![]() Their damage lies in their subtlety and the way they can engender that classic response, ‘It’s not them, it’s me.’ They can have you questioning your ‘over-reactiveness’, your ‘oversensitivity’, your ‘tendency to misinterpret’. If you’re the one who’s continually hurt, or the one who is constantly adjusting your own behaviour to avoid being hurt, then chances are that it’s not you and it’s very much them.īeing able to spot their harmful behaviour is the first step to minimising their impact. Sometimes it’s more like a drenching. Difficult people are drawn to the reasonable ones and all of us have likely had (or have) at least one person in our lives who have us bending around ourselves like barbed wire in endless attempts to please them – only to never really get there. If that's your idea of a good time, maybe you're the April Fool.We have all had toxic people dust us with their poison. They not only laugh at the victim, pranks create a victim for the sole purpose of laughing at them. There's a pretty simple way to tell if a joke is offensive: If the punchline is the victim, the joke is probably bad. Why would you want to add more bad moments to someone else's life? What I'm saying is that, as a prank happens, this person with aspirations and bills is thrown into temporary crisis. Before you put your co-worker's Jello-encased stapler back on her desk, consider that she might be going through a horrible breakup. So today, before you put up that irreverent lost pet dragon flyer, ask yourself how it might affect someone whose cat recently died. ![]() It's impossible to know what someone's going through. Our lives are a series of relative victories and minor defeats, with occasional eruptions of love, life, and loss. Ultimately, pranks ignore the fundamental truth that living can be hard, and most people are trying to do their best. Do we really want to live in a world where we worry about being punk'd before warning a stranger about their child's imminent death? Not to mention how weird it is that TV prank shows feature celebrities putting civilians into situations where they humiliate themselves so that we, the knowing audience, can mock them. You are supposed to laugh at Home Depot shoppers who desperately try to tell a man there's a kid on his car. ![]() Think about the infamous Jackass prank where a man leaves a car seat with a (fake) baby on top of his SUV and then starts to drive. The point here is not to decide if this joke is OK, but to say that thoughts like these go through my head every time I witness a prank. Surely it's possible to acknowledge that some sex acts are humorous without saying that the people who like them are bad? In finding this troubling, am I being the kind of bore who compliments your new engagement ring by noting that I recently read an article about how there's no such thing as a non-blood diamond? Isn't it plausible that someone in the vicinity might have seen this incident as just another instance of society mocking gay people? Might this person have felt personally wounded? But also: Maybe secretly having a giant penis statue in your duffel is just funny. For starters, isn't this a gay joke? Maybe the players didn't mean it that way-they probably just spent ten seconds debating, "What's the funniest thing to put in Coach's luggage?" But why is a big double-sided dildo the go-to funniest thing to be caught with? There's nothing wrong with involving a big fake dick in your sex life. ![]() I laughed, of course, but I was immediately plagued with uncomfortable questions. I think it was also the coach's birthday. At the airport, when asked if he was carrying any liquids, the coach said "no," forcing the TSA agent to rummage around in his bag and pull out the dildo-lotion bag and ask "Is this yours?" in full view of the security line, howling athletes included. I was recently told a story about a traveling college sports team who secretly stuck a Ziplock bag containing a bottle of lotion and a large double-sided dildo into their coach's luggage. Would a prank by any other name sound as harmless? Hazing is essentially a vicious form of pranking that results in multiple deaths per year. Between friends, it's usually the dominant members of the group who play a trick on the weaker ones. You might prank your co-worker, but you probably wouldn't prank your boss. ![]()
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