(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.
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
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
