Australian School Phone Message

video ^ | June 29, 2015 | unknown

[econjack]

While there's no way I can verify this, I like the message regardless. The Aussies have it right on most issues.

Listen at:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Pwghabw4N80?rel=0

[econjack]

Dontcha wish you could put this on your school's phone message?

[MeshugeMikey]

that was outstanding!

Outlandishly honest..highly entertaining, GREATLY NEEDED and will never be “repeated” in todays PC poisoned “public Schools” in the U.S.

Thanks!!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I am dubious. For starters, why would a school in Australia have an outgoing phone message read by a woman with a British accent?

Secondly, the voice does not identify the school..."This is the automated answering system for your school."

That is done so a great many schools can claim it is THEIR outgoing message.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And third...check Snopes.

[econjack]

1) I stated I wasn’t sure it was authentic and couldn’t verify it.

2) Too many times now Snopes has been caught “leaning” rather heavily to the left, so I just ignore them anymore.

3) I really don’t care if it’s true or not. I just like the message.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I wasn't speaking of your posting here. I know you weren't sure of its authenticity. I was lampooning the illiterate rube who posted it on YouTube.

It is funny though.

[Gay State Conservative]

I love it.I particularly liked “move to a country that speaks it”.

[libertarian27]

The Snopes link was interesting.
Even though it isn't an actual recording, it was apparently and actual list that was written:

The putative answering machine message for Palisades Charter High quoted above was concocted in part as a reaction to the brouhaha over the school's attendance policy, and in part as a sardonic expression of all the usual frustrations teachers experience in dealing with students and parents: fabricated excuses for students' absences and uncompleted homework, blame that teachers are solely responsible for the failures of non-achieving students, complaints from parents about not having received information already sent to them several times, etc. However, the staff "voted" for the message only in the sense that they agreed with its sentiments (the circulating version of this piece often omits the introductory line "Too bad they can't actually use it ...");

[Robert DeLong]

I love it.