{"id":745,"date":"2007-04-23T20:15:42","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2022-11-01T21:42:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T21:42:03","slug":"the-great-phone-moron-swindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"The Great Phone &#038; Moron Swindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/panorama\/6583111.stm\">more fuss<\/a> about the phone-in competition scandal. <\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this has left some people very upset:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo find out that I wasn&#8217;t [in with a chance] makes me really angry and I want my money back.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sweet zombie Jebus. Are there *really* people that thick in the world?<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes. There are. And they watch Watchdog, and have trouble differentiating between soap opera and real life.<\/p>\n<p>One person has<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nspent near on \u00a31,000, but you think, &#8216;Well I&#8217;m in with a chance&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A thousand fucking pounds? Lots of people buy cars for less than that. That would buy you a very nice holiday, for example. That&#8217;s more than plenty of people earn in a MONTH- anyone on minimun wage, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Tell you what. you give me \u00a31000, and I&#8217;ll give you some magic beans that stand about as much chance of growing into the sky so you can rob treasure beyond your wildest fuckwitted dreams from a giant. Fuckwit.<\/p>\n<p>*Is speechless with disbelief, but recovers*<\/p>\n<p>Evil Overlord No.12: Compulsory institutionalisation for people that thick. For their own protection, and so I don&#8217;t have to listen to them whine.<\/p>\n<p>*shakes head*<\/p>\n<p>*Realises why the Bumpkin has to whinge about the state of this country, even if he _does_ read the Daily Express.*<\/p>\n<p>*Realises that reading the Daily Express probably makes you like that*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see there&#8217;s more fuss about the phone-in competition scandal. Why? Apparently this has left some people very upset: To find out that I wasn&#8217;t [in with a chance] makes me really angry and I want my money back. Sweet zombie Jebus. Are there *really* people that thick in the world? Oh yes. There are. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Great Phone &#038; Moron Swindle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil-overlord","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}