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Poll
Question: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Option 1: Blow a whistle into the phone votes: 2
Option 2: Blow an airhorn into the phone votes: 2
Option 3: Sexually harass the campaign worker votes: 8
Option 4: Other votes: 2
Option 5: Profanity laden tirade votes: 4
Title: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 06:45:33 PM


Several calls a day deserve retaliation. A nice "no" hasn't worked. We are at DefCon 2.

Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 09, 2012, 06:47:53 PM
Stretch the call out as long as possible, since you'll be entertained by the idea that you are wasting the caller's time (and consequently the donor's money).
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: alfred russel on October 09, 2012, 06:49:11 PM
You should vote for him. :)
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: FunkMonk on October 09, 2012, 06:49:16 PM
Quote from: Viking on October 09, 2012, 06:47:53 PM
Stretch the call out as long as possible, since you'll be entertained by the idea that you are wasting the caller's time (and consequently the donor's money).

This is good, but end it with a profanity-laden tirade.  :)
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 06:51:29 PM
Quote from: alfred russel on October 09, 2012, 06:49:11 PM
You should vote for him. :)

I've met him. Not a chance.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 06:54:11 PM
You getting live callers?  All I get are robocalls (endless) and the occaisional survey.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 06:57:22 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 06:54:11 PM
You getting live callers?  All I get are robocalls (endless) and the occaisional survey.

I'm getting everything thrown at me. Brown's assfucks. Mandel's lil Nazis. Bill Clinton's disembodied voice from the ether.

I'm close to yanking the home phone.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 06:58:30 PM
No letters from the Guardian?
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 06:59:03 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 06:58:30 PM
No letters from the Guardian?

No. :weep:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 07:00:16 PM
Give mongers your email address.  :)
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:06:01 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 07:00:16 PM
Give mongers your email address.  :)

I don't need daily pics of bicycles.  :)
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 09, 2012, 07:07:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:06:01 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 09, 2012, 07:00:16 PM
Give mongers your email address.  :)

I don't need daily pics of bicycles.  :)

http://www.adventure-journal.com/daily-bike-channel/
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: dps on October 09, 2012, 07:15:38 PM
Tell the caller, "Could you call back later?  It's a bad time right now--I'm busy sodomizing the family dog".
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 09, 2012, 07:33:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 06:57:22 PM
I'm getting everything thrown at me. Brown's assfucks. Mandel's lil Nazis. Bill Clinton's disembodied voice from the ether.

I'm close to yanking the home phone.

Benefits of being in a battlefield state.

I'm in the phone book, too;  haven't even gotten a single phone call, not even from my Jamaican buddies.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:38:37 PM
I wish my kids were older so they could tie up the phone line.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 09, 2012, 07:49:02 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:38:37 PM
I wish my kids were older so they could tie up the phone line.

There is always phone sex lines for you.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:51:31 PM
Yuk.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 09, 2012, 07:52:24 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:51:31 PM
Yuk.

Home shopping network?
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 09, 2012, 07:54:00 PM
Quote from: Viking on October 09, 2012, 07:52:24 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:51:31 PM
Yuk.

Home shopping network?

HOLY SHIT GLADYS C'MERE MORE INVICTUS WATCHES
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 09, 2012, 07:56:37 PM
Quacker factory sweaters!
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: PDH on October 09, 2012, 10:35:45 PM
Publish lists of proscription then take all that they own.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 09, 2012, 10:40:35 PM
Invite them over for dinner. Then, eat them.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Barrister on October 09, 2012, 11:06:55 PM
Serious answer:  either tell them you WILL vote for the candidate, or tell them you are a dedicated voted for the opposing candidate.  The keep calling because they have you on a list of "undecideds".
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 12:07:53 AM
Quote from: Barrister on October 09, 2012, 11:06:55 PM
Serious answer:  either tell them you WILL vote for the candidate, or tell them you are a dedicated voted for the opposing candidate.  The keep calling because they have you on a list of "undecideds".

I tell them point blank I am not voting for brown. They just won't stop. Nice Ed tried to be polite. Now evil Ed has been awoken.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Sheilbh on October 10, 2012, 12:11:18 AM
Always respond with 'what you wearing?'  It'll end soon.

Don't use that on disembodied Bill :ph34r:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Syt on October 10, 2012, 12:27:03 AM
Tell them your detailed gay fantasies about their candidate.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 10, 2012, 12:34:59 AM
Quote from: Sheilbh on October 10, 2012, 12:11:18 AM
Always respond with 'what you wearing?'  It'll end soon.

