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10th April 2018, 11:44 AM
#31
Re: Cold Calling.
I got one yesterday asking for me,I told the guy Mr Brady has moved to India,the phone went dead.
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Jim.B.
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10th April 2018, 06:29 PM
#32
Re: Cold Calling.
I once had the call from Microsoft ( yea sure it was )
I told him in his own tongue that " he had a very small penis and he should go to the woods and have sex with his own bum "
The swine hang up on me .That's just bad manners
Good old Brocklebanks shipping
Ron the batcave
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10th April 2018, 07:50 PM
#33
Re: Cold Calling.
that's the best jim i have said mr pruden moved but they ring back a few days later you cant insult them at all ? jp
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10th April 2018, 08:10 PM
#34
Re: Cold Calling.
My two favourites that I use.
1) Caller, you have a problems with your Windows. Me- you from Anglican -who? Anglican Windows, phone goes dead.
2) You have a problem with your PC- me- I don't have a PC, I have a Mac- phone goes dead.
Vic
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10th April 2018, 08:18 PM
#35
Re: Cold Calling.
Get these all the time here as well Lads,but just look at the incoming Number if I don't know it (Sometimes shows Private) I just hang up don't even answer! That way now no one can get through LOL Bleedin Pests! Can get the phone on Silent Number,but it costs a wee bit,and I don't think at this stage worth it!
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10th April 2018, 08:25 PM
#36
Re: Cold Calling.
The last time I had Jehovah's Witnesses who didn't immediately explain that they were but they had a copy of their little hand-out leaflet I took it from them and I said oh dear you poor people Condemned to hell let me pray to God for you to save your soul before it's too late they took umbrage turn around and walk down the drive
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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10th April 2018, 08:33 PM
#37
Re: Cold Calling.
Just put a Sticker on your Door with NO C C
They will work it out ! I wont say more !
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10th April 2018, 09:44 PM
#38
Re: Cold Calling.
Me dropped a clanger last sat.
In the kitchen phone rings . Had to drop everything and walk thro .
I was very angry I would say.
When I picked up the phone I got a click then nothing . I shouted down the Phone " Well FR~~~ Off You swine" and hung up .
" Mins later phone rings and a voice says " you can F''' Off as well Dad and he laughs."
When he came around to the house he was in Stiches. Mum I have never heard Dad talk like that all my 46 years
He was so angry As they say win some lose some .
Ron The batcave
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11th April 2018, 06:46 AM
#39
Re: Cold Calling.
Hi All.
Got a phone call yesterday, Lady with very nice Indian voice, I'm from Telecom technical services calling about your computer. Me, I haven't got a computer. She, Then how do you receive your mail. Me, From the postman he puts it in the letter box. Phone goes down quietly.
Cheers Des
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11th April 2018, 06:58 AM
#40
Re: Cold Calling.
Easy to deal with, all you need is a whistle the type refs use on the football filed.
One blast down the phone from that will keep them quiet for a while.
Last one I had, a good few years ago wanted to ask what I knew about baked beans and the various makers.
Told here they made me fart.
She hung up, rude bitch.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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