"Our aim is to keep this bathroom clean. Your aim will help."
Random Thoughts...or...What's on Your Mind?
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"Our aim is to keep this bathroom clean. Your aim will help."
OK random and weird thought here but watching old sitcoms got me thinking Brittain has The Doctor to help against alien invasions but what if the Doctor wasn't available and they sent in Frank Spencer?
I don't think Andrew Yang has ever read a New York City subway map. 
My governor is a cowardly dipshit.
<----- If your referring to that one (note flag), you left out "idiotic" and "suicidal."
It would fine by me if he was just suicidal but it's a real dick move to take everyone else with you.
Had no idea what you two were talking about, so I had a quick chat with my friend Google, and... wow.
So, um, good luck?
(Seriously, I really hope this doesn't come back to bite Texans in general, although I suspect it will in fact do so.
)@Avro Arrow Sorry about the divergence; just rocking a little solidarity to a fellow inmate in the asylum.
Why is it always Indians on the phone when they ring you about scamming you?
I just had two different people with the same thing saying my internet would be cut off in one hour if I don't sign up for what they were offering.
I just had two different people with the same thing saying my internet would be cut off in one hour if I don't sign up for what they were offering.
I keep getting random spam calls in what sounds to me like one of the Chinese languages, but I'm a pure white American with, as far as I know, nothing but Europeans in my ancestry, who does not speak a word of any of the Chinese languages. I have no idea what I did to get on their call list.
It's a robocall. they just spam a group of numbers hoping to hook someone.
From what I have read the chinese ones are an immigration thing saying they'll be deported unless they pay X dollars to an account or something like that, usually they throw in that they are from DHS or the FBI to make it sound scary.
With me, it's usually a person with a heavy Indian accent claiming to be from the Microsoft security department telling me there is a problem with my computer.
First off, with their heavy Indian accent, they speak English. "Microsoft" is calling me on my German landline speaking English. That's quite a gamble on "Microsoft"'s part. Once or twice I actually pretended not to speak English, just to mess with them.
Another time, when I didn't have my computer running when they called, and just for kicks I just pretended to go along. So, they're from Microsoft, and my computer has been hacked, and I need to download something from an eMail to save my computer. So, I tell them that I don't use Windows, and I'm not a customer of Microsoft, so they must have the wrong number. But they wouldn't let up, no, I had to start my computer and go to this website in order to save my computer. At this point I wanted to know, since I'm not a customer of "theirs", how they knew my computer had been hacked. They traced the hacker. Dubious, but fair enough. How did they get my number? They connect the hacker's attacking my computer with my landline number. How? Considering I'm not one of their customers, there'd have to be violations of German as well as European data protection laws. When they didn't give an answer, and instead just repeated over and over again that I must open this link to save my computer, that's when I knew the fun was over and I hung up on them.
First off, with their heavy Indian accent, they speak English. "Microsoft" is calling me on my German landline speaking English. That's quite a gamble on "Microsoft"'s part. Once or twice I actually pretended not to speak English, just to mess with them.
Another time, when I didn't have my computer running when they called, and just for kicks I just pretended to go along. So, they're from Microsoft, and my computer has been hacked, and I need to download something from an eMail to save my computer. So, I tell them that I don't use Windows, and I'm not a customer of Microsoft, so they must have the wrong number. But they wouldn't let up, no, I had to start my computer and go to this website in order to save my computer. At this point I wanted to know, since I'm not a customer of "theirs", how they knew my computer had been hacked. They traced the hacker. Dubious, but fair enough. How did they get my number? They connect the hacker's attacking my computer with my landline number. How? Considering I'm not one of their customers, there'd have to be violations of German as well as European data protection laws. When they didn't give an answer, and instead just repeated over and over again that I must open this link to save my computer, that's when I knew the fun was over and I hung up on them.
I wonder how many times, and in how many different languages people tell them to fuck off?
No worries at all! This is the Random Thoughts thread... it's basically just one long string of divergences!
When I get those most tell me my Apple computer--which I don't have-- is f'ed up. I just start speaking in jibber-ish back to them and then
.The ones that say they are Microsoft, I screw with even more.
Old man voice: I have a virus? That must be why my computer is running so slowly!
They think they've hooked me.
Hold on while I boot it up...
*Puts phone down, preferably close to some noisy item that I can leave running, or the TV*
*Walks away for 15 minutes...*
Still there? Sorry, it's been taking a LONG time to boot up lately... hold on, I think it's updating...
*Walks away for 15 minutes...*
Oh, damn, I forgot... gotta enter the password here, now, what was it... where did I write that down? Hm...
*Shuffles paper for a while*
Oh, stupid senile me! I don't even OWN a computer!
or
Hello? Hello? Who are you? Why is my phone off the hook? *suddenly "deaf"* I can't hear you! Is anybody there?
Repeat until scammer surrenders.
This used to be great fun, till they started using poorly-programmed robots with atrocious grammar. "We get signal. Somebody set you up the virus. You has no chance but call our service for Great Justice." (Well, not quite that bad, but close.)
They think they've hooked me.
Hold on while I boot it up...
*Puts phone down, preferably close to some noisy item that I can leave running, or the TV*
*Walks away for 15 minutes...*
Still there? Sorry, it's been taking a LONG time to boot up lately... hold on, I think it's updating...
*Walks away for 15 minutes...*
Oh, damn, I forgot... gotta enter the password here, now, what was it... where did I write that down? Hm...
*Shuffles paper for a while*
Oh, stupid senile me! I don't even OWN a computer!
or
Hello? Hello? Who are you? Why is my phone off the hook? *suddenly "deaf"* I can't hear you! Is anybody there?
Repeat until scammer surrenders.
This used to be great fun, till they started using poorly-programmed robots with atrocious grammar. "We get signal. Somebody set you up the virus. You has no chance but call our service for Great Justice." (Well, not quite that bad, but close.)
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