Let's have a laugh. Best pranks you've played on friends

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Need some ideas for work laughs. It's got a bit boring in my workplace and needs a bit of fun 😊

I don't play pranks on people. I think it's pretty nasty behaviour, taking pleasure in another's discomfiture. I'd suggest you run along and have a laugh elsewhere. Lolz.

I used to work in a nursery and there was a tiny hard bodied baby doll that used to creep us all out a bit. We used to take it in turns to hide the doll somewhere a colleague would find it. I had a friend of one colleagues sister who sent the doll home with her and hid it in colleagues bed .

This was more of an in joke. Malicious pranks are not nice.

Another colleague once told someone notorious for nicking other peoples milk that he had poured my expressed breast milk in his coffee....after he drank it (he hadn't, she was just teasing him but his face was a picture).

I'm another one who hates 'pranks'. Couldn't even watch Beadle's About without cringeing. I guess the laugh is the relief they feell when they realise it's not real, but that's like the laugh you give when the doctor says 'it's not cancer'.

Not my kind of humour.

Crikey! I though it was just me... that I am a real kill joy!

But I can't watch the 'one where that person got hurt and we all laughed' programmes. I hate them, someone is always humiliated by them!

We love the glueing a £1 or £2 coin to the floor trick..... can't beat it!

Or hiding the kettle ...... leaving a note saying "gone on annual leave, will send you a postcard from Jamaica".

Or a plastic mouse in the biscuit tin.....

A few harmless pranks never hurt anyone.

Colleague in rural, very small hospital was told to take trolley down to morgue in middle of the night, which involved going outdoors .

Halfway down to the mortuary her colleague leapt out from under the blankets ..

I think all concerned found the funny side eventually !

First Uni Halls - two of my flat mates had a prank war with each other - i'd have hated to be on the receiving end of it personally but both were really up for it! it is was more annoying things than malicious! Can't remember all of the things they did to each other over that year but one really funny one sticks out - A swapped out B's instant coffee with instant gravy but did it super gradually like a spoon at a time over a few weeks so it was actually months before it got 'gravy' enough to be noticeable. A truce was called after B managed to smuggle a whole fresh fish (sea bass I believe) into A's room wrapped in carrier bags and hid it under A's bed before they when home for a long weekend...

We had a nosy guy down the road so my mate hid under a carboard box on the drive. Gave it a little shake when he was at a distance, wound him in closer then sprung out on him when he came to have a gander. Siple but brilliant to watch from a top window. He ran abouut 2 streets away

I wandered across Beadle's grave the other day. Didnt even know he had died.

I don't mind pranks that don't scare or embarrass people.
Putting electrical tape on the underside of a mouse so it doesn't work.
Flipping screens so they are sideways /upside down.
Wrap keyboards up
Change a few of the keys on keyboard round .
Block cars in ( providing they don't have to pick up DC's, docs appointment etc )

Do not do what a work mate did to some one last year and pour water onto there office chair , it was dark blue foam seat type and he didn't see the wet patch until it was to late. He got a very wet bum and was rightly furious .

My ds had a motor bike and all the gear. Planted this in his bed one night and took his light bulb out. Waited til he came in from work late ...
Heard him scream from 2 floors down!!
Was hilarious!!

Changed the auto correct on DHs phone to write “my wife is a goddess” everytime he typed United (which is every second word)

🤣🤣 thanks for the ideas. The glued coin to the floor is one of our faves at work along with the pen glued to the desk. We are nurses and pens are rare so we are always nicking eachother

To those who think lightheatred pranks are offensive have a lovely . Its a bit of fun in a very stressful job!!

We once put a colleagues entire drawer/desk contents ONTO his desk ad cling filmed his keyboard.

Also screenshot his PC programme and set it as his desktop - he couldnt work out why it wouldnt work when he clicked something (thinking he was already in the said programme that had been screenshot).

Set colleague's passwords to "IloveX" X being a customer or colleague's name

DH and I used to hide each others bikes if we came across them around the village. (Both were easily identifiable). It was a common prank- they were never moved far.

I got 'stolen' along with his car once... DH (then boyfriend) pulled up outside his accomodation block and went inside, and one his friends 'stole' the car. Only moved it 100m away.

I have a very stressful job and I hate pranks too. I actually think it says a lot about someone who enjoys them

I hate pranks, I feel upset and wrong footed as everyone is laughing at me.

Dont think OP asked who hates pranks.

When I was a kid we had the phone number of a phone box that could be seen from our window. Spent ages ringing it when people went past, people went mad for answering it. But always put the phone down as soon as they got there then did it again a minute later

One of the favourites in my office is to colour in the ear piece of someone's phone with a whiteboard marker. Leaves them with a lovely red/green/blue ear next time they answer it but cleans easily off both the phone and the ear!

I got in super early to work once on April fools and flipped everyone's screens with the ctrl, alt and arrow keys.

Going to try some of these 🤣. The flipped computer screen should be easy enough. Liking the coloured ear piece in the phones too. Brilliant ideas on this thread

Unplugged mouse, take all the letters off a keyboard. I agree that mean pranks aren't funny but little ones can be if you know your colleague will find it funny. At an old job we had a random ware wolf mask that appeared one Halloween and every few months someone would find it and scare the living daylights out of someone. That was quite funny.

My carer arrived one day, I asked him to check the bathroom as I thought there might be a leak in there.

He came back with the leek in his hand threatening to beat me to death with it.

Disclaimer - it wasn't a real threat, we get on really well.

My cat often flips my monitor. I don't think it is deliberate.

Where my husband used to work there was a guy who claimed to hate Christmas decorations etc. One day when he was on leave they went to town decorating his desk - wrapped everything up, fake snow, tree, lights, the works! Not sure if that counts as a prank as such but its the kind of prank I like - anything scary or humiliating isn't fun in my opinion.