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As an apprentice the tradesmen would send you to the store to get a long weight, or a packet of spots for the spot welder, or a box of sparks for the grinder and so on.

When I was in the Air Force we would ask a newby to go another on Base and get us Lefthanded screw driver. All going well the newby would end going to most the sections on Base asking for the Left handed screw. Everyone had a good laugh and the newby got to know where all the sections were on the base and everyone got to know them :-)

I really hate them, and hate is a strong word. Had a couple played on me; would never do that to another person.

they can seem ok but can be dangerous

Oh Holly Cat you bring back so many memories! Haaa . I once cut out an eye hole in a Hessian potato sack at work and strolled over to knock on the boss's glass door..She just so happened to be on a VIP call to a client and looked over to see the " Elephant girl" and started giggling . I could hear her on the phone in her posh English accent saying " oh I'm terribly sorry about that" 🤣 Edited 03-Nov-24 22:21pm

I knowed someone that hind my things all the time so I there things in a freezer

I've been on the receiving end many times when younger, and never thought it was funny then and still don't. This only works with certain people and situations Don't get me wrong, I love a laugh, just not practical jokes, they just seem infantile to me.

Unintended consequences

I don't like practical jokes. They are puerile, not funny and a waste of time.

Nah don’t like them

I don't see what is 'practical' or 'humorous' about hurting or upsetting people. It strikes methat these pranks are performed to make fools (or hurt) of someone. The only person that is entertained (most times anyway) is the supposed joker but they are typically just repressed bullies. Your joke worked because you knew the recipients. I'm glad everyone had a good time. But please, be careful. The number one rule in communication is to know your audiences. Ignore this rule at your own peril.

I mostly don't do those things and probably had a few played on me but not I can recall at this time.

My wife and I had been married for about 6 months and we living about 1000 miles from our home town. We had to deliver a baby to our home town. We arrived on the Friday night and showed him to all our friends over the weekend. Dropped the baby at the Hospital on Monday. we arrived back to our home town about 8 months later without the baby. Lots of questions were asked before we told all.

That would be a shock to most people.

Practical jokes are all fine and dandy til somebody gets hurt … or mad lol

May not be a very good way of making friends, or hanging onto them.

Not into jokes as people usually go too far. I have never participated in doing it either. I love good humour but not stand up.

I might be old but I seem to remember this same discussion less than a month or so ago. I still have never played a practical joke on anyone.

Wow a nudist beach that's so funny. Did anyone get naked and did you forget the spf100. I can see you wpuld have had such a pleasantly funny time. Did any of the nudists think it was a great laugh to. ? And did the nudist beach life guard run over with his dangling woody woody pecker and tell you peeping tom's to move on or get em off? I hope you didn't get burnt.!!Edited 03-Nov-24 14:10pm

Lol so funny keep it up ...

Probably lots of times, or played on others many times or part of group practical jokes. I can't keep a record.

We had a young apprentice from the sister restaurant come over to borrow something from our kitchen .. there was always some shenanigans going on ,I remember her getting tickled and trying to get away ( all in fun ) Anyway she dropped her hair comb in the process so we eggwashed it , crumbed it and gave it a quick deep fry ,then plated it up with some dipping sauces and sent it over to her .Edited 03-Nov-24 13:26pm

Always playing jokes on my extended family. The young ones are very gullible and now in my old age they still think I am a hard case

Practical jokes never end well. Not worth the trouble.

I once got someone to address Father’s Day cards to 2 fairly new married friends and said Happy Father’s Day from Sally and the girls. Recipients were not happy and nearly caused a divorce with one. I had to get the same person to send apology to both wives saying it was a prank

Not really, I stopped jumping out at my hubby in case he has a heart attack. Occasionally he does it to me but not often. One practically joke went way to far and the company ended up being sued by the young man as the older guys thought it was funny to hang him upside down from a forklift over quite a long time. He certainly did not see the funny side and I can't blame him really as yes it was just a dumb practical joke but it scared him for a long time afterwards. There are funny jokes and then there is dangerous hurtful jokes. Choose which one you want to do wisely.

