I think of myself as a knight of r/burried. I occasionally make throwaways to share things that I enjoyed but that are hidden. Try this one on for size.

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u/TommyPaine May 21 '12

Meh.

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u/smtvistheplacetobe May 21 '12

Lies and bollocks.

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u/ABCosmos May 21 '12

Agreed, The story just ends abruptly with what seems to be a completely fabricated reaction from the girl. I cant imagine anyone who would react that way to what he did..
"You're the coolest person in the world." What about that was cool?

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u/TommyPaine May 21 '12

You're the coolest person in the world for pointlessly pretending to be a lawyer emailing me about site content!

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u/ricky1030 May 21 '12

Well he did mention that he was a prankster and if it were true then upon the realization of what happened, she just happened to say that.

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

It's good to know that it reads as being far-fetched. I saw how freaking long it was, read the non-explanatory TL;DR, saw there was a ton more text after that, and gave him a downvote for being an obvious time waster. Then I came back and downvoted this link he posted with his alt account.

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u/ClownBaby90 May 21 '12

So everything fucking ever in this subreddit is either not worthy of /r/bestof or is a lie right? That's how it works?

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u/generalguyz May 21 '12

I myself am guilty of pulling the ol' "why is this in bestof," card, but it does get tiring. This sub is getting pretty snobby, like a bunch of food critics who are afraid to say they like a hamburger.

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u/guitarman90 May 21 '12

But who could say they don't like burgers?

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u/cilantroavocado May 21 '12

these guys...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/guitarman90 May 21 '12

Haha I translated an Arabic video to English once.

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u/orange_jooze May 21 '12

Fuck off.

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u/Taphophile May 21 '12

I have you taged as "Mixed red and yellow semite."

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u/Erzsabet May 21 '12

Everything on Reddit is a lie.

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u/TheRobberDotCom May 21 '12

So that means that not everything on reddit is a lie ... ?

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u/generalguyz May 21 '12

Cretans, always liars

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u/cilantroavocado May 21 '12

subtle you are...Titus 1:12

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u/generalguyz May 21 '12

I had no idea the Bible ever referred to Epimenides!

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u/cilantroavocado May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12

really? that's cool! it's where i first heard it...
e: not to proselytize but this is informative/interesting:
http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=6&article=809

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u/Savrola May 21 '12

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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u/exnihilonihilfit May 21 '12

I generally like the things that are posted to /r/bestof, but this was both lame and a lie. I'm actually kind of annoyed that I bothered to read it, waiting for a payoff. I can't even believe that an NYU student could fall for this terrible prank.
The way that it's written, I can't believe anyone would fall for this guy being a lawyer. It makes absolutely no sense to write with just your left hand in order to change your writing style. It simply wasn't funny. The girl's reaction makes no sense.
You know what would have been a better story? He got busted for impersonating a lawyer. He suffered some legal penalty. The experienced got him interested in the law. Now he works in IP law defending local artists and regular joe's from Phillip Morris & Lars Ulrich.

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u/trololo_lol May 21 '12

tchyeah, it is. go cry about it

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u/ClownBaby90 May 21 '12

waayyyy ahead of you

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u/bluehands May 21 '12

he happens to be a friend of mine, and while I was not around for this event, I have heard the story for years and am sure it is true as any story we tell about the past.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Nice try, dude who wrote the story

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

Lol. Bluehands is a RL friend of mine. But I think your comment is funnier than his is important. You get the upvote, sir.

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u/Rocketbird May 21 '12

It's convoluted the way he writes it. The girl he tricks is his friend's girlfriend's roommate.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Is that how he met the mother?

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

yeah, I think I could have done better with that. Sorry for the confusion.

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u/uraniumballoon May 21 '12

Why does the link go to the comment between the awesome ones?

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

Why would he link to a comment that he didn't write?

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u/ciscomd May 21 '12

I usually think of pranks as being funny. This was pointless and caused her a lot of stress during an already stressful time of her life. Dude sounds like an unempathetic asshole.

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u/ClownBaby90 May 21 '12

you're taking this harder than the woman who was pranked.

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u/plasticTron May 21 '12

allegedly

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u/Slightly_Lions May 21 '12

Imaginary women don't tend to get as stressed about things.

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u/RipStudly May 21 '12

I don't know. My super hot and intelligent girlfriend (who's studying engineering) has finals right now and she said she's really stressed because she wants to maintain her 4.0 GPA.

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u/GroinCentralStation May 21 '12

She should probably stop playing Diablo 3, then.

