Yeh, please post them if you can, I like to watch them on youtube for example, they are alot of romanian ones too.

Here in the states we have what is called the National Do Not Call List, in theory all you have to do is list your number in the list and telemarketing operations are not allowed to call you.

But our wonderful and thoughtful politicians caved in to the telemarketing lobbies and added exceptions to the rule that you could drive a Mac truck through. Political, religious, and charitable organizations do not have to abide by the list, they can call you anyway, nice, the people that want to sell you something can't call you but the people that just want your money can. They also added that telemarketing operations below a certain size were also exempt from having to abide by the list. So what happens? The big telemarketing operation break up their call centers to units small enough to be exempt and call you anyway.

The list is so useless that now a days, the best advice is to not register your number on the list, and pay for it to be unlisted in phone directories.

Wow Orko that's terrible, I really hope that isn't the case, please keep us posteted  whats happening.
I don't know if we can do much from here but we can at least listen and be a place to deposit various woes.

Btw I'm actually 35 myself if you were wondering.

For me, Last night was nice, my brother and his Fiance had come back from Ireland, and by chance the Adams, the local catering colidge was doing an irish themed meal.
the Adams is really awesome, it's a colidge that trains very professional chefs and weighters, and of course they get to try creations on the patrons.
usually they  have a good meal, but occasionally they do themed nights, this happened to be the irish one.

I had a mini Irish breakfast, which was sort of nuts for a starter (they were suppoed to have nettle soop but apparently couldn't get the nettles), an amazing Irish stew and dumplings with Champ potatoes (like a potatoe and cabbage mix), treacle carrots and leaks, and finally a really good  moose with irish wisky cream plus an irish coffee to wash it down with.
Definitely a nice night all round.

I've also finished my reivew of Steven King's joyland which hopefully they'll get around to posting on www.fatnasybookreview.co.uk soon. Today I need to do one for the second book in Jack Vance Cadwal chronicles, Ecce and old earth.

My lady and I have also made a start on Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson though we're not too far in as yet.

The way I deal with telemarketers is simple, as soon as I know it's a telemarketer, I don't say anything, I just hang up. Eventually, they get the message and stop calling.

There used to be a device called Telezapper. What it did was play the three tones indicating a disconnected line as soon as the call is answered whether by a person or an answering machine. The effect of this was that for telemarketers using an automated dialer, the dialer would detect these tone and mark the number as disconnected and not call it again for six months. It worked great.

As soon as I figure out the best way to do it, I'm going to record my cellular carriers default voice mail greeting, put the disconnected tones in front of it, then use that to record a new greeting, then let all calls from unknown callers go to voice mail, if its a telemarketer, they won't call me again for six months, if it's not, they can leave a message.

@Angel

Well, I'm glad your grandma is now cancer free, however I seriously doubt that she had the same kind of cancer I might have, mine is unique to males.

Look Steven Fry if you realy want to know.

Youch Orko, as Cansa goes that is a uniquely nasty one, I hope it does manage to clear up and that Chemo isn't as bloody awful as its reputed to be.

Cansa is something I'm constantly petrified of for my lady since as she had retinal blastoma at birth she's definitely at risk (without going into gorey details this is partly why she cannot have children), so sympathy on that one.

I finished my review of ecce and old earth by Jack vance, so hopefully that should be appearing soon. I do enjoy doing book reviews. Right now I'm trying to finish the big finish series countermeasures. This is less my thing since i'm not as crazy about spy fiction, but I've had it on my victor for ages and really ought to get it finished.

I'm also having to do a mondo amount of backing up. Recently Maplins, the computer and electronic sales place has gone into administration so were selling off their stock.
So while I still had 100 gb on my external driveI thought I'd buy a larger replacement while it was on offer, I did the same for my lady as well, so we've both upgraded from a 2tb to a 4 tb model.

This is fine but it means I'm now having to transfer the entire contents of my external hd drive onto the newer one before i reformat the old one, which probably will take around 14 hours, though given its transferring close to 2tb of stuff that isn't too bad going.

its all also backed up on yet another external drive which spends most of its time under my bed and only gets pulled out
when I need it, and which has everything including bookmarks, games, documents, audiobooks, music everything backed up on it.

I suppose I could look at some sort of cloud backup system, but honestly I prefer to do it myself manually, that way I can be absolutely certain everything is secure and that I know where it all is.
Besides,  I'd rather deal with file organisation myself than leave it up to some external agency ala Itunes. Actually I rather wish I could back my Iphone up this way too, but its one of the curses of Apple that you can't manage the contents of your own device, so hay.

My grandma had breast one and I have an uncle who had the one for males.

I will eventually, but if all this service targets is scammers, it's not really what I'm looking for because I get very few of those types of calls. What I'm looking for is a way to stop the telemarketing calls, and I think my idea of putting the disconnected signal in front of my voice mail greeting, then not answering calls from numbers not in my contact list. If it's important, they'll leave a message, if it's a telemarketer or a scammer, they'll hang up without leaving a message.

I've had these exams before as part of an annual physical exam, to me they aren't unpleasant, nor are they pleasant, they just are.

Unless they come up with a better way to screen for this type of cancer, you can look forward to it becoming a part of your annual physical exam once you turn 50.

Some doctors, like my current one, are skipping doing the physical exam and relying on PSA blood tests, despite the fact that it's not recommended because the PSA test produces so many false positives, causing a lot of unnecessary procedures to be performed.

If you really want something distinctly unpleasant, neither method of performing a biopsy sounds appealing at all.

Although the urologist explained to me what would happen during the prostate biopsy, I was still curious what other people might have experienced.

Man! People will talk about anything on youtube! I found a number of descriptions of the prostate biopsy experience from a doctor explaining what's involved, to several patients, some of which seemed to have some drama added.

This is the one that seemed the most matter of fact and probably more accurate than the ones with some drama added.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhhuLEv9Peo

Yeah, something to look forward to! Laughs!