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Simple solution.....turn your phone OFF. MTG
Vena dura, ocyus occide, excusas non offer!
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I was getting a bunch of soliciting texts, i started just ignoring them, it got worse so I went to texting back "Fuqk Off" after that it was common for them to text back "We will remove you from our list" I get maybe one a month now.
Hum... wondering why you replied to my unsolicited text messages with dick pics. Paul been dicking around with a macro lense again? Literally! LMAO
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Simple solution.....turn your phone OFF. MTG This sounds eerily similar to, "don't have a phone."
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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When the phone rings i look,if it's not on my contact list i will not answer.If it's important they can leave a message.
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When the phone rings i look,if it's not on my contact list i will not answer.If it's important they can leave a message. Boomers don't/can't do that. They think phone calls are important.
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This will fix the sunzabitches!
Wag more, bark less.
The freedoms we surrender today will be the freedoms our grandchildren will never know existed.
The men who wrote the Second Amendment didn't just finish a hunting trip, they just finished liberating a nation.
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I just have all my contacts in my phone by name. If the phone rings and comes up a number instead of a name. I dont answer it.
Im on every do not call list that exists, but I still get about 3 calls per day... +1 and since they never leave a voice mail you know it was a crap call.
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I like it when they tell me that my warranty is about to expire, then they ask what my name is and what I drive.
If I am bored I'll tell them my name is John and I'll go on and on about my 2005 Prius with 500,000 miles.
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I get the car warranty idgits. About 3 a day I tell them I drive a 72 dodge and they hang up but then a new Habib calls back later. Call from a different number every time they call. You can block but it’s like whack a mole. That is exactly what it is like, and why I don't bother blocking the numbers anymore, for that reason. I swear, "no call lists" are sold to the scammers too, so I don't bother with them anymore either.
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Get a hand held, compressed-air boat horn. Stay on until the recording switches you to a live Habib and play him a tune.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
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This will fix the sunzabitches! That should break them from sucking eggs.
Randy NRA Patriot Life Benefactor
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turn your phone OFF for 5 min. and usually they wont be back for a couple months.
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This will fix the sunzabitches! Only if'n there's a human on the other end - I only seem to get machines.
I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I love em as long as I get a live person, if I do they never call back again. Couple weeks ago I had one hang up on me so I called them back, got another one of them in their sweat room, they hung up. After about the 5th call back you could hear folks in the background saying, is that him again. Called back again and they had blocked my number. You just gotta turn the tables on them, I very rarely get calls anymore. I think I've been put on some type of Do Not Call list. 🤣🤣
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Scammers don’t care about the DNC list.
I’ve had 7 calls in the last 3 weeks from the same duct-cleaning company I hired last April for the first time. Since the 2nd call I’ve been asking them to take me off their list. The last three times I followed up with a complaint to the govt dept that is supposed to fine the azzholes. There is a switch on your iPhone settings that silences unknown callers. Set that oo.
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You need to be careful. They could be calling from a different number and when you call the caller ID number they leave your charged a fee. Or you are connected to an innocent person.
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I only answer calls that match numbers in my address book. All the rest can [bleep] off or leave a message
Sam......
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I will occasionally answer a call from an unfamiliar number with "you've reached the federal bureau of investigation. Please hold and an agent will be with you shortly". Hang ups often occur faster than light speed.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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The DNC list is a waste of time, it doesn't do s hit. Best thing is if you don't know the number calling on your caller ID don't answer it. Let the call go to your answer machine they usually don't leave any message. If I'm close to the phone I hit the answer button followed instantly with the hang up button, seems to stop a lot of them because it appears that my number isn't a good one. Works for me.... They've helped me in the past. After I had received many calls from some "cancer research" outfit in the D.C. area with constantly changing phone numers I contacted the "Do Not Call" place and sent the complaint and the list of numbers that I had saved and a week or two later those calls stopped. To be replaced by some Hindi accented guy telling me he worked for the Gov't and to give him my Social Security number. Despicable people, these scammers.
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