Coming Up On More4 Plus1

[plasticjock]

3 little British WW2 gems coming up soon on More4 Plus1, if you can receive it.

March 1 @ 1715 - Waterloo Road

March 2 @ 1715 - Malta Story

March 3 @ 1715 - The One That Got Away

[Fellwanderer]

All 3 are an hour earlier [what a surprise!] on More4.



FELL

[Jim]

(Fellwanderer @ Feb 16 2006, 07:39 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

All 3 are an hour earlier [what a surprise!] on More4.



FELL

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I notice that More4 are now repeating films first seen on the other 'freebie' channels - what a drag!



Does anyone remember when commercial tv first came to Britain? They used to worry that they had to find a 'natural break' for the commercials - wow! they don't bother now do they? The ITV freebies just slot in anywhere; usually they cut an actor off in mid sentence, so eager are they to pocket even more advertising cash! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.gif[/img]

[Steve Crook]

Join the Telephone Preference Service (free of charge).

I did some time ago and I get hardly any sales calls.



The few I do get, I ask if they respect the TPS. If they say "Yes". I get them worried by telling them that by calling someone signed up for it they've just cost their company £50 (or sometimes £500 or even £5,000 depending how I feel) and I ask what will that do to their comission?



If they say "No" then I know that they're a dodgy outfit so I just put the phone down.





The other ones are the auto-dialers where you get the recorded introduction, or the dreaded silence because they've dialed too many numbers too fast and don't have the audio channels available to feed into them if someone has been silly enough to respond to another channel.



They just get the phone put down straight away.



Steve

[Fellwanderer]

(Steve Crook @ Feb 17 2006, 08:03 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Join the Telephone Preference Service (free of charge).

I did some time ago and I get hardly any sales calls.



The few I do get, I ask if they respect the TPS. If they say "Yes". I get them worried by telling them that by calling someone signed up for it they've just cost their company £50 (or sometimes £500 or even £5,000 depending how I feel) and I ask what will that do to their comission?



If they say "No" then I know that they're a dodgy outfit so I just put the phone down.

The other ones are the auto-dialers where you get the recorded introduction, or the dreaded silence because they've dialed too many numbers too fast and don't have the audio channels available to feed into them if someone has been silly enough to respond to another channel.



They just get the phone put down straight away.



Steve

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I shall try to dig out an excellent response for direct sales calls that I found elsewhere - I don't think I've posted it here before!



FELL

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[Fellwanderer]

Tracked it down:



"T5 Command Centre. Can you give me your 12-15 security tag please?"



When they apologise or ask "What?!" Just follow up with:-



"This is a government line sir, DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER AGAIN."



Unfortunately, already being signed up to TPS, I've never had the opportunity to see if I'd do it!



FELL

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[Fellwanderer]

We've only ever had one* and that showed up as a Newcastle number so I answered it** - I did say we were signed up to TPS and was given an apology.



* a handful of international calls that we weren't expecting so they were simply ignored - apparently, they are not covered by the TPS.



** before I'd come across the response I gave previously.



FELL

[Fellwanderer]

Which reminds me:



Mrs FELL showed me a map locating a takeaway in the next village.



"It's wrong," she said - knew that geography degree would come in handy one day.



"Looks ok to me," I replied after glancing at the map, "it's right opposite Chris's."



"But the address is in our village!"



PS Congrats - better take care of that doll!



FELL

[Steve Crook]

(Fellwanderer @ Feb 17 2006, 08:25 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

Tracked it down:



"T5 Command Centre. Can you give me your 12-15 security tag please?"



When they apologise or ask "What?!" Just follow up with:-



"This is a government line sir, DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER AGAIN."



Unfortunately, already being signed up to TPS, I've never had the opportunity to see if I'd do it!



FELL

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I used to have some fun with them before I joined the TPS.

Now I can't play games because they never call [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]



One classic is to realise that they're working from a script where they expect answers to a few initial questions

"Is that Mr Crook?"

"Yes"

"Do you own your own home?"

"Yes"

Then they start going into their spiel - and that's when I put the phone down (but not hang up) and walk away [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

It's even more fun if you can still just about hear them.

When they get to the end of the long speech in their script they ask you another question

But of course you give no answer.

Then you hear "Hello?" a few times.

Then that's followed by either a few curses or some sobbing



Steve

[plasticjock]

(plasticjock @ Feb 16 2006, 07:01 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

3 little British WW2 gems coming up soon on More4 Plus1, if you can receive it.

March 1 @ 1715 - Waterloo Road

March 2 @ 1715 - Malta Story

March 3 @ 1715 - The One That Got Away

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Couple more good ones on More4 Plus1....

March 6 @ 1715 - The Admirable Crichton

March 8 @ 1715 - The Way To The Stars

March 10 @ 1715 - Moulin Rouge



I have to quote More4 Plus1 'cos I can't get a decent reception on More4 [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ermm.gif[/img]

[smudge]

(Steve Crook @ Feb 17 2006, 11:12 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>

I used to have some fun with them before I joined the TPS.

Now I can't play games because they never call [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/no.gif[/img]



One classic is to realise that they're working from a script where they expect answers to a few initial questions

"Is that Mr Crook?"

"Yes"

"Do you own your own home?"

"Yes"

Then they start going into their spiel - and that's when I put the phone down (but not hang up) and walk away [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clapping.gif[/img]

It's even more fun if you can still just about hear them.

When they get to the end of the long speech in their script they ask you another question

But of course you give no answer.

Then you hear "Hello?" a few times.

Then that's followed by either a few curses or some sobbing



Steve

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I love the personal callers ; you know, the ones who ask (as soon as you open the door), "Are you the house-holder ?" I get soooo tempted to slip into Milligan mode and reply, "No - I'm a burglar. Now do you think you could you come in and help me with this grandfather clock...?" [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotfl.gif[/img]



To stray back on topic, haven't seen THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY in years - one of Julian Wintle's finest...



SMUDGE



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