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Tubgoat posted:For how long??? Until you make Diamond. In other words ToxicSlurpee posted:Forever.
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Last Visible Dog posted:I found this from the last time that book got brought up in this thread. God this is loving depressing. I hope this was never given to a single child in earnest. That said - 
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Dec 6, 2019 07:13
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Beaten so hard she can’t even open her eye, awful to see.
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Depressio111117 posted:God this is loving depressing. I hope this was never given to a single child in earnest. That said - I know that this was a weird illustrative style that was popular in 93-94, but I hate anybody that thinks it's enjoyable. Like fingernails on a chalkboard, but instead my eyes.
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The poor kid passes out every other page. Maybe the author isn't a lazy hack who can't think of another way to end a scene, and it's really about the dangers of undiagnosed childhood narcolepsy.
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Also weird: The book says she's lying in bed at the hotel with her little nephew in the next bed. Yet the only mention of her sisters is that they come home from college. And there's no mention of any sister's husband. So, like, did one pop out a bastard kid in high school, or...? Speaking of school, does this poor kid even go to school, what with all the traveling around to conferences and poo poo? This book is disturbing as hell.
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Dec 8, 2019 16:04
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Like most northern europeans, I'm being swamped with retarded rear end crank callers from India and Africa. Any idea how to stop it?
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Dec 8, 2019 20:30
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Tias posted:Like most northern europeans, I'm being swamped with retarded rear end crank callers from India and Africa. Any idea how to stop it? It's 2019, why are you till answering the phone?
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Dec 8, 2019 20:33
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FrozenVent posted:It's 2019, why are you till answering the phone?
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read that title enough times, and it becomes, "Just Wait 'til We're Doomed." e: I've read a lot of children's books from the public library over the last five years, and a lot of them are as aimed at programming parents, not just kids. They often read something like, "Missy was upset. Dad didn't lose his temper or ask her to calm down. He just sat down next to her and gave her a hug and waited patiently for her to stop crying. And you know what? It worked!" This book reads exactly like that, aimed at establishing a norm of behavior, and coloring the "old" family versus the "new" family, and it's aimed right at both the child and the adult reading the book to the child. It's cult literature. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Dec 8, 2019 |
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Dec 8, 2019 20:45
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doctorfrog posted:read that title enough times, and it becomes, "Just Wait 'til We're Doomed."
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Dec 8, 2019 20:48
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Sweet jesus, dude's illustrating an MLM pyramid on one of the pages:
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doctorfrog posted:Sweet jesus, dude's illustrating an MLM pyramid on one of the pages: Yes. The book is literally pyramid scheme propaganda. Why is this a surprise.
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Dec 8, 2019 21:09
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doctorfrog posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJSvCQmoCx4
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Midjack posted:Yes. My expression was mostly at the baldness of the expression, but also at my realization that this book's purpose includes inuring a child against things like seeing the pyramid as a pyramid, or neglect as neglect. (Say to any MLM dude, "That sounds like a pyramid scheme," and see what they say. They'll be ready for that, and maybe even believe their handling of your objection.) Soften's 'em right up as the next generation of suckers. It's dismaying.
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Tias posted:Like most northern europeans, I'm being swamped with retarded rear end crank callers from India and Africa. Any idea how to stop it? Mine finally got so bad that I set my phone to send everything to VM unless they’re in my contacts. I’m in the US though. It’s bad everywhere. One thing that’s good about it is I haven’t lived in the area code that I have for my phone for 12 years, and all the scammers spoof your area code, so I see 319 I know it’s safe to ignore but if I see 775 (where I live now) it’s usually legit.
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doctorfrog posted:Sweet jesus, dude's illustrating an MLM pyramid on one of the pages: Mitch gazes on benignly. Yes, yes....
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bird with big dick posted:One thing that’s good about it is I haven’t lived in the area code that I have for my phone for 12 years, and all the scammers spoof your area code, so I see 319 I know it’s safe to ignore but if I see 775 (where I live now) it’s usually legit. I’ve noticed they’ve started branching out into area codes that are geographic neighbors (example for me: I have a 503 number, and I’m starting to get auto dialed scams from 541 and 971, all Oregon area codes).
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Dec 9, 2019 01:46
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I've also seen them use area codes that are nowhere near me. I've never lived in Florida, and nobody I know has either, but I've gotten robocalls with Florida area codes.
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Dec 9, 2019 01:48
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bird with big dick posted:
This really is a great, completely unexpected perk of my old-rear end phone number. Even if it isn’t spam, I sure as hell don’t want to talk to anyone from my hometown!
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Dec 9, 2019 01:52
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Haifisch posted:I've also seen them use area codes that are nowhere near me. I've never lived in Florida, and nobody I know has either, but I've gotten robocalls with Florida area codes. It's even better when you live in Florida. Got one from my own number the other day, wtf. Somehow going to Polk county (so, Lakeland) invites a bunch of scam calls as well. I'm 34 and in decent health, the Social Security Administration doesn't give a poo poo about me, why would I need to verify my SS# and name? My fifteen year old vehicle is well past any extended warranty period (those ones go straight to voice-mail). I've also gotten two voice mails in what I've figured out is Hmong Daw, despite the username I'm whitebread as gently caress. This is all during the past three days of driving two counties over to work in Polk county. The person I've been working with out there gets upwards of twenty scam calls a day. Preying on the elderly and people with limited English skills (or both), bra-loving-vo.
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Dec 9, 2019 02:30
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Bold entrepreneurship
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bird with big dick posted:One thing that’s good about it is I haven’t lived in the area code that I have for my phone for 12 years, and all the scammers spoof your area code, so I see 319 I know it’s safe to ignore but if I see 775 (where I live now) it’s usually legit. I'm getting 4-5 calls a week and the number looks like it's not only the same area code as me, but the same prefix as my cell carrier. On a lark, I called one back and got the "this number is not accepting calls at this time" message. Yeah, legit.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'm getting 4-5 calls a week and the number looks like it's not only the same area code as me, but the same prefix as my cell carrier. On a lark, I called one back and got the "this number is not accepting calls at this time" message. They're spoofing phone numbers that are in your same area code and sub-group, I once got a robocall from myself!
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Dec 10, 2019 00:20
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The monotony of calls spoofed from my area code was broken last month when I got a call from a stranger telling me that he had been spoof-called by my number. (Not that I could do anything about it, but I appreciated getting junk voicemails from a well-intentioned human rather than a robot.)
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When I was talking to my mom over Thanksgiving, she said she'd gotten several spam phonecalls over the past couple months from someone spoofing my dad's and my sister's cell numbers. I guess there's databases out there that correlate people into their families, so it doesn't seem like it would be difficult to figure out which phone numbers someone likely has in their contacts list, and would therefore be more likely to be answered. But it would seem like if your spouse calls and then instead of them it's some telemarketer wanting to consolidate your debt or whatever, that the telemarketer's success rate would be a lot lower than it would otherwise be, due to the call recipient being extra pissed at the telemarketer for pulling a fast one.
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But if they don't answer, that's a 0% chance of making a sale!
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You can never go broke banking on people's capacity to do stupid things when their defenses are down. I once misdiailed an airline by one digit and got a call center worker who tried to sell me a vacation package. I thought "what the hell, I didn't come here on purpose but might as well see what they have to say" and listened to them for far longer than I should have (which was zero).
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Mister Kingdom posted:I'm getting 4-5 calls a week and the number looks like it's not only the same area code as me, but the same prefix as my cell carrier. On a lark, I called one back and got the "this number is not accepting calls at this time" message.
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She seems dumb you should have tried to scam her
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It's funny how like three in the last ten posts have talked about people getting spoofed calls from their own number. The thread is spoofing posts from itself.
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It's funny how like three in the last ten posts have talked about people getting spoofed calls from their own number. The thread is spoofing posts from itself.
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Soricidus posted:It's funny how like three in the last ten posts have talked about people getting spoofed calls from their own number.
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When they spoof your own number, they really should lean into why everyone who answers does so - the hope that it’s a call from themselves from the future. Steve, it’s you from 2023. Everything is going great man, but I tell you one thing - you really need to buy these dick pills.
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bird with big dick posted:She seems dumb you should have tried to scam her  +
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EL BROMANCE posted:When they spoof your own number, they really should lean into why everyone who answers does so - the hope that it’s a call from themselves from the future. woah
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In the future, everything is paid in late 2010’s Apple iTunes gift cards. Send me $10,000 now and we’ll be millionaires when you get to 2030!!
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EL BROMANCE posted:When they spoof your own number, they really should lean into why everyone who answers does so - the hope that it’s a call from themselves from the future. Wouldn't Steve know already that he need dick pills? And future self would reassure Steve that buying THOSE dick pills was the right decision? You are not made out to be a telemarketer, sorry.
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EL BROMANCE posted:When they spoof your own number, they really should lean into why everyone who answers does so - the hope that it’s a call from themselves from the future. I love this pitch.
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Dunno-Lars posted:You are not made out to be a telemarketer, sorry. The nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.
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