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To ask what's the cruelist thing you've done?

198 replies

Mummyto2munchkins · 29/01/2019 22:01

Just wanted to know if any of you have done something mean?

I've use to make my ex SM a cuppa with 1 sugar and 1 salt! (she still doesn't know!)

Oh and I once made my sister eat a worm by telling her it was a sweet! (she was 5)

Have you guys got any interesting things you've done?

OP posts:
makingmammaries · 30/01/2019 20:20

Student laundry room. Someone had pulled my washing from the machine and, instead of putting it in the bags i’d left, dumped it on the filthy top of the machine. When I found it, the machine was full of their woolly sweaters, on a cold wash. I hesitated for a moment and then turned it to hot.

Smotheroffive · 30/01/2019 20:23

Oh lord! That's your fault you left the machine full of your washing and expected someone to out it in your bags, so you shrunk all their expensive jumpers!!! I hope you've grown up since student days?! Are WA talking uni, or boarding school, boarding immaturity would be more excuseable I guess Confused

iklboo · 30/01/2019 20:24

Actually I think the cruellest thing I've ever done was after ex-p left.

I came home to a note on the kitchen table telling me he'd left me for someone he'd met on the internet who lived in the USA and he was flying out to be with her.

So I cancelled all the joint bank cards and credit cards so he'd have no access to any more money or rack up more debt he'd have no intention of paying (because all the replacements would be sent to the home address).

Smotheroffive · 30/01/2019 20:27

I don't think that's cruel iklboo don't you think its cruel of him to have run off and potentially pile up debts jointly?! It was damage limitation you could have been liable for a lot of debt there!

iklboo · 30/01/2019 20:29

True Smother. He left £££ of joint debt he'd racked up without my knowledge. You're right.

makingmammaries · 30/01/2019 20:37

@smotheroffive, the custom was to unload others’ washing into bags. Not boarding school, and ‘uni’ is such a chav word. Where I studied, we didn’t have time to hang around waiting for the machine to finish. Anyway, why are you on this thread to snipe at people’s confessions?

Iownabigvase · 30/01/2019 20:38

One time when I was about 5, the little girl up the street stole the chalk I was playing with. She was really sneaky about it too. She had asked to use some and I felt like it was a trap but wanted to be nice and share. I gave it to her then she ran into her garden and shut the gate and proceeded to stand behind it mocking me. So, I spat in her hair and she ran off crying.
Not one of my proudest moments but I felt she deserved it.. being 5 years old and all.

tmh88 · 30/01/2019 20:40

Me and my sister went through a phase of watching any horror film we could get our hands on (rented for 50p from the village store) but she quickly turned sinister and would pretend she was possessed etc to scare me while our parents worked... one night when she fell asleep I propped all the china dolls facing her for when she woke up on the chest of drawers at the end of her bed and swore blind it wasn’t me.. it was all fun an games until mum found out, she then took the China dolls and propped them outside our bedroom doors one night.

We instantly freaked out as neither of us had done it. She did it so we would see it weren’t a nice thing to do but in our naive minds we thought mum was saying she didn’t do it so we weren’t scared and promptly made her tip the dolls.

ABigBraclet · 30/01/2019 20:48

‘uni’ is such a chav word.
What in the what, now..?!

Smotheroffive · 30/01/2019 20:50

Your being quite nasty there making !! So, by saying uni, and yes, I'll say it again uni somehow implies I might be a chav as you so beautifully put it? C'mon, let's hear it, none of this PA stuff.

Noone studies at places where they can't time their own laundry and make choices. So you were old enough then! Students don't tend to be the most well off, and you robbed someone of their winter cold weather woollens. Nice, and totally OTT, but I'm the nasty chav?

HexOnLegs · 30/01/2019 21:02

I was living on a kibbutz and sharing a room with two horrible girls. We were all about 18. They were bitches to everyone, but I was the one lumbered with sharing a room with them.

The floors were really dusty and gritty and we all wore sandals. So you'd have to wipe off your feet every night as you got into bed, or you'd end up with a bed full of grit.

The beds were really close together. Every night I used to go to bed first and reach my feet over to wipe them in the nasty girls' beds.

Then I would pretend to be asleep when they came in, and listen to them ranting on about how come their beds were so gritty even though they were always careful to wipe their feet off every night.

BlackPrism · 30/01/2019 21:06

@ABigBraclet I disagree entirely, it's unnatural and distasteful to have deep dark secrets. The truth will set you free my dear, confess!

I don't keep any secrets. Any. I find it torture to not admit my wrongdoings.

