Companies that keep cold-calling my aged in-laws (despite them having TPS).
They (particularly F-i-L) are too open, honest and polite to accept that a caller (a complete stranger) might be trying to con them out of money (.. "I like to trust people until they prove that I shouldn't"..). They think it is rude not to answer the phone when it rings and also won't hang-up or interrupt cold-callers.
They are not stupid or ignorant - they just do not accept that there are strangers out there who will use underhand tactics to con money out of anybody. All very worrying when we are so far away. We can only advise them not to answer the phone if they don't know whose calling or to hang up - but they won't do that...
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
I found the ultimate answer to cold calling on my old business line, I removed the telephone and only use it for the internet. The annoying time wasting idiots can ring it all day now if they like. We use to ask them for the name of the company, managing director and postal address, when asked 'why' we would say it was so we could send a bill for the wasted time. One soon found out how 'polite' they are when they slammed the phone down.
Don't like Marmite but love Vegemite on my toast I'm not a veggie.
Can margarine go in butter or nothing here!
Any room for an old electric fan heater circa 1963 and and old tape recorder with spools and ribbons found today at Mum's Think I could fill 101 from today's exploring
Love Marmite, have it for breakfast nearly everyday.
I think among the most awful are those crooks who send letters to elderly people telling them they will win thousands of pounds if they send a cheque for £15 or so to enter the prize draw. I know an elderly lady who got so many she spent all morning writing cheques and spent all her pension.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Both! Children who throw abuse have learnt it somewhere, so when I see parents swearing or shouting blue murder at their children really makes me angry. I'm not a judgemental person and I know kids can be a right pain in the bum sometimes, but there's no need to eff and blind in their faces.
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Companies that keep cold-calling my aged in-laws (despite them having TPS)
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They (particularly F-i-L) are too open, honest and polite to accept that a caller (a complete stranger) might be trying to con them out of money (.. "I like to trust people until they prove that I shouldn't"..). They think it is rude not to answer the phone when it rings and also won't hang-up or interrupt cold-callers.
They are not stupid or ignorant - they just do not accept that there are strangers out there who will use underhand tactics to con money out of anybody. All very worrying when we are so far away. We can only advise them not to answer the phone if they don't know whose calling or to hang up - but they won't do that..
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I found the ultimate answer to cold calling on my old business line, I removed the telephone and only use it for the internet. The annoying time wasting idiots can ring it all day now if they like. We use to ask them for the name of the company, managing director and postal address, when asked 'why' we would say it was so we could send a bill for the wasted time. One soon found out how 'polite' they are when they slammed the phone down.
Don't like Marmite but love Vegemite on my toast
I'm not a veggie.
Can margarine go in
butter or nothing here!
Any room for an old electric fan heater circa 1963 and and old tape recorder with spools and ribbons found today at Mum's
Think I could fill 101 from today's exploring 
Marmite, i agree too, yuk
Love Marmite, have it for breakfast nearly everyday.
I think among the most awful are those crooks who send letters to elderly people telling them they will win thousands of pounds if they send a cheque for £15 or so to enter the prize draw. I know an elderly lady who got so many she spent all morning writing cheques and spent all her pension.
I would throw in...
People who snog eachother in public places- I'm sorry, kissing is fine but leave the sucking face for the bedroom please
Russell Brand
Traffic Jams
People who take advantage of others to forward their own selfish gains
Christmas Shoppers
People who scream and swear in children's faces
Snobs
Food marked as healthy and low fat when they're full of sugar and fatty stuff!!!!
Student finance!!!
USB sticks- never use them anymore!
People who tell me "I just don't understand life" because I don't have children... grrrrr!
Both! Children who throw abuse have learnt it somewhere, so when I see parents swearing or shouting blue murder at their children really makes me angry. I'm not a judgemental person and I know kids can be a right pain in the bum sometimes, but there's no need to eff and blind in their faces.
I love marmite so I'm fetching it out of the room. Soz
If I didn't, what would Busy and I have on our toast? 