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You're Drunk...who You Gonna Call?
Reuters ^
| Tue Nov 30, 2004
| Anon Aussie Stringer
Posted on 11/30/2004 7:12:32 PM PST by Pharmboy
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls.
A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls.
Of those calls, 30 percent were to ex-partners, 19 percent to current partners, and 36 percent to other people, including their bosses.
The company also found that 55 percent of those polled would grab for their phone first the next morning to check who they had drunkenly dialed, compared with just eight percent who went for the headache pills first.
TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alcohol; drunkencalls; exes; holdmuhbeer; holdmuhcalls; stupid; watchthis
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Thorry...wrong number *hic*
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:12:32 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
2
posted on
11/30/2004 7:14:03 PM PST
by
annyokie
(If the shoe fits, put 'em both on!)
To: Byron_the_Aussie
OK--fess up--you're the one responsible for this new service?
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:14:09 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
To: Pharmboy
embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls. I hate it when that happens.
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:15:22 PM PST
by
Drango
(Those who advocate robbing (taxing) Peter to pay Paul...will always have the support of Paul.)
To: Pharmboy
It's hard to imagine a need for this service. I've never in my life gotten drunk and started calling people. Nor have I ever gotten one of those calls. So either it's not a problem or I have no friends or ex-lovers. Hmmm.
To: Pharmboy
What's really needed is a breathalyzer on one's FreeRepublic posting privileges.
6
posted on
11/30/2004 7:16:41 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; xsmommy; NYC GOP Chick; SeaDragon; RikaStrom; hobbes1; Argh; ...
A survey of 409 people by Virgin Mobile, a joint venture of The Virgin Group and Optus, found 95 percent made drunk calls. Apparently the other 5% don't drink.
SPL Pings.
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:17:26 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(http://route-82.blogspot.com (Now with 20% more stuned beebers))
To: Petronski
What's really needed is a breathalyzer on one's FreeRepublic posting privileges.Where can I get one of those for my computer?!?
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:17:59 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(http://route-82.blogspot.com (Now with 20% more stuned beebers))
To: Pharmboy
Ha, ha...what a deal. I wonder how many people send embarrassing emails when they're tanked up they later wish they could recall? I'll bet it runs in the millions...
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:18:10 PM PST
by
A Jovial Cad
("I had no shoes and I complained, until I saw a man who had no feet.")
To: Petronski
I resemble that remark...
(I report/you decide)
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:18:15 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
To: Pharmboy
This service wouldn't be of much use to me now, but it would have been nice to have back in the day...
To: Pharmboy
It's not a wrong number. It's usually the "I love you shhhho mush...come back to me. Canchoo shee why we were sho good together?"
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:19:03 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: dubyaismypresident
You think I known? Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:19:24 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Petronski
What's really needed is a breathalyzer on one's FreeRepublic posting privileges. Beat me by *that much*.
(hIc)
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:19:27 PM PST
by
martin_fierro
(00111100 00100000 01111100 00111010 00101001 01111110)
To: dubyaismypresident
Ex partner......check!
Current partner.......check!
Boss....eh, no...I try to avoid him 40 hours a week, I sure as hell am not going to phone him in my down time! *LOL*
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:19:37 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: Petronski
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:19:46 PM PST
by
Drango
(Those who advocate robbing (taxing) Peter to pay Paul...will always have the support of Paul.)
To: Pharmboy
I lost a few girlfriends to this problem. I could have used this in my day.
To: Pharmboy
who You Gonna Call? Ghostbusters?
Just Couldn't Resist 
To: Petronski
What are you talking about? We have plenty of breastanalyzers on FreeRepublic.
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:20:24 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: A Jovial Cad
True enough...but you're much more likely to have a mobile phone with you leaving a pub at 2 AM than a computer in a wifi hotspot...or even be able to use a Blackberry.
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:20:46 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
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