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

51 replies

7seas · 10/12/2019 10:16

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

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Aroundtheworldin80moves · 11/12/2019 05:53

Love the leek in the bathroom! Now how can I play that one on my Cubs...

isabellerossignol · 11/12/2019 06:21

I was going to be one of the 'I hate pranks' posters and then I realised I only hate cruel pranks, or when one person is repeatedly the butt of the joke. Daft stuff that colleagues do, like having a particular item that just keeps popping up in strange places, is pretty harmless in my eyes.

Since its December, get an elf on the shelf. For £2.99 you'll have endless opportunities for the next fortnight.

isabellerossignol · 11/12/2019 06:22

I absolutely detested 'Beadles About' when it was on TV, I hate pranks where the joke is making a fool of someone.

Sparklingbrook · 11/12/2019 07:14

Many weeks were spent emptying the hole punch into people’s handbags and pockets where I used to work.

Betterbegoing · 11/12/2019 07:21

There’s a really creepy mannequin where I work. He’s useful for pranks, albeit ones where I’m the victim as the only woman at work. They’ve stood him in the loo, behind the door, making me scream when I closed it and saw him, they did the same in the upstairs storeroom, they took his head off and put it in my drawer, which I opened while I was on the phone to a supplier. All sorts.
One guy got naked and took photos in another guys car, revenge for a previous prank I believe.
We’ve cling filmed someone’s whole desk before, as in everything on it too.
Then there’s the oh so mature drawing of penises on each other’s cars when we run out of ideas but need revenge Grin
We’re a bunch of children really, but they’re the best group of people you could ever hope to work with.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 11/12/2019 07:40

This reminds me, when in Yr 10 (14-15 year olds) we were left without a teacher one Geography lesson. Being quiet, studious sorts, there was no riotous behaviour. Teachers in surrounding classrooms did not realise anything was amiss. We used the time we'll to spin the classroom by 180 degrees. It was the sound of us trying to move the filing cabinet that gave us away.

We were never punished though... Just reminded to fetch a teacher if the same ever happened again (we had even returned the register to the office!)

IlluminatiParty · 11/12/2019 07:42

Load of paper cups on someone's desk, stapled together. Use a jug to fill them with water. We had a spare of fairly good natured pranks like that in my old job.

Zaphodsotherhead · 11/12/2019 07:44

I thought I just hated pranks where someone is made a fool of (Beadle's About type stuff), but I actually cringe with second hand embarrassment to the extent that it's painful for any kind of 'prank' it now appears.

But then I'm an awful people pleaser and wish I wasn't, so maybe it's related?

Lipperfromchipper · 11/12/2019 07:47

Who has time for pranks at work??!! Confused seriously!!!???

thefluffysideofgrey · 11/12/2019 07:50

Anybody who acted liked this where I work would be facing sanctions.

It's bullying, plain and simple.

SuperficialSuzie · 11/12/2019 07:55

I thought I was the only killjoy. The DCs are always laughing at the staged pranks on social media, whereas I rant about it capitalising on people’s humiliation.

Silly in jokes are a different matter. We have a particular ridiculous item that has done the rounds as a present for years. Beautifully gift wrapped and snuck under the tree of someone in the friendship group, the present version of a Janet and Roy (if I’ve remembered the MN round robin names correctly)

Shannith · 11/12/2019 08:43

Not sure if it's a prank but along the lines of the Christmas decorations one...

Guy at work travelled overseas a lot and was very very particular that no one sat on his chair when he was away. He got a new job in one of the overseas offices and his leaving present was an A1 framed picture of almost everyone in the department sitting in his chair in various poses, including the CEO. It was done and received in good humour.

I'd been promoted by my boss into his job but he was faffing about because his new job (also promoted) had not sorted out and office for him to yet so he was still in his office.

He went away for work for a week so we moved all my stuff into his office, crossed out his name in the door and put mine up and decorated the office in the most girly way possible. Note: I'm not in the least bit girly but we got everyone involved in donating teddies, plants, photos, fairy lights etc.

He sat in it for a day before moving. Both were done to people who we knew very well and found it very funny. Both were done with affection and considerable amounts of organisation and effort.

Loved that job. And have totally outed myself but oh well.

