Stupid question

[jon1965]

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So we should trust the nice Indian gent when he calls up, says he's from the Microsoft department through which "all the Internet goes" and that one's computer is behaving badly?

I regret that I cannot recall the name of the program he wanted me to install as, by then, I was laughing so much at his odd idea of the Internet structure.

Oh I had one of them when I was at Mum's. I asked him what OS I was using, he wanted me to go to the command prompt at which point I asked him if he thought I had come in on the last banana boat.

Niddy yes it was the OFT site, thanks for the fix

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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Tried that with me. Told them that I was not using a Microsoft os, everything was Ubuntu. Hung up.

I've had fun wasting their time.

Sometimes I ask them to wait whilst I fetch the computer owner - and then ignore them until they hang up. Other times I've repeated everything they've said, very slowly and sometimes words repeating in wrong the order.

I've asked them how I can get up the system log on the trip computer on my (fictitious) motor car. I've also asked them which Windoze I should install on my computer instead of DR-DOS 5, CP/M 2.2 or the ZX81 OS; needless to say, such deviations from the script utterly confuses them.

If all else fails, I blow a police whistle into the mouthpiece to deafen them.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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If all else fails, I blow a police whistle into the mouthpiece to deafen them.

I bet you were one of those schoolkids that annoyed everyone

[CleverClogs (RIP)]

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I bet you were one of those schoolkids that annoyed everyone

Oh, indeed. I knew much of the O-level syllabus in Biology and Chemistry by the time I was 10.

I've slowly declined since.

[SXGuy]

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LOL Dr DOS, havent heard or seen that in yonks! still remember it being one 1 floppy disk installation.

[Never-In-Doubt]

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I remember the ZX Spectrum and that bloody tape recorder just to get a bloody 4 bit Horace to go skiing or chase spiders!! Manic miner was worth the 3 failed uploads and 4 x 37 min upload times!!! Lol

[Riz]

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I sometimes wind those callers up, but lately I just load up some opera and sit the handset on the laptop speaker and wait till they hang up. The phone calls soon stop.