Oh c'mon it's FUN to make wierd responses to telemarketers.

The best calls are where they hang up thinking *That was a WIERD call just now*.

My personal best was a man with two personalities having a paersonal argument with eachother (the personalities that is) and then asking the telemarketer to decide who's right/wrong or better/worse etc.

The worst offenders are the auto dialling machines that ring you and there is no one on the other end of the line, reason for this the call centre operator is behind the machine by a good ten calls. This one should be stopped as it can upset old people.

You don't like those, Steed? I love picking up my phone and hearing a voice say "Please hold for the next available operator". If I call you and you put me on hold that's one thing, but if you call me...:hulk:

Problem here steve there is no one at the other end not even a recorded voice.

Yeah what it is doing is checking to see if a human answers the phone instead of an answering machine.

The way to beat it is say hello once then wait until it disconnects. Your number will be listed as no one home at that time.

i tell em to **** off politely, because they're only doing it for the money, nobody enjoys being a telemarketer, at least... i hope nobody does. its a job. if they're persistent or annoying or rude, it's a bigger **** offto them.

It's a horrible bloody job, and I'd love to not be speaking from experience :(