This QOTW is terrible
I'll admit before I start that I've enjoyed a few answers and some have warranted a click, but this goes to the majority of the rest.

All this QOTW has done is provoke twats into telling their stories of complete cuntish acts. Not evil, it passes evil, ignores funny and goes straight to destroying peoples mentally.

I've read a few stories which have just left me shocked, that a bunch of people on a board which usually provides pleasent reading material, can write with such pride about how they've caused mental breakdowns or rather seriously injured, had the potential to injure, or intended to injure someone else, just for a few laughs.

The main story that sticks out is one from a guy who worked in a shop with a, as he put it "a fat girl" who fancied a guy who was out of her league and went travelling, he then impersonated the guy she fancied via e-mail, lead her on and then broke it all off, causing her a mental breakdown. Fair enough, he did a prank, it went a bit further than he intended, but that wasn't the case, this was - "Lots of fun but I think we gave the fat girl a bit of a confidence crisis and nervous breakdown when we got busted. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Aha...aha...a-hahahahaahahaha. What was I laughing about again? Oh yes, that fat girl with the mental breakdown...ahahahahahaha" that bit of icing on the cake filled me with rage.
(this is the story if you want to read it b3ta.com/questions/evilpranks/post108748 )

In the story he states that most people would smell a rat, but it's not true, I was one of the lesser popular kids in school, and that alone reduces your self esteem enough that just the mere chance that the person you fancy who's "way out of your league" might fancy you back is enough to make you believe it despite what the rest of your mind tells you. It used to happen to me quite alot and I never learnt, I can imagine that working with people such as this twat who goes on about how she's fat and ugly and therefore has no chance, that this girl was victim to similar mental attacks.

I've read various other similar stories. Stories where people have been seriously phyisically hurt. One where some guys rigged up a welding torch so that it electricuted some poor sod. Too many people, in my opinion, have used this QOTW as a way of trying to tell a story which they know was a bad thing to do in a way as to try and make it sound funny to heal their conscience.

I hate pranks as it is, I'll admit, so maybe I'm prejudice about it. But I think that as soon as you do something with the intent or result of harming another human, even if it's in revenge for something they've done to you, then there's no possible way you can spin it to make it funny or entertaining.

Saying that, I'm starting to realise that, if these people find it funny, don't feel shame in telling alot of people about it, and boast about it on here, then they must truly take pleasure in other people's misery.




*Breathes out*
(Belgaer is, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:32, 13 replies)

Agreed
To my mind a 'prank' is something which when revealed the victim should have the reaction of saying "You bastards!" to the perpetrators and then laughing.



*EDIT* I seem to remember there was a similar reaction to a QOTW months ago which resulted in people posting tales of how they'd bullied people.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:38, closed)

Yep
Pranks which result in nervous breakdowns or the belief a rape has taken place are about as funny as AIDS.

Practical jokery is funny, I have partaken in a few myself but provided it's not an act of outright malice then fine by me. The issue is one of context.

There are a few folk who seem to think "I caused him/her to have a proper eppy-breakdown" is something to be proud of. I agree with the sentiments echoed further down where these idiots are labelled "mongtards", but I'd go a step further and suggest that for the good of humanity, these people should get themselves sterilized as soon as possible.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:41, closed)

I've been thinking the same way...
A lot of these have been funny, clever, well executed and, most importantly to my mind, well written: I can forgive a person many things if he has a decent prose style and good grammar.

BUT the exact opposite goes for many of the posts, too: they've been indicative of nothing beyond the pusillanimity and out-and-out childishness of their poster, whose sub-literacy does little to dispel the image. I would say that the guilty parties know who they are - but the sad thing is that they probably don't: they probably think that they really are little genii.

/rant over.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:42, closed)

True, but....
In a lot of these posts you just have to weed out the wheat from the chaff.

The evil bastards should just chaffing go away and frequent 'I am a cunt.com'.
( girlinthehole, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:43, closed)

Yup...
...there's only a few consonents' difference between 'prankster' and 'wanker'. Too many of these posts make me think of the latter.

We knew it already, but it's true that a lot of people are total cunts.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:44, closed)

Well said
There's a line between general mischievous japing and downright malevolence. Some posts have crossed the line (but that is just my personal opinion -I don't want to come across as all holier-than-thou).
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:48, closed)

It's not quite so black and white
Yes there have been some truly awful stories here and those involved should be deeply ashamed. And there's no absolute line to indicate where practical jokes become victimisation/bullying/harrassment, because it's a matter of your viewpoint. But a prank can also be a way to prick an over-inflated ego. In other cases it's just a mutually-acceptable way to blow off steam (as with the numerous stories of prank 'wars', where the real challenge is to show one's imagination).

Nobody likes to be made a fool of, but it's important to be able to laugh at oneself and to lose one's dignity once in a while is no bad thing if it's done in a sense of fun rather than malice.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 10:48, closed)

Funny though
All this bile for this QOTW and hardly a peep about "accidental" animal cruelty one.

Hey ho.
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:10, closed)

Chutney
Hmmm... Good point. On the other hand, individual stories tended to get flamed there more than they have here. And my sense is that there were fewer mongtards posting, for some reason.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:12, closed)

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I completely agree. No doubt all of us have done something mightily cuntish to someone, somewhere, but most of us would feel a sliver of remorse if it clearly affected the person in question in a serious way. The perpetrators who just revel in it make my blood boil.
( the_other_jeff_lebowski Croutons on my tits, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:14, closed)

To be honest
a lot of the cuntish things people did to animals was done when they were younger, ergo more irrisponsible. I think people kind of let that slip as childish innocence (what the parents were thinking of letting their little darling loose with another pet after killing the last is beyond me) where as as lot of these evil pranks are done by adults aimed at adults. We appear to be less tolerant of cruelty to adults when performed by an adult as we expect them to have a better judgement.

I can see the funny side of the rape story in some respects, but the prank would have to be revealed very soon after waking to prevent any real mental trauma. To leave the lad feeling like that - or causing a breakdown in the other example - is taking it too far.
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:29, closed)

New QOTW
...will follow shortly.

That is all.
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 20 Dec 2007, 11:48, closed)