Messing with people

TeddyTedson

I know I just started another thread a second ago but this just popped into my head from a few years ago and it got me curious. Please don't ban me. They're both serious threads although I don't see why there was a problem with lighthearted threads previously. Can't people just choose not to post in them if they find it boring or whatever? Anyway forget I said that, I'm not trying to tell you guys how to do your jobs :P

A few years ago, a certain footballer was in the paper quite a lot and I hate this guy. So do most of my friends. Anyway, we were able to track his personal phone number down and would regularly ring him and take the piss out of him in some many ways. I think he deserved it though. I also used to really dislike Tubs and I had to meet him two years ago and pretended I had no idea who he was just to sort his ego out. I regret that though because he's actually very nice, just comes across bad on the late late show with weak interviews.

Anyway, basically people are always taking the piss with famous people for fun. Like that Talifornia lad who posed for the picture with your man calling him a prick. The lad was right there with that one!!
Anyway, which way have boardsies taken the piss out of well known people?
I'd sa GAA players get it sooooo badly down the country! :D

Crea

I don't because i'm not an immature knob.

brevity

I try my best to leave people alone and not bother them really.

rwg

Gordon - of prison fame - terrible easy too wind up

.Henry Sellers.

I used to take the piss out of a lot of celebrities when I worked as a urinal.

Zed Bank

Henry shefflin coming across the bridge in Waterford to do his Christmas shopping! Is his own county not good enough? Me and the lads had no problems showing our contempt in the form of a big middle finger and implied that he was a wanker, it was all in good fun tho and he was grinning and laughing like an idiot realising he was caught rotten.

TeddyTedson

Crea wrote: »

I don't because i'm not an immature knob.

or any fun


People do this not to annoy the person. Just to have some craic with them.


Another one you always see is people roaring at Bertie?
"Where's the nearest pub Bertie"
"Bertie have you got a lend of a few quid??" ect

gg2

I've always found that GAA players are hero worshipped in their own and neighbouring counties... My OH adores Paul Galvin and recently followed him on twitter, I have thought of about 12 different things to tweet them both to take the absolute p1ss, nothing offensive just knobbing about to mess with my OH and a chance to wind up Paul Galvin........ But I won't... I think it will just all work out better in my head

JuliusCaesar

The public image that people have doesn't necessarily accord with the private person - the private person is often aghast and hurt that people confuse both and accost them in public.

It's the same with acquantances - we might think that they are acting the maggot, and only later find out that they were very stressed or had suffered bullying or something that makes their behaviour understandable.

What do you think the GAA person thought of you lot? Did he 'learn a lesson' or just think you lot were fecking idiots? My bet is on the second.

HalloweenJack

I remember a time when a rather divisive LOI manager came with his side to play my team. One of our fans went right up to the wall right beside the dugouts and spent the best part of the game ripping the piss out of the guy. In fairness, he took it a lot better than his media personality would have had us believe he would.

Meangadh

Honestly? I just think that's sad.

Sad, childish, immature and stupid. You just make yourself look like fools.

PizzamanIRL

Mammy: "Would you two ever stop messing?"

Me: "We're only messing"

Mint Aero

I act all nice to them even though I don't like them *sniggers*

Plazaman

Happy 12th Birthday. Don't eat too many sweeties.

_Redzer_

Candie wrote: »

Sad, childish, immature and stupid. You just make yourself look like fools.

It's a bit of stupid fun, we've all messed with people for the rise at least once

campo

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I know I just started another thread a second ago but this just popped into my head from a few years ago and it got me curious. Please don't ban me. They're both serious threads although I don't see why there was a problem with lighthearted threads previously. Can't people just choose not to post in them if they find it boring or whatever? Anyway forget I said that, I'm not trying to tell you guys how to do your jobs :P

A few years ago, a certain footballer was in the paper quite a lot and I hate this guy. So do most of my friends. Anyway, we were able to track his personal phone number down and would regularly ring him and take the piss out of him in some many ways. I think he deserved it though. I also used to really dislike Tubs and I had to meet him two years ago and pretended I had no idea who he was just to sort his ego out. I regret that though because he's actually very nice, just comes across bad on the late late show with weak interviews.

