You can always tap your phone on a hard surface a few times to wake up the telemarketers.
Or start screaming somewhere near your phone that you’re suddenly in the market for a new house or changing your brand of pet food, and just sit back and waste the time of all the marketing and scam calls you get.
I pretended to be brutally murdered while on the phone with a scam caller.
bloody gurgling screams and all.
you’d think they would be more sympathetic but hung up after shouting, “fuk u!”
I bet they angrily pushed their disconnect button and were only left with the ringing in their ear.
I answer all unknown callers with “Thank you for calling State Department of Telephone Fraud Investigations, how may I direct your call?” and they tend to hang up lightning fast and not call back for some reason
This was so unbelievably satisfying….Fuck you! SLAM … brrring …SLAM … brrring … over and over again
If you had a Touch Tone phone, you could hold any button while on a call and the noise would annoy sales callers, or the creepy heavy breathers that would call.
Also, each button was a combination of 2 frequencies, each row and each column had a certain frequency. So, each button was a combination of those two.
But, if you pushed two buttons on the same row, or two buttons in the same column, you could get a single “note”. So, you could play very basic tunes.
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
“…so, anyway, as i was say–”
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP
“…”
A good hang-up and slam was just poetic.
They still sell land line phones.
Yup! Most are office phones and don’t make the most satisfying part. When you made the bell on the phone ring you slammed it so hard.
I use a desk phone every day in my office.
Indeed it was, but I’m also happy to be alive these days, now that’s it’s very rare to call someone and when it’s normal not to pick up because you hate being on the phone with someone. Most calls are scammers and telemarketing anyway. Text me and come over if you want to have a conversation.
Back in the days when you could dial numbers using the hook. Great for those taxi phones in supermarkets that had the keypad covered over.
And you could mumble what an <insult> they are afterwards.
I had a friend that would do this regardless of the phone call he had even if it was a pleasant one. It was pretty comical.
I just imagine you having a slightly heated phone call with someone then as you say your goodbyes you hear a loud bang of their expensive iPhone being slammed followed by the shattering of a glass table and the phone screen then you barely make out the words
bitch
The boomers are arriving.
lmao. no, mostly gen x and millennials. boomers are stuck on Facebook and xitter.
You can tell because they post a screenshot style image with some random comment. The community it basically a dumping ground for anything they thought was funny. No one wants to spend a little extra time to make a meme.
I miss the memes on Reddit but I’m not good enough to make anything worth posting.
Back when we used to *69 everyone’s mom.
I used to take the order for food deliveries They had usually mis-dialed so I’d never hear from them again. I’d offer extras too just to jazz it up a bit
I got the 2024 moto razr+ flr my work phone when ATT had it on sale for almost nothing since nobody was buying them
I’d forgotten how satisfying it was to hang up by snapping the phone shut.
might be exagerating the value of this
Oof, this speaks to me. I hang up on marketing calls 3-4 times a week, and boy this does sound way more satisfying than just tapping a touchscreen.
I’ve found that playing porn very loudly when marketers call is a good way to get added to the Do Not Call list very quickly.
There’s a pizza place in the nearby city that has almost the same number as mine, there’s just one number difference. For the last few years I’ve been answering numbers I don’t know as the pizza place. When they ask for me I act frustrated and say,
“look I’ll tell you what I tell all the other telemarketers, you bought a bad list and got the number for a pizza place. “my name” doesn’t work here, and never has. Now do me a favor and drop this number, I’m getting sick of giving this speech 10 times a day”.
If they haven’t hung up by that point, which they usually have, I say have a good day then hang up. I’ve noticed my spam calls have significantly dropped off after starting this, maybe it’s coincidence and they’re dropping my number because it’s not generating income, but just in case it is working I’m going to keep doing it.
