Nuisance Phone Calls

[Gordon Booth]

Strange, we get very few nuisance calls, didn't on our previous numbers either.

They must know who all you rich folks are, not worth ringing us!

[Michael1954]

A generational thing? How old are you?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Michael1954

A generational thing? How old are you?

As Old as my tongue and a bit older than my teeth.
(pre 1950's)
I am too old to be bothering with texting......by the time I have texted, the postman could be delivering a letter to the person.

[Michael1954]

I am 61 in April. For a long time I resisted getting a mobile but I wouldn't be without it now. It's always there in case my car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, and it's handy for coming on sites like this.

[Restless]

61 and doesn't know never to ask a woman her age

[Margaret Pilkington]

I no longer drive, and I would never use a phone to access Accyweb..I would really struggle to see the screen.
I was bamboozled into having a mobile when I did have to drive and worked unsocial hours, but I never really wanted one.
I could give mine up tomorrow and not miss it.
And, yes at 61 you should have learned not to ask a lady her age
(It says in the back of my knickers that I am 14-16)

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

My phone doesn't take pictures, it doesn't connect to the internet...it is just a phone.

Ahh, Margaret, my phones posher than yours, it has a camera. So it should, it cost £20 in the days when £20 bought you--- a cheap phone.
Can't remember how the camera works and the battery is usually flat but I remember it now and then, never use it.

I can't understand when you see a couple in a pub or restaurant, both on their mobiles, not talking to each other. Are they both wishing they were with someone else? Are they texting each other, thoughts so private? Are their lives so busy they haven't even a few spare minutes to spend together?

[Accyexplorer]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

I can't understand when you see a couple in a pub or restaurant, both on their mobiles, not talking to each other. Are they both wishing they were with someone else? Are they texting each other, thoughts so private? Are their lives so busy they haven't even a few spare minutes to spend together?

Personally,I find this sort of behaviour rather rude,There's nothing more infuriating than trying to talk to folk while they are tapping away on their device,it makes me wonder if I'm not interesting enough....as if

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Ahh, Margaret, my phones posher than yours, it has a camera. So it should, it cost £20 in the days when £20 bought you--- a cheap phone.
Can't remember how the camera works and the battery is usually flat but I remember it now and then, never use it.

I can't understand when you see a couple in a pub or restaurant, both on their mobiles, not talking to each other. Are they both wishing they were with someone else? Are they texting each other, thoughts so private? Are their lives so busy they haven't even a few spare minutes to spend together?

Gordon, I had a phone with a camera, but the pictures were (to put it politely) rubbish......so I decided that my next phone would not have a camera(I always have a good little camera in my bag anyway).
I am working on my next phone being one that won't phone anyone.....seeing as I hardly ever use the darned thing....I figure I could do without one altogether.

I do not 'get' the concept of folk being wedded to their phone...having to be connected to the media, Facebook, Twitter or some other equally banal social media all the time.
Like the world would come to a grinding halt if they couldn't see what was happening on the Internet.
Sad, very very sad to see couples more interested in their phone than one another!

[keith higson]

When I get nuisance phone calls and they ask "How are you Today", I give them all my illnesses (both real and imaginary) for as long as I can - upto 20 minutes once - then I thank them for taking the time to listen to my worries and tell them that its very rare for someone to concerned about my health - I don't get many of these calls now.

[US Angel]

I have gotten so many phone calls for cruises I could have rights to the company.
Now when they call I just tell them unless you come up with something better the
that cheap cruise I don't want it....shock silence then click lol

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Accyexplorer

Personally,I find this sort of behaviour rather rude,

Thats too polite its pig ignorant, mobiles are the most anti-social device ever created, n kids and older people in general, are too thick or ignorant to realize it.

[ChrissieB]

If they call from a number, rather than withheld , you can check them out on Who called me? Free reverse phone directory.. I add them to my phone's phone book as 'nuisance' , pest etc.
I sometimes answer and just leave the phone by the radio or TV. It wastes their money then.

[accyman]

i got a call yesterday that i got out the shower to answer as i was expecting a call from a friend

it was someone trying to sell something so i swore quite a lot at them

the snott head said it was illigal to be abusive on the phone and that calls were recorded

i said he shouldnt have rang the national abusive phoneline then and should try ringing the national complimets line

[shillelagh]

just had one from windows saying that they have been receiving technical reports that ive got hacking files in my computer and told me to tell me to turn my computer on ... mmm so I said why is windows ringing me .. she said that it was a registered to me .. and I said yes .. and so she went through the whole rigmarole again .. and I said yes but why is windows ringing me .. I don't have a windows computer .. and she said it is registered to me .. .and I said I got rid of that computer she put the phone down .. I wonder why?

by the way she sounded eastern European .. and called daisy smith ...