Birdy

me too! what are the odds?! umm yah, not saying that that you don't have the 'right' to react, more that i think what KK was reacting to and what you responded to, doesn't really have anything to do with the guy on the other end of the phone who has to 'take it'... other than being the poor schmuck with the shitty job. you even called it an 'asshole approach'! (how this thread got here i have no idea.)

this has the potential to go extremely 'conspiracy theory' here!

Ha! That's the exact same asshole approach I employ when I get asked to take a survey. "How much for my time?" I suppose I should post this link here as well. meanies. i chat it up with them most of the time. i've been there myself. that and considering the kinds of communities that are supported by the call-centre economy i can't imagine that these people are exactly LOVING life making these phone calls. i'm sure they'd rather be a trillion different places themselves and are only sitting there, taking that abuse, making their lousy wage because they can't get a job anywhere else. sure it interrupts your precious time in your precious life, but these are people just doing what they have to do to get by. at least give them that!

definitely scary matt, and only a step away! imagine what the department of homeland security could do with something like the microchip! oohhh the possibilities of keeping people safe... of knowing where each and every citizen is at at exact moments, of what they are doing, who they are talking with... man! we all bitch about what they can track us doing on our computers, but letting them inject us with a friggin' MICROCHIP! noooo thanks! technology isn't kind to man in his intended natural state. i'm a full believer in the old saying 'give a man an inch, he takes a mile'. i'd rather not even go down that road. while i think it's nice and good that your pets may have a shot at returning home, should they get lost, i'd rather not even take the gamble here.

nice work deeps! i'm pretty old-fashioned and would rather a dog-collar with an id tag to the microchip option. microchips scare the shit out of me. so... unnatural! and maybe putting them in our pets is only a mad scientists research step away before the old needle comes our way... bye bye freedom and according to some dooms day tv show i watched somewhere along the line, hello end of the world! yeeeeeeeiiiiikes.

i take nearly everything i read/see/hear these days with a grain of salt. technology's just made it so damn easy to edit/splice/clip/snip/break!

CHICAGO! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY! one more sleep till the good times begin (ok.. till the good times CONTINUE!!)

yay!

WOO HOO!