So, I want your guys' opinion on my idiot friends. I'm all for pranks, but I think this goes to far.
So, I had lost my phone for a couple days now, and I had no idea where it was. My friend, Grant, asked why I wasn't texting him back. I told him I lost my phone. So, the next day, when I get on PSN with him to play a game, I put in my headset and he tells me, "Ben I keep getting texts from your phone, I thought you had lost it." (PS, he's aspiring to be an actor, so he can be fairly convincing) I'm pretty worried at this point, because my phone has all my passwords to my Twitter, Facebook, everything. (deleting those now...) So, I tell him, "Look man you gotta help me find out who this is they could have all my passwords." He keeps this up, and is telling me what the "fake" Ben is saying. I'm really scared at this point. This person could now know all of my personal life; all my conversations I don't want getting out, all of my personal passwords, everything. I tell him this, thinking if it was really a prank, he'd stop it there since he would know how serious this would be. Of course, he doesn't stop. He accuses ME of pranking him, and gets angry. I tell him, "Grant, you know me, I don't lie to anybody. Especially about something this serious. So, after an hour of me being scared that the person who stole my phone was going to give out my passwords and make my private life public, he tells me it was all a joke, and that him and my friend Nick got me good. Like I said, I'm all for pranks, they can be hilarious, but there is a point where you cross the line from pranking to cruelty. I have a lot of things about me that people would use against me, and Grant knows that, but he still went on with the prank, even after seeing how distressed I was.
So? What do you guys think? Was this cruel? And please don't just spam posts about how stupid I was to keep my passwords on my phone, I already know. Trust me, I've learned my lesson enough today.
Get them back, by making one both go to the hospital.
Or ending 1's life.
That would be amazing. But yea he's already said he's sorry, and we are over it, but I just thought this was extremely cruel. He already knew what would happen if I actually had my phone stolen, so he knew what would happen if he went on with this prank. That's what makes this really cruel.
Me and a friend once did something similar to another friend while we were on holiday.
We basically stole his phone while he went to the toilet, changed my number on his phone to this girls name so when he received texts from me it would say they were from this girl. So we pretended to be the girl for a couple of days via my phone and eventually asked him to be the her boyfriend he accepted of course, eventually he told us he now had a girlfriend, we left it about a day to tell him it was actually us, good times. :laugh.gif:
Might be cruel but it was hilarious.
Don't get mad get even next time you see them punch one in the jeans.
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I can do 230 pull up's and have walked 17.3 km's in under 10s through bush and fire breaks in the 45 degree heat, uphill in the snow in my bare feet. I also wrestle bears, tigers, lions and giraffes every day on my way to work. I was also the one who emancipated the slaves in 1863. that's the extent of my physicality.
That was cruel. A practical joke would be to take someone's phone for 5 minutes, let them start to get worried, then give it back to them.
Reminds me of an incident I had last quarter. One night I was practicing my poi (glowstick spinning) on the balcony, looking out onto the university grounds. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed someone come up to the balcony door, open it, close it, and run off. I turned around and nobody was there. I tried to open the door, but it was locked. I pounded on the door, texted all my roommates, went back to spinning for a while, pounded on the door some more, and it was half an hour in 40 degree weather in a t-shirt before someone let me back in.
"Oh haha I locked you out" would be waiting around the corner until I pound on the door, then letting me back in. But whoever locked me out (somebody's guest, still not sure who) left. Didn't wait around to let me back in, just ****ing left.
Some people have no concept of the line between a funny joke and straight-up being a ****. It's not even a "fine line." I'll spell it out: practical jokes cause momentary stress followed by relief. Being a **** causes prolonged stress followed by disgust.
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You over-reacted. Learning to laugh at yourself is probably one of the single most important lessons a person can learn.
There's something to be said for having a thick skin. I was never angry about being locked out, and I'm still not. But that doesn't mean it's ok to play cruel jokes on people. How far someone will take a practical joke, I think, depends on how empathetic they are. If they are very empathetic, they will only let you distress for a moment. If they are less empathetic, they will let you suffer.
