2017/09/13 20:49:26
craigb
Hello…is this Gordon’s Pizza?

No sir, it's Google Pizza.

I must have dialed a wrong number. Sorry.

No sir, Google bought Gordon’s Pizza last month.

OK. I would like to order a pizza.

Do you want your usual, sir?

My usual? You know me?

According to our caller ID data sheet, the last 12 times you called you ordered an extra-large pizza with three cheeses, sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms and meat balls on a thick crust.

OK! That’s what I want …

May I suggest that this time you order a pizza with ricotta, arugula, sun-dried tomatoes and olives on a whole wheat gluten free thin crust?

What? I detest vegetables.

Your cholesterol is not good, sir.

How the hell do you know?

Well, we cross-referenced your home phone number with your medical records. We have the result of your blood tests for the last 7 years.

Okay, but I don't want your rotten vegetable pizza! I already take medication for my cholesterol..

Excuse me sir, but you have not taken your medication regularly. According to our database, you only purchased a box of 30 cholesterol tablets once, at Drug sale Network, 4 months ago.

I bought more from another drugstore.

That doesn’t show on your credit card statement.

I paid in cash.

But you did not withdraw enough cash according to your bank statement.

I have other sources of cash..

That doesn’t show on your last tax return unless you bought them using an undeclared income source, which is against the law.

WHAT THE HELL?

I'm sorry, sir, we use such information only with the sole intention of helping you.

Enough already! I'm sick to death of Google, Facebook, Twitter, What’s App and all the others. I'm going to an island without internet, cable TV, where there is no cell phone service and no one to watch or spy on me.

I understand sir, but you need to renew your passport first. It expired 6 weeks ago.
2017/09/13 20:59:38
synkrotron
Funny, that... Thanks
 
(best answer please)
2017/09/13 21:11:08
Beepster
Hyperbole perhaps but this is why I was disappointed when our fine forum decided to cram "googleapis" down our throats if we want to comment.
 
Miniature American flags for some!
 
Virtual colonoscopies for all!!
 
*hooray*
2017/09/13 21:14:04
Beepster
Remember when anti-trust laws and monopoly smashing were fashionable?
 
Pepperidge Farms remembers... and weeps.
 
*adjusts onion belt*
 
2017/09/13 21:22:50
synkrotron
This topic is getting funnier
2017/09/13 22:59:46
soens
than....
2017/09/13 23:04:13
synkrotron
soens
than....


Being hit in the balls with a 10 pound lump hammer? Perhaps?
2017/09/13 23:40:36
MandolinPicker
Beepster
Remember when anti-trust laws and monopoly smashing were fashionable?




Looks like it may be coming back. Two recent articles on how the anti-trust movement against big tech firms is gaining speed.
 
Conservatives Liberals Unite Against Silicon Valley
http://www.politico.eu/article/conservatives-liberals-unite-against-silicon-valley/
 
There's Blood In The Water In Silicon Valley
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/theres-blood-in-the-water-in-silicon-valley?utm_term=.ka1AX8Dpx#.qsdOGjJnz
 
2017/09/14 00:05:54
Beepster
Good. We've been getting dangerously close to the old robber baron days again (with a nice slathering of Orweilian looky loo-iciousnous) despite 2008 and the ensuing madness.
 
But I'm sure those benevolent banksters are still safe. Great guys thems iz.
2017/09/14 00:19:51
bapu
Bankers are the new rappers.
 
Mo paypa for dem.
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