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	chibikaijuu 2007-01-20 01:12 am UTC (link)
	*listed phone number, I meant. If your number is unlisted and you're still getting unsolicited calls, you have a right to be significantly annoyed. I think I combined a couple of ideas in my head and my fingers didn't quite get the messages. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

breecita
2007-01-20 04:41 am UTC (link)

I have to pay a few bucks a month to keep my number unlisted, and we got our first solicitation literally 48 hours after we hooked up the new number. Even though I'm on the Do NOT Call list.

And now we're getting auto-calls from some Family Values group who wants to tell us that the gay people are GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING with their pro-choice evil henchmen, and would we stay on the line to discuss it furtuer and pledge money to help out?

Maybe I'm just crabby, but I'd prefer to not get phone calls until the Gay Pride Parade marches into town and starts holding down innocent bystanders so the pro-choicers can force abortions on them.

When that day comes... call me up and ask if I'm concerend.

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	taviblue 2007-01-20 07:35 am UTC (link)
	Tell them you are one of the evil homogays. That's my favorite tactic for when I actually get calls. Switching to cellphone has made my life so much easier. My mom threw a fit when I did that one, though. >XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2007-01-20 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	And now we're getting auto-calls from some Family Values group who wants to tell us that the gay people are GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING with their pro-choice evil henchmen, and would we stay on the line to discuss it furtuer and pledge money to help out? I'd like to know how that isn't harassment, legally. prairiedawn (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-01-21 07:20 pm UTC (link)
	Because they're a nonprofit, and nonprofits have hella loopholes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

v_digitalwytch
2007-01-22 08:56 pm UTC (link)

And now we're getting auto-calls from some Family Values group who wants to tell us that the gay people are GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING with their pro-choice evil henchmen, and would we stay on the line to discuss it furtuer and pledge money to help out?

Oooh, I'd love to get one of those calls, preferrably when my D&D gaming group's over and throw it on speakerphone. Our current group consists of a bunch of Pagans who are quite active in the local GBLT rights movements.

By the end of it, the person who called would be probably scrubbing thier ears muttering 'unclean'.

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	breecita 2007-01-22 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	I clicked through once to ask them to stop calling, but I was feeling a little pissy and only managed to get out, "Why am I getting auto-dialed bigotry--" before they hung up on me. My husband has much more patience and politely asked them to stop calling last time, though they did try to engage him in discussion while he did. We'll see if they call back. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	arionhunter 2007-01-20 04:09 pm UTC (link)
	Honestly, that doesn't do jack, at least with the market research company I worked for. We were given a list taken from their phone books, then scrambled the last two numbers randomly. So if we got an unlisted number, it was pure chance. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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