A week ago I got a call from a random Ohio number. I always answer phone calls so the first time they called I picked up. It was some company called Nielsen doing research so I told him to frick off and went about my day.
Well, later that day, I got a call from the same number. Ignored. Next day, more calls. The next day, again more calls. This week has been very busy for me between work, friends and religious obligations so we never got in touch. Whatever, they'll stop calling at some point.
Today I was taking a very nice and well-deserved shabbos nap when a call tore me from my sleep.
Hello sir, this is Nielsen Radio Ratings and we're doing a survey....
B-WORD I exclaimed You need to take my number off your list. This survey is entirely pointless as I do not listen to radio. Frick off and don't call me again whatever low level wagie is receives my ire will certainly duck out politely and meekly, seething impotently, I thought to myself
Hohoho, sir. the voice of a middle aged michelle obama esque non-filipino BIPOCette boomed out you don't understand how LUCKY you are to be called by us. We are not telemarketers, we're Nielsen, blah blah blah
Hmm... a telemarketer plowing through concerted opposition? And an American? A black woman not responding to disrespect with more disrespect? The heck is going on here? I took another tack.
You realise I will sabotage your survey results in every way maam I neither care what Nielsen is nor listen to radio
Sir this is so IMPORTANT because your answers will DETERMINE what programming the radio carries! If you want or need something, programming, music, emergency alerts, let us know and they'll add it! We can't call every single person in the U.S. so your answers will have an outsize effect, blah blah blah
At this point my 128 IQ gigabrain (2280 SAT, 35 ACT, 130 CARS on the MCAT) was already forecasting and analyzing levels beyond what this dumb groid was telling me. Clearly Nielsen - as I half remembered - was some kind of wealthy agency that did media research and - I determined - had enough funds to hire Americans with a modicum of conversational ability and salesmanship. How could I get these persistent c*nts to stop calling me?* As the sheboon babbled I hung up, knowing it would not solve my problem.
* I did not and will not block them as I have never in my life blocked anyone from any platform and refuse to do so
The next place to look: reddit Google turned up this thread
Surely redditors - who abhor all social interaction - have received similar calls and have somehow, annoyed and angry, found a way or magic keyword to get them to stop
NOT ONLY have these dumb fricks NOT gotten them to stop they let themselves get roped into taking the PHYSICAL SURVEY for the grand monthly total of....
Some are able to jew it up to
The ones whose greed for less money than a small black coffee at the crab shack gets them to spend 5+ minutes on a survey are pathetic enough but then I found the ones that do it for free
Then you got this absolute bottom of the barrel specimen who's proud of being ~*~ special ~*~ enough to get a gold star for tracking his braindead consoomption
This is the saga so far. Anyone with ideas for either:
non-blocking solutions to the (((nielsen))) menace
ways to frick with the next telemarketer
Let me know and I'll do it
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Timeless classic. So prod
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Play porn loudly in the background and answer the survey as if you weren’t. If asked, say you’re in an orgy.
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You don’t watch porn in an orgy. You listen too Miley Cyrus really loud
Trans lives matter
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R-slur.
THE PORN IS THERE TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE YOU ARE IN AN ORGY.
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That's why he needs to play porn on one set of speakers and Miley Cyrus on another.
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forward their calls to some expensive psychic or s*x hotline
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Don't know how to do
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something like this: https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/home-phone/calling-features/use-selective-call-forwarding-to-send-specific-calls-to-another.html
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Freak
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I was on this several years ago and totally worth it. They sent me a few bucks to open the initial envelope and it promised five or ten if I sent back a quick demographics form. Then with that payment they offered me $50 to do the actual survey. Thick book, but they key was, all the questions were like "What AM radio stations do you listen to?" "What newspapers do you read ON PAPER NO INTERNET?" "What broadcast TV stations do you watch NO CABLE NO STREAMING?" so I could completely honestly zip through saying "none of the above" to almost everything and get my $50 in five minutes. I did this three or four times, recommend. Then I guess they got bored of me and I never heard from them again so this also seems to get rid of them.
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The radio doesn’t have enough jinx thinker. Make her look it up so she knows what to add to the radio
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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Who listens to radio any more?
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I like to listen to Dave Ramsey
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Yea once Rush Limbaugh died there was literally no point
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we have an actually funny sports radio in my city
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Neilsen is part of American history. They got the original Star Trek cancelled- have some fricking respect.
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Nielsen has sent me about $20 over the years to do their survey. I've always kept the cash and never sent the survey.
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@Newfriend have a secret and very simple technique for making telemarketers frick off - after doing it for about half a year @Newfriend have reduced junk calls from several per week too about once a month if that
How too do it: when you get a call from a telemarketer or any unknown number, pick up the phone and put you're mic on mute. Stay on the line until the other person hangs up (unless you can discern it is a legitimate call). After a few times they will permanently drop you from their call list as they assume you're number is inactive.
This applies for robocalls as well, when you press a keypad number when prompted it tells the robocaller there is a real person behind that number. Even if they put you on their DNC list they will sell you're number too other telemarketers that do the same thing.
Trans lives matter
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How do you "put your mic on mute" on a cell phone
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neighbor how old is your fricking phone?
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I skimmed your post, just waste their time when they call you. Make then block you if you don’t want to block them for whatever reason
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I'm tired of perpetual victims whining on the Internet.
Go play Call of Duty or something, you mong.
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Hmm so you would say you were victimized by this post then
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You've shirley got me on the ropes now..
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You misspelled surely r-slur
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Nope.
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Sorry r-slur, Shirley is a women's name. Surely means something is definite.
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Shirley can also be - and often is - subjective.
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beats the CDC calling you once a month. I made the mistake of taking a call from them once and they haven't stopped trying to steal my health data.
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Never answer glowBIPOC calls
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This is your chance to make radio better. Tell them you want/only listen to metal
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I thought this post was headed somewhere then it stopped pulpfiction_travolta.gif
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lol, lmao, kek even
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I like the really crisp bills and try hard to send in the surveys but I always forget. I feel bad because as a kid I always dreamed of being a Nielsen household, that was royalty in the 90s.
Is 35 ACT only around 128 IQ? Asking for a friend.
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my entire highschool thought I cheated when they found out i got a 35 lol
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Idk my verbal and spatial's excellent; mathematic just above average
Never took a full IQ test only the shit online ones
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!slots100
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Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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Didn’t read but @HailVictory1776 got $10 cash in the mail by responding too the survey Jewish lives matter
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lol wait the family man episode was real??
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Insert their number into "win free stuff" websites, so they'll spam their phone and mail them worthless products.
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GOOD advice
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I get a survey in the mail from Nielsen like once every 5 years where they’ll send you a dollar and if you take an online survey they’ll send you another $20 or whatever.
I did it once and it was just vague and generic questions like how many people live in your house, do you have the internet, watch TV, etc.
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