Helps if you sound out of breath as well.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:30:29 AM
Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

I have introduced unrestricted pony warfare.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: DGuller on October 10, 2012, 09:42:16 AM
I keep getting political survey calls of various kinds, including once from Bloomberg.  That gives me great confidence in the sampling techniques used by pollsters.   :rolleyes:

I have learned the hard way that the best way to deal with them is to hang up.  Without fail, all of them are far too long, and the person on the other end of the line will say any blatant lie to keep you on the phone.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Gups on October 10, 2012, 09:44:02 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:30:29 AM
Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

I just hope that's not a euphemism
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:45:19 AM
Quote from: Gups on October 10, 2012, 09:44:02 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:30:29 AM
Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

I just hope that's not a euphemism

No. :lol:

It is a real show, and my girls are addicted to it.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 10, 2012, 09:50:39 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 10, 2012, 09:42:16 AM
I have learned the hard way that the best way to deal with them is to hang up.  Without fail, all of them are far too long, and the person on the other end of the line will say any blatant lie to keep you on the phone.

That may be the best way, but it's not the most entertaining way, which is I think what Ed is looking for.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Valmy on October 10, 2012, 10:06:17 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:30:29 AM
Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

If it was a Brony, you just made his day.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 10, 2012, 10:08:14 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 12:07:53 AM
Quote from: Barrister on October 09, 2012, 11:06:55 PM
Serious answer:  either tell them you WILL vote for the candidate, or tell them you are a dedicated voted for the opposing candidate.  The keep calling because they have you on a list of "undecideds".

I tell them point blank I am not voting for brown. They just won't stop. Nice Ed tried to be polite. Now evil Ed has been awoken.

ah, I get it now, you're trolling US not the callers.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: DGuller on October 10, 2012, 10:15:54 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 10, 2012, 09:50:39 AM
Quote from: DGuller on October 10, 2012, 09:42:16 AM
I have learned the hard way that the best way to deal with them is to hang up.  Without fail, all of them are far too long, and the person on the other end of the line will say any blatant lie to keep you on the phone.

That may be the best way, but it's not the most entertaining way, which is I think what Ed is looking for.
Meh.  I doubt that many people grow up wanting to call people up all the time and interrupt their dinners.  It has to be one of the crappiest jobs you can have.  Somehow that knowledge doesn't get me in the mood to fuck with them.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 10, 2012, 10:19:04 AM
I'm sure the people doing it for political campaigns are volunteers.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Grey Fox on October 10, 2012, 10:20:13 AM
Retreat is the only option it seems. Tell them you'll vote for their guy.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:21:08 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:30:29 AM
I have introduced unrestricted pony warfare.

That's the spirit.  Give all the phone calls to the youngest ones.  :lol:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: derspiess on October 10, 2012, 10:46:10 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 10, 2012, 10:19:04 AM
I'm sure the people doing it for political campaigns are volunteers.

Depends on the campaign.  Some are volunteers and some get paid.  The ones who get paid do not get a lot of money for it, though.

Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:21:08 AM
That's the spirit.  Give all the phone calls to the youngest ones.  :lol:

Tommy will randomly answer the phone when someone calls and if it's not his mom, my parents or his cousin Jake he hangs up & tells me it was nobody.  So I always have to check the caller ID afterwards.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:48:38 AM
Quote from: derspiess on October 10, 2012, 10:46:10 AM
Tommy will randomly answer the phone when someone calls and if it's not his mom, my parents or his cousin Jake he hangs up & tells me it was nobody.  So I always have to check the caller ID afterwards.

I used to drive my sister nuts when she was a teenager;  phone would ring, I'd sit there and have a 5 or 10 minute conversation, then hand it off to her because it was one of her teenybopper girlfriends.  :lol:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Eddie Teach on October 10, 2012, 10:51:38 AM
Were you older or younger?
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:52:30 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 10, 2012, 10:51:38 AM
Were you older or younger?

Older, of course.  That's the burden big brothers must carry.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 04:52:32 PM
Now that I made a thread on it, the number of calls dropped off the cliff.

Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Maximus on October 10, 2012, 05:05:04 PM
 :ph34r:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Admiral Yi on October 10, 2012, 05:32:26 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:52:30 AM
Older, of course.  That's the burden big brothers must carry.

Perving out on your little sister's friends is hardly a burden.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 10, 2012, 05:54:00 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:52:30 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 10, 2012, 10:51:38 AM
Were you older or younger?

