Prank Phone Calls and the absolute toolbags who make them

[Seraph]

The new ones don't know what they're doing (as evidenced by the battletoads prank going on so long instead of them moving on to something original and/or actually funny) so the rules don't apply for them.

Kinda like the idiots who do nothing but flood forums with DESU posts. Desu is NOT a meme. :P

I do find it highly amusing though how widespread Rickrolling has become. I wonder what many non-channers would do if they visited the site for all of five minutes. Actually...ya think they'd even last that long?

[Samaliel]

I don't get the Battletoads one.

The fact is that Battletoads actually is a game, but such an ancient one (we're talking NES here) that most stores aren't likely to carry it. Somehow, they must think that is funny.

Kinda like the idiots who do nothing but flood forums with DESU posts. Desu is NOT a meme. :P

I do find it highly amusing though how widespread Rickrolling has become. I wonder what many non-channers would do if they visited the site for all of five minutes. Actually...ya think they'd even last that long?

I'm not sure I want to know, but what is a "desu post" ?

Also, I once visited 4chan, but was quickly distracted by something, you know, actually interesting.

[Bramblerose]

They've moved on to this:
"Do you guys have Grand Theft Auto: Johnson City Stories?"

what if you gave them teh ph # to the nearest motel-by-the-hour?

(Ok, call me crazy, but I think battletoads could be fun- assuming a good dose of humor- swamp gas mines, problems with water corroding weapons, etc etc).

[Parrothead]

We only have two prank calls at the kennel (that I know of): We had someone want to know if we could board Marmosets (left a message on the machine, no name, no contact info.) and some teenaged-ish boys who keep saying that their dog is having issues with his genitalia. Only cruder.


And then there was the lady who called, absolutely frantic, because her rabbit had gone into labor. Several hours ago.

[Apathy]

I worked 3rd shift at a small grocery store a few years ago. I got this call:

Me: *grocery store* (I didn't do the spiel. It's 3rd, no one cares, and no one's around to enforce it on me)
Idiot: Uhh, yeah. Hi. Do you guys carry cockrings? *snicker*
Me: Yes.
Idiot:.... uhhh..... uhhhh..... *click*

Just so you know, we didn't carry those.

[sms001]

Sooory, I just figured if you showed them you were onto their little game that they'd give up.

I bet Marty wishes it'd work too!

She's already pOwned one pretty seriously:

http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...ad.php?t=27236

[In the Store]
SC: Idiot 15 year old kid.
Me: I rule you!

SC: Do you guys have battletoads?
Me: No.
SC: Can you look?
ME: No, I can't look, and I'm not going to do a barrel roll or shoop de whoop, I'm not charging my lasers, I don't like mudkip, and I'm not going to use the boost to chase. You do know that everytime you guys call up here we call the police and trace the phone calls, now how happy do you think your mom's going to be when she gets a phone call about someone from your number making harassing phone calls? It gets old fast, really.
SC:
Me: Yeah. You can leave now.

I win!

Go Marty!!!

[marty]

Funny enough, the phone calls stopped after that.

[Evil Queen]

I'm not sure I want to know, but what is a "desu post" ?

If my Japanese is correct (which it more then likely is not, but I watch a lot of anime)... Desu is what you say at the end of a sentence (formally speaking) to let someone know you're done speaking. I generally say something like "Nan-desu?" to ask "What?"

I think Desu Posts mike be like posting "." or "bump" to get a topic back onto the first page again.



Honestly, I only went to 4chan once and was immediately bored with it.

[SugarBeef]

Desu posts are just "desu desu desu" over and over (usually so many times that one post is a whole page). It came from the anime Rozen Maiden where one of the dolls ended every sentence with desu, the one that looks like a maid with one red and one green eye. No idea who decided it was funny. Probably the same brain trust that thinks battletoads is still funny.

Honestly, about all I can stand about that place anymore is the wallpapers when I want a new one, the video game and comic/cartoon boards, and if they have a "you laugh you lose" thread with something funny in it. Beyond that it's about the same 12 posts over and over again since the people that actually came up with anything new moved to another site.

[Evil Queen]

Oy, I have the Rozen Maiden series of Manga. It's really good.

[Seraph]

Desu posts are just "desu desu desu" over and over (usually so many times that one post is a whole page). It came from the anime Rozen Maiden where one of the dolls ended every sentence with desu, the one that looks like a maid with one red and one green eye. No idea who decided it was funny. Probably the same brain trust that thinks battletoads is still funny.

Honestly, about all I can stand about that place anymore is the wallpapers when I want a new one, the video game and comic/cartoon boards, and if they have a "you laugh you lose" thread with something funny in it. Beyond that it's about the same 12 posts over and over again since the people that actually came up with anything new moved to another site.

Same here...the gif boards are full of pron, the board non speak of is the same...except for the occasional epic Caturday or YLYL thread. I only check out the wallpaper and comic boards myself besides occasionally peeking into the other two in the vain hopes that someone's posted original content. For vid games...I stick with Kotaku now.

[Evil Queen]

Speaking of Prank calls, I just got one. (A POX ON THE WORLD TO YOU!)

Me: Good Evening, thank you for calling [hotel] this is EQ how can I help you?
Caller: Yeah, can I talk to your shift leader? *gaggle of girls giggling and talking*
Me: I'm sorry, can you repeat your request?
Caller: *more giggling and talking*
Me: Hello?
Caller: Yeah, can you lick my ?
Me: .....No. But you can lick my [other word for rooster].
<click>

Keep in mind that I'm a girl with a very girlie voice. Yeah. Funny shit little girls.

[SugarBeef]

Speaking of Prank calls, I just got one. (A POX ON THE WORLD TO YOU!)

Me: Good Evening, thank you for calling [hotel] this is EQ how can I help you?
Caller: Yeah, can I talk to your shift leader? *gaggle of girls giggling and talking*
Me: I'm sorry, can you repeat your request?
Caller: *more giggling and talking*
Me: Hello?
Caller: Yeah, can you lick my ?
Me: .....No. But you can lick my [other word for rooster].
<click>

Keep in mind that I'm a girl with a very girlie voice. Yeah. Funny shit little girls.

I wonder if it's the same drunk 15 year olds that called my house a couple years ago telling me my porno dvds were past due at blockbuster?

(for those of you that don't know, blockbuster is "family friendly" in that they don't carry anything above an R rating, so no pornos)

[aniwahya]

I have never understood the appeal of prank calls. Especially of businesses where you have an employee who reads a scripted spiel, and is generally constrained by a set of rules imposed by their boss that do not allow them to truly respond to the pranker. It is like clubbing a blind baby seal who is tied to a post by a 2 foot chain while being stuck in a tar-super glue hybrid.There is no challenge to it. How can it be fun if there is no challenge? Bah!

[Samaliel]

But it's fun because there is no challenge ! If there was challenge, they would be at risk of getting pwned ! And getting pwned is no fun ! And since they don't get pwned, that must mean they pwn everyone else ! Which is fun §

Don't mind me, I just graduated in Different Logic.