Belial, I love those "demotivational" posters from Despair.com ...& I when I made that post, I was thinking of them, & Dilbert comics as well...

The "press 1 for English" issue can be divided into 2 parts...one is the ever increasing illegal immigrant aspect, which is clearly the hot-button issue of the day, & has been flogged thoughly to death on the talkshow circuit...the second part is that it's just 1 step in the way businesses today try to deflect customers away from bothering them...any call I have to make to Comcast when my cable or internet service goes down starts with the "POFE" message, followed by the "press 2 for Espanol" (in Espanol, of course...maybe the one thing that makes any sense at all), followed by entire sets of other options, until I start to feel like a circus animal jumping thru pointless hoop after hoop...

I can see how business feels that it must make some concessions to reality, that to ignore such a large potential customer base is like throwing money out the window, but...it seems to prove to old saying that to try to make everybody happy you end making nobody happy...

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