(Very light-hearted) Does this ever happen IRL and outside of movies?

[BritishCupcake]

Watching some American teenage comedies and honestly it made me think that I've never seen someone actually give a wedgie in real life.

I've only ever seen them mentioned on TV as a slapstick prank.

Do people actually "prank" each other this way? It was never a thing when I was at school.

Yep, it's a thing. My siblings and I can attest to the fact.

The only ones I've ever had are the ones you get "naturally" when you're like moving around and it shifts a bit.

Some of the kids used to do it to each other when I was at school (late 70's).

School in 70s/80s too often saw a wedgie, a noogie, and a wet willy in the playgrounds.

Oh what fun it wasn't

As can DH and I!

I remember seeing an Indian/Chinese burn. Gotten a few myself but that's it.

Try giving someone a song wedgie:
Play a very catchy tune, The Final Countdown is a good one, and seeing you can get the song stuck in other people’s heads.
Less likely to end up in trouble with HR giving a song wedgie than an actual wedgie!

It’s the Final Countdown!

Never heard of a "song wedgie" !!!

No wedgies when I was at school, half a century or so ago. The most popular prank among the boys was the “deadleg”, which looked bloody agonising! No personal experience, thankfully.

Boys at school in the early 1980’s were doing it to each other for sure.

To me it always seems like a "slapstick" prank that was used in American cartoons/comedies. Was wondering if people actually do this in real life haha.

@BritishCupcake See if you can give someone a song wedgie.

It's basically an earworm right?

Definitely was a thing in the 80 and 90ss when I was at school.

Also, I get the sense that it's still a thing, sometimes, based onc omments made by DS aged 14.

What has your DS said?

I know at my DSs school (back in year 7) there was a trend of "paintings" in the locker rooms

Sometimes he says something about wedgies specifically, or there are sort of loaded comments. He's VERY committed to boxers though I notice.....

My DS's secondary years were 2012-2017 at an all boys. He tells me that wedgies were occasionally given every now and again. He tells me that he got given a wedgie once when he was 14.

Thanks for the replies! Made me chuckle. Was surprised to hear this happened here in the 70s and 80s. I always assumed it was just an American thing that started in the noughties.

Yep. I had many brothers. Wedgies, noogies, purple nurples,dead legs, pantsing, wet willies...

Lots of crop dusting.

The only thing I never actually saw was a swirly.

Were these done from brother to brother? Or did you end up in their crosshairs?

Had to read what a "purple nurple" was. Ouch!