Solicitors

[Grumble]

Whenever I ring Curvy I get a message saying hang up if you are solicitor.

It is a good thing I am not a legal practitioner as in Australia they are known as Barristers & Solicitors.

Is this a shot at the Legal profession perhaps LOL.

Actually it sucks all this telemarketing, very invasive and unwelcome. My stock answer is that I will not buy anything over the phone unless I make the call so they are wasting their time with me.

[Oldfart]

When I'm off to my favourite bar, does that make me a barrister?

[Grumble]

of course mate

[Teddy Bear]

We get alot of phone call sales pitches. They are so annoying!

I try to think of responses that go along with what thier selling..... Several places have called about re-mortgaging. I say, 'oh I need another mortgage since the bank is repossesing my house claiming I didn't pay on the first one.' For people selling windows; 'I have no windows in my house because I hate sunlight.' The vacume guy gets; 'Vacume? What is that? I don't trust those new-fangled things.' And so on....... ;) :D

[osuche]

<--- Has an unpublished number and rarely if ever gets them

[LixyChick]

There's a "no call" list you can get on...but it doesn't stop your credit card companies from calling. They've actually farmed out the telemarketing biz to other countries...and they teach the solicitors the "American accent and slang" so we aren't put off by the calls. Poor East Indians (one example)...they have no idea how much this has been bugging us and they just think we're extremely rude when we say such things as, "Gimme your phone number and I'll call YOU at home when I have more time to talk"!

I want that recording that Curvy has on her line! You're exactly right Grumble! If I want more insurance...I'll make the call! I don't sit by the phone and hope that an insurance agent will call me! Geezzzzzzzzzz! It's a ludicrous business!

[celticangel]

Had a phone call from a company wanting to sell me a conservatory~~~~~~I stay one up!!~~~~~funny~~~they didn't make any on stilts!

[Oldfart]

As a shift worker, I sleep till 1PM on night shift.

If my SO hasn't done her bounden duty and killed the bedroom phone,

sometimes I am less than wonderful with these interruptions.

Not rude, just remind the caller that I've had 3 hrs sleep and had been

aiming for 8.

Wouldn't be a telemarketer for quids.

[scotzoidman]

What I hate is that now that we have the "no-call" list, they get around it by having a recording give you the sales pitch...I can't even be rude & verbaly abusive to them now...

[jseal]

Gentlefolk,

Does anyone know how the meanings diverge from what I presume was a common origin?

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by jseal
Gentlefolk,

Does anyone know how the meanings diverge from what I presume was a common origin?
Sir jseal,

As an envoy without good breeding or of good family, I can only hazard a hypothesis.

My un-researched assumption would be that the evolution occurs by the inverse of the convention that originally spawned them. As human motions and vocals utterances developed amidst each regional group as a mutually functional communication method, it escalated as cultural and technology increased. Upon reaching an apex where the sustenance producers were able to support a hierarchy that had the leisure to ethnocentrically determine the acceptable method of communication for the lesser, the paradigm was established.

It would seem a flagrant disregard for the elite edict, in favor or function, generates such deviations.



:fly:

[LixyChick]

Um...

Oh nevermind! I ain't touching that ^^^ with a ten foot Pixie pole!

LOL!

[Steph]

ROFL PF

[jseal]

PantyFanatic,

While I can’t quite bring myself to disagree with your post, I think it might fit better in the “Bizarre spam” thread.

Still, one must take the bitter with the sweet, so have at it sir!

[Oldfart]

Well done PF.

jseal, a solicitor was one who solicited business for his boss,

the barrister. The barrister was licensed to appear in court and and was

normally too busy to chase customers. His flunky did this.

Evolution of roles had the solicitor becoming more professional, so he

in turn needed a flunky, an articled clerk.

Next thing we'll be begging the tea-lady to arrange a land title transfer

or to write up a writ against someone.

[jseal]

Oldfart,

Thank you sir. Helpful and courteous. That would describe some of Sir Joseph’s ascent. At the risk of again providing a target, what would be a “pocket borough”?

[Vigil]

Do you ever wonder how many strains of human evolution there have been or indeed which planet you are on?

[Grumble]

the little speal of pf's reminded me of a british TV series called Yes Minister

Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent Civil Servant Secretary of the Department for Government Minister, Jim Hacker, often would quote impressive but meaningless verbiage similar to PF's :)

[Sharni]

Originally posted by Grumble
Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent Civil Servant Secretary of the Department for Government Minister, Jim Hacker, often would quote impressive but meaningless verbiage similar to PF's :)
There be a few here with that talent *LMAO*

[BIBI]

omg...loved that show :)

[Vigil]

It is re-running in the UK at the moment - and I really do think that it deserves the tag "classic".

I am sure it is available on BBC Video.

[BIBI]

It is re-running in the UK at the moment - and I really do think that it deserves the tag "classic".

I am sure it is available on BBC Video.

:) It has be re-running here on a regular basis for years, along with the other British "classics"....

Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served and Some Mothers Do Have 'Em