Older, of course.  That's the burden big brothers must carry.

I don't have a sister, did you get to beat up any of her boyfriends?
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 05:56:03 PM
Quote from: Viking on October 10, 2012, 05:54:00 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 10, 2012, 10:52:30 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on October 10, 2012, 10:51:38 AM
Were you older or younger?

Older, of course.  That's the burden big brothers must carry.

I don't have a sister, did you get to beat up any of her boyfriends?

Nah, they were all pretty cool.  Never had any problems, she always picked decent guys.

Did let the dog out on a couple once in a while when they pulled up to the house, though.  All bark no bite, but they didn't know that.  Windows got rolled up in a fucking hurry.   :lol:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: jimmy olsen on October 10, 2012, 06:07:46 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 10, 2012, 09:30:29 AM
Got a call at breakfast time. Gave the phone to one of the twins and told her to tell the man about my little pony.

I have introduced unrestricted pony warfare.
My God! You're a monster! :o

:lol:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Josquius on October 11, 2012, 06:32:37 AM
All of the above.

Oh. And try and turn the tables and get the caller to vote for the other guy.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: jimmy olsen on October 11, 2012, 06:54:08 AM
Quote from: Tyr on October 11, 2012, 06:32:37 AM
And try and turn the tables and get the caller to vote for the other guy.
:lol:
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 11, 2012, 07:45:53 AM
I asked a mandel guy which was better, PAC MAN or GORF. When he said he didn't know what GORF was, I spent the next few minutes extolling the wonders of GORF, then calling him an ignorant assturd and hung up.

Next one gets the I'm Batman routine.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: CountDeMoney on October 11, 2012, 07:47:33 AM
Next time I get another cold call for aluminum siding or driveway blacktopping, I'm going to set up an estimate for my condo.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Viking on October 11, 2012, 07:49:19 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 11, 2012, 07:45:53 AM
I asked a mandel guy which was better, PAC MAN or GORF. When he said he didn't know what GORF was, I spent the next few minutes extolling the wonders of GORF, then calling him an ignorant assturd and hung up.

Next one gets the I'm Batman routine.

how about asking them to deliver some campaign literature and give your address somewhere out in the boonies?
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Josquius on October 11, 2012, 07:52:19 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on October 11, 2012, 07:47:33 AM
Next time I get another cold call for aluminum siding or driveway blacktopping, I'm going to set up an estimate for my condo.

I wouldn't. They don't get it at all.
My parents kept getting harassed by loft insulation people offering a free estimate, yadda yadda. He kept explaining to them that our house doesn't have a loft, we have a flat roof, but they persisted.
He eventually gave in and said fine, send someone round....Come a few days later and my mam notices two very confused men standing outside the house, looking at the roof and checking their paperwork.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: The Brain on October 11, 2012, 02:08:27 PM
Voted profanity laden trireme.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 27, 2012, 11:56:23 AM
Got a recorded call, saying I should vote on the 7th.

Considering the county I'm in, I bet it was from lefties. My rights: violated.

Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: DontSayBanana on October 27, 2012, 12:09:42 PM
Ed, there's nothing "unrestricted" about your pony warfare if you haven't even dropped the I'm Batman routine yet.  Some other good ones, so they know right away you're going to fuck with them:

"Autobot Headquarters.  Optimus Prime speaking."
"City morgue- you dice 'em, we ice 'em."
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Razgovory on October 27, 2012, 12:12:53 PM
Or the classic, "Can't... talk... unf... fucking... horse"
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 27, 2012, 12:14:44 PM
I actually gave up fucking with them. Now I'm messing with the IGS energy salesmen who try to come to the door. One of those assholes tried to climb my gate.

He got a surprise.
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: daveracher on October 27, 2012, 01:13:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 27, 2012, 12:14:44 PM
I actually gave up fucking with them. Now I'm messing with the IGS energy salesmen who try to come to the door. One of those assholes tried to climb my gate.

He got a surprise.

Rock salt or buckshot?
Title: Re: How should I deal with the constant Sherrod Brown campaign calls?
Post by: Ed Anger on October 27, 2012, 02:19:29 PM
Quote from: daveracher on October 27, 2012, 01:13:35 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 27, 2012, 12:14:44 PM
I actually gave up fucking with them. Now I'm messing with the IGS energy salesmen who try to come to the door. One of those assholes tried to climb my gate.

He got a surprise.

Rock salt or buckshot?

pistol pointed at face.
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