{"id":871,"date":"2008-05-07T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T09:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/?p=871"},"modified":"2008-05-07T09:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T09:51:00","slug":"luddites-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2008-05\/871-luddites-unite","title":{"rendered":"Luddites Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>This is NOT my work, but I found it so funny I just had to share it with you!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihatethis.org\/2006\/01\/10\/i-hate-the-telephone\/\"><b>I hate the telephone!<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gadgets January 10th, 2006<\/p>\n<p>I hate the telephone. The damn thing rings and all I think is: \u201cWho are you and <!--more what do you want?!--> what do you want?!\u201d What you want is for me to answer. Well, forget it. If I wanted to talk to you, I\u2019d be making the call &#8211; so knock it off.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, just what makes you think I want to stop snacking, masturbating, sleeping, belittling idiots who can\u2019t write cohesive message board postings, firing off hate mail to so-called political leaders, dodging process-servers pounding on the door of my soon to be repossessed apartment or whatever it is I\u2019m doing that\u2019s so much more entertaining than answering your unsolicited call? I don\u2019t and I won\u2019t. And you know it. Yet you insist on dialing my unlisted number for countless stupid and ire-inspiring reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Always with the Hey-what-are-you-doing crappola. What the hell do you think I\u2019m doing? I\u2019m answering the phone, you moron. Or better yet, you ask Who\u2019s-this? Look, Troglodyte, you called me. Figure it out. Or my all-time favorite: Hi-this-is-Lunkhead-McUnemployable-and-I\u2019m-calling-from-MCI\u2026 No. I don\u2019t want to change my long-distance telephone service. What I want is your head exploded. The sooner &#8211; the better.<\/p>\n<p>I hate the telephone and I hate you. Stop calling.<\/p>\n<p>Credits: H. Fillmore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is NOT my work, but I found it so funny I just had to share it with you! I hate the telephone! Gadgets January 10th, 2006 I hate the telephone. The damn thing rings and all I think is: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/2008-05\/871-luddites-unite\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[148,7,60,11,157,6],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cell-phones","tag-funny","tag-goofy","tag-rant","tag-telephone","tag-web-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/badinage.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}