I need to vent!

Well I have an exam that starts in 8 hours and 40 minutes.

That's a really bad thing to say most of the time, but especially at 12 40am on a Saturday. Because what could be worse than an Equity law exam? An equity law exam at 9am. On a Saturday morning. Closed book. On the ANZAC Day long weekend.

I really wish there was something that I could say to justify that decision on the unis part - something like oh I was shit in another exam so had to take a supp. But no, they've just decided to get all 150 of us in on a Satuday morning.

woo f$*%ing hoo.

Arrg, I hate telemarketers. Every single day one this week of them has called to "give away" some nonsense.
Yesterday it was morgages, today holiday vouchers.
Tonight I had to yell at the stupid woman because I said I wasn't interested twice and she kept prattling on :mad:

Going on the damn "do not call" list doesn't work because they use the con "we're not selling you anything, we're just giving you these fantastic offers".
Yeah, right. Offers that I need to either sign up with something for or go to some seminar to try and get me to buy stuff.

Looks like I'll have to go back to leaving my phone off the hook. Sigh.

That's weird... I am on the 'do not call' register and I never get calls from telemarketers :confused:

How long have you been on the register? It takes a little while for it to take affect.

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Originally Posted by 5FDP

How long have you been on the register? It takes a little while for it to take affect.

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About 2 years. So it shouldn't be time up yet, if I recall it lasts 3 years.
As I said, they don't call themselves telemarketers, I tried to tell them that I'm on the do not call list but they said pretty much what I posted above.
While they might not be trying to sell me something at the moment I have learned that my number does not just "win $1000 worth of holiday coupons" without any catches.
Especially considering they don't care about who they talk to (I have said "no, no one by that name lives here", they didn't care, just kept going), just that the number is what they called.

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Originally Posted by 1orion2many

I think we got very limited numbers, I picked mine up from Toyworld so if you have a Toyworld near you try them.

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Bugger....I have 2 Toyworlds near me, Midland and Kalamunda...I think I might be Ebaying it because I'm not paying their wallet rapping prices.

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Originally Posted by Tabias Prime

Bugger....I have 2 Toyworlds near me, Midland and Kalamunda...I think I might be Ebaying it because I'm not paying their wallet rapping prices.

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Hey, those two are near me too! If you ever see a spare one there let me know (and I'll do likewise) :D

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Originally Posted by DarkHyren

Arrg, I hate telemarketers. Every single day one this week of them has called to "give away" some nonsense.
Yesterday it was morgages, today holiday vouchers.
Tonight I had to yell at the stupid woman because I said I wasn't interested twice and she kept prattling on :mad:

Going on the damn "do not call" list doesn't work because they use the con "we're not selling you anything, we're just giving you these fantastic offers".
Yeah, right. Offers that I need to either sign up with something for or go to some seminar to try and get me to buy stuff.

Looks like I'll have to go back to leaving my phone off the hook. Sigh.

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Do what I do... play with them. ;)

This is based on an actual conversation I once had with a telemarketer:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...nsfandom13.jpg

:D

I think that might be one of your best Goki. It actually made me chuckle a little :D

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Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime

Do what I do... play with them. ;)

This is based on an actual conversation I once had with a telemarketer

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Heh, that brightened my mood up a bit, definately worth a try :D

I just use my Dalek talking bottle opener to scream EXTERMINATE! down the phone line, they eventually hang up.