Wednesday, 1 April 2015

TIP by playing the same old spider joke on my mum


My mum and I have a running tradition of placing plastic animals in unexpected places, hoping that we'll catch the other one off guard and scare the hell out of 'em. Some of the involved plastic toys include an alligator, a lizard and, my personal favourite, a disgusting and rather large spider. It should be noted that we live in Australia.


So, in conjunction with April Fools' Day, I decided to leave our plastic spider buddy in an unexpected place. The usual locations include inside her pillowcase, wrapped up in a hand towel, or in her shirt drawer (all dark places that spiders would love). As I go to place the little guy in my mum's hand towel (which, mind you, was quite damp still from use this morning in a humid bathroom) it seems there was already an eight-legged monstrosity (a big fuckin wolf spider) occupying the usual space. The bastard scurried along the towel and onto my FUCKING ARM. Of course, I begin to shake my arm violently, without regard for whether my arm remains attached to my body at this point, and the spider hits the tile and scuttles away into a vent.


So, here I am, wary of a fairly pissed off wolf spider (which probably wouldn't kill me with its bite, but fuck 'em all) crawling around in my vents, probably going to warn the rest of his spider troupe that I'm coming for them.



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TIP my mum with a water bottle.


Ok, so like most posts in this sub, this didn't happen today. It was 2 years ago, April 1st.


So I took a water bottle and filled it up all the way to the top with no air gap. Then I put the lid on tightly. Then I took a pin and poked 5 small holes in the bottom. The plan was, someone opens the bottle and air pressure causes it to leak where it otherwise doesn't. So I left the bottle on the table and left for school.


When I got back my mum was annoyed.


Funny thing is, I told everyone including my mum that I would do this. She still fell for it.



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TIP A part of my school w/ some friends


So Reddit, this is just a recap of prank day at school, don't judge this is elementary school, in the morning, Me and my friend got some tape n' shit. 1st prank, he printed out hundreds of copies of his own profile pic, 90 Gabe Newell portraits, and 40 something pics of 2 of our friends about to kiss (photo shopped), after we got the printouts, we were stuffing lockers w/ the pictures. Prank 2, we switched the contents of some peoples' lockers during recess, then locked them. Then we duct taped those locks. I then duct taped the doors closed to 1 of the entrances to the 2nd floor of school, and that's about it. I know there wasn't anything extreme, but the friend got suspended for the gay picks of near kissing friends. So... that was prank day at my school. Someone also put his pictures in the stalls so he was starin' people down as they took shits. And someone got food coloring and dripped it into water fountains to turn the water's color as it came out.


TL;DR: Just did a few harmless pranks at school, just a recap, nuttin' special



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TIP most of my friends by forgetting it was April Fools


As the title says, I totally forgot today was April Fools day so have literally been taking EVERYTHING I read on the internet at face value (as you can imagine it's been a day of non-stop oh my god moments for me). To make things worse I've been just reading the titles of things without going any deeper. I've sent no end of 'dude, I just read that ...' Texts to loads of friends and most of them took me at my word, only congratulating me on tricking them hours later.


So yea, my making myself look a total idiot by believing everything I read today has actually made me look like some trickster genius in the eyes of my friends.



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TIP My brother into pushing the button.


Tomorrow he will be posting to r/tifu that he let me convince him to push the button.



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TIP and TIFU by getting pranked going to a fake wedding.


Get ready for the greatest prank of all time, and it happened to me. I got a wedding invitation about 6 months ago. From my best friend. For this whole time I thought my best friend and their SO were engaged. I sent them happy texts, picked out a new outfit for the wedding etc. I took the day off work today to attend their odd Wednesday scheduled wedding. Of course their explanation was that it was the best rate they could get for a nice wedding venue on a tight budget. So I show up to this MORNING wedding at 10am. I walk around the entire venue, a COUNTRY club, this HUGE place full of hot sun baking down on my already sweaty forehead. I find nothing. I finally go back to the front office and they are baffled as to what wedding I'm talking about. I'm thinking I went to the wrong address? I'm freaking out and don't want to call the bride or the groom because they are clearly going to be busy. So I call my bestie's mom and ask her for some clarification. She says WHAT are they eloping?! Those kids are WHAT?! Now I'm getting pissed, at myself, for finally realizing what day it is and kicking myself for being so gullible my whole life. So now I'm sitting here writing this reddit post as my best friend is sitting next to me laughing their ass off. FML. You got me buddy, you got me.....



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Tip fuck April fools


So today I was on my way to work. Leaving my seven month pregