(OT) Crank Yankers and your own crank phone call memories

[Teflon Billy]

Here is more comedic anti-telemarketing genius from my main man Fraze

It's nice and quick, and doesn't require the 10-20 minute comittment of either The Mutilated Mark or Doctor No.

It's called simply, Call Waiting. You simply tell the telemarketer that you have someone on th other line, and you want to get rid of them so you can hear the pitch and....

Phone rings

King Stannis: Hello.

Telemarketer: Mr. Stannis, you have becoem eligible for an offer on the city's finest newspapers and...

King Stannis: Great!..that's fantastic, hang on one sec though. I'm on the other line and I need to get rid of them ok? I'll be right back.

Telemarketer: That's fine sir, I'll wait.

King Stannis pushes a the number "5" on his dial, causing a "BEEP" to be heard on the line, and then (pretending to believe he is talking to his 'other line') says...

King Stannis Hey Davos, there's some dip Telemarketer on the other line. He sounds like a complete retard. Let me get back to you after he stutters his way through his crap and I get my free gift ok?

At this point the ball is in the telemarketer's court

 

[Darraketh]

My one crank calling experience. I was a bored thirteen year old who happened to call an equally bored housewife. I spent the summer calling her at the same hour two or three times a week and talking with her for a hour or so while she made dinner. We talked about her mostly, her kids, her husband and life in general. I never made crank calls again.

Since then I've developed a severe distaste for any humor pepetrated at the expense of another. Sure it may be funny for me to see the look on "your" face when some stranger walks up and jack slaps your mom across "her" face. But... there is something immoral about "seeking" pleasure and satisfaction in the physical and mental pain of others no matter how small the discomfort.

Yes, I feel comfortable watching and laughing at "the funniest videos." I laugh at myself when I do something stupid that hurts me. Laughter helps overcome pain. It's the best medicine.

On those videos we know that those people are laughing at themselves and we can laugh with them, just not at them.