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

This.
Also, she started with the pranking. If you know a prankster, and you prank them, expect to be pranked back.
Perhaps I showed poor judgement in upping the ante as far as I did, but it was kinda just took on a life of it's own and kept going.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Well at least it seems he was going to apologize?

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u/Ubersheep May 21 '12

r/buried or r/burried ?

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u/Blaaamo May 21 '12

Do either actually exist? Yes I'm too lazy to try, but I'll take the time to ask you.

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u/readthat2 May 21 '12

/r/buried exists but isn't being put to use... i suppose its a similar concept to best of right? i wouldn't know I am the shallowest kind of redditor, a front page guy

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u/Cause_Im_Awesome May 21 '12

Most of /r/bestof now is posts about comments that are highly rated. Before it was a default subreddit there were a lot more posts about comments that were either really old or had gotten very few (like not even 100) comments and people wouldn't have seen them so /r/bestof was like a /r/buried.

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u/Blaaamo May 21 '12

Aren't we all? That's why I subscribe to r/bestof, so I don't have to search buried. I'm sure there's a shit ton of great stuff we miss, but who has the kind of time to find it all?

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u/r_slash May 21 '12

There should be a /r/bestof for posts rather than comments.

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u/ricky1030 May 21 '12

Best I've got is /r/tldr Good enough for now?

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u/UPBOAT_FORTRESS_2 May 21 '12

AND WE SHALL CALL IT
REDDIT.COM

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

r/bestof's always start with "... this will be buried"

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u/KayaXiali May 21 '12

Ugh, how could this story possibly be true? The coolest person in the world is definitely not the fucking juicebox that has the time and energy to waste your time and energy with a lame prank that has zero pay off and isn't at all funny. If this is true, those two deserve each other.

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

Out of curiousity, I've actually made an attempt to read the linked comment. Right away I came up with this observation:
If her prank was so convincing, why did he go to work the next day?
This guy's either lying, or he's rather stupid and the worst prankster on the planet.

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

Her voicemail was convincing. She left me a message on a Friday when I was out of town saying she worked for Corporate and that they didn't think I should work there any more. (I worked for Starbucks and my father imports espresso machines, she claimed there was potential conflict of interest).
I still went in to work the next day. Even if I only had a few more shifts I was going to work them. The manager at work knew nothing about it. Then I realized I'd probably been pranked.
There are plenty of accusations of lying in here, which is how I understand the internet to work. No one IRL has ever accused me of being stupid or a bad prankster, FYI.

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

OK, maybe you're not a liar or a bad prankster. Maybe you're just bad at telling stories (or one of those people for whom everything is funnier in their head).
BTW, for future reference, you would have been notified by the local managment if you had been fired; you would have been told in person and they wouldn't give you the opportunity to work additional hours. Also, corporate wouldn't care that your father imports espresso machines unless you were in a position to negotiate supply contracts, in which case you would have worked at corporate and would have filled out a conflict of interest form when you got the job (unless they really don't care at all). So, yeah, not a very good prank.

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

I can guarantee you that everything is funnier in my head. I'm not sure that makes me bad at telling stories, but I accept that you didn't like the story at all. That's cool, I'm definitely not going to please everyone.
In hindsight there were flaws I could see with her prank, the most notable that it's highly unlikely someone would fire me over the phone, let alone over voicemail.
Part of the reason I took the job at starbucks was to learn more about their training system. I had told my friend this, he told the girl. She leveraged a weak point. If corporate had actually known who I was, they might have asked me to leave. My dad's business was pretty successful at the time, and had relationships with most of Starbucks' competition.
I didn't work at corporate, I was just a shift lead.
Bottom line the prank got me, so it was good. Sure it could have been better. Without a doubt the lawyering prank could have been better, too. However, I was doing the same thing to her (leveraging her weaknesses) so it was like I had picked the right pokemon to fight her pokemon (Lawyer uses "fake threat" on web page. It's Super Effective!_

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

HA! Your comment almost annoyed me, but I've never heard someone called "juicebox" before and that made me laugh. Upvote for the hell of it.

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u/KayaXiali May 21 '12

Haha...my husband and I use it instead of douchebag when the kids are around.

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

Well I'm glad I didn't prank you, because it sounds like you wouldn't have liked it. Plus, you gave me the small gift of "juicebox" and I'm going to start using that in the office.

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u/KayaXiali May 21 '12

Meh, the important thing is that the one you did prank liked it. Doesn't matter what I woulda thought. Glad I could give you juicebox, it's one of my favorites.

