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4 day late April Fools prank pulled on roommate

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holy shit ... you're 38?

i'm also assuming that he is the only one who lives in that house that has a girlfriend.
 
wow that's low. I'm all for a fun April's fool prank, but that was stupid. The fact that op finds it funny kinda explains why he's 38 and lives with a room mate.

If I were your room mate I would have beat the crap out of you, then say "April's fool!".
 
QueBert said:
Did I cross a line? Probably, but in honor of April Fools day I had to do something that was evil.
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You can't do a belated april fools. April Fools DAY is the ONLY day you can do this and get away with it. What you did ended up not being funny - you may very well have destroyed their relationship.
 
IF this is true. IF i was your roomate you would be on the street.

i can't see how anyone would think this was a ok prank. What did you think would happen? they would laugh it off?

odds are this started a very nasty argument in the car. with him refusing to admit to it she got madder. odds are the madder she got the worse the argument got. both most likely said shit that didn't need to be said.
 
Jokes on OP. He's 38, acts 15, and still lives with a roommate. Add to that he has no gf, is a virgin still, and has to get approval from ATOT to justify his existence.

Also, he's probably just making all this shit up as to get a kick out of others getting mad.
 
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TheVrolok said:
If I were the roommate, I would have roughed you up. Complete douchebag move. You didn't just fuck with your roommate, you fucked with his girlfriend in a completely unacceptable way. Sounds like you need to grow up.
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This. I've ended long friendships for stuff like this.
 
I'm not sure NFC tags work that way. (Enough flash memory to save a video file? Enough bandwidth to stream it to his phone? I have some doubts)
Otherwise good story.

Edit: Hmm, you never ended up describing the work-around. The only way I see that it could work would be to use it to start either local video on the phone (how did it get there?)
or plant another phone in the car, and launch one of those screen-sharing applications on his, and then stream the video from phone to phone.

Until method has been disclosed I still call shenanigans!
 
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_Rick_ said:
I'm not sure NFC tags work that way. (Enough flash memory to save a video file? Enough bandwidth to stream it to his phone? I have some doubts)
Otherwise good story.
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i don't think that is what he is saying.

he put this file on his friends phone. When eh put it in the dock the tag called the file up to play (hence why the 10 min time before the call).


but i agree i don't think it's real. I just can't think someone can be this immature and mean.
 
waggy said:
he put this file on his friends phone. When eh put it in the dock the tag called the file up to play (hence why the 10 min time before the call).
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Ah, well, with access to the phone, anything goes - too easy.
 
Krazy4Real said:
I don't think you understand how NFC tags work. :hmm:
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I think I do :colbert:
I suppose I did miss the option of creating a website, and swapping the NFC tag for one that opens a URL that loads the video - but that would have been a bit on the obvious side - nothing smashes suspension of disbelief like a dose of "buffering"


...of course with physical access, the simpler way would be to just change his contact data in the phone to "Jenny" and call him directly. Could have even played a recorded message, should he have picked up.
 
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