You forgot to say “Shut up, BigTard!”
You suck.
You know, this reminds me a bit of this post in this thread. “It’s only a joke!” people say, as if making others feel bad is totally swell if it’s for your amusement. It’s great if you joke around with family members, and you know each other well and get along well enough that everyone grins and laughs and has a good time. If the recipient of your sense of humor cries because of it, or feels uncomfortable, demeaned, or unhappy, then perhaps the joke wasn’t as funny as it was originally thought to be.
Everyone—children and adults alike—has a different comfort level for this kind of thing. It doesn’t make someone a “wussy” (seriously, you’re old enough to have adult children?) to not enjoy being the target of a prank like this.
You’re equating pulling a prank on kids with a crooked scam?
- The youngest is 28. I also have three Grandchildren. All of whom have been taught about the trick or treat Vig (Grandpa get’s 10% of the haul!
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And those getting their undies in a bunch over JK’s video are wimps.
Out of curiosity, would you still feel this way if one of your grandchildren was teased in this way and started crying? Or do you see that as a weakness of character that needs to be corrected?
Dingbat, the people I’m talking about being wussies are you and the others who are getting pissy about this prank, not the kids. Occasionally teasing a kid is not going to hurt them even if it upsets them. All this one did was expose their greed. It’s not like they told them Grandma died just to have her walk into the room a minute later.
And please explain that weird site you left before. How is this prank like a cashier ripping someone off money?
I did understand that your absurdly juvenile namecalling was directed to the posters in this thread, not to the kids. The point I’m trying to make is that people are different, that some kids are going to react negatively, and that you shouldn’t do a thing to a child whom you think will respond negatively to it. When I was a kid, I don’t know if I’d have been crying or indignant were this pulled on me, but I do have vivid memories of adults pranking me and my reaction being basically one of betrayal—essentially, “Why did this adult I trusted lie to me and make me feel bad?” In the grand scheme of things, that’s probably a minor incident, but it has an effect on kids all the same.
Weird site? Those were links to this site. The post in question was a guy who liked to “joke around” with cashiers by pretending to have given them a $20 when he actually gave them a $10, then revealing the joke after they reacted with predictable alarm. Same basic principle, as I see it: One misleads people, then laughs when they get upset. I don’t see how it’s funny when it’s done to kids, and I don’t see how it’s funny when it’s done to adults, either.
I fucking hated it when adults lied to me for lulz when I was a kid. What kind of jackass thinks this shit is hilarious? Ha ha, I lied to a little kid and made him cry! Because he’s a kid and doesn’t have the maturity to understand what a prank is so he thought something really shitty happened for no reason! Lawl!
Jimmy Kimmel sucks. Pkbites sucks and sounds like a mean old man. Parents who prank their kids for the chance to be on tee-vee suck. Also, on a tangentially related topic, snipe hunts? No, when I was a small child, nobody ever told me to go on a snipe hunt. I also didn’t watch I Love Lucy on TV, and Eisenhower wasn’t president. How the hell old are you, anyway?
One year my Halloween candy, and a lot of other candy, was eaten by nurses.
When I was primary school age, I was hospitalized for a few months, during which time my uncle mailed me a box of candy every week (he owned a general store in a town with a chocolate factory in which he mother had worked).
The nurses told my parent that they would keep the boxes in their work room for me to pick up when released from the hospital. Come release day, there was nothing left. Fuckers.
I didn’t cry, but I was mighty pissed off.
Yes, I’m a mean old man because maybe twice a year I zapped my kids with a harmless prank. (You really think drawing a mustache on a kid with dry erase marker on April Fools Day is that big of a deal? Puss!).
Did I ever tell you about the April Fools Day one of my sons, when he was 12, nailed both my wife and I when he put a rubber band around the dish hose of the kitchen sink. Hows ice cold water in the mug first thing in the morning sound?
Like I said, paybacks are a bitch. But some of you are just little bitches!
The little kid in the second sequence that says “It isn’t funny” nailed it. I didn’t watch beyond that. Those vids are just plain mean. Taking candy from a baby for yuks – pathetic.
I could see my father pulling this prank on us. Except he’d have said the Woo Woo had come into the house and had taken the candy.
My father’s stories about The Woo Woo always scared me. So I’d be too creeped out (and maybe intrigued from a scientific standpoint) to even cry.
