Subtle psychological pranks......were favoured by a mate i used to live with here in Bristol. Once while I was out he reversed my entire CD collection. And I don't mean he just grabbed a block and flipped it over; he did it one by one, so each one was still the right way up. I had over 400 CDs, in alphabetical order, so it must have taken him ages! It freaked me right out, cos when you always keep your CDs in order you get to recognise the pattern the edges make together, so the whole thing looked weirdly familiar but just plain wrong!
Another one this guy did... anyone remember that insanely irritating song by The Cartoonz, called 'Witch Doctor'?? I'll give you a hint... 'ooo, eee, ooo, aaa-aaaa, ting-tang wallawallabingbang'... *really* shit stuff. Well, a third guy we were living with at the time used to get driven mad whenever he heard it; I mean, he'd start ranting and screaming, it was fucking hilarious. So my evil flatmate takes a 90 minute tape, and fills one side with this song on a loop. When the third guy got home one night, completely smashed, we slipped into his room and hid a walkman in a box he had lying around, and started it playing the blank side of the tape, set to auto-reverse, just loud enough to be able to hear the headphones from across the room. Obviously he was asleep by the time it got to the non-blank side, but what basically happened was it played all night, and he woke up practically twitching because he thought he'd been dreaming the song, then thought it was coming from the TV he'd left on all night, then when he switched that off he decided it must be inside his head, which sent him under... It wasn't until he went to get some water and found that he could only hear it when he was in his room that he realised it wasn't in his head. But I don't think he was any less freaked out by the fact that an apparently empty box was playing that damn tune. We're lucky it didn't break his mind, I think...
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Another one this guy did... anyone remember that insanely irritating song by The Cartoonz, called 'Witch Doctor'?? I'll give you a hint... 'ooo, eee, ooo, aaa-aaaa, ting-tang wallawallabingbang'... *really* shit stuff. Well, a third guy we were living with at the time used to get driven mad whenever he heard it; I mean, he'd start ranting and screaming, it was fucking hilarious. So my evil flatmate takes a 90 minute tape, and fills one side with this song on a loop. When the third guy got home one night, completely smashed, we slipped into his room and hid a walkman in a box he had lying around, and started it playing the blank side of the tape, set to auto-reverse, just loud enough to be able to hear the headphones from across the room. Obviously he was asleep by the time it got to the non-blank side, but what basically happened was it played all night, and he woke up practically twitching because he thought he'd been dreaming the song, then thought it was coming from the TV he'd left on all night, then when he switched that off he decided it must be inside his head, which sent him under... It wasn't until he went to get some water and found that he could only hear it when he was in his room that he realised it wasn't in his head. But I don't think he was any less freaked out by the fact that an apparently empty box was playing that damn tune. We're lucky it didn't break his mind, I think...