this? is not funny

[somedaybitch]

Excellent TiVo practical joke
Thomas Hawk says: "Google Video has a homemade video up done by a bunch of guys who played a practical joke on their friend. They basically TiVo'd the Texas lottery show and then bought a lottery ticket for their friend the next day and played it back like it was live. The guy goes nuts thinking that he just won the Texas lottery and screams and yells and jumps up and down and hugs everyone. Hey, if not to give you the high of winning the lottery at least once in your life, what are good friends for anyway?" Link (Caution -- lots of swear words are uttered in the video.)

why is that funny? had my friends done that to me, that would be the last conversation we ever had.

and while i agree that the methodoloy was brilliant, i think what they did was nothing short of deliberately cruel. practical jokes like this are not funny. they're mean. and mean is not funny and i don't understand how so many people think that it is. the "Punk'd" bullshit with Michael Vartan, for example. the guy has a fear of flying. so Demi's husband decides that wouldn't it be funny to fake some draHma with the plane. Vartan refused to sign the release to air the ep. i would have beaten the little fuck to a pulp with a c-stand.


hat tip to boing boing.