Back in my sub days I developed a rubric for when-not-to-prank.
In short, fair play. Continuing to pull a prank that the victim was completely helpless to prevent, causing him repeated bouts of wasting time, trying to put everything back together and get everything running again, was out of bounds.
There is a huge difference between the upper level watch sneaking down into middle level to trip out a critical piece of equipment, where he can get caught, and doing so repeatedly by reaching down from above with the broomstick
The latter may be funny once, but with almost no skin in the game or risk to themselves, very quickly becomes torment..
By contrast, repeatedly gravity-checking the lower level watches with buckets of water was deemed fair game. A little attentiveness on the part of the lower level watch made it fairly easy to dodge a bucket of water, and they had a lot of pressurized water with which to fight back.
Fair play! Exactly. It’s not about being mean for meanness’s sake. What we’re talking about here is hijinx for the sake of camaraderie. You prank the people you like out of love. I think it’s mostly a guy thing because it makes perfect sense . . . until you try to explain it.
we need to bring back doing things that are just out of the ordinary and goofy to make people laugh, but never to harm anyone. I think it'll make the world just a little bit better through the power of comedy.
Back in my sub days I developed a rubric for when-not-to-prank.
In short, fair play. Continuing to pull a prank that the victim was completely helpless to prevent, causing him repeated bouts of wasting time, trying to put everything back together and get everything running again, was out of bounds.
There is a huge difference between the upper level watch sneaking down into middle level to trip out a critical piece of equipment, where he can get caught, and doing so repeatedly by reaching down from above with the broomstick
The latter may be funny once, but with almost no skin in the game or risk to themselves, very quickly becomes torment..
By contrast, repeatedly gravity-checking the lower level watches with buckets of water was deemed fair game. A little attentiveness on the part of the lower level watch made it fairly easy to dodge a bucket of water, and they had a lot of pressurized water with which to fight back.
Fair play! Exactly. It’s not about being mean for meanness’s sake. What we’re talking about here is hijinx for the sake of camaraderie. You prank the people you like out of love. I think it’s mostly a guy thing because it makes perfect sense . . . until you try to explain it.
A kindred spirit! If only everyone we joked around with, pranked, or verbally zinged understood just how much we love them...most of the time.
Exactly. Sometimes you go too far and have to pull back, but that’s just how men relate to each other.
Humor is indeed good for the soul. There’s no question. I even introduced my sons to the concept of ballbusting in male bonding.
Oh it’s classic. They’d probably learn it eventually.
My experience with pranks has been different. Most of the time, I've been on the butt end of mean
-spirited pranks.
I’m sorry to hear that. That’s not cool or what I’m getting at here.
we need to bring back doing things that are just out of the ordinary and goofy to make people laugh, but never to harm anyone. I think it'll make the world just a little bit better through the power of comedy.
Exactly. You nailed my point.
If that’s what you got from this post, you’re not gonna make it.