I was listening to a Weird Al song about prank calls and realized you can’t really do them anymore now. Also it was funny that he mentioned dialing 7 digit numbers instead of 10
my phone has been on silent mode since 2012
Because of my job I have to answer unknown numbers. My God is it ever irritating
Same here internet comrade. Gotta answer every call because my number gets passed around. At least my work pays my phone bill.
People get really upset that I don’t check my phone often and keep it on do not disturb…
They can just keep on being upset. Their reaction kind of reinforces why I have the damn thing mostly disabled from its primary function anyway.
primary function
I thought we were talking about voice calls here.
Back then “if it’s important they would call”. Recently, “they will call back if it’s important”. Now, “they will leave a message if it’s important.”
Now is just, “They will text if they are not trying to sell you a warranty extension for your car”
“They will text me why I should pick up”
Don’t go making fony calls. Please stick to the 7 digit numbers you’re used to!
The natural evolution of prank calls is rickroll links.
Speaking of, did you know that there’s a Chrome extension that turns random links into rickrolls?
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rickroll-extension/ljkcmgibdnmdjdfpbggohpophnkiajfmOr, if you’re a firefox user, maybe:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rickrollifyI haven’t tried either of them, but I think the concept is neat. I’m a fan of doing a little self-pranking now and then.
Moe from the Simpsons would be happy.
Anyone know Amanda? Hey! I’m looking for Amanda Huginkiss!
“Moe’s Tavern. Hold on, I’ll check. Hey, everybody. I’m a stupid moron with an ugly face and a big butt and my butt smells, and I like to kiss my own butt.”
People still try. When I worked retail we’d get them often enough as you can’t just not answer an unknown number when someone is calling the store.
That said, if it’s an unknown number we’re already expecting a prank call and are just waiting for the first excuse to hang up.
In the US *67 still works, but people hardly answer unknown numbers anymore. It’s telemarketer’s fault
Al mentions 7 digits and not 10 because back in our day you had to pay long distance charges if you dialed a number outside of your area code. Therefore only the 7 digits were required because no one was dialing 1-xxx to get to another area code and have charges show up on their parents bill and then have to explain who you were calling and why.
Hello ramble81, I am calling to check if your refrigerator is running… It is? Oh my goodness you better run faster and catch it!
I prank call people all the time. You just gotta call tech support scammers instead nowadays.
I see someone has never worked in telecom
Or a food delivery place
I miss The Jerky Boys…
Wit that silly little sauce ya got there I got it all up on my nuts.
We just called businesses instead, during lunch time at school, since they don’t block unknown numbers. We were starting on algebra and they showed us how to calculate the radius the area etc. So to us it was the funniest thing to call a pizza place and order a 4-2x(12π) sized pizza or something like that. That and calling completely unrelated businesses and ordering a pizza also
As someone who managed a ridiculously busy pizza place. Fuck you from the bottom of my heart. I’m convinced that job took years off my life from stress and the constant prank calls totally fucked up production.
Really though you were just a kid and couldn’t have known. But I cussed some kids out in ways they’d never heard.
I later worked at McDonald’s, and I understand and I am sorry
Imma just leave this here: prankcast.com
Who has voicemail? Lulz
One day you’ll grow up big and strong.
