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To ask you for your best revenge ideas, real or imagined

206 replies

BonfireToffee · 17/06/2025 21:36

Currently being dragged through the shit by the man buying my hugely abusive STBXH’s house.

As I’m the occupier and my name’s not on the deeds (“it’s my house, I paid for it”), I’ve essentially been used as a ping pong ball between these two gargantuan arseholes.

We finally exchanged today, after more than a year of absolute nonsense—delays, demands, slow drive-bys (complete with evil stares) and renegotiations.

With just under two weeks until we complete and I can finally leave this hellhole, I’m contenting myself with imagining all the terrible but legal revenge I could (but won’t) enact on these two festering boils on the bum cheeks of humanity.

And so to my AIBU: am I being unreasonable to ask you to share with me your most delicious ideas for revenge, whether they’re something you’ve done or something you’ve only fantasised about?

Please, vipers: help me get through the last 10 days in a house I never loved and never thought I’d be brave enough to leave.

PS: No bollocks about living well — I fully intend to after 16 years of abuse, but right now I want to indulge evil thoughts.

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Blobbitymacblob · 19/06/2025 00:32

I wonder how many times this thread has been bookmarked.

Buy a different variety of grass seeds and plant them in a rectangle shape about 6 x 2ft. Bonus points if it’s visible from the main bedroom window.

Leave a typed note, folded and a bit crumpled , down the back of a shelf or cupboard, as if it had slipped down there, but sticking out a bit so it will be found, saying “[Ex’s name] I know what you did. You won’t get away with it”

Leave an infrasound generator under the floorboards in the bedroom. Bonus points if you can find one with a timer to prolong the battery life as long as possible.

PyongyangKipperbang · 19/06/2025 00:25

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 23:49

Was he a butcher ? 🤣🤣

I rather think he worked for his majesty's constabulary!

PyongyangKipperbang · 19/06/2025 00:22

The life sized cut out is brilliant and totally legal.

We have a cut out in the cellar at work of a famous sportsman from a promo a couple of months ago (no idea why my boss hasnt binned it but hey ho). My colleague returned today after finishing Uni for the summer, didnt know about it and screamed the place down when she went in and saw it.

It really threw her, poor thing. I was very sympathetic and moved it so it didnt happen again (we have a couple of returners over the next couple of weeks). Scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it out in full view in the pub!

But a manky pair of arseholes who no one likes? I would go full on horror character.....like a Mummy or Nosferatu or someone with a massive axe ready to strike, something like that.

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 23:49

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:15

The sponsor a pot bellied pig lol.

When i still lived at home a neighbours ex cheated on her with a probationer on the late shift.

She kicked him out then did the pig thing.
Guess what he did for a living?.

Was he a butcher ? 🤣🤣

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:37

caringcarer · 18/06/2025 04:54

Sign his email up to junk mail especially penis enlargement, hair regrowth for bald men, incontinence pads. Advertise his watch or Lego collection cheaply cash on collection. Spray paint the word paedophile on his car. Even when he gets it repainted the neighbours will always wonder. Steal his passport and he won't know it's missing until he looks for it to go on holiday and hopefully won't have time to get a replacement. Put a little sugar in his petrol tank.

My exh had interflora on repeat for my birthdays, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Wedding Anniversary, Xmas and anniversary of our engagement. They sent me wonderful bouquets on each of these dates and he paid by pre signed direct debit. After we split I didn't tell him I was still getting flowers. He paid to send me these flowers for almost 18 months and was fuming when he finally realised.

I love the paedo idea.
Even better wait until he moves to his new place.

Let the dust settle for a month or two.
Then call or email crimestoppers and tell them he is downloading or distributing illegal images of minors.

The police will be duty bound to investigate and will likely take phones laptops etc.
This is extreme though and should only be used if the person was a real twat or a domestic abuser.

Whammyyammy · 18/06/2025 23:36

Plant Japanese knotweed.
Plant bamboo .
Buy rats and put them in attic.
Hide fish where you can.
Pour hot fat/grease down the sink.
Send a cocky rude letter introducing yourself as a new neighbour from him.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:33

Watermelown · 17/06/2025 23:55

Imagined: skin them alive then roll them in salt. About 5 times a day for at least a month 😇

Blimey i would hate to upset you.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:29

Buy a big firework do not light it i repeat do not light it.

Write next time you will be a goner and so will your house flat etc on a piece of paper wrap the paper round the firework ideally a big rocket one sellotape it and put it through their letterbox.
It will worry them sick.
BTW put latex gloves on and get someone else to write on the paper dont leave your dabs or your own hand writing in case law enforcement get called.

lobsterkiller · 18/06/2025 23:18

Write CUNT on the lawn in weedkiller.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:15

Imbluedalale · 18/06/2025 02:03

Take one shoe from every pair he has

Take the microwave turntable

Sponsor a pig in his name and name it after him . He’ll get 3 monthly updates on how the pig is doing

Rub sugar and water all over the kitchen counters so there all sticky

Put out a gumtree ad for something ridiculously cheap like a games console or a nice watch and state ‘calls only please’ and put his number on it

Take all the forks

Put prawns behind the fridge . The fridge motor will warm them up in no time and he will think it’s the fridge that smells and will
be too docile to look behind it

Put a shit load of post it’s all over the walls

Throw cheese slices on his car especially whilst it’s hot . The cheese will melt and will be a bigger to get off

Buy one of those fake winning scratch cards and send him a card on his birthday from someone he knows with the scratchcard in .

