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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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To: arasina
"I mush you shoooo love!"
21
posted on
11/30/2004 7:20:58 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Petronski
To: Petronski
What's really needed is a breathalyzer on one's FreeRepublic posting privileges. LOL! Yes. ;-D
23
posted on
11/30/2004 7:22:23 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: arasina
What are you talking about? We have plenty of breastanalyzers on FreeRepublic.Free of charge, even.
24
posted on
11/30/2004 7:22:33 PM PST
by
NeoCaveman
(http://route-82.blogspot.com (Now with 20% more stuned beebers))
To: Petronski
"Shtay there, shweetie, I'm comin' over, okay? Pleeeeeeeeze ansher the door."
25
posted on
11/30/2004 7:24:08 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: Judith Anne
At the least, the breathalyzer should impose a little warning icon:
26
posted on
11/30/2004 7:25:00 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: arasina
Okay, now I'm confused. Is this part of the joke, or are you coming over?
;O)
27
posted on
11/30/2004 7:25:40 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Petronski
"Hillary, I don't know what I said, but I didn't mean any of it, I promise..."
28
posted on
11/30/2004 7:26:33 PM PST
by
blogbat
(Blogbat: ein Fahrgeschäft durch die Weltnachrichten)
To: Petronski
I got it! We don't need a breathalyzer--just a series of key strokes that must be completed in a specified amount of time before one is allowed to post.
An FR Sobriety Test! Yeah--that's the ticket...
29
posted on
11/30/2004 7:27:53 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
To: Happygal
Can you believe the Aussie's offer this service before the Irish?
What's up with that? ;)
30
posted on
11/30/2004 7:28:32 PM PST
by
kstewskis
(Political correctness is intellectual terrorism.......M Gibson)
To: Pharmboy
Hey, cut it out now. It was funny when it was all fun and games, but now you're making it feasible....
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posted on
11/30/2004 7:28:41 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Pharmboy
Shoot! You just can't have any fun now-a-days.
32
posted on
11/30/2004 7:28:42 PM PST
by
shiva
To: Petronski
What's really needed is a breathalyzer on one's FreeRepublic posting privileges.Some will recall a poster, no longer with us, who regularly progressed from typos to pugilistic challenges.
33
posted on
11/30/2004 7:29:23 PM PST
by
dighton
To: Petronski
How about just a "PUI Alert"?
34
posted on
11/30/2004 7:29:25 PM PST
by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: John Jorsett
The Summer after I married, I had a rash of 3am phone calls from drunken ex-girlfriends. My brand new wife was so not impressed.
35
posted on
11/30/2004 7:29:36 PM PST
by
Melas
To: dighton
Responding to him was, I believe, the reason I first moved from lurker to member.
36
posted on
11/30/2004 7:30:38 PM PST
by
Petronski
(One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble, not much between despair and ecstasy.)
To: Pharmboy
or even be able to use a Blackberry.Blackberry?.......what's a Blskberry?
37
posted on
11/30/2004 7:31:33 PM PST
by
houeto
To: Melas
My son (a cop) just broke up with his girlfriend because she would call him at 2 AM from a bar in his precinct after being soused and then bragging to everyone that she could do whatever she wanted because her boyfriend was a cop...
38
posted on
11/30/2004 7:33:06 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Listen...you can still hear the old media sobbing.)
To: Petronski
What's really needed is a breathalyzer on one's FreeRepublic posting privilege.A good test is when you can't find the spell button anymore, but the good old post button is always there.
Dang, I miss A+Bert. Sunday mornings on FR have never been the same without him.
39
posted on
11/30/2004 7:34:29 PM PST
by
xJones
To: Petronski
40
posted on
11/30/2004 7:36:18 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
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