I'm.not actually a very good practical joker, and end up feeling bad, plus if I tried, it would be a useless attempt!! Had them done to me though, and it's not a good feeling at all. Especially when later they expect you to act like nothing happened and everything is cool, even though everyone saw everything in real time and talked about it for weeks!! So no, not into practical jokes. I guess unless you are both in on it, then have at it!

I don’t really remember any, maybe the left handed hammer or screw driver but that’s about it.

Practical jokes are horrible and not funny. I know someone who died when a so called practical joke backfired and went horribly wrong. I had to try and pick up the pieces in the aftermath. The perpetrator almost committed suicide. Don't do it.

There were too many to list and vice versa. Still doing them.

Not for a while. Is funny when you're younger, but get's old when you're older.

everyone plays practical jokes on someone . Michael

if your going do a joke you better be able to take

i used to clean the Oxford Hotel in north Adelaide the 2 girls who worked with me thought it was haunted dimming lights/sounds coming through the speakers, voices, tapping on the windows [ they were on the first floor I had a 3-meter pole to clean windows, they still don't know, they still talk about it but it was me, I don't want to spoil their story, plenty of apprentice jokes, sending them for a long weight, spotted paint, left-handed hammers, etc,, there was one with condensed milk that didnt go to well i might leave that alone, back in the day when i was considered a bit of a hippy a fellow work acquaintance approached me and wanted to buy some drugs,i was taken back by his brazen approach,so i went to the next bar and got some salt,put it in a money bag, told him to cook a chop or steak lightly sprinkle some over it get a beer and relax and wait for it to hit you, be carefull it is very potent, first try is free all of that mumbo,next day he said thank you and he would never do this again as he thought he was going to loose it ,amazing the power of a good steak ,but that guy is managing his own building company and doesn't drink or do any drugs at all not even panadol apparently

Years ago, the building trade in Australia was a place where they played lots of jokes on the apprentices - "go to the hardware store and get a tin of striped paint." There was a film came out where an "Italian" migrant got such a job, and they sent him off with many practical jokes - it was hilarious - unfortunately we have lost the Aussie send of humour

No i have not done that.

Another time, when I was working in a foundry, there was a coke machine out in one of the sheds and often when I went to get a can this leading hand would see me, come and grab it out of my hand, and drink whatever was left. One day I got sick of this, drank all the coke and then half filled the can with filthy muddy water. As soon as he saw me with the can he came and grabbed it and started to drain it. Suddenly the triumphant expression on his face changed dramatically to disgust, and choking and spluttering, he spat out what he hadn’t already swallowed and exclaimed “what the f is this” He never ever again pinched my drink from me…Edited 03-Nov-24 11:07am

I young man in my circle of friends that always drank too much at our b.b.q's,party's etc had once again passed out. The girls in the group myself included had warned him many times about getting THAT drunk as something may happen to him one day. So whilst he was passed out we hot out our make up and gave him a " make over". When he finally came to we said nothing. Luckily for him he had to use the bathroom before going home. He saw the funny side of it and actually thought he looked quite good,but washed the makeup off before leaving. He also confessed after he passed out at another party a while back one of the guys shaved his eyebrows off. Not good,and we wouldn't go that far. But we did it out of concern,not to be nasty. Now it's just one of those story's that we all have a chuckle about when we see each other.

No its not nice

we used to tell apprentices to go to the shop and get a long wait

I sometimes laugh at practical jokes.

No, some can be so harmful and stupid to do to another person. Do unto others as YOU would have THEM do to YOU!!!