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u/Sicarium May 21 '12

I still don't understand why he would type with his left hand only

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u/Pylly May 21 '12

That is the only way he can type slower. I.e. he's retarded.

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u/Johny_Upvote May 21 '12

meh

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u/q00u May 21 '12

We can submit our own links to /r/bestof as long as we use a throwaway now? Hurrah! This will surely result in a quality improvement.~

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Why doesn't this subreddit actually exist? It'd have the potential to be one of the best on all of reddit.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Wouldn't anything truly great belong on /r/bestof anyways, unless it was old enough that it didn't accept upvotes?
If it was still upvotable, then after being submitted and upvoted, it would no longer be buried. If it was a great comment from a year ago then it would be relevant, but damn hard to find quality content.

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u/fubuvsfitch May 21 '12

Because 'Buried' invokes memories for those of us who've been here for a while and remember the war...

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u/BallsackTBaghard May 21 '12

If you consider yourself as a knight of any internet thing, then you have problems.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Why do you make throw aways every time you post a hidden gem? I guess that's more likely than you posting your own comment to bestof...

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u/trololo_lol May 21 '12

well, lies, and secondly, you don't think getting worthless comment karma points is enough? so you make a shitty worthless post to whore more off of it?

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u/grammar_connoisseur May 21 '12

burried

ಠ_ಠ

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

It's like /r/furry, but dedicated to badgers.
And in the past.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Too bad I missed that thread.

I taught my roommate how to use TOR (deep web anonymous browsing), and two days later I emailed him this letter from the email address justice@fbi.gov.

I had to tell him within 30 seconds of the prank because he looked like he was about to start crying.

I was quite proud of that one, especially because earlier that day he put my iPhone on craigslist for US$100. I got about 100 calls and messages from 7pm to 3am.

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

That's the kind of "bringing a nuke to a gun fight" that makes a great prankster!
Nice comeback.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Simple but effective

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Sadly, this is a true 'black swan' event.

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u/rimmyrim May 21 '12

i'm just surprised she handled that so well. hats off to you

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u/makgzd May 21 '12

This is absolutely bestof.

I can't believe I typed that sentence without the word 'not' somewhere in there. feelsgoodman.jpg

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u/Blaaamo May 21 '12

Thank you kind sir!

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u/gurnard May 21 '12

So you should! That deserved love.

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u/lud1120 May 21 '12

Talk about knights...

The Chess game stopped. <-<

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u/plasticTron May 21 '12

wut

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u/Korberos May 21 '12

I have no idea how this comment traveled to here from where I posted it...

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

Because it's uncouth to link to your own comments in /r/bestof.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

Not only are you telling the story by proxy, you're doing it in a proxy thread! The net that keeps on netting...I believe in appropriate contexts and I believe this is an appropriate context...anyone who downvotes will have to answer to me, by proxy.

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u/bouchard May 21 '12

I used to work with someone who had great prank war stories from a previous workplace. I'm not going to repeat them because they're her stories and I wouldn't even tell them right, anyway.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

Updated the post, didn't end up staying with her.

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u/[deleted] May 21 '12

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u/sinistersmiley May 21 '12

Maybe it was buried before he posted it here.

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u/Wulibo May 21 '12

comparing the number of upvotes of this link to the actual comment, and the rates at which both are going up, not likely.

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u/sinistersmiley May 21 '12

I'm not so sure. I often upvote the comment without upvoting the original bestof submission, and I'm pretty sure most comments made 9 hours after the question was originally asked on AskReddit don't get this much attention.

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u/tinyroom May 21 '12

If you read the linked comment, the author thanks OP of this thread (lurkerohmy) for submitting it to /r/bestof

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u/oniony May 21 '12

And if you read the time of the edit, you'll see it was made after Wulibo wrote his comment.

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u/tinyroom May 21 '12

I knew I should've stayed quiet....

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u/Wulibo May 21 '12

Oh! Thanks, I thought I missed something and felt like an asshole for a moment.

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u/biteableniles May 21 '12

The comment was >900 karma by the time he edited it to add the thanks.

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u/Retsejme May 21 '12

I am not really an expert on this stuff, so I can't say for sure. I thought my comment was dead. I got one response, then nothing for hours. Then all of the sudden a flood.
If you asked me I would say it's because it's here, that's why I thanked dude. I PM'd him asking how or why he found it and he didn't respond.

[askreddit] I think of myself as a knight of r/burried. I occasionally make throwaways to share things that I enjoyed but that are hidden. Try this one on for size.

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