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Jokes you've pulled on friends...
#11
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(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
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#12
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(February 28, 2020 at 2:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(February 28, 2020 at 2:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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

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.
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#13
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
I had a friend whose mother was quite inhospitable. She had unfavorable opinions of all his friends. I bet him his mom would love me, long story short, now he has a sister.
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#14
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(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.

How do you know that the 'bullying' by pulling your pants down wasn't seen as a practical joke by those who did it?
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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#15
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(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
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#16
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(February 28, 2020 at 2:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(February 28, 2020 at 2:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.

How do you know that the 'bullying' by pulling your pants down wasn't seen as a practical joke by those who did it?

Experience. 

Nobody reading this is stupid.
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#17
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(February 28, 2020 at 2:55 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(February 28, 2020 at 2:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: How do you know that the 'bullying' by pulling your pants down wasn't seen as a practical joke by those who did it?

Experience. 

Nobody reading this is stupid.

That’s kind of a dodge. I’m guessing the people who did that to you thought it was screamingly funny. So, from their perspective, it WAS a joke - a very cruel one at your expense.

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
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#18
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(February 28, 2020 at 2:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(February 28, 2020 at 2:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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: 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

The guy who came to visit me and I paid to go to Australia, Hillbilly Atheist, I have known since the early 2000s. We talk on an almost weekly basis on skype and pm each other constantly. When he opened the door to his hotel room with the mask on, my only thought was, "Really"? 

If you are going to shit on any type of friendly humor, then you'd have to condemn my late mother too.  

We once went to her Urologist's office. In the examination room, I noticed a proctology graphic on the wall. One with a doctor's latex gloved finger up the graphics ass. And all I could think at the time was, " I know it is need to know, but couldn't you simply bring it out to those who need to know"?  I felt uncomfortable sitting next to my mom, staring at a graphic with a finger up an ass.  So stupid me mentions this to my late mother. She laughed, but ever since then wherever we were, if I was teasing her, all she'd have to do  to get me to shut up, was to wiggle her finger to my face. 

Now, are you going to stupidly claim her teasing was mean?
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#19
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
(February 28, 2020 at 1:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My favourite practical jokes are the ones that backfire and cause grievous bodily injury to the prankster.

Boru

From the Notebooks of Lazarus Long:

A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to his quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#20
RE: Jokes you've pulled on friends...
Wich hand you use to clean up your ass?




Why do some people use the point finger and others use the thumb in the elevator button?

You gotta know this one.
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