Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:

I note you made your first report on the Eve of St Nicholas, on
which night he should arrive by ship! Kingston may be too far
inland for that.

And you made your reply on December 7th.

I've long associated December 7th with two things, one bad, one good.
The bad thing is of course the unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor, 80
years ago today. The good thing is that it's the day on which the
sunset starts gradually getting later again (at my latitude), leading
up to the sunny days of June.

But now I also associate it with a second good thing. It's the day
when telemarketers cease calling to tout Medicare plans (since it's
the annual deadline for an individual to make Medicare changes).

Most such telemarketers, like most other telemarketers, have a strong
Indian accent. Whenever I get a call with such an accent, I warn them
that they're helping to damage their nation's reputation all over
the world, which could lead to the world not intervening if Pakistan
attacks them. Usually they immediately hang up (which doesn't keep
them from calling back a few minutes to a few days later). But
sometimes they argue with me, which I find enjoyable. Especially when
they try to prove they're actually in the US. One who kept insisting he
was with the IRS said he had just fined me $10,000 for my impertinence.
(That was years ago, but I haven't received the invoice yet. The mail
from DC to Virginia must be slow.)

Of course I know intellectually that most people in India aren't
dishonest or telemarketers. But viscerally, whenever I hear that
"Apu" accent, I instantly recoil, associating it with lies. And
there's nothing I hate more than lies, unless it's someone who works
all day as a liar, telling several lies per minute for the purpose
of defrauding thousands of gullible people all over the world by
repeatedly annoying millions of non-gullible people all over the world.
--
Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/
Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.

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"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote in news:sooiqb$7er$1@reader1.panix.com:

Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> wrote:

I note you made your first report on the Eve of St Nicholas, on
which night he should arrive by ship! Kingston may be too far
inland for that.

And you made your reply on December 7th.

I've long associated December 7th with two things, one bad, one
good. The bad thing is of course the unprovoked attack on Pearl
Harbor, 80 years ago today. The good thing is that it's the day
on which the sunset starts gradually getting later again (at my
latitude), leading up to the sunny days of June.

But now I also associate it with a second good thing. It's the
day when telemarketers cease calling to tout Medicare plans
(since it's the annual deadline for an individual to make
Medicare changes).

Most such telemarketers, like most other telemarketers, have a
strong Indian accent. Whenever I get a call with such an
accent, I warn them that they're helping to damage their
nation's reputation all over the world, which could lead to the
world not intervening if Pakistan attacks them. Usually they
immediately hang up (which doesn't keep them from calling back a
few minutes to a few days later). But sometimes they argue with
me, which I find enjoyable. Especially when they try to prove
they're actually in the US. One who kept insisting he was with
the IRS said he had just fined me $10,000 for my impertinence.
(That was years ago, but I haven't received the invoice yet.
The mail from DC to Virginia must be slow.)

Of course I know intellectually that most people in India aren't
dishonest or telemarketers. But viscerally, whenever I hear
that "Apu" accent, I instantly recoil, associating it with lies.
And there's nothing I hate more than lies, unless it's someone
who works all day as a liar, telling several lies per minute for
the purpose of defrauding thousands of gullible people all over
the world by repeatedly annoying millions of non-gullible people
all over the world.

There have been surveys in which people said they're rather live
next door to a child molester than a spammer (and telemarketers,
even ones that don't break the law, are the same thing).

--
Terry Austin

Proof that Alan Baker is a liar and a fool, and even stupider than
Lynn:
https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/sw-border-migration
(May 2019 total for people arrested for entering the United States
illegally is over 132,000 for just the southwest border.)

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

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