This kind of prank doesn’t strike me as being quite the same as pretending the parent had eaten the candy. Perhaps it’s because a parent eating the candy would be straight-up mean, so the confusion would result in a momentary crisis of trust. But a nebulous monster doing it would be like a natural disaster beyond anyone’s control.
Christ on a cracker, your continued inability to understand what people are saying to you is getting really perplexing.
We’re all a bunch of wussies, wimps, and bitches because we’re suggesting that kids are different, and some of them don’t enjoy pranks? No one’s telling you that if you’re having fun, and the kid’s having fun, that you need to stop. Quite the contrary! That’s all jolly good horseplay. Enjoy it in good health.
However, if you make a child cry and then laugh at him/her, perhaps that’s not so jolly good. Perhaps it is, in fact, mean.
Understand now?
So you’re comfortable with being an asshole. Gotcha, Gramps. ;);)
It’ s sign of respect from the children! My Grandboys love bringing me candy. You would deny them a chance to show their love and respect?
'Course I’m thinking it’s probably not the best of the best. I didn’t notice any peanut butter cups in my honorarium this year. You can’t tell me nobody gave out peanut butter cups in all of Oak Creek! I think those munchkins were holding out on me this year!
I think that one of the key elements here is whether the person being pranked can reasonably pop the pranker in the nose without consequences. A little kid can’t do much when pranked by a parent EXCEPT cry and maybe get pissed off. I’d say that most of those parents would prank a full grown adult who actually had enough power to get back at them. But those same adults see no problem in making the kids miserable, secure in the knowledge that the kids can’t reasonably retaliate.
Og knows that I’m not fond of kids, especially the little ones. And the super-entitled ones get on my last freaking nerve. But these are not pranks, these are bullying instances.
My father told me when I was quite young that it wasn’t a real practical joke unless both people laughed about it afterwards. If the pranker thinks it’s hilarious, but the target is still upset or pissed even after the prank is over, then that’s one mean prank.
A couple of those kids laughed. And some didn’t cry at all. That stocky kid that said “I’m going to kick you in the butt!” Hilarious!
Doing something like this all the time would be mean.
Sitting a kid down and telling them Grandma died, and letting them cry for 5 minutes until she suddenly walks into the room. THAT would be freaking mean.
This is once a year and it’s lousy candy for crying out loud. :rolleyes:
Gotta agree with this.
OK, it’s the Pit, so I have (almost) free reign, here. I’m about to tell you what’s real. You, asshole, are just exactly like my father with your goddamned fucking ‘jokes’. Your grandkids think you are an asshole, too. Just exactly like my nephew, who, in his late teens, asked me “Why is grandpa such an asshole?” (direct quote, asshole, I didn’t add the word). And he asked that for precisely the same goddamn ‘jokes’ you are talking about doing, here. Trust me, asshole, your kids don’t appreciate your stupid fucking ‘jokes’. Neither do your grandkids. You’re an asshole. You are ‘an ornery sonofabitch’ (the psychiatrist’s unofficial diagnosis), and pretty much everyone in your life hopes you’ll fucking die, already, old man.
Bastards like you improve the world when you depart it.
I agree the ones that got pissed were funny. But many of them cried piteously, which I didn’t find funny at all. (Some of them got pissed and cried at the same time.) You can’t just focus on the ones that got pissed or didn’t cry. The ones that were really upset are part of the deal as well.
I wouldn’t find it so reprehensible if it were done to 10-year-olds, who can appreciate the joke. Doing it to four year olds is just mean, even if some of them get pissed instead of crying.
That’s a good rule-of-thumb for practical jokes. Pranks can be harmless and funny - I didn’t think these were funny at all, and while I don’t think the kids were scarred for life or anything, I don’t they added anything good to the world.
It’s lousy candy to us, as adults - I can go buy myself all the candy I want, anytime I want. Kids can’t do that; I remember as a kid that Halloween was right up there with Christmas for being the most awesome time of the year, and part of that was my haul of candy from trick-or treating (that I went out and froze my ass off for).
My husband tells me that his parents used to make him give part of his candy haul to his sister because she ate hers too fast - my response to that was, “No way! That wasn’t fair!” He’s still bitter about it decades later. Don’t mess with a kid’s halloween haul, is all I can say. 