Anonymous wrote:Geez, these are just people working for a living. How about a polite "no thank you" and simply hang up?

Geez, I am just a person minding my own business in my private home not wanting to be disrupted by junk calls.

Because by answering their systems mark your number as 'active' and they will continue to call you back again and again.

Geez, these are just people working for a living. How about a polite "no thank you" and simply hang up?

Anonymous wrote:I give the phone to my 6yo.

Or I pretend I’m a bored weirdo and start inane conversations with them.

I listened to entirely too much Jerky Boys as a high schooler.

I wouldn't do that. The guy who told me I won a billion dollars from publisher's clearing house started swearing at me. I'm sure some of these people would do that to a six year old.

I blow a whistle into the phone with all my might. Keep the whistle near phone just for this use. I am sure it is damaging to the person's hearing but I really could care less. They called me.

Just keep repeating whatever they say back to them. They get super angry and hang up.

Anonymous wrote:Remember how Latka and Simpka spoke on Taxi? I use that voice and that made up language.

E-be-da? Dee-be-da.

Hilarious!!

I used to give the phone to my 3 y/o. He loved it!

Shouting EFF YOU doesn't seem to work unfortunately.

Back when long-distance companies used to call and bug people to switch providers, I replied, "Thank you, but I don't have a phone." She started to accept my response, but then she decided to argue. Whatever she said, I calmly insisted I didn't have a phone. Finally she said, "AHAH! Then how are you talking to me now???" I said, "I'm not." And I hung up.

Remember how Latka and Simpka spoke on Taxi? I use that voice and that made up language.

E-be-da? Dee-be-da.

I did telemarketing in high school. We had to use a script that the company and its attorneys had scripted. I liked to intentionally read the wrong script. So if someone said they weren’t interested, I might read the script for if they had said the person I was calling had died.

“I’m not interested”

“I am incredibly sorry. We didn’t want to bring forward these painful memories. Please, accept my sincere apology.”

It paid for camp.

I give the phone to my 6yo.

Or I pretend I’m a bored weirdo and start inane conversations with them.

I listened to entirely too much Jerky Boys as a high schooler.

I tell the telemarketer that Mr. So and So is not home, and that I can take a message. When they ask who they are speaking with, I tell them that I’m “Mr. So and So’s butler”

Not funny, but there is a delayed answer due to telemarketing software, so a simple: “Hello! Is anyone there? I guess not!” then hang up seems to work.

“Please take me off your list” nor “I am on the no call list” does not seem to be effective.

We got a call from "microsoft" telling us our computer was infected. My DH said, "OMG, which one?", "OMG what am I gonna do?" "OMG is the phone infected too" "OMG is the toilet infected: As I was lmao , "microsoft" HUNG UP!