Fury

[Cormac]

If you just don't push any buttons and don't say anything, it usually eventually gives up and puts you through to a Human.
It may not be any quicker, but it's a lot easier.
Or it may decide there's no-one there and just hang up.

It used to be that just pressing any button over and over would immediately put you through to someone.

These days, the insolent bastards who set up these systems now programme them to eventually hang up, if they don't get an input they want.

Blasted C U Next Tuesdays, the lot of 'em!

[Animavore]

I noticed with Eircom if it's not busy you go straight through to someone and if it is you get put through to the machine. I've learned to just hang up immediately if put through to the machine and call again later.

Don't know if that's the same elsewhere.

Another trick is to calk Tech Support and they'll tell you you've the wrong department and put you through.

[JimC]

My internal rage makes me sicken.

It infects me, scares me, dominates me, until I throw it out.

[Clinton Huxley]

I believe Sky Broadband could inspire me to hitherto unattained prodigies of fury.

[Brian Peacock]

That's just what Mr Murdick, the world's biggest troll, wants. Don't give him the satisfaction.

[JimC]

"As the fiendish machine started its hideous work on his defenceless body, JimC thought furiously..."

Unfortunately, calm rational thought would have worked quite well, but as it was, with his thought processes interrupted by primitive emotions, his dismembered body fell to the bottom of the abandoned warehouse...

[mistermack]

I have found that if I'm in a real ''fury'', I go white, and my voice starts to shake, which is incredibly annoying and embarassing.
Someone once told me that they thought I was about to cry, after one of those very rare occurrences. But internally I was the complete opposite. During that incident, it wouldn't have taken much for me to do someone real damage.

Luckily, it seems that my reaction to rage is still to carefully weigh up the consequences of what I might do. I might turn white, and my voice might go, but I don't ''lose it'' and do things I would regret.

It's alcohol that makes that jump, for me. Virtually all the things that I've done that I'm ashamed of, have been down to a combination of alcohol and extreme confrontation. And that seems to be fairly widespread in people. Fortunately, it seems to wear off, as you get older.

[Bella Fortuna]

I was in a fury last night. If I'd happened upon those kids who attacked my kid last night, I'd have made them eat their own hearts.

[mistermack]

I was in a fury last night. If I'd happened upon those kids who attacked my kid last night, I'd have made them eat their own hearts.

Yeh, there isn't much that makes me angrier than any kind of bullying. I even feel that way, watching a wildlife film, when a predator kills prey. It's not their fault, I know that, but I'm still wishing that the buffalo would stick the lion with it's horns.
Human bullying is horrible though.
I remember when I was at junior school, about ten years of age, I intervened when a boy of my age was bullying some girls.
He was about the same size as me. We started fighting and I got the absolute shit knocked out of me.
I'm pretty sure he'd had boxing training, and I just felt like a clumsy clod. Taught me a lesson.
Don't be a hero, if you can't win. You don't get any thanks. And learn something about fighting, even if you don't want to fight.
I suppose in the end, he did me a favour. It's never happened since.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Choose the option that means you want to buy something or pay a bill - that will get you through to a human ASAP. Then apologise for pressing the wrong button and get them to redirect you to the shouting-at-someone-that-is-not-qualified-to-sort-out-your-problem department, that you actually want.