Yes, I get it. I think you and I have identified 2 good reasons to do this.
I'm not sure why lurker is finding this juvenile, malicious, or pathetic? Maybe this is the only outside contact some people get and they don't want it to stop, is the reasoning?
moi621 (imported) wrote: Thu May 20, 2010 2:39 pm
Losethem, the motivation is to, fight back for my right to privacy.
I have no need to be hostile to anyone, not even people I don't know who are just trying to make a living.
Ultimately these misdeeds just end up increasing the prices in associated businesses and as we know, shit rolls down hill.
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do that thing.
Unwanted calls: "Excuse me, I'm not interested" and I hang up.
Unwanted mail: I don't even think about it, it just goes in the trash. They have a right to send it, and i have a right to not read it.
To intentionally try to cause harm to their businesses is wrong on multiple levels. Karma will show you, but you'll be so busy feeling bad about whatever bad thing just happened to you, you won't be able to see where it came from.
To intentionally try to cause harm to their businesses is wrong on multiple levels. Karma will show you, but you'll be so busy feeling bad about whatever bad thing just happened to you, you won't be able to see where it came from.
MY HOME
MY CASTLE
Knock, mail or otherwise invade at your own risk or by MY invitation.
Trash mail is one thing phone calls are yet another,
Think about this for a second,
We pay good money so that somebody else can call us and disturb us usually at the worst possible time.
My solution, junk mail gets trashed unless its abusive meaning I get it over and over from the same place. Then I send it back until is stops it does not usually take to many for them to stop. Phone is yet another thing, today I have a cell phone, only a couple have the number, and if I am busy when it rings oh well.
But
This does remind me of something that with phones that happened years ago. I was not yet married and did not have any kids, when I got a call from Kinder Photo, I told the nice lady I was not married and had no kids so please take me off your list. 6 weeks went by and I another call, told them the same thing, this went on for months until I finally said, yes, and then asked do you come out to the house? yes we do was the answer, so I set it up for the following Saturday, it was Aug, no parking on Saturday at the place I lived, full of apts. Then I asked if they had backgrounds, YES again, at this point I was starting to really enjoy myself. So on Saturday the guy would show up at my house to take a picture of my (daughter) and bring outfits, backgrounds, (princes or cowgirl) I never know which she will like the best, and it was set. So on Saturday about 10 I was mowing my law when I see this guy get out of his car half a block away, he has tubes, camera cases, tripods, he is loaded for bear. He finally gets to my house and I stop the mower and ask if I could help him. He says who he is and that he is looking for me to take pictures of my daughter, I look at him and say "I am sorry, there must be some mistake, I don't have a daughter, I am not even married" he is pissed but not at me, he says he is sorry, and starts to head back out, when I say to him "and when you get back to your office you will tell them to take me off there damn phone list."
I never got another call from them.
Now you may not approve of my method, but...........
I try to keep my sadistic side under control, so when phone solicitors call I tell them politelly that I am not interested and try not to take their time. But sometimes they don't want to take that for an answer. Those I consider fair game. And I got this from an ex telephone solicitor. The key fact is that they are paid purely on commission, so they don't care if you are rude or yell at them or whatever. If you aren't going to buy they only want to get on to the next person who may buy. So if they don't want to take a simple no for an answer, I get comfortable and play "See how long I can keep the telemarketer on." I let them get me saying "yes" "Yes it sounds like a good bargain." "Yes I can see how it could be usefull" right up until they ask for my credit card, when I tell them "No, I don't think I'm interested." This will fluster him. Often he will begin his spiel again, "Yes" "Yes" "Yes" "Sorry I don't think I'm interested." Once I kept one going through his spiel four times before he completely lost it.
The Lurker (imported) wrote: Fri May 21, 2010 3:21 pm
Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should do that thing.
Unwanted calls: "Excuse me, I'm not interested" and I hang up.
Unwanted mail: I don't even think about it, it just goes in the trash. They have a right to send it, and i have a right to not read it.
To intentionally try to cause harm to their businesses is wrong on multiple levels. Karma will show you, but you'll be so busy feeling bad about whatever bad thing just happened to you, you won't be able to see where it came from.
When you put it in these words, I think you have a point.
No one is invading your home. I am sure you are on the do not call list, which works just fine for me, so I will presume that it works fine for you as well.
Sales flyers from any marketing company that come in the mail are no invasion of your home and certainly not your privacy, as it's just a piece of paper that can easily be ignored. Your suggestions, here-to-fore, that you are somehow defending yourself and your home ring completely hollow and smack of bravado. It is neither honorable nor fulfilling to pick on someone who cannot fight back.
Your posts (on various subjects) seem to me to be made to make you feel more important than you might actually be. Perhaps if you invested your time in helping others (vs tearing them down) you might actually become important and no longer need to paint yourself as a mailbox martyr.
Windmills were the imaginary enemy of Don Quixote, when in reality they were simply grinding wheat into flour, something otherwise productive. Not everyone can eat wheat, but there is no reason for someone with a gluten allergy to attack the windmill, as others may suffer at the loss of the mill.
Think, Man, think. Are you really doing anything productive with these childlike anonymous postal attacks? I doubt it, and perhaps you could even be doing some grave injustice that you are not even aware of...
made me do it
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made me do it