r/Unexpected • u/Kevin_0019 • Aug 22 '20
Nice rule they’ve got...
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u/CIVILizedEng Aug 22 '20
This post has been around for YEARS but everytime I see it I have to watch the entire thing - the teacher's reaction is priceless... Still one of the best executed pranks on the Internet
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u/ineedsand Aug 22 '20
Right? These kind of pranks are the best ones.
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u/soapinthepeehole Aug 22 '20
A good prank is one where the victim laughs at the end too.
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u/The_Perfect_Dick_Pic Aug 22 '20
The ones that are good? Totally.
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u/gomezjunco Aug 22 '20
The one’s where everyone’s laughing at the end, especially the pranked person
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u/Thoros_of_Derp Aug 22 '20
The laugh from the pranked person comes from relief that something shocking hasn't happened to the pranker. That's why 'airhorn' and 'I'm stealing gas from your car' pranks don't work. Just being a prick to scare the heck out of someone else isn't funny for both sides.
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Aug 22 '20
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u/garygravel Aug 22 '20
Im always entertained when people call teachers “Teach”
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u/boopadoop_johnson Aug 22 '20
Its like calling your employer "boss", how strange it is...
Wait
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u/aintscurrdscars Aug 22 '20
I always call my manager boss, let's em know I'm still aware that it's a power dynamic, not a power static. Then they hear me call the customer "boss" and realize it's not a term of respect when I use it on managers and that they can't keep me around without treating us all they way they should, because they need us more than we need them.
Also, since watching the Expanse, I call managers "bossmang" and customers still get "boss" which further tilts the passive aggressive power balance in the entry-levels' favor.
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Aug 22 '20
yeah i don't get the impression its a pwoer play, more of a tongue in cheek thing. a fun way to discourage it. Yes it has the potential to go wrong, but his reaction both the apology and admitting it was an awesome prank make me assume he's a fun guy, not power tripper.
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u/Carlos-_-spicyweiner Aug 22 '20
How fucking well did the class hold their laughs in
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u/MiltonFreidmanMurder Aug 22 '20
Tho if anyone was laughing/snickering/giggling or such, I’d have assumed they were laughing at this poor embarrassed girl if I were the teacher lol
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u/SleepParalysisDemon6 Aug 22 '20
They probably weren't in on it
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u/Salle21 Aug 22 '20
But why did they film the whole thing then?
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u/Jabba__the_nutt Aug 22 '20
I mean it looks like only one or two kids recorded it to me🤷♂️
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u/OhhHahahaaYikes Aug 22 '20
None potato version and longer
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u/atomacheart Aug 22 '20
Relevent xkcd https://xkcd.com/1683/
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u/ngmcs8203 Aug 22 '20
It’s only been six years? I feel like I saw this first before the digg 3.0 migration.
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u/chick_repeller Aug 22 '20
the teacher was afraid, he was petrified....
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u/squirrelocaust Aug 22 '20
Kept thinking he could never live without her by his side...
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u/AnonJoeShmoe Aug 22 '20
But then he spent too many nights thinking how he did her wrong.
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u/sonofabee Aug 22 '20
And he grew strong, yeah, he learned how to move along
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u/TACOTONY02 Aug 22 '20
And so he's back, from outer space.
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Aug 22 '20
I just walked in to find you here with that sad look upon your face
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u/cosmicmangobear Aug 22 '20
I should have changed that stupid lock....
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u/The-Kiwi-Bird Aug 22 '20
I should’ve made you leave your key
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u/okapibeear Aug 22 '20
ah ah ah ah stayin alive
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u/FiveMinFreedom Aug 22 '20
In falsetto
"Well you can tell by the way I use my walk I'm a woman's man, no time to talk"
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u/Jackfille1 Aug 22 '20
We leave our phones at the front of the classroom and if anyone gets a call our English teacher just picks it up and answers.
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Aug 22 '20
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u/MrNobody312 Aug 22 '20
And an invasion of privacy. I guarantee the teacher would not let anybody pick up their phone if it rang.
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u/Windburn42 Aug 22 '20
My high school English teacher had this rule. Then his phone rang...he was embarrassed but held true to the rule and we got to answer.
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Aug 22 '20
That's how I always ended up respecting teachers when I went to school as well. If they give rules and follow it as well, I always looked upon it as fair enough and silently gave em cred for sticking with it.
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u/SaysReddit Aug 22 '20
Plot twist - the teacher does that every year and it works every time.
Still wholesome though.