A guy came to work one day in a brand new pair of boots. I walked up to him, looked at his boots and then stomped on the end of one of them. His eyes nearly popped out of his head and he stuttered “these are not safety boots” He couldn’t report it of course, because turning up at work in non steel capped boots was a sacking offence. Of course I didn’t know they were non steel caps, it was meant to be a harmless joke..Edited 03-Nov-24 10:02am

I had a boss once who bought boxes of lemon coloured plastic giraffe swizzle sticks for the new bar . None of us thought they went with anything else in the quaint little 2 Hat restaurant so one night after a few ... we set them all out on the made up posh tables.... we hollowed out bread houses for them , put them in very compromising positions on the butter stands etc . Snapped off some legs etc ..,you get the picture. They were everywhere all over the bar" having fun" when she arrived the next morning . Needless to say she didn't have a sense of humour to same degree and we had to buy a box of giraffe swizzle sticks to pay for our recklessness.! Yes I still have a couple somewhere Lol. Edited 03-Nov-24 08:57am

they thought if funny to pull the chair from under me i nearly broke my back so fffffing stupid

No

No not really on me

No

I bought my wife a counter-top UV grow kit . She started the pods and was astonished to see they'd all sprouted overnight in 24 hours.. I had stuck three single artificial needles from our fake Christmas tree into the pots. I told her after a couple of days when they showed no further growth. She will avenge this...I just won't see it coming...

I have never played a practical joke on anyone and have never had any played on me

I painted two white lines on our house's roof on Xmas Eve after the kids had gone to bed. In the morning on Xmas day I took the kids outside and showed them the roof and told them the two white lines were proof that Father Xmas has landed his sled on our roof over night in order to deliver the presents.The only problem was the "snow lines ??" never melted.Edited 03-Nov-24 07:07am

No I really haven't

I smashed an egg on my daughter's head. She got very upset. (It was only the shell).

None that I can think of.

The only problem with practical jokes is they get elected

I love it. I have played to many jokes to remeber the best one.

No practical jokes here

Not that I can remember

Years ago I put salt instead of sugar in someone’s coffee

no

I honestly don't remember ever playing a practical joke on someone or someone doing it to me. But with the sense of humor I have I possibly did when I was much younger and no doubt my friends would have done the same to me.

No, early on my friends and relations learned not to play jokes on me. I remember one April Fools' Day I told my friends and family that there was a change in the primaries and Democrats had to be registered as GOPers and GOPers had to be registered as Libertarians if they wanted to be allowed to vote! BTW I am a die hard MAGA and pro-Trumpy GOPer and I will never ever change parties again. For one year many years back, I joined the Libertarians. That was the year a Libber almost won the presidential race! Most of the trickees either ignored me or called the voting polls. OK a few of them decided not to vote but they admitted afterwards they had decided not to vote before my joke. I have never been pranked again!

Hi Holly Cat. I never played a practical joke on anyone, and fortunately I never had a practical joke played on me. I never UNDERSTOOD the humor of practical jokes and I still don't UNDERSTAND the humor of a practical joke. Anyway, at this point in my life - I am OLD - if anyone was to play a practice joke on me - NOW - it WOULD me the DEATH of me - as it would totally surprise me, and I would die from cardiac 'arrest' - which I would definitely not find humorous - lol!Edited 03-Nov-24 01:34am

JOKES R STUPID ESPECIALLY ON APR 1STEdited 03-Nov-24 01:05am

I may have created or been involved in both of these but they will never be able to prove it!!

The other one was to draw a detailed spiral image in the doorway of the science lab....entirely made up..and then you just tell the first couple of arrivals to class that is something to do with evil magic...and that no-one should cross it...wait till 20 or so students turn up outside...and then watch the teacher arriving...assuring everyone that it was perfectly safe while VERY carefully stepping OVER it ...he was as scared as the students...plonker Edited 03-Nov-24 01:07am

My parents bought me a present from duty free once and wrapped it up for Christmas. I opened it thinking what the hell is this ..a can of Pal? ( Dog food!) Actually they had just wrapped the label around the tin of the Jean Paul Gautier perfume 😀

At my secondary school.there was a classroom at the top of an external fire escape...before class we placed/stacked all the desks and chairs out there...and we then all went in and sat on the floor....it took them way too long to work that one out

Funny gal Holly Cat.