Hugglessnuggles · 30/01/2019 21:08

Since when has ‘uni’ been a chav word?

Everyone I know uses it (and we are not chav’s) my son is at ‘uni’ and he and all his friends use it?

A lecturer at Oxford refers to university as uni in conversation.

3 lecturers in other Uni’s I know also use the word.

Hmm
Justanothernamechange2 · 30/01/2019 21:11

About 7ish i fell out with a friend. Her barbies were at my house from a sleepover so i cut all their hair off and posted them through her letter box when i knew the family would be out

TacoFlavouredKisses · 30/01/2019 21:12

‘uni’ is such a chav word

Easily one of the stupidest things I've ever read on here.

Reluctant2ndtimer · 30/01/2019 21:18

Gosh I think what I did to a house mate years ago is worse than any of these Blush
Three of us shared a house during college and took it in turns to buy soap and toilet roll. The other girl and me used to buy decent toilet roll which the boy we shared with was more than happy to use loads of. He used to leave thick black pubes on the soap and when it was his turn to buy he was always really reluctant to cough up for it. We’d have to nag at him for ages to get toilet roll then he’d buy Tesco value stuff that was like tissue paper. We ended up buying our own soap and toilet roll instead but he always just asked to borrow ours and promise to get his own ‘tomorrow’ but never did. He kept his room locked if he was out so we decided to haunt him to teach him a lesson for being so stingy.

We found that you could unlock his door with a bank card or butter knife and we started by going in every couple of days and just moving his chair a little or rearranging the clothes in his wardrobe. We did it over weeks just a little at a time but gradually moving more things, like putting the chair right over the other side of his room or taking his clothes out of the wardrobe on putting them on the bed. He started to get really freaked out by it when we piled up a few chairs from the house on his bed and started talking about getting a priest in to exorcise the house! Poor bloody sod. We did confess after that, after cooking him a really good dinner, and he saw the funny side of it eventually but I think we totally went too far and I’m shocked 20 odd years on that I could have been so mean Blush

FascinatingCarrot · 30/01/2019 21:19

Username - BoswellsBollocks
Punts a below kick in a previous lifetime - (Im so sorry Brian)

Hysterics right now

sparklesq · 30/01/2019 21:25

Scrubbed my ass crack with my bitch of a stepmum's toothbrush. To this day every time she's a bitch to me (which is still often, I never learnt to stand up to her) it makes me feel so much better to think of it. It's the only thing like that I've ever done and I'm not at all sorry

Smotheroffive · 30/01/2019 21:31

How haven't all these people dropped down dead with such deadly bacteria scrubbed into their !mouths!

...and all the while half the population seems to be anti-bac'ing everything or they'll die surely!

But scrub your teeth with the germs on the loo rim, or someone's arse, and apparently no adverse effects!

MrsCocoabean · 30/01/2019 21:34

Don’t even get me started..... Wink

I smeared a layer of tar on a bench just before my sibling came back to their seat.

Gave a boy in my class the ‘phone number’ of a girl he had a mega crush on. My friend and I pretended to be her, when he called latter that afternoon.

JoeElliotsMullet · 30/01/2019 22:00

@YouBelongHere ok I'll let you off Grin

Smotheroffive · 31/01/2019 00:22

@Weightsandmeasures
Can you explain that first para again please weights? How do you mean? how do I know someone hasn't returned the favour and nasty people see nastiness in others ! Not sure what it is you're saying exactly.

makingmammaries · 31/01/2019 04:51

@smotheroffive, your comments were rude. I didn’t call you a nasty chav. Draw your own conclusions. As to ‘nobody studies at a place where they can’t time their own laundry’ , how would you presume to know? And, strangely, nobody there referred to it as ‘uni’.

Handprints2018 · 31/01/2019 09:25

Made my mother cry by asking if she realised my gran was toxic and had abused her as a child. It wasn't to deliberately be cruel, i was a teen and was sick of seeing my mum upset and stressed by them when i knew how she'd been treated and was still treated!

LuggsaysNotaWomen · 31/01/2019 10:00

I made my flat mate rehome her kitten.

To be fair she hadn’t asked me or my other flatmate if we were ok with having a kitten and she neglected the poor thing.

She was a totally irresponsible cow and would just disappear for days leaving no food or kitty litter for the cat so I would have to buy it. My other flatmate refused to have anything to do with it and if I had spent a few days away for work, which often happened and she had done a flit as per, the poor thing would go without food or fresh water for a couple of days.

In the end I gave her three days to find a home for it or I’d take it to a rescue charity. She hated me from then on but I didn’t much give a shit.