Bored and Robosurveyed
Aug. 21st, 2004 06:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThe phone rang. I pressed the on button and a mechanical voice said, "This is a 45-second survey by the FEC Survey Group. Are you registered to vote? Please answer 'yes' or 'no'."
"Yes."
"Do you consider yourself to be pro-life?"
Uh-oh. I know where this is going. "No."
"Do you believe that marriage should only be between a man and a woman?"
I hung up. The very wording of the questions means that the only completed surveys they're going to get are evangelicals and fundamentalists; the rest of us are going to hang up on them in disgust.
And what the fuck does that mean, "pro-life." The alternative is, what? "Anti-life?" "Pro-death?" I'm neither, and I hate the way the term has been co-opted.
Anyway, I'm bored. I have both the girls over, but Omaha decided she wanted to go camping, alone, this weekend, so she's over at Dash Point, being anti-social. We've all been a little bummed recently so I can understand her wanting to get away from the kids and all, but I still worry about her, since she is epileptic. The girls are being good right now, but I'm really in the mood for adult companionship. My evening plans are pretty dull: make pizza, bathe the kids, maybe watch some tube or play a game. I haven't figured out how to get the 5/6 stutter out of my DVDs yet (the mkdvd script is meant to do NTSC to PAL; going the other way, it simply doubles the fifth frame to make six frames, giving a "stutter" effect to the video), much to my annoyance, but I do have the first six episodes of DearS to watch, as well as FLCL (Fooly Cooly), so I might sit through one DVD or the other.
"Yes."
"Do you consider yourself to be pro-life?"
Uh-oh. I know where this is going. "No."
"Do you believe that marriage should only be between a man and a woman?"
I hung up. The very wording of the questions means that the only completed surveys they're going to get are evangelicals and fundamentalists; the rest of us are going to hang up on them in disgust.
And what the fuck does that mean, "pro-life." The alternative is, what? "Anti-life?" "Pro-death?" I'm neither, and I hate the way the term has been co-opted.
Anyway, I'm bored. I have both the girls over, but Omaha decided she wanted to go camping, alone, this weekend, so she's over at Dash Point, being anti-social. We've all been a little bummed recently so I can understand her wanting to get away from the kids and all, but I still worry about her, since she is epileptic. The girls are being good right now, but I'm really in the mood for adult companionship. My evening plans are pretty dull: make pizza, bathe the kids, maybe watch some tube or play a game. I haven't figured out how to get the 5/6 stutter out of my DVDs yet (the mkdvd script is meant to do NTSC to PAL; going the other way, it simply doubles the fifth frame to make six frames, giving a "stutter" effect to the video), much to my annoyance, but I do have the first six episodes of DearS to watch, as well as FLCL (Fooly Cooly), so I might sit through one DVD or the other.
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Date: 2004-08-29 04:30 am (UTC)This sounds suspiciously like the current trend in electioneering popping up. They aren't after survey results, they want a list of people that are NOT registered to vote, and seem likely to vote republican. Then they get back to people that are likely to be their voters and try to persuade them to register.
If you aren't of a republican attitude, they won't bother. It's a fascinating way of ballot stuffing - the new trend, make use of the apathy in voters. Rather than try to persuade voters to take your side, try to persuade those that already take your side to vote...