Though jokes are meant to be funny, not all of them are; especiallypranks, which tend to be based on playing with someone’s emotions.
Forthis redditor, it was her husband whose prank ended up hurting her feelings. Not only that, it led to quite a significant financial loss for the family, too, as her spouse’s jokes resulted in her getting rid of her rings worth roughly $10,000.
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Some pranks resemble bullying more than anything else
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A 3-year-long study on pranking and practical jokes found that there is an extremely strong link between a person enjoying planning and executingprankson people and said people showing no trust in or affection for the jokester.
“People don’t react well to abject cruelty and psychological torture, even if you laugh maniacally immediately afterward and say you ‘got them so good’,” the lead researcher on the study, Dan Margerapointed out. “In fact, the laughter seems to make it worse, if anything.”
With pranks often balancing on the verge of bullying, it’s no surprise that they might not be well-received or even break someone’s trust. The only way for a joke to make relationships stronger instead of damaging them, according to child psychotherapist and spokesperson for the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), Rachel Melville-Thomas, is to laugh together.
“What we want to do is laugh together – laughing together creates cohesion in social groups,”she told BBC, discussing the trend of cracking an egg on someone’s head. “If you’re the victim of a prank, [for it to be funny], you have to very quickly join in and go ‘Ah, that was such a clever prank’. It’s hard to see how that happens if you smack someone on the head.”
Some people are considered off-limits when it comes to pranks
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Statistics revealthat when it comes to April Fools Day, people seem to be split more or less evenly into two camps—nearly the same number of them find the pranks annoying, as they do amusing. There are, however, some differences, depending on the age group the person belongs to.
People’s views on pranks tend to differ not only depending on their age; another factor to whether or not they would even consider pranking someone is the target themselves.Data from 2015shows that the majority of people consider bosses, teachers, and children off-limits when it comes to April fools’ jokes, while the most likely targets are siblings, spouses, and best friends.
Needless to say, the OP didn’t find her spouse’sprankto be amusing, nor did the prankster himself when he saw what it resulted in. And while both blamed each other for being the jerk in the situation, fellow redditors didn’t reach a unanimous vote either.
Some netizens didn’t think the woman was a jerk, they put the fault on the husband
Others believed she didn’t have to throw away her rings
There were people who thought everyone was at fault in the situation
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