Lift the toilet seat ➡️ Put cling wrap over the toilet bowl ➡️ Lower the toilet seat back down ➡️ Enjoy
That’s not harmless that’s cruel 😭
That’s disgusting and unsanitary.
idk if that’s harmless
Alternatively, put it across a doorway. I did this to some devious children (6 and 12). They eventually got me back.
True story. This thing happened last week.
Person A: I want to eat something.
Person B: Do you want some of these (B opens a box of boring cookies and shows the contents to A)
A: No!
B: How about these (opens another box of bland cookies)
A: No!
B: (grabs a third box, realizes it’s empty, but opens it carefully not to show anyone what’s inside) Ooh, I’m not showing this to you. (Puts the box away.)
A: I wanna see! (Tries to grab the box)
B: No, it’s mine! (Pushes A further away)
After some futile struggle B let A have the box. A opens it up and realizes it’s empty. We all had a good laugh.
Find a c header file on a program they’re working on.
#define main main
Does defining in a “loop” work in C? Like
#define main A #define A B #define B C … #define Z main
Throw a sack of flour in their face
I don’t think that’s harmless…
I closed the tool palette in the illustration app of a coworker and replaced it with a same-size image of same.
I go for a variation of this if a coworker leaves their computer unlocked when they leave for lunch or the day.
Screenshot their whole desktop, hide all icons and the toolbar. Set the background to the screenshot. Boom a computer that looks exactly the same as before but doesn’t work.
Quick, non permanent, takes a few minutes to work out, lesson learned to not leave your machine unlocked.
That’s a classic. We did it for a while. We moved on to all out warfare.
We had a script that backed up the current desktop exactly the way it was then changed everything about it. It would change all system sounds to the original My Little Pony theme, change the background to a Friendship is Magic wallpaper, change the mouse pointer to a tiny pony with trailing sparkles, and remove edit rights to those files from the account using it. To get things back to normal you had to take ownership of the affected files.
One guy couldn’t figure it out and disconnected his internal speaker because someone had set up some policy deep in the system where he lost sound settings. I don’t know how that worked. Apparently neither did he.
Another guy worked remotely the next day so his computer just kept playing the song while he was gone.
The guy who created it didn’t get a normal birthday cake. The boss got him a My Little Pony birthday cake that year.
What a lot of folks didn’t realize and never asked about was that there was a reversal script in the user folder.
Putting a piece of tape over their mouse eye is good also.
I put post-it notes all over my partner’s workspace while they were out of town.
That’s already their workspace.
Pranking is just what assholes call being an asshole.
Don’t be an asshole.
A good prank is defined by whether the “victim” is laughing about it as well, at the end. The catch is, this is defined entirely by the victim. There is no arguing about it. If they aren’t smiling, you screwed up.
I’ve done, and been victim to some good pranks over the years. I’ve also dealt with the bullying version. There is a big difference.
Believe it or not, friends can be mischievous with one another in good faith
Pranks can 100% be harmless and fun, but if you’re ever questioning whether or not a prank is harmless don’t do it.
Just don’t. Pranks are a form of bullying.
Lol are we in high school?
Do you think that bulling ceases to exist when you graduate? That unwanted violence against others is imaginary, or that you need to endure it in silence because you’re an adult?
How many people have you victimized just because you can? Give your answer, I’d venture the number is non-zero.
“(Thing)”
“Oh so you think (Barely related thing)?!”
Yep, there’s the bullying signal. Get in here boys we got a nerd
Tape over the mouse laser is always a good one
Plug in a wireless keyboard/mouse and do things, like move the mouse, or write “chicken” every so often?
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Follow it up by placing a tiny bit of clear soft plastic in with the laser. It doesn’t stop the mouse from working, but if you were you draw a straight line the cursor wobbles slightly.
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If we’re talking computers, screenshot their desktop, set it as background, move taskbar to top, auto hide it, right-click desktop and choose hide icons.
Advanced mode: also set screen flip to 180 degrees and flip the background so it looks right side up.
I did the screen flip thing to a coworker once. And then he just took the monitor and turned it upside down. Didn’t see that coming.
On the computer thread, changing the keys on their keyboard is also fun. Works better if they are a touch typist as well, as they may go several hours/days before noticing, until they have to look for that one special key. :)
Numpad * and / are good for that, I touch type but always have to look at those.
One of the best pranks I saw involved a house sitter, and some musical Christmas socks. Before going away, they removed the music module from an old pair of Christmas socks that played “jingle bells”. They then put it between the mattress and the box frame of the bed a relative would be using, while house-sitting. When they turned over in the night, they would set it off. They had jingle bells stuck in their head for a week, but didn’t know why.
On another note, a work colleague is the master of ear worm deployment. He has the knack for humming catchy tunes just right. Just a few bars, quite enough you don’t notice. You suddenly find you have a tune stuck in your head. You know what he’s done when you realise that half a dozen others also keep murmuring the same tune (it’s stuck in their heads too). It’s remarkably self reinforcing. It amuses him greatly , while being fun and non-harmful.
Print out a little dickbutt sticker, then put it over their mouse sensor.
Shouldn’t it be one of those “OK” symbols. You know, the “Made you look” game where you create an OK symbol with your hand below your waist.
That one?
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Jesus Christ… Dickbutt
Follow it up by placing a tiny bit of clear soft plastic in with the laser. It doesn’t stop the mouse from working, but if you were you draw a straight line the cursor wobbles slightly.
- Short sheet their bed
- If they leave their computer unattended/unlocked:
- Screenshot it, make that their wallpaper, then hide icons & taskbar
- (unsure if this still works) Alt + Ctrl + Arrow keys to rotate Windows desktop
- Get a musical birthday card, then hide it (opened) somewhere in their room/office (best under a piece of furniture/couch cushion, etc) so all they can hear is the muffled music
- Remove spring from tip of clicker ballpoint pen (ink cartridge won’t stay out/in)
Detonate a nuclear bomb
Just a prank bro
I saw a video once of a prank where two girls go up to a stranger asking them to take a picture of them across the street. The stranger takes the photo and when the two girls start crossing over to the other side, a car passes by and the two girls are replaced with two old men wearing the same shirts. Even the Polaroid photo shows the old men. It’s genuinely funny and completely harmless. It just makes the person getting pranked go, “Wait, what the fuck???”
I do hope the people were told that they were pranked though and that they don’t live the rest of their lives thinking they’re insane 😂
ETA: also this video where the guy puts on the collar and leash of his blind husband’s service dog when he asks him to go get his watch. (He immediately reveals himself when the blind husband gets back to pick up his service dog’s leash again and the husband thinks it’s hysterical).
Basically everything Just for Laughs does is gold. You can spend hours watching their videos.
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Piss in pizza box, freeze it, then leave it in front of someone’s door if they’re throwing loud parties.
Liquid @ss is astonishingly effective, can get it cheap on Amazon
Buy something that makes noise periodically, hide it. They’ll go nuts trying to find it.
Record satanic rituals on a voice recorder. Tie string around it, open window quietly, lower voice recorder to hover above downstairs neighbor window. Set it to play. Can freak religious people out.
They have tiny cricket noise gens.
None of those really seem harmless.
