I can’t imagine putting up with this sort of thing. I would end the relationship if it happened a second time. I don’t like being startled. I get startled very easily if I’m concentrating on something and somebody unexpectedly walks into the room.
I guess thats a family thing and what’s considered acceptable within that family?
No one in my family pulled cruel pranks like that. It wasn’t even something you’d ever consider doing.
I know other families have different traditions and consider elaborate pranks uproarious fun.
Good Lord, yes. After a boss told him to “go fly a kite” my late Uncle took pictures of himself, made a ton of copies, and posted them around the factory showing himself doing just that. And to surprise the same uncle and cadge a free breakfast we once took a train to Harrisburg, rented a car, drove to Kingston PA, and showed up at his favorite diner during a snow storm. Not to mention I ride a motorcycle painted like a Holstein cow and once dropped a VW Bug body on a front engine frame and rigged a Singer in the back. Yeah – my clan does do elaborate when the silly mood hits us.
I’ve seen pranks destroy hours of peoples hard work & cause injury, all because one and only one Fucktard wanted to chuckle in the corner while the rest of us were getting first aid kits.
His apology as we tried to stop the bleeding?
“See? That’s funny.”
He had buried a knife in some modeling clay & had dared a young kid to smash the clay flat with his hand.
That’s not a prank. That’s being an ass. A prank is the time we filled my boss’s office with balloons when he was on vacation, or when my uncle sprayed my dad’s face with whipped cream after he fell asleep on the sofa.
Hiding a knife in something and then letting a kid hit it isn’t the kind of thing we’re talking about, dude.
A hidden knife isn’t a prank and requires a call to the police.
By definition a prank is meant to be annoying and not get anyone hurt.
Like Icy Hot smeared into someone’s shorts or jock strap. That prank got pulled a few times during my school’s gym class. It’ll get your attention. That’s for sure.
But there *are *prankers as stupid as Count Blucher says. They’re 8 yo brains in 35 yo bodies. And that’s before the Budweiser or weed kicks in. They think it’ll be funny because either they’re bullies or they just. don’t. think. at. all. The impulse to act strikes and they do whatever it is with no further thought about the probable consequences.
Yes, there are some genteel, safe and sane prankers too.
My objection to pranking is that it’s a violation of trust. I don’t see the benefit in needing to be continuously on my guard against attacks (mild though they may be) from my close friends and family. How are we collectively better for adding this offensive and defensive arms race to our relationship?
My family doesn’t mind mild pranks, like, for instance, putting wadded up socks into the toes of someone’s shoes, so when he starts to put his shoes on, he can’t. Trivial little stuff – and not often. It has to be judicious.
A nice short-sheeting is a thing of beauty. Popping a paper bag behind someone’s back is not acceptable, not fun, not funny, and, in my family, not done.
Hell no. Verbal jokes all the time, practical ones never.
One of my college classmates thought it was funny to jokingly threaten with destroying other people’s lab work. And then one day, he went and did it, he switched off the oil pump providing vacuum to a distillation apparatus. The TAs made him clean the mess, repeat the experiment with the grade going to the student whose work he’d destroyed and with threats that if such grade was below her usual high levels he’d have to repeat it until he got it up to par… and when he looked to the rest of us for compassion and sympathy, we told him he was lucky the TAs were being more merciful than we’d be, they weren’t making him clean the mess with tongue and teeth :mad:
I wouldn’t say elaborate practical jokes are popular in my family, but more slow-burn type pranks are usually funny- stuff like signing each other up for free stuff under strange names.
So you get coupons for free meals, but you have to go in bearing a card that says your name is “Anus P. Scrotum” or something equally obnoxious. Plus, you get that in the mail periodically for an extra burst of fun.
No. I hate pranks. My brother would do stuff like that when we were kids. Hated it, and I never teased him back.
I even hate most surprises. i don’t even like verbal sparring and teasing.
I think though, that for this couple, it’s mostly acting, for the Youtube fame and income. There’s this other couple, Jen Davies and Brad homes, that prank each other all the time. With them it is partly an act. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4-LbBnefvtHpQgVKo7Edq