To be annoyed

Annobel Your plan to tell phone caller that you are dead gave me a good laugh.
Thanks and goodnight.

Do your callers from India always ask for "Mrs Porter"? They asked a friend if she was Mrs Porter too; perhaps they are lonely souls really searching!! I asked what kind of emergency were they ringing about today which made them splutter then hang up!

I was planning to tell Virgo Home Improvements that I'm dead if they call me again. But might that be a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Quite right, jeni it's not a bad thing to let off steam. We've had two nuisance calls today. My husband often responds with...'Mr so and so is in prison. I'm minding his missus...' That tends to shut the caller up

Grrrrrrrrrrrr!
Now not content with telephone calls I am having almost daily visits from Mark surveys wanting to know about my energy consumption and am I being funded properly?
The next one will get a most unladylike reply, mainly of words starting with the earlier letters of the alphabet! Followed by -off!

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But you're a very good sheep dog shepherd! Vodka-flavoured grass and all that...

I'll go and sulk

Baa!

I know ...it's hard to believe isn't it!

Me?

Wow ...I've kust tracked through all of this as I didn't understand Bluesky posting about food when all the threads above had been about unwanted telephone calls!!

It was that jeni ... right back in January who posted a cooment nothing to do with the on-going thread!! and we all followed like sheep

So going right back to the original post numberplease ...is your OH eating any better? or have you just adjusted to the situation?

Numberplease, please let your DH decide for himself what and how much he wants to eat. I find that there's nothing more irritating than people trying to force feed you, the same goes for kids, I feel sorry when they aren't allowed pudding just because they haven't finished their main meal, as I eat exactly what I want when I want. You could ask him what he fancies eating before cooking so not to get annoyed by the wasted effort, also do ask him if he's feeling ok, as he could have some undiagnosed condition.

I have been away for 48 hours and just checked the missed calls, six, all cold, callers even though we are with TPS. Another four calls were from numbers we barred so the phone would not have actually rung. At the beginning of the week I had one from a builder who said they were working in the area and noticed we needed work doing. I told him "you are not working in the area or you would be able to see that I have just had the house rebuilt" phone slammed down !

Like the hooter idea! . I have also found it quite effective to say nothing when I pick up the receiver if it's an "out of area" call. That way, if it is a machine dialling from a call centre, the call will cut out when it hears no human voice. If it's a 'proper' caller, they will speak: "Hello?" and you can go from there, but the silent pickup deals with the majority of nuisance calls, I find. You can warn your family and friends.

Elegran I now have a funny cartoon image in my head of you blasting a vevusala up your chimney and lots of sooty pigeon feathers fluttering down on you!!

I think I shall play the harp(which needs tuning) at the next one!

Keep a loud hooter beside the phone. I got a couple of good ones at the time of the World Cup in Africa. Useful for hooting up the chimney at roosting pigeons. Cover you ears when hooting or you will be unable to hear the phone when next it rings.

Fourth call, Indian voice name Joshua, lifestyle survey. Same as last one.
He may have brought down the walls of Jericho, but not mine!
I'm getting really angry now! Usually I'm fair.y laid back but this is getting my choler roused

Forgot to add, it did not appear on the list of incoming calls. Call from nowhere. S
Which should I call in, a hacking expert or an exorcist?

Yesterday I had a very odd call. It came up on the caller identification as being from Bedroom 1. Our phones can act as an intercom so we have one in the bedroom and it is number one on the list of extensions. DH was downstairs so bedroom empty, but I answered it and said hello to see what was going on.

Caller sounded surprised that anyone answered, but gave his name when asked. I could hear a kind of call centre noise n the background so assume that it was an automatic dialling system.

Three phone calls today. Two silent, one wanting me to take part in a survey. Yesterday I had (yet again) the call about viruses on my computer.
I'm fed up!

This is mentioned on these threads:-

AIBU To be annoyed
TECH STUFF Phone calls from India
TECH STUFF Strange phone call...

Just cross-referencing.
I'll bump the other threads to get them up the list.

We are on TPS, but unfortunately it only stops calls from within the UK, can`t stop all the foreign ones, of which we get several a day.