Buy those fake penalty charge yellow stickers and put them on his car every other week or so

Erm I think I have anger problems 🤣

The sponsor a pot bellied pig lol.

When i still lived at home a neighbours ex cheated on her with a probationer on the late shift.

She kicked him out then did the pig thing.
Guess what he did for a living?.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:09

LiveshipParagon · 18/06/2025 10:46

Take the lightbulb out of the loft light. Put a life-size cardboard cutout of someone in the loft, so when they go up there and look around with their torch they'll get the fright of their life. Nothing like heart-pounding terror as revenge.

Put a plastic skeleton in a rocking chair with a wig on ala Norma Bates lol.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:06

MaryGreenhill · 18/06/2025 08:35

Plant Japanese knotweed in the garden .

Yep nothing devalues a property more.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 23:03

ERthree · 18/06/2025 13:18

These were not me but empty all the food out of the kitchen cupboards other than one tin of beans but don't leave a tin opener. Drive his car to an NCP place in a different town or airport parking garage. Friend drove he cheating husbands car to Manchester and left it there, cost him a fortune.

Was it the multi storey car park on Thomas Street?. The one that has the old brown tiles that the arndale center had on.

If so ha ha you need a second mortgage to park there for a week.

Tooty78 · 18/06/2025 18:56

There was a gang of builders converting the semi next to my friends into flats.
These 'men' were absolutely vile, radio on full blast, swearing af the top of their voices and discussing their sex lives in graphic detail. Cat calling the young girls on their way to the comp, my friend couldn't let her dcs's play in the garden, it was a nightmare.
The house they were working on had an old outside toilet that the builders would use, so late at night when it was quiet she would sneak next door and very, very carefully dust the toilet door handle and the pull chain handle with itching powder😬

PyongyangKipperbang · 18/06/2025 18:40

My sister found out that her boyfriend was cheating on her. This was in the days before mobile phones.

He was in the army at the time so she rang his base, ended up speaking to his CO and explaining that she had had STI tests, he was refusing to speak to her and she had something that she could only have got from him, so he needed to be tested.

He ended up with all the tests, and it being the army was round the base in record time. Apparently his nickname was Clap Carl until the day he left!

dustydvd · 18/06/2025 18:20

I discovered I was the OW so dumped him then told him I appeared to have a STI, and he really needed to get himself checked.

how they check men for STIs is not pleasant.

wanker.

tvdinners43 · 18/06/2025 18:15

Buy a load of blank door keys on eBay along with some key tags. Write his phone number on the key tags and attach to key and scatter across every bar, cafe and shop in his city. His phone will be ringing off the hook with people saying they’ve found his key!

MoonWoman69 · 18/06/2025 17:11

DontReplyIWillLie · 18/06/2025 14:34

There was a famous story years ago - probably apocryphal, but still funny - about a DJ on Kerrang Radio flirting with Jodie Marsh on air and saying he’d leave his wife and kids for her. His wife promptly put his £25k Lotus ESpirit on eBay for 50p. It sold within minutes.

Wasn't that Tim Shaw, now of Car SOS fame?! I remember hearing about that!

Allergycream · 18/06/2025 16:56

My ex was a piece of shit living hell and his mother and sister hated me for no reason he left me for someone younger because i was ugly and fat.
With in 6 months of him leaving i slept with his brother his best friend and his brother inlaw.
NO REGRETS.

twoblackdogs · 18/06/2025 15:41

Chop some fresh liver and throw it behind the fridge. When THAT starts to rot...

By the way - I love you all revengeful lot. So many nice ideas.

LindorDoubleChoc · 18/06/2025 15:28

Heritagehog · 18/06/2025 00:22

Set the central heating on high for 2am - 6am.

This is clever!

lalalalalady · 18/06/2025 15:04

When I go pets at home I always think about buying lots of boxes those live crickets and worms and letting them lose in a situation like this.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 14:54

twoshedsjackson · 18/06/2025 14:32

This may be an urban myth, but I read of somebody ringing the speaking clock in New York, leaving the phone off the hook before quitting the house.

I did that years ago here in the uk.

It bloody well worked.
I got my idea from a episode of only fools and horses as a kid. If it was good enough for Pauline Harris it was for me.

TheCoralMoose · 18/06/2025 14:52

As a teen i had a short term boyfriend who's family thought they were more than they really were.

His mother made a snotty comment about my now late Mum.

They lived in a large semi and two bedrooms were mainly unused and all had a landline phone in them.

When they went on holiday and left my then boyfriend at home he didnt want to go with them. I called round then said i needed the loo.

I went into one of the bedrooms that wasnt used much picked the phone up and dialled the talking clock but left it off the hook.

I went downstairs and told him i had to be up early next day and went. The next day i told him i didnt want to see him again.

About two months later i bumped into him in Tesco he stormed over to me and my Mum and said to me it was you wasnt it you stupid evil cow?. I said dead innocently what you going on about. He said you know it cost my mum and dad a few grand. He was red in the face.

Oh boy i still laugh about it.

DontReplyIWillLie · 18/06/2025 14:34

There was a famous story years ago - probably apocryphal, but still funny - about a DJ on Kerrang Radio flirting with Jodie Marsh on air and saying he’d leave his wife and kids for her. His wife promptly put his £25k Lotus ESpirit on eBay for 50p. It sold within minutes.