InflagranteDelicto · 11/12/2019 08:46

These. We kept getting the same colleague again and again, it was just too funny. But she also knows I'll be there with my mug and cardboard too evict real ones

Let's have a laugh. Best pranks you've played on friends
Patroclus · 11/12/2019 09:18

You sound very important, Lipper.

Fochit · 11/12/2019 09:23

We changed the back screen on a colleagues computer screen once. It was only a very subtle, but funny, change and it took them weeks to notice 😂

Also, marker pen in the bottom of their mug. Something funny or rude

Patroclus · 11/12/2019 09:25

I think its pretty unhealthily to not be able to laugh at yourself in these situations. Dont take yourselves so seriously.

Fochit · 11/12/2019 10:20

Absolutely Patroclus!

sashh · 11/12/2019 10:21

I never found Beadles about funny, someone did a skit of it where a guy came home to find his family all murdered, then Beadle jumps out and it's all OK.

Pranks should be fun for all concerned amdf I agree they can be cruel, but to me that's not a prank.

Lipperfromchipper · 11/12/2019 10:24

@Patroclus no not at all!! I’m a teacher so I don’t have time to go around pranking colleagues!!On my break I like to chat and have a laugh but pranking is unnecessary imo.

TimeIhadaNameChange · 11/12/2019 10:59

One April 1 I was working in a nursery. We only had one child in that morning, and two members of staff.

After snack I grabbed the child to change his nappy, then handed him to my colleague to put down to sleep. When she was done she came out of the bedroom to find me eating the 'contents' of the child's nappy with glee! Her face was an absolute picture for a second or two!

Before anyone gets upset, I only did it because circumstances were ripe. If there had been any other children in I wouldn't have done it, it was only because I knew I would have the oppotunity when there were no children around to see. I also offered the child's parents money for the nappy I used, and told them what I was planning. They thought it was hilarious!

Honeybee85 · 11/12/2019 11:06

This might be outing....
One of my ex collegues thought it was funny to put peanut butter on the only office toilet seat, before he went home, knowing I would be alone in the office today. He thought it was very funny to let me clean the toilet seat on International Women’s Day. He worked normally in an office in another location with one other female collegue.

As a revenge, I asked her to help me.
She carried out my revenge plan:
Putting ketchup on a sanity towel and leaving it on his desk, it was the first thing he saw as he walked in in the morning. We thought it was a suitable revenge given his prank was deliberately planned for International Women’s Day.

We also had the plan to soak a tampon in ketchup and tie the tampon string to the windshield wiper of his car as a lovely surprise during rain but we never carried that one out.

Honeybee85 · 11/12/2019 11:07

Sorry be alone in the office the next day!

sashh · 12/12/2019 04:17

I ended up pranking my carer again yesterday. It's not going to sound very funny but we did. It's a bit of a tradition that when Tesco deliver and he's put everything away we share some alcohol.

So we have settled down with a glass of wine each and I notice a tin of tuna and make a sarcastic remark about it being there for decoration.

So the next time I left the room I noticed it was even more prominently on display next to speckled jim - a toy hedgehog- but I said nothing and waited.

Eventually he goes to the loo and comes back to the can having been moved.

At this point he asks me where I have put it and starts searching the kitchen, he then comes back and puts a tin of corned beef on display next to speckled Jim.

My carer has a habit of putting his glasses in his hat, we put the TV on and he decides he needs his glasses, but guess what is in his hat?

Carer does a comic over reaction and for some reason this cracks us up for full 10 mins.

You see, written down, it just isn't funny.

00100001 · 12/12/2019 08:45

@Lipperfromchipper

The teachers where I work aren't so busy and up themselves that they don't have fun!

The kind of stuff they do is leave silly bites to each other in their office whiteboards like "all chocolate biscuits are banned, by order if The Head Teacher"

Or someone will make an false announcement in briefing like "I'd like to thank the governors for my £2000 Christmas bonus, hope you all enjoy yours"

Or just silly stuff like hiding something from their lunch if they leave it unattended for a moment. They might put their banana behind the water jug for a moment.

Nothing sinister.

No-one is that busy they can't take a moment to have a little fun...

TinklyLittleLaugh · 12/12/2019 08:55

My mates once filled my umbrella with hole punch. They weren’t even there to laugh at me when I put it up in the middle of a busy street. Confused

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