(February 28, 2020 at 2:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 28, 2020 at 1:53 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I’ve never seen the point of practical jokes. The whole point of them seems to be to cause humiliation (or at least discomfort) to other people. What’s funny about that?
Boru
Huge difference between friendly teasing and bullying.
Bullying is when people who don't like you pull down your pants on the HS field when you are in gym. Yes that happened to me.
Friendly teasing is when you pick up your friend at a hotel (HB) to pick him up on a holiday trip, and he opens the door and he is shirtless with a scary old man halloween mask on to startle you.
Jokes are fine when everyone knows the other who pulls one on you isn't trying to hurt you. Bullying is when the person doesn't like you and wants to humiliate you in a harmful context.
(February 28, 2020 at 2:28 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(February 28, 2020 at 2:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Explain to my why frightening a friend with a scary mask is funny. It’s causing discomfort in other people for your own amusement. Seems a weird way to treat a friend.
Boru
Boru, I am a hermit. I spend most of my time at home. But throughout my life, and even now, I can take a joke.
You'd have to live alone on another planet by yourself if you didn't know how to take a joke.
If I ran every time someone poked fun of ABBA, for example, I would have left this website a long time ago.
Teasing those you like is not a crime. Bullying is not the same thing as friendly teasing.
I never said it was a crime. I asked why you find doing these sorts of things to people who are ostensibly your friends funny. I ask again: Why is it funny?
Boru
