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- by Charlotte King
- In Student Life
Posted Nov. 19, 2014
4 ½ Hilarious (but Safe) Student Pranks
Sneaking on to your housemate's facebooks is all well and good, but it’s a little 2009, isn’t it? Our Facebook walls have been so inundated with fake ultrasound scans, bizarre confessions and interests you just know your friends never had that we notice it pretty quickly now. This means that the self-respecting uni prankster has to get old school in their pranking with some familiar favourites next time a flatmate needs to be taken down a peg or two…or down an entire pegboard.
1. Fill their Room with Things Sure, it involves a huge time commitment, but it also rarely fails to be genius. Balloons and anything you can scavenge from Fresher's Fairs generally work well as they take up a lot of space pretty quickly, but there is a lot of scope to be creative.
Bonus: Fear Factor An extended version of the ‘fill their room with things’ prank, bonus pranking points if your target has an irrational fear of something and you’re able to lay your hands on, say, boxes of buttons or a thousand photos of frogs and snakes to plaster their room with. Make sure it's not an actual phobia though, or you risk crossing the line of harmless into harmful.
2. The Cling-Film Classic A more frustrating variant of the first prank, and a classic punishment for anyone foolish enough to go out and leave their halls door unlocked. This one is all in the details - anyone can cling-film a bed and a chest of drawers, but only the finest have the pranking perseverance to go the extra mile, individually wrapping books, stationary or, in one case I remember, every single coin in the guy’s piggy bank. Tinfoil is a great alternative for if you want the added irritating noise factor!
3. Texting Trouble We all have at least one friend who is obsessed with their phone, constantly playing with it when you’re trying to have a conversation with them. And if you don’t know anyone like that it’s probably you. Even if they are using their phone for valid student purposes, this is still an unacceptable modern faux-pas. So, if you can get them off Twitter for long enough to get hold of the phone, it’s pretty much your duty to mess around with their autocorrect. Common phrases like 'yes', 'no' and 'goodbye' can be great to swap out for something bizarre, but how pleasant or perverse you want to make it depends on how twisted your imagination is.
4. Freezer Fun Another problem we all face is messy flatmates (again, if you don’t have one, it’s you). When it gets to the point where you can’t see the sink for unwashed cutlery and half-drank protein shakes (the bane of my flat), put them all in a carrier bag, fill it full of water and put it in the freezer. After having to thaw out all the cutlery with a hairdryer, people tend to be a little cleaner…
Warning: we hold no responsibility for any property broken or friends lost in these pranks. We also aren’t liable if your pranking gets you labelled as ‘that guy’, who is told that we’re grown adults who should be above this stuff, but that’s actually an elaborate ploy meant to lower your guard so that your housemates can cover your room with tin foil when you go home for the weekend. Just don’t say we didn’t warn you.
For less risky ways of revitalising your student social life after exams, read here .
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1. Fill their Room with Things Sure, it involves a huge time commitment, but it also rarely fails to be genius. Balloons and anything you can scavenge from Fresher's Fairs generally work well as they take up a lot of space pretty quickly, but there is a lot of scope to be creative.
Bonus: Fear Factor An extended version of the ‘fill their room with things’ prank, bonus pranking points if your target has an irrational fear of something and you’re able to lay your hands on, say, boxes of buttons or a thousand photos of frogs and snakes to plaster their room with. Make sure it's not an actual phobia though, or you risk crossing the line of harmless into harmful.
2. The Cling-Film Classic A more frustrating variant of the first prank, and a classic punishment for anyone foolish enough to go out and leave their halls door unlocked. This one is all in the details - anyone can cling-film a bed and a chest of drawers, but only the finest have the pranking perseverance to go the extra mile, individually wrapping books, stationary or, in one case I remember, every single coin in the guy’s piggy bank. Tinfoil is a great alternative for if you want the added irritating noise factor!
3. Texting Trouble We all have at least one friend who is obsessed with their phone, constantly playing with it when you’re trying to have a conversation with them. And if you don’t know anyone like that it’s probably you. Even if they are using their phone for valid student purposes, this is still an unacceptable modern faux-pas. So, if you can get them off Twitter for long enough to get hold of the phone, it’s pretty much your duty to mess around with their autocorrect. Common phrases like 'yes', 'no' and 'goodbye' can be great to swap out for something bizarre, but how pleasant or perverse you want to make it depends on how twisted your imagination is.
4. Freezer Fun Another problem we all face is messy flatmates (again, if you don’t have one, it’s you). When it gets to the point where you can’t see the sink for unwashed cutlery and half-drank protein shakes (the bane of my flat), put them all in a carrier bag, fill it full of water and put it in the freezer. After having to thaw out all the cutlery with a hairdryer, people tend to be a little cleaner…
Warning: we hold no responsibility for any property broken or friends lost in these pranks. We also aren’t liable if your pranking gets you labelled as ‘that guy’, who is told that we’re grown adults who should be above this stuff, but that’s actually an elaborate ploy meant to lower your guard so that your housemates can cover your room with tin foil when you go home for the weekend. Just don’t say we didn’t warn you.
For less risky ways of revitalising your student social life after exams, read here .
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