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Soubriquet · 2025-06-02T08:48:59+00:00

Told dh there was a huge mouse in the room and I had trapped it under the metal bin and there was…..a computer mouse! Ive also done a massive leak in the toilet….cue to an actual leek [grin] and there’s water coming from the toilet! It’s all over the floor….in cups

NormasArse · 03/06/2025 20:24

NorrisTheGnome · 02/06/2025 11:08

@NormasArse
Did he take a trip to Weymouth?

No, why? 😁

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 03/06/2025 21:34

IAmTheLogLady · 03/06/2025 17:39

My mil once pranked us all with fake scratch cards. They were a christmas present. My sil had no money whatsoever, she used food banks, skipped meals so her children could eat couldn't afford any treats. She cried when she thought she had won because she was going to treat the dc to a holiday.
That's probably the cruelest prank I know of.
Most of her dc are low or no contact with her surprisingly.
I like the fun ones though. I think if you know your audience and everyone finds it funny then it's ok.

That's a truly nasty one.

It maaay be OK if you know for a fact that the people you're giving the fake cards to are perfectly fine for money and then they dream of getting a Lamborghini or a world cruise for a few minutes before you tell them... still not really funny, though.

Doing that for somebody who may be - or even worse, you know is - really struggling financially is just a wicked thing to do. Generally, the people whom you hate enough to want to see them humiliated and leave them terribly upset for a long time are not the ones you would normally be routinely exchanging presents with in the first place.

Stirabout · 03/06/2025 21:41

My dad asked me to read him out the winning lottery numbers because he couldn’t find his glasses.
I hovered behind him and read out the numbers he had 🫤.

Noodge · 03/06/2025 23:08

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 03/06/2025 14:29

The gnome thing I'd never do personally-I'd be afraid of sentimental values plus if one got broken or a vandal or thief got hold of them

Well, if somebody has taken your property from your garden and isn't giving it back for a year (as they know, but you don't know it hasn't gone forever), the thieves effectively already have got hold of it.

Definitely with that one! I was more thinking of the one where they were taken and placed at a bus stop-and got located by the owner straight away.

Noodge · 03/06/2025 23:10

LightDrizzle · 03/06/2025 17:49

It wasn’t until I saw this thread that it occurred to me that the only “pranksters” I’ve known are male. Obviously this thread demonstrates that there are women who do it too.

The very few pranksters I have known had a very basic sense of humour along slapstick and farts/poo/body parts and functions lines.

I can confirm that as someone who does the (occasional) prank, I absolutely hate scatological humour and anything like it! My (female) ex used to find that sort of thing funny, it disgusted me!

Noodge · 03/06/2025 23:10

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 03/06/2025 21:34

That's a truly nasty one.

It maaay be OK if you know for a fact that the people you're giving the fake cards to are perfectly fine for money and then they dream of getting a Lamborghini or a world cruise for a few minutes before you tell them... still not really funny, though.

Doing that for somebody who may be - or even worse, you know is - really struggling financially is just a wicked thing to do. Generally, the people whom you hate enough to want to see them humiliated and leave them terribly upset for a long time are not the ones you would normally be routinely exchanging presents with in the first place.

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I agree, that one is absolutely horrible. I'd never do that and I can't imagine what sort of person would! A very cruel thing to do IMO.

Sweetpea333 · 03/06/2025 23:48

@NormasArse Did ye aye? 🙄

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 03/06/2025 23:53

Noodge · 03/06/2025 23:08

Definitely with that one! I was more thinking of the one where they were taken and placed at a bus stop-and got located by the owner straight away.

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Ah, fair enough, then - that one seems rather more good-intentioned.

justasking111 · 04/06/2025 00:24

A circle of friends used to prank each other. One prank was to brick up the front door. Another they spread seeds on a carpet and watered it while the family were on holiday. They came home to a lawn. Horse manure was delivered once.

BooneyBeautiful · 04/06/2025 00:31

RaininSummer · 02/06/2025 10:37

Bloody hell. This sort of thing would really annoy me. I'm obviously not the prank sort

Me neither! I don't like practical jokes or slapstick. I remember DM taking me to the circus when I was about six. I didn't think the clowns were funny at all. I just thought they were stupid.

NormasArse · 04/06/2025 00:31

There were a lot of gnomes in that garden. A lot of other ornaments too.

We were young and drunk when we took him.

I’m sure worse crimes have been committed.

It was almost 40 years ago.

NormasArse · 04/06/2025 00:32

Sweetpea333 · 03/06/2025 23:48

@NormasArse Did ye aye? 🙄

Not if you think we didn’t 🙄

IfYouPutASausageInItItsNotAViennetta · 04/06/2025 09:12

justasking111 · 04/06/2025 00:24

A circle of friends used to prank each other. One prank was to brick up the front door. Another they spread seeds on a carpet and watered it while the family were on holiday. They came home to a lawn. Horse manure was delivered once.

The indoor lawn one is especially nasty. It's hardly a quick surprise joke that is easily undone; that would take a huge amount of clearing, tidying and cleaning. You'd probably end up needing to pay a lot of money to replace a (hitherto) perfectly decent carpet.

How much would you need to despise somebody to decide to do something as cruel, disruptive and expensive as that? It clearly doesn't come from a place of love or friendship.

This is reminding me of the old NTNOCN sketch that took the idea of cruel pranks ad absurdum and went to the prankee's home to cut his wife's head off, just to see the look on his face when he returned and found his wife dead - and then how 'hilarious' the new widower would find it when he discovered that it was all 'just a crazy joke'.