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I once put my phone number on a teacher's phone and put my name as another teacher in the school. It was hilarious. The teacher who I put my name down as called me pretending to be a police officer. Good times...
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I can do 230 pull up's and have walked 17.3 km's in under 10s through bush and fire breaks in the 45 degree heat, uphill in the snow in my bare feet. I also wrestle bears, tigers, lions and giraffes every day on my way to work. I was also the one who emancipated the slaves in 1863. that's the extent of my physicality.
So, I had lost my phone for a couple days now, and I had no idea where it was. My friend, Grant, asked why I wasn't texting him back. I told him I lost my phone. So, the next day, when I get on PSN with him to play a game, I put in my headset and he tells me, "Ben I keep getting texts from your phone, I thought you had lost it." (PS, he's aspiring to be an actor, so he can be fairly convincing) I'm pretty worried at this point, because my phone has all my passwords to my Twitter, Facebook, everything. (deleting those now...) So, I tell him, "Look man you gotta help me find out who this is they could have all my passwords." He keeps this up, and is telling me what the "fake" Ben is saying. I'm really scared at this point. This person could now know all of my personal life; all my conversations I don't want getting out, all of my personal passwords, everything. I tell him this, thinking if it was really a prank, he'd stop it there since he would know how serious this would be. Of course, he doesn't stop. He accuses ME of pranking him, and gets angry. I tell him, "Grant, you know me, I don't lie to anybody. Especially about something this serious. So, after an hour of me being scared that the person who stole my phone was going to give out my passwords and make my private life public, he tells me it was all a joke, and that him and my friend Nick got me good. Like I said, I'm all for pranks, they can be hilarious, but there is a point where you cross the line from pranking to cruelty. I have a lot of things about me that people would use against me, and Grant knows that, but he still went on with the prank, even after seeing how distressed I was.
So? What do you guys think? Was this cruel? And please don't just spam posts about how stupid I was to keep my passwords on my phone, I already know. Trust me, I've learned my lesson enough today.
Get them back, by making
oneboth go to the hospital.Or ending 1's life.
That would be amazing. But yea he's already said he's sorry, and we are over it, but I just thought this was extremely cruel. He already knew what would happen if I actually had my phone stolen, so he knew what would happen if he went on with this prank. That's what makes this really cruel.
True, but the actual consequences for me if this actually happened is what makes this go too far.
That is cruel.
I can do 230 pull up's and have walked 17.3 km's in under 10s through bush and fire breaks in the 45 degree heat, uphill in the snow in my bare feet. I also wrestle bears, tigers, lions and giraffes every day on my way to work. I was also the one who emancipated the slaves in 1863. that's the extent of my physicality.
Reminds me of an incident I had last quarter. One night I was practicing my poi (glowstick spinning) on the balcony, looking out onto the university grounds. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed someone come up to the balcony door, open it, close it, and run off. I turned around and nobody was there. I tried to open the door, but it was locked. I pounded on the door, texted all my roommates, went back to spinning for a while, pounded on the door some more, and it was half an hour in 40 degree weather in a t-shirt before someone let me back in.
"Oh haha I locked you out" would be waiting around the corner until I pound on the door, then letting me back in. But whoever locked me out (somebody's guest, still not sure who) left. Didn't wait around to let me back in, just ****ing left.
Some people have no concept of the line between a funny joke and straight-up being a ****. It's not even a "fine line." I'll spell it out: practical jokes cause momentary stress followed by relief. Being a **** causes prolonged stress followed by disgust.
There's something to be said for having a thick skin. I was never angry about being locked out, and I'm still not. But that doesn't mean it's ok to play cruel jokes on people. How far someone will take a practical joke, I think, depends on how empathetic they are. If they are very empathetic, they will only let you distress for a moment. If they are less empathetic, they will let you suffer.
I can do 230 pull up's and have walked 17.3 km's in under 10s through bush and fire breaks in the 45 degree heat, uphill in the snow in my bare feet. I also wrestle bears, tigers, lions and giraffes every day on my way to work. I was also the one who emancipated the slaves in 1863. that's the extent of my physicality.