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While I was reading this fairly long post by @Sinapse (https://tokyoadultguide.com/threads/talking-to-a-woman-wearing-headphones.12267/#post-80206) in @User#16452 's thread (https://tokyoadultguide.com/threads/talking-to-a-woman-wearing-headphones.12267/), I received two unrelated phone calls which interrupt me for a few moments each and caused me to briefly lose the train of his argument. It was also annoying because neither call was from anyone I know or to whom I wished to speak nor did they concern matters of any interest at all to me. Of course, I had no problem at all letting the callers know that I did not wish to speak with them. Indeed, I said nothing but "hello" and then hung up the phone as soon as the caller had spoken a sentence or so that allowed me to identify it as a telemarketing call. Still, I would very much have preferred not to get the calls at all...just minor but bothersome and useless invasions of my privacy by strangers trying to get what they wanted (my money).
The account above is completely true, btw, not made up for the sake of this post. Very ironic I think, but definitely true.
Now you might think me excessively prickly to mention, or even notice and recall, such tiny irritations IF those two calls had been rare events, but of course as anyone who lives in a country plagued by telemarketing knows very well, those two calls were very much NOT isolated little hassles. Rather they were just routine examples of the constant barrage of such calls that one receives pretty much every single day and at many hours of the day and evening (usually in the range of 9am-9pm or so). Very often they interrupt an activity rather more significant than reading TAG (if you can imagine that). Some are what they represent themselves to be, sales pitches for some product or service delivered to random phone numbers, some are sales pitches disguised as something else (e.g., a survey), and some are deliberate attempts to scam whoever answers the phone in one way or another. They are widely regarded as one of the most unwelcome and unpleasant forms of commercial solicitations (i.e., advertising) and are generally despised by nearly everyone. In the US, there are even laws that attempt to control telemarketing (with only modest success, unfortunately). Those of you who are lucky enough not to have lived in an area in which telemarketing occurs (or is it everywhere now?) can learn more by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemarketing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Consumer_Protection_Act_of_1991 .
What, a few of you may wonder, does this have to d0 with Nampa and PUA? Why am I posting it in this forum? Think about it a moment and, if you haven't, perhaps go back and read @Sinapse 's defense of cold PUA which I linked at the top of this post. While I receive a hand full of such calls in a day, it is pretty unusual to get two so close together that they both interrupted my reading, and perhaps reduced my appreciation, of a single TAG post. That was just "bad luck", but it did let me see the post I was reading in a new way...
As I read what I have written above, I am suddenly VERY worried that my post might give some enterprising PUA(s) an idea for a new way to make "cold approaches"...coming to your phone soon, I sure hope not! If so, mea culpa!
-Ww
The account above is completely true, btw, not made up for the sake of this post. Very ironic I think, but definitely true.
Now you might think me excessively prickly to mention, or even notice and recall, such tiny irritations IF those two calls had been rare events, but of course as anyone who lives in a country plagued by telemarketing knows very well, those two calls were very much NOT isolated little hassles. Rather they were just routine examples of the constant barrage of such calls that one receives pretty much every single day and at many hours of the day and evening (usually in the range of 9am-9pm or so). Very often they interrupt an activity rather more significant than reading TAG (if you can imagine that). Some are what they represent themselves to be, sales pitches for some product or service delivered to random phone numbers, some are sales pitches disguised as something else (e.g., a survey), and some are deliberate attempts to scam whoever answers the phone in one way or another. They are widely regarded as one of the most unwelcome and unpleasant forms of commercial solicitations (i.e., advertising) and are generally despised by nearly everyone. In the US, there are even laws that attempt to control telemarketing (with only modest success, unfortunately). Those of you who are lucky enough not to have lived in an area in which telemarketing occurs (or is it everywhere now?) can learn more by reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemarketing and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Consumer_Protection_Act_of_1991 .
What, a few of you may wonder, does this have to d0 with Nampa and PUA? Why am I posting it in this forum? Think about it a moment and, if you haven't, perhaps go back and read @Sinapse 's defense of cold PUA which I linked at the top of this post. While I receive a hand full of such calls in a day, it is pretty unusual to get two so close together that they both interrupted my reading, and perhaps reduced my appreciation, of a single TAG post. That was just "bad luck", but it did let me see the post I was reading in a new way...
As I read what I have written above, I am suddenly VERY worried that my post might give some enterprising PUA(s) an idea for a new way to make "cold approaches"...coming to your phone soon, I sure hope not! If so, mea culpa!
-Ww
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