boy' (Denny is well into his 70's, nor purveyors of Watchtower, have ever tried to hack into my bank account, or spread a virus onto my computer. Neither are they bothered about my income, age, marital status or type of work I do.
There is a vast difference between spammers and 'genuine' cold calls, and as my phone is set to block cold callers, surely it's only reasonable to presume the others are 'spammers'.
...Or is that logic too reasonable for a female?

1299445574

has this'un call me this morning at 6 minutes to 7

allegedly from "windows"

would you Adam n Eve it?

5 minutes ago same number but a bloke this time!!!!

I do think it very sad that people who can speak two languages (when I can barely cope with one) have to resort to such a job to make a living.

I have to agree, Sharron.
My sister who is less forthright than me, and sometimes upset by cold calls - but we mustn't 'beat up' the hapless cold callers, must we? Relations that are upset by them should surely 'grow a backbone' - but I digress.

My sister regularly puts on a quavery 'old lady' voice and asks cold callers that same question, Sharron. :-D

http://who-called.co.uk/ has added a 0 at the front of Bobtanian's cold caller number.

Type: Landlines
pointer 01299 is the area code of Bewdley

Unlikely!

We did have some little git on a mobile ringing my OH about some advertizing he said he owed him for.

OH was in pain and had just had a toe-nail off so he started being apologetic. I hadn't, I wasn't. The company address I managed to get the little rat to think up on the spot was a road that was not in London after all. It was in Bolton.

Well done, Sharron!! :-D

THEN, after I threatened I was on to him and he had better beware, 20 minutes later, a different number but a voice very similar claims to be from TALK TALK.......... so I get onto talk talk, and they have put a block watch on the numbers I gave........

Bob

Well Done, Bobtanian :-D