Just don’t. Pranks are a form of bullying.
Lol are we in high school?
Do you think that bulling ceases to exist when you graduate? That unwanted violence against others is imaginary, or that you need to endure it in silence because you’re an adult?
How many people have you victimized just because you can? Give your answer, I’d venture the number is non-zero.
“(Thing)”
“Oh so you think (Barely related thing)?!”
Yep, there’s the bullying signal. Get in here boys we got a nerd
Pranking is just what assholes call being an asshole.
Don’t be an asshole.
Believe it or not, friends can be mischievous with one another in good faith
A good prank is defined by whether the “victim” is laughing about it as well, at the end. The catch is, this is defined entirely by the victim. There is no arguing about it. If they aren’t smiling, you screwed up.
I’ve done, and been victim to some good pranks over the years. I’ve also dealt with the bullying version. There is a big difference.
Pranks can 100% be harmless and fun, but if you’re ever questioning whether or not a prank is harmless don’t do it.
I once hid in a box for, like, an hour so I could leap out of it at my brother.
Print out a little dickbutt sticker, then put it over their mouse sensor.
Shouldn’t it be one of those “OK” symbols. You know, the “Made you look” game where you create an OK symbol with your hand below your waist.
That one?
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Follow it up by placing a tiny bit of clear soft plastic in with the laser. It doesn’t stop the mouse from working, but if you were you draw a straight line the cursor wobbles slightly.
Jesus Christ… Dickbutt
- Short sheet their bed
- If they leave their computer unattended/unlocked:
- Screenshot it, make that their wallpaper, then hide icons & taskbar
- (unsure if this still works) Alt + Ctrl + Arrow keys to rotate Windows desktop
- Get a musical birthday card, then hide it (opened) somewhere in their room/office (best under a piece of furniture/couch cushion, etc) so all they can hear is the muffled music
- Remove spring from tip of clicker ballpoint pen (ink cartridge won’t stay out/in)
Put
#define true (rand()%1000 != 0)
in some obscure C or C++ header file on their system/project. This makestrue
evaluate to false one in a thousand times, and will make them spend hours trying to figure out why things like infinite loops, aren’t quite infinite.Other languages should also allow you to do things like this, if not messing with constants, messing with standard library functions.
They asked for harmless pranks - this would cause murders.
If your going that evil
#define { {}{It should always cause a syntax error if the code contains
} else
.
Tape over the mouse laser is always a good one
If we’re talking computers, screenshot their desktop, set it as background, move taskbar to top, auto hide it, right-click desktop and choose hide icons.
Advanced mode: also set screen flip to 180 degrees and flip the background so it looks right side up.
I did the screen flip thing to a coworker once. And then he just took the monitor and turned it upside down. Didn’t see that coming.
On the computer thread, changing the keys on their keyboard is also fun. Works better if they are a touch typist as well, as they may go several hours/days before noticing, until they have to look for that one special key. :)
Numpad * and / are good for that, I touch type but always have to look at those.
Plug in a wireless keyboard/mouse and do things, like move the mouse, or write “chicken” every so often?
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Follow it up by placing a tiny bit of clear soft plastic in with the laser. It doesn’t stop the mouse from working, but if you were you draw a straight line the cursor wobbles slightly.
I saw a video once of a prank where two girls go up to a stranger asking them to take a picture of them across the street. The stranger takes the photo and when the two girls start crossing over to the other side, a car passes by and the two girls are replaced with two old men wearing the same shirts. Even the Polaroid photo shows the old men. It’s genuinely funny and completely harmless. It just makes the person getting pranked go, “Wait, what the fuck???”
I do hope the people were told that they were pranked though and that they don’t live the rest of their lives thinking they’re insane 😂
ETA: also this video where the guy puts on the collar and leash of his blind husband’s service dog when he asks him to go get his watch. (He immediately reveals himself when the blind husband gets back to pick up his service dog’s leash again and the husband thinks it’s hysterical).
Basically everything Just for Laughs does is gold. You can spend hours watching their videos.
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Dad jokes
If they leave their phone unattended take funny selfies and then quickly return their phone to exactly where they left it.
oh, I’m going to do this one to my partner
I have another in mind but haven’t tried it. If they leave their phone unattended, take a picture of their phone sitting there. Then later on text them the photo and say “You left your phone (wherever)” You will get them to view the photo of their phone on their phone and if you’re lucky they will go looking for it when they already have it.
I HAVE to try this on my employees XD
If they use android, you can open the camera without unlocking the phone. Just double tap the power button, and it pops up. It’s intended for rapid camera use, but great for pranking purposes. Apple has the equivalent, though I can’t remember the button combo, off the top of my head.
Wow. Been using Android since like version 2 but never knew you could double press the power button to turn the camera on. If screen is off have to press once to turn screen on first.
IIRC on iOS there is a camera icon on the lock screen.
Detonate a nuclear bomb
Just a prank bro
Throw a sack of flour in their face
I don’t think that’s harmless…
Edit: Bait Airpods then.
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This one is a little convoluted, but I just watched this prank video where they fed someone their own cooking in a restaurant. It may be the most wholesome prank I’ve ever seen.
This British grandma is adorable lol
So heart warming!
That’s the best thing I’ve ever seen!
One of the best pranks I saw involved a house sitter, and some musical Christmas socks. Before going away, they removed the music module from an old pair of Christmas socks that played “jingle bells”. They then put it between the mattress and the box frame of the bed a relative would be using, while house-sitting. When they turned over in the night, they would set it off. They had jingle bells stuck in their head for a week, but didn’t know why.
On another note, a work colleague is the master of ear worm deployment. He has the knack for humming catchy tunes just right. Just a few bars, quite enough you don’t notice. You suddenly find you have a tune stuck in your head. You know what he’s done when you realise that half a dozen others also keep murmuring the same tune (it’s stuck in their heads too). It’s remarkably self reinforcing. It amuses him greatly , while being fun and non-harmful.