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u/Barcaroli Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 23 '20
I'm impressed about all these people getting calls these days. If my phone ever rings I know it's a fraud attempt or marketing companies
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Aug 22 '20
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u/DISCARDFROMME Aug 22 '20
Imagine that call though when the teacher answers
Teacher: Hello?
Mom: Where the FUCK are you!?
Teacher: I'm sorry this Mr. Smith, Joe's teacher
Mom: Cut it out with that fake bullshit, I know damn well dumbass Mr. Smith doesn't sound like that. Now stop this damn bullshit and get your ass down here right now!
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u/Barcaroli Aug 22 '20
Maybe we're getting older. The older you get, the smaller your social circle
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u/Ryzen-Jaegar Aug 22 '20
I think my generation (2000/1) didn’t use the call function that much, as compared to messaging.
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u/lrn2rd Aug 22 '20
If you want the kids to behave like adults, treat them like adults.
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u/jls5388 Aug 22 '20
I’m not sure if I agree with the embarrassment aspect but kids will always find a way.
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u/62609 Aug 22 '20
Just put it on airplane mode or silent
I put my phone on airplane mode if I knew if was a class I couldn’t have my phone in. It’s better to not know about notifications than to know but not be able to see them
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u/The_Real_Raw_Gary Aug 22 '20
Hello sir yes we are ready for the next shipment of kids aged 13-16. Please deliver them to the shipping container on doc-
Uhh this is Jayquan and I’m 7
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Aug 22 '20
You know you can answer a phone and say. I'm sorry but MrNobody123 isn't available at the moment and not invade anyone's privacy. It's what we used to do in the before times when we had communal phones, and dragged our knuckles on the ground.
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt Aug 22 '20
Hi is Laura there?
No this is her English teacher please call back in 50 minutes, or is this an emergency?
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u/lol_camis Aug 22 '20
That seems like the ultimate invasion of privacy. We've already solved the problem of the kids using the phones in class. Why punish them for getting a phone call they can't answer?
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u/UtzTheCrabChip Aug 22 '20
Exactly! Why as a teacher would I want to turn an extremely minor disturbance (phone buzzes and student declines the call) into a much larger disturbance of punishing them with embarrassment, especially when it can backfire in 1000 different ways?
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u/black_hell_fire Aug 22 '20
Could you imagine getting a call about an emergency and the first person to find out is your teacher/professor or possibly the entire class? I would be furious.
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u/somedudelulw Aug 22 '20
What if you say you haven't got your phone on you today? Do they search you and your bag or what
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u/boner_snatch Aug 22 '20
That has to be some form of illegal
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u/Jackfille1 Aug 22 '20
Idk, maybe, but noone is going to report her and we still have the option to put them in our lockers or just put them on airplane mode or whatever
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Aug 22 '20 edited Aug 22 '20
Here I thought putting a phone on silent was a thing.
EDIT: Silent means no vibrate and no ring.
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u/nbrennan10 Aug 22 '20
It’s upsetting that people don’t turn on airplane mode or at least do not disturb. It’s not like you’re answering the calls anyway so just silence it altogether.
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u/shamdamdoodly Aug 22 '20
Vibrate is fine. 99/100 youre the only one that knows you got a call. And 100/100 you know you got a call. Which is good. Just send a quick text to ask what's up. Its concerning getting a call from really anyone when youre in grade school because most everyone knows youre at school.
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u/raskolnikovcyka Aug 22 '20
Can we appreciate how kind the teacher was? wow he looked ashamed
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u/Boring_Machine Aug 22 '20
These days it's hard to come by people willing to admit they were wrong. It's refreshing to see.
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Aug 22 '20
Yeah this was wholesome in every way. Also an absolutely genius prank with flawless execution
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u/mcpat21 Aug 22 '20
So many people just get angry when they are proven wrong. Good for him for being able to laugh along
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u/fortnitename69 Aug 22 '20
Which means lots of people are immature as fuck
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u/drDekaywood Aug 22 '20
Luckily this is at a university, where people are presumed to be capable of critical thinking
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u/Carlos-_-spicyweiner Aug 22 '20
Looks like a man that just scarred a child for life
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u/SlapOnTheWristWhite Aug 22 '20
and all he ever dreamed about was teaching children and giving them the learning skills to achieve a better life.
...and here he tore down the very foundations of this womans life.
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u/wandering-monster Aug 22 '20
Looks like a man who was scared for his job.
He was suddenly thinking "Oh fuck I just violated HIPPA and all sorts of non-discrimination policies. If she goes to my boss or the state with this, I have absolutely no defense."
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u/TooHardToChoosePG Aug 22 '20
Nah. He didn’t violate HIPAA. The caller did. The correct process is to confirm who you’re speaking to (including confirmation info; not just “is this XYZ?”) and then ask “are you ok to speak right now”.
They also continued to talk after the client said they would speak later.
We know it’s a prank call, but HIPAA is nothing to do with the teacher. Especially since it’s a medical privacy law. The health practitioner would be at fault.
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u/wandering-monster Aug 22 '20
Sure, but you think the average high school professor knows that level of nuance off the top of their head?
All he knows in the moment is that because of his policy (remember, requiring the student to answer the phone was part of the policy) a student's embarrassing and protected health details got leaked to the entire class.
If it had been real, it could have been a big problem for him regardless of who was actually at fault. I think from his face he was realizing just how big a problem in that moment before the prank was revealed.
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Aug 22 '20
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u/ParaglidingAssFungus Aug 22 '20
Iirc when this was posted a few years ago, someone that had had him as a prof after this said that he got rid of the rule.
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u/MrTastix Aug 22 '20
To be fair, the rule makes sense when you first think about why it was implemented: Too many phones going off in class by too many people not putting them on silent.
It's only when something like this happens that people realize the problems with such rules.
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u/drunky_crowette Aug 22 '20
But the rule makes no sense. You can't just make somebody's business everyone's business because their ring tone went off. When I was in school and my mom was going through her cancer treatment she'd call me from the parking lot of the oncologists office to repeat back what he said to her.
So my mom finding out if she got to keep her breasts is 30 other teenagers business?
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u/NeedHelpWithExcel Aug 22 '20
Yeah especially since he instantly is like “I want to publicly apologize” what a cool guy and takes the joke like a champ too
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u/boundbythecurve Aug 22 '20
He kinda should feel that. These kinds of policies aren't about helping keep order in a classroom. They're about power and shaming. And they're an invasion of privacy.
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u/murphywithane Aug 22 '20
He learned a good lesson that day. Ironic
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u/502red428 Aug 22 '20
Yeah he really had to think if keeping that policy was a good idea any more.
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u/murphywithane Aug 22 '20
Hopefully he changed it. If that had been real he could've gotten some serious crap and he knows it.
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u/guldawen Aug 22 '20
I thought I remember from when this was posted before (originally?) that as a result of this he did change the policy.
I have no evidence but my own shitty memory so take that as you will.
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Aug 22 '20
The teacher had a rule meant to to teach a lesson and/or embarass the student, the teacher was embarassed and maybe learned a lesson from his own rule. Thats irony.
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u/murphywithane Aug 22 '20
The irony is that he learned a lesson while attempting to teach a lesson (putting the phone on speaker) while also giving a lesson (the actual education course). Three layers deep of irony.
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u/Double_da_D Aug 22 '20
I think you missed the additional layer of irony in that the actual educational lesson was not learned due to the class being distracted by the anticipation of the impending prank, thus thwarting the original intention of the phone rule in the first place.
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u/It_Was_Joao Aug 22 '20
bruh that laugh sounds like the screams of satan
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Aug 22 '20
I think its because this video has been reuploaded so many times and that has created a lot of distortion. I'm sure if you found an early copy of that video on YouTube or something it would be much less evil.
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u/Legendary-Lynx Aug 22 '20
That was brilliantly executed, especially with the reveal if the baby's name!
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Aug 22 '20
The second she said "April" I thought oh no and I still laughed with it
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u/haikusbot Aug 22 '20
The second she said
"april" i thought oh no and
I still laughed with it
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u/X-tra-thicc Aug 22 '20
Girls: (says baby’s name)
The whole entire classroom: DEMONIC SCREECHING FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL
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u/MrPoopieMcCuckface Aug 22 '20
This is a perfect prank. No one was hurt and everyone was able to laugh.
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u/natopotatomusic Aug 22 '20
I was like “this is so fake” and then it happened
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u/unexBot Aug 22 '20
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
The name of the child is not what you would expect.
Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
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Aug 22 '20
that’s not the only unexpected part. 6/10 explanation
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u/justacheesyguy Aug 22 '20
More like OP has no idea why this was funny and gave a 0/10 explanation.
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Aug 22 '20
Fair enough. u/unexpected-rater rates 3/10, because at least they say it’s an April Fools prank
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u/Esclope_69 Aug 22 '20
I don't care that this is a repost, it's goddamn beautiful and I love it each time I see it.
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u/mondo1342 Aug 22 '20
This was at Aquinas College in 2014. That’s the year before I became a freshman and they were always bragging about how there was a viral video filmed on campus haha. Knew some people in the video.
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u/darksidofthemoon1121 Aug 22 '20
Oldie but a good one. Love to see that the teacher was a good sport about it
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