On the scale of evil, how does this rate?

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Years ago, a group of my friends and I were together working on a late night project and one of us mentioned a fact that was similar to something that happened in the film Muriel's Wedding. At the same time, my gay friend and I said "Oh, just like in Muriel's Wedding!" I cannot recall what it was, but one of our male friends, a scrawny guy of Chinese descent, asked innocently "Who?" It took a fraction of a second for my friend and I to look at each other and reply, in what seemed to be rehearsed synch, "Muriel! A friend of ours", and start telling the plot of the movie as if all of it had happened to that person we supposedly knew.

We didn't stop at that. We said she would be coming to town by a certain date and that he would love her and certainly they would get along great, and in fact they were even each other's types.

That went on for months, while we kept him updated on Muriel's forthcoming trip from Australia. Our regular meetings were Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays. A certain Wednesday, the film was on open TV. The following Thursday he did not show up. I wondered. Sunday, he did show, but only worked on the project and hardly spoke to anybody. We continued playing with the story, and he would sort of play along, but never too happy. I still think he wasn't quite sure of it (he smoked a lot of weed) or very hurt, now that I think of it. Why didn't he just say something to us, like "You fucking assholes!"? Anyway, that's not my main question.

I'm here, asking how you rate this on the evil scale. How bad do you think this really is or if you think this is just harmless fun?

10 - Pure evil. Pack your bags, you're going to hell. 17
7.5 - Evil. Regular evil. 44
5 - Neutral. It can go either way. 32
2.5 - Kind of funny. May sting a bit. 46
0 - Funny and harmless. Of no consequence but a few laughs. 32
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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Wow, you guys really are assholes! :P
    But in a way, it was funny. :}

    Is being funny worth hurting or losing friends though?

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago

    Evil? Meh.

    Fucked up? Definitely...

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  • dappled
    11 years ago

    If it's evil, then I too am evil. I do stuff like this all the time. Likewise, it gets done to me. Last year, I found out that someone had perpetrated a joke on me that had lasted the best part of ten years before I found out. I was flattered.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      I've been extremely curious ever since you said this and wonder if you'd ever tell what that long-running joke was about or if it's meant to be kept private. :)

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      • dappled
        11 years ago

        It might not be that funny but I'll tell anyway. I got invited to a fancy dress party by a friend, duly went, and had a good time although I never found any of my friends at the party (which was huge). I just got chatting to new people.

        For some reason, the party became a bit of a legend and everyone talked about it more often than it merited. People were especially keen to hear my recollections. This went on for years.

        Then someone made a witty quip last year with the punchline "like Simon at the fancy dress party" (Simon being me). Everyone went quiet and then they finally told me what they'd done. The aunt of one of them used to work for a large British bank and she happened to tell him the bank was throwing a "thank you" party for its staff because of raised productivity. A fancy dress party, no less! You now see where this is going.

        None of my friends were at the party because it wasn't their party. They sent me to a bank's fancy dress party where I knew absolutely nobody and then pretended for years that they had been there and reminisced with me about it.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          11 years ago

          Oh, it is funny. It's actually VERY funny. Thanks for sharing. ;)

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  • AbnormallyAwesome
    11 years ago

    If he can't laugh about it or comlain about it he's probably truly hurt. You raised his hopes and did not have the balls to crush them yourselves - He had to find out from TV. But your souls aren't lost yet. Apologize and learn from your mistakes.

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  • Justsomejerk
    11 years ago

    What kind of scale misses whole numbers but has decimals?

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      A jerk-trap scale. Gotcha! :P

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      • Justsomejerk
        11 years ago

        Oldest trick in the book.

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  • dirtybirdy
    11 years ago

    Only Dr. Stone can rate things on HIS scale of evil.

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  • NeuroNeptunian
    11 years ago

    Depends on how much he cared. You said he was a huge stoner so probably not much.

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    • MissyLeyneous
      11 years ago

      This. I rate this a 2.5... it's not really "evil" but then again it depends on how much he was into the farce before he figured it out.

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  • myownopinions
    11 years ago

    I personally think it's only a 2.5. You may make your friend feel a bit stupid, but unless he really cared, it's harmless.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    Nah. Nothing evil about it. If someone did that to me, I'd give myself a facepalm and laugh.

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  • AgentM.Kenna
    10 years ago

    HA HA HA!I did something like that to my friend it was hilarious

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    what no "meeting"? lol

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      11 years ago

      With Muriel? We had even planned on it, as I did have a foreign friend living in town who was to play the part, except she wouldn't know of any of it, just be introduced to him. Hahah. But it all fell through before anyways.

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  • jucedaguy
    11 years ago

    What a ghey prank.

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  • iEatZombies_
    11 years ago

    I say it was cruel. Honestly though, there's lots of cruel people. I'm sure they'll help you justify it plenty. Feel better?

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    You told a lie? Scale of evil = 0.5

    I hit a pregnant woman once. I don't think it's the worst thing i've done but it may be higher up on the scale as it was premeditated to a degree.

    I would love Dr Stone to do an assessment of my evil deeds, how amusing.

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    • dirtybirdy
      11 years ago

      You're at least an 11. Birdy knows....

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        Somewhere between 11 and 17 would be my guess...tommys fucked up....birdy knows...

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        • dirtybirdy
          11 years ago

          Damn I'm good. That's about the range I figured. I wouldn't think you'd out-evil your buddy Bundy, but how much could someone with a bieber haircut know. :p (yes I stuck my tongue out at you)

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          • [Old Memory]
            11 years ago

            Problem with me is i am very prone to boredom so i'd escalate....as a child i always liked taking things apart....:0

            Oh, i know how you like most evil, but i found a really intriguing work by a Dr Helen Morrison, she has a totally different theory on serial killers, most experts disagree with her but it's quite intriguing.

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            • dirtybirdy
              11 years ago

              Aussome haha I will check it out. THANK YOU for sharing that.

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            • dirtybirdy
              11 years ago

              Oh dear. 'Things' you say? I see....I see.

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  • Dazzle
    11 years ago

    Kinda funny but hurtful, 0 on Romero's scale of evil; 2.5 on mine.

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    A friend of mine once called my house at 2 a.m. My grandma answered and woke me up to tell me my friend had an emergency.

    He told me he just got kicked out of his house, his gf left him, and he was feeling suicidal. I then told him to come to my house so we could talk. I told my grandma what was going on and she freaked out.

    When he got to my house, he was driving his mustang with his gf right fucking next to him.

    He told me it was a joke, and we spent the next 3 hours spray painting, and egging cars. It was pretty fucking awesome lolz.

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    • [Old Memory]
      11 years ago

      ^with that said... Friends play pranks on each other all the time. So i dont look at this as evil at all. As long as no one died or went to prison you are ok lol.

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  • kelili
    11 years ago

    I think you want to think that you've been evil

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