Anyway, basically people are always taking the piss with famous people for fun. Like that Talifornia lad who posed for the picture with your man calling him a prick. The lad was right there with that one!!
Anyway, which way have boardsies taken the piss out of well known people?
I'd sa GAA players get it sooooo badly down the country! :D

Ya I love messing with idiots....................PM your number

Lapin

Zed Bank wrote: »

Henry shefflin coming across the bridge in Waterford to do his Christmas shopping! Is his own county not good enough? Me and the lads had no problems showing our contempt in the form of a big middle finger and implied that he was a wanker, it was all in good fun tho and he was grinning and laughing like an idiot realising he was caught rotten.

Thats why Henry has a zillion All Ireland medals and Waterford haven't won anythin since the original Henry the Eighth was ridin his sixth wife.

Meangadh

Also given that he's from Ballyhale he'd be as quick going into Waterford as he would Kilkenny. But sure there's no fun in being logical when you could be taking the piss out of someone who has won 9 All Irelands.

TeddyTedson

Meangadh wrote: »

Also given that he's from Ballyhale he'd be as quick going into Waterford as he would Kilkenny. But sure there's no fun in being logical when you could be taking the piss out of someone who has won 9 All Irelands.

I don't mean taking the piss out of people, granted that's what we did to John Terry yes, but I really hate him.

I'm more talking about having some nice fun with these people.

Meangadh

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I don't mean taking the piss out of people, granted that's what we did to John Terry yes, but I really hate him.

I'm more talking about having some nice fun with these people.

I'm pretty sure most of them would rather be left alone!

Edit: So "a certain footballer" was John Terry. Now I know he's a bit of a dick, bit why do you hate him? What did he ever do to you?

TeddyTedson

Meangadh wrote: »

I'm pretty sure most of them would rather be left alone!

Edit: So "a certain footballer" was John Terry. Now I know he's a bit of a dick, bit why do you hate him? What did he ever do to you?

You don't ride your mates wife. What a scummy thing to do to someone.
But maybe that was childish yes, it was a few years ago but you know what a group of lads are like at that age!

Meangadh

TeddyTedson wrote: »

You don't ride your mates wife. What a scummy thing to do to someone.
But maybe that was childish yes, it was a few years ago but you know what a group of lads are like at that age!

Ah yeah, and I'm not arguing that the man isn't a low life, I just wouldn't be going out of my way to be bothering him when he never did anything to me personally. Better things to be doing with my time.

Young lads messing, whilst still a bit pathetic, wouldn't bother me so much because they're only young lads. Grown adults at similar craic though, just need to grow up. A bit of banter I don't mind, but what's banter to one person might be an almighty piss take to someone else. Err on the side of caution and say nothing would be my take on the whole thing!

TeddyTedson

I'd agree with you

Meangadh wrote: »

Ah yeah, and I'm not arguing that the man isn't a low life, I just wouldn't be going out of my way to be bothering him when he never did anything to me personally. Better things to be doing with my time.

Young lads messing, whilst still a bit pathetic, wouldn't bother me so much because they're only young lads. Grown adults at similar craic though, just need to grow up. A bit of banter I don't mind, but what's banter to one person might be an almighty piss take to someone else. Err on the side of caution and say nothing would be my take on the whole thing!

Zed Bank

Meangadh wrote: »

Also given that he's from Ballyhale he'd be as quick going into Waterford as he would Kilkenny. But sure there's no fun in being logical when you could be taking the piss out of someone who has won 9 All Irelands.

Yeah he has 9 all Ireland's, but hes from the planet of the apes.......

Vito Corleone

Sometimes I pull people's earphones out when I'm on the bus.

Liam McPoyle

Harassing / borderline bullying people is not "messing", it's been an asshole.

Evelyn Cusack

Christ Almighty, some of the posters on this thread are painful and without Any sin or zest for life.

They could talk all day about what people shouldn't do....

Rabelais

We had a history teacher who was almost deaf. To wind him up we'd pretend to be shouting and talking to each other, but with no sound coming out of our mouths. He'd start tapping his hearing aid and getting very stressed out.
Poor bastard had a nervous breakdown a few years later with all the grief his students gave him. Dead now.

Liam McPoyle

Evelyn Cusack wrote: »

Christ Almighty, some of the posters on this thread are painful and without Any sin or zest for life.

They could talk all day about what people shouldn't do....

Tell ya what, PM me your mobile number, I will circulate it to a few people so we can ring you when ever we feel like it, just for the lulz like.

:rolleyes:

Gyalist

The Curious Incident of the Cricket Bat in the Night-Time

Ah sure, the lads were only messing.

Pro Hoc Vice

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I know I just started another thread a second ago but this just popped into my head from a few years ago and it got me curious. Please don't ban me. They're both serious threads although I don't see why there was a problem with lighthearted threads previously. Can't people just choose not to post in them if they find it boring or whatever? Anyway forget I said that, I'm not trying to tell you guys how to do your jobs :P

A few years ago, a certain footballer was in the paper quite a lot and I hate this guy. So do most of my friends. Anyway, we were able to track his personal phone number down and would regularly ring him and take the piss out of him in some many ways. I think he deserved it though. I also used to really dislike Tubs and I had to meet him two years ago and pretended I had no idea who he was just to sort his ego out. I regret that though because he's actually very nice, just comes across bad on the late late show with weak interviews.

Anyway, basically people are always taking the piss with famous people for fun. Like that Talifornia lad who posed for the picture with your man calling him a prick. The lad was right there with that one!!
Anyway, which way have boardsies taken the piss out of well known people?
I'd sa GAA players get it sooooo badly down the country! :D

The above could be a criminal offence,

"Harassment.

10.—(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, by any means including by use of the telephone, harasses another by persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with him or her, shall be guilty of an offence."

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1997/en/act/pub/0026/sec0010.html#sec10

IvyTheTerrible

Tracking someone's personal phone number down and harrassing them on it for the craic?

Sounds like great "craic" alright. :rolleyes:

Harassing someone is not nice fun or craic
jesus

TeddyTedson

I don't think that if someone shouts a joke at Enda on the way out of Croke Park we can call that person an asshole. Otherwise life would be very mundane. Boardsies are wrong in this one if they think this type of stuff is not right. And a group of young lads making a few prank phone calls is harmless.

TeddyTedson

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I don't think that if someone shouts a joke at Enda on the way out of Croke Park we can call that person an asshole. Otherwise life would be very mundane. Boardsies are wrong in this one if they think this type of stuff is not right. And a group of young lads making a few prank phone calls is harmless.

If it's that harmless, why did you say "he deserved it"?
It was wrong and you know it

sparkthatbled

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I also used to really dislike Tubs and I had to meet him two years ago and pretended I had no idea who he was just to sort his ego out.

I did this exact thing a few months ago in Dun Laoghaire.

Evelyn Cusack

bluewolf wrote: »

If it's that harmless, why did you say "he deserved it"?
It was wrong and you know it

Who the hel do you think you are questioning Teddy like that!?

Back off....

Ush1

When I was younger, me and my mates used to prank call a guy in the phonebook whose name was listed as H.Hogan.

When he answered I would just do an impression of Hulk Hogan the wrestler and say his lines. "Watchu gon do brother, when Hulkamania runs wild on you!!!!!"

Dunno if he ever got it though...

Liam McPoyle

TeddyTedson wrote: »

I don't think that if someone shouts a joke at Enda on the way out of Croke Park we can call that person an asshole. Otherwise life would be very mundane. Boardsies are wrong in this one if they think this type of stuff is not right. And a group of young lads making a few prank phone calls is harmless.

So if a stranger insulted your Dad while he was out and about minding his own business you wouldn't care?

Or if people started making prank calls to your Mam or Grandmother, you would take it as just a bit of craic?

Daqster

Christ folks, it's After Hours - not Humanities - thread is clearly supposed to be lighthearted.