You're Drunk...who You Gonna Call?

Reuters ^ | Tue Nov 30, 2004 | Anon Aussie Stringer

[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.

[Kiss Me Hardy]

Ah, A+Bert. Now there's a sorry specimen I haven't thought about for awhile

[SampleMan]

But when will they blacklist ugly girls for you?

[World'sGoneInsane]

I can see it now...Call 1-888-I'M DRUNK. Don't get inebriated and make a fool of yourself. Why risk higher alimony payments, divorce, loss of posting privileges, friends, or employment for one night of indulgence? Call 1-888-I'M DRUNK, for less than a bottle of Jack or the Captain, talk to us for two--we'll understand.

[stainlessbanner]

A toast to your wife and lover.....may they never meet!

[Pharmboy]

When those beer goggles are thick enough, there's no such thing as an ugly girl.

[shaggy eel]

,,, if you go out and get ratted you're doing really well if it only comes down to cellphone misuse.

[secret garden]

You forgot to address that post to the most famous notorious ones in our classroom.

[al baby]

what ever did happen to that guy oh yeah he lost to bush in 2000

[XXXXX88XXXXX]

This service wouldn't be of much use to me now, but it would have been nice to have back in the day...

Yup, I'll too admit making one or two calls when I should have known better, back in the old days.

[Prost1]

My Alias is my disclaimer!

[rlmorel]

[daybreakcoming]

OR one of my son's (also a cop) X-girls who actually showed up at the Sheriff's office so sloppy drunk she was sliding down the walls crying because he broke it off with her. Did I mention the Sheriff was his boss?

[BroncosFan]

It seems my Austrailian partners have decided to take our great idea public. Oh, well . . . gotta go check the "Dialed Calls" list from last night.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

That wonderful freeper we knew as A+BERT....

Now his name is Snakeoil...

Now he is banned or suspended.

Yet again.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

No way! But I'm guessing this has something to do with a recent series of scandals here- mainly, drunken football players, making obscene late-night calls to female acquaintances, the latter recording the calls, which are subsequently played on talk radio. Cheers, Byron

[razorback-bert]

A wee nip helps some of postings make sense.

[Pharmboy]

Thatnks for clearing that up...makes sense (and when you say "footballers" you mean soccer or Aussie rules football?).

[Caipirabob]

If they can dial a phone they aren't drinking enough.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Rugby League:

Mark Gasnier has been expelled from the NSW State of Origin rugby league team after it was found he'd made an obscene phone call. Centre Gasnier, the nephew of league legend Reg Gasnier, made the early morning call yesterday to a 27-year-old Sydney woman.

Cheers, Byron

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe!