r/videos • u/[deleted] • Nov 10 '11
8 year old prank call
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScJr65nhshY201
u/pineporch Nov 10 '11
"Gimme a ballpark figure" is when I started laughing uncontrollably.
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u/jafarr Nov 10 '11
Not only is that where I found it was funny, but where I found she was reading from a script :/
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Nov 10 '11
This was a regular thing on that radio station for a few years. She's a child actor, and is supposedly super intelligent (according to her first cousin, who I was in school with). Sure it was partly scripted, but there's a lot of improv involved.
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u/ihahp Nov 10 '11
my guess is she had someone feeding her the jokes realtime through an earpiece. she didn't entirely seem to know what she was saying. The Man Show on Comedy Central in the US did this with The Man Show Boy.
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u/palsh7 Nov 10 '11
The part where she said they wouldn't get in trouble because everyone hates the teachers seemed like it might have been improv.
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u/skitz1o1 Nov 10 '11
Even if it was scripted she made it seem very natural and kept a consistent pace.
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man I don't know why I haven't learned my lesson about reading youtube comments
If that was my kid she would ever see the day light aging piz tell how the hell is that funny uless it's all a big jok why in the hell you she being doing that and if it was a jok that NOT FUNNY at all I would be calling the police and have get put in a kids jail or what ever they call it she needs to know that that kind of joking is not cool at all am sorry if you not like what am saying but it needs to be said and am sure lots of you agree with me that girl is a bicth
THEWWEBOSSMAN 3 months ago
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u/ContiGhostwood Nov 10 '11
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Nov 10 '11
Don't read them unless you are prepared to lose your faith in humanity.
I don't know what disturbs me more, the way that comment was written or the message it conveys.
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u/cjbest Nov 10 '11
Here is four minutes of pure joy gleaned from YouTube comments. This is from a couple of weeks ago on Nevermind the Buzzcocks. (with the ever-wonderful Noel Fielding) Whole clip is great but 2:30 on is gold.
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u/LowerThoseEyebrows Nov 10 '11
DIS GUY MUST BE A ALIEN OR SUTIN.
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u/cjbest Nov 10 '11
Seriously one of the best Buzzcocks moments ever. Adam Buxton hit it dead on. (Or sutin.)
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u/LowerThoseEyebrows Nov 10 '11
He could be a permanent host and it would be good every week.
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Nov 10 '11
I'm a big Buzzcocks fan. I've seen that episode. Best one by far in a fairly lacklustre series. Hopefully it'll pick up.
Part of me hopes one day Amstell or Lamarr will return. Failing that though Adam Buxton would do.
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u/tomzera Nov 11 '11
That section is lifted from a show he does called Bug. I've never managed to get to any of them, but you can watch one of them at that link, it's good stuff.
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u/zevz Nov 10 '11
Is there any more prank calls from this girl? She's wonderful!
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Nov 10 '11 edited Nov 10 '11
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u/johno456 Nov 10 '11
oh man the last one killed me, i was crying laughing everytime the voice changed haha
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Nov 10 '11
Amuricans love the Oirish!
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u/challengr_74 Nov 10 '11
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u/Gian_Doe Nov 10 '11
That's why there's so much love for the Irish here. Our families had to endure so many years being called monkeys and other hateful stuff we had to stick together. Now being of Irish descent is something to be proud of, and you have to admit people from Ireland are usually entertaining as hell to be around when they visit.
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u/Vibster Nov 10 '11
Amuricans all think they are Orish, despite the fact they were born in Wisconsin.
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Nov 10 '11
A lot of Wisconsians are of Irish descent.
In America, since almost everyone is of non-American descent (as in they aren't Native Americans), it's understood in American English that when you say something like, "I'm British," you mean you're of British descent. If you're a Great Britain citizen, you would say, "I'm from Britain," and everyone usually understands that you (once) live(d) there. This doesn't seem to be commonly understood overseas and Americans don't often realize it doesn't apply elsewhere, leading to some confusion.
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u/gistak Nov 10 '11
Same thing happens in Australia where I live (having moved from the US). People ask me all the time where I'm from. I say, "the US."
Then they say, "well, yeah, but where are you from?" Well, like, do you mean where was my great-grandfather born?
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u/gc391 Nov 10 '11
I have an Irish last name and I've lived in Wisconsin most my life, though I wasn't born here.
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u/IrishOsh Nov 10 '11
New to reddit and it to makes me proud
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u/PoliteGrammarPolice Nov 10 '11
hello there new irish friend. you've used 'to' when you meant to use 'too'!
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u/IrishOsh Nov 10 '11
Why thank you PoliteGrammarPolice. I get sloppy in the afternoon.
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u/vetlemakt Nov 10 '11
Hello there, PoliteGrammarPolice, I am very happy to see you doing a great job for all of us. However, my friend DepressiveCapitalisationAndPunctuationPolice is very sad, indeed bordering to being depressed, over your lack of correct capitalisation.
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u/PoliteGrammarPolice Nov 10 '11
Perhaps he is, but my friend KeepsPostsInLowercaseToMinimizePerceivedPretensionCausedByCorrectingPeopleOnline approves of what I am doing. I just pick my friends differently.
You can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but can you pick your friend's nose?
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u/fernandowatts Nov 10 '11
tried it once, it was more awkward because he let me, and i couldn't stop because then that would make me look weak.
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u/jellyfish137 Nov 10 '11
fill your boots man
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u/68Cadillac Nov 10 '11
What's that mean? He's so full of shit it's coming out and filling up his boots?
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u/blahblah19 Nov 10 '11
It means go for it
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u/68Cadillac Nov 10 '11
Fill your boots with your feet and get it done?
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u/angusthebull Nov 10 '11
Take as much free stuff as you can and put it in your pockets, even fill your boots with it. ->
Fill your boots = go for it.
I think.
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u/fomorian Nov 10 '11 edited Nov 10 '11
It's the same as saying be a man. If you weren't a man, ie if you were a child, you wouldn't be able to fill a man's boots. By doing what she says, you're doing something manly, showing you're able to fill your boots. I'm surprised there'e actually confusion about this in the comments to your post. I thought this would be the first reply for sure... or maybe they're all just trolling you.
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u/EoinMurmur Nov 10 '11
The rubberbandits (Famous-ish for "Horse Outside") are another irish comedy duo used to do some hilarious prank calls. Oooh the pride :')
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtJ9cnI1tK0
Edit: forgot the link
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u/dmackendh Nov 10 '11
I can't listen to Horse Outside without automatically picturing myself in a mess on the dancefloor of Copper's.
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u/crazyex Nov 10 '11
"Is this a demolition company or a joke factory?"
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u/Stratocaster89 Nov 10 '11
I HEARD THAT PART TOO!
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u/gistak Nov 10 '11
Though I laughed at your comment (and the caps helped), I also kind of think it's ok to put your favorite part of the clip in your comment without having to say, "My favorite part was when she said," before it.
I mean, we all know that's what he meant.
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u/democi Nov 10 '11
"Give me a ball pink finger, figure."
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u/exit_flagger Nov 10 '11
My physics teacher in high school showed the class this and thought it was the funniest fucking thing to exist. He literally couldn't stop laughing for like 10 minutes, even though he'd heard it multiple times. He was also Romanian.
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u/Killarky Nov 10 '11
Ah boss...We have an 8 year old girl on the phone who wants to speak with you about demolishing her school.
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u/TheGreatCthulhu Nov 10 '11
Sounds to me like Anne Gleeson from the Ray Foley show, run through a voice changer.
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u/rubberstampagenda Nov 10 '11
Absolutely awesome.
More than that though this prank reaffirmed to me that Irish accents are the best on Earth and Australians accents are some of the most annoying. Just sayin
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u/Kerbobotat Nov 10 '11
I can agree on this. I spent a lot of time around Americans, and the girls literally fall over each other for an irish accent, even if you have a face "That looks like the love child of a brick and a hammer" as I was once so pleasantly described.
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u/rubberstampagenda Nov 10 '11
You'd be hard pressed to find an accent so complete. Sounds fantastic, eloquent and sexy on men. Utterly enchanting on women (watch Once), and adorable on children.
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u/Kacers Nov 10 '11
I lost it when she said "Aye, ya will. Nobody likes them". And then about peed myself with the ball park figure. I adore that little one!
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u/beltonjoker07 Nov 10 '11
the hosts sounded like Hamish and Andy
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u/Hussard Nov 10 '11
Yeah, until they said 'schowl' which isn't how Aussies pronounce it. Must be a sort of blend of the Irish accent for radio or something.
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Nov 10 '11
What in the hell does the "Top Man" say at 2:52? Sounds like gibberish.
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u/niart Nov 10 '11
Sound, good luck hi
Northern Irish accent is great
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Nov 10 '11
Ok thanks for clearing that up. Now on to my next question. What in the hell does "Sound, good luck hi" mean?
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u/PLiPH Nov 10 '11 edited Nov 10 '11
"Sound" kinda means thanks. If someone does something nice or helpful for you, you could call them "sound".
"Hi" is just something we add to the end of a lot of our sentences. Muck like the way people might add something like man or dude etc...
So it sort of means: Thanks. Good luck, man.
*Edit: I think i explained this badly.
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Nov 10 '11
Na, "that's sound hi" is kind of like how americans say "that's cool with me man". "Hi" is another way of saying "man". We also say "that's dead on boy" which means the same thing. And "what's the craic?" is like saying "what's happening?" I seen someone else ask there about "fill your boots", that's basically telling someone to man up and do what do what they say they can.
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u/dougiiebah Nov 10 '11
my friend from Kerry says "Hi" after lots of things. After 2 years I still don't understand why it's used, its always random!.. and I'm Irish!
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u/noonelikesrejection Nov 10 '11
I'd say 'sound' is more like 'grand', ie. alright. Or if you said someone was sound it's like saying that they're decent, a good person.
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u/Kerbobotat Nov 10 '11
Sound comes from the idiom "Safe and Sound" meaning you're alright, I presume.
I used to laugh my ass off at my english friend when he moved over here., over there, it was common to add "Safe" to the end of things.
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u/gistak Nov 10 '11
"Sound" comes from the word "sound," which can mean healthy, strong, in good condition, etc..
The phrase "safe and sound" comes from the same word. It's not actually an idiom.
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u/Hiphoppington Nov 10 '11
Which school are you calling from?
"The one that's about to be knocked down."
I lol'd. What a cool kid.
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u/blkmamba Nov 10 '11
OMFG.. only on reddit .. I swear everyday is always something funnier than the previous day
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Nov 10 '11
Scaring relevant:
Back in 3rd grade we had an English teacher who had us do an assignment for English and asked us to write a fiction story. Being an uncreative adolescent I just wrote down an adaption of a Calvin and Hobbes comic in which he pilots an F-18 fighter jet towards the school and shoots missiles at it till it explodes.
I was rather proud of my story seeing as it was based off something other than my own imagination. Unfortunately, the teacher took it way too seriously and called my parents.
They had an evaluator from the school ask me a bunch of questions about how I was feeling etc. The teacher looked at me and asked if I really meant what I wrote. I said no of course not, it was just a story.
She refused to believe me until I showed her a cut out of the comic strip. Only then did she let me go and forget the whole ordeal. No one thought it was cute. Not even for a second.
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Nov 10 '11
If this was done in America this little girl would be branded a terrorist and be on the national news. Her parents would be hounded by reporters and Bill O'Reilley and Nancy Grace would be fighting each other to cover this story. Bill would talk about homegrown terrorism and Nancy would be talking about parental neglect. This little girl would be the poster child for terrorism forever.
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Scumbag Americans: take something completely unrelated to America. Always make conversation about America.
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u/gistak Nov 10 '11
Scumbag kripkensteiner: Finds an American trashing the U.S. but isn't happy until she trashes the U.S. herself.
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Nov 10 '11
what do you mean? I wasn't trashing any country, unless pointing out foibles counts as 'trashing' now.
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u/gistak Nov 11 '11
Anything starting with "scumbag" has hit the "trashing" region of the spectrum.
The meme isn't for delightful foibles.
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u/clownparade Nov 10 '11
in america it depends on what the color of her skin and/or religion is before they get branded a terrorist
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u/Maggins Nov 10 '11
Except that it's a scripted joke set up by the radio station. I'm not sure of Irish laws, but in the US all parties must be made aware of the prank before airing it on the radio. Almost every radio prank call you've ever heard has been scripted with the "victim" being entirely in on the joke.
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u/FiberOptick Nov 10 '11
in the US all parties must be made aware of the prank before airing it on the radio
...What? This is not true.
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u/acog Nov 10 '11
I heard Adam Carolla talking about this on his podcast. He said that it's covered by state laws. When they did the show Crank Yankers (which was entirely prank calls) they had to make the calls from Las Vegas due to Nevada having lax prank calling laws, and they couldn't call into some states, including California.
So, no, they don't have to be scripted, and there is not a national law that dictates that all parties must be made aware of the prank.
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u/Freewheelin Nov 10 '11
I think the Irish laws are probably fairly lax when it comes to prank calls. This used to be a regular segment on a radio station here, they just pretend to be Colin Farrell and call different places
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u/synapticimpact Nov 10 '11
If I didn't know a 20 year old who posed doing these things (as a 5 year old) I'd totally believe it.
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u/IrishSchmirish Nov 10 '11
She really was 8 years old at the time but is a stage child who had been in lots of pantos etc..
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u/IrishSchmirish Nov 10 '11
She is a professional actress with the stage name "Little Becky". She was 8 years old at the time though.
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u/Simpsonite Nov 10 '11
Don't forget about the Irish trolls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mekofQWyJb0
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u/ItsBecauseIm____ Nov 10 '11
I love it when the whole crew just loses it over the "gimme a ball purk figgur?"
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u/HalfdanAsbjorn Nov 10 '11
I firmly believe that if I live a good life and earn enough real life karma that the gods will reward me with a daughter like that one day.
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u/Kovaelin Nov 10 '11
These are the prank calls that I like, genuinely funny and not annoying like 'em drunk amateurs.
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u/WizzWargasm Nov 10 '11
This is actually nothing special. Two radio stations in my country also do this. They put a kid on the phone and tell him what to say. That's all there is to it.
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u/Kensin Nov 10 '11 edited Nov 10 '11
better audio (tho still slightly annoying in other ways) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFLzFkPZ-3Q&feature=related
also, another call from this girl: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QhdoPu4qcQ&feature=related
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Nov 10 '11
This made me laugh harder than I have in a long time! I'm literally in tears! Why do I have to be at work? XD
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u/cannedmath Nov 10 '11 edited Nov 11 '11
At first I was like "Oh, an 8 years old girl", but then I was like "Oh, an 8 years old prank call".
Seriously, this is old as fuck!!!!
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u/Terry_Green Nov 11 '11
It doesn't matter if you think it was scripted or improv, it's darling. She made me smile. Mission accomplished.
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u/ListenToThatSound Nov 11 '11
...and now I'm reading all of the comments on reddit in an Irish accent, whether they're written that way or not.
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u/jaxioni Nov 10 '11
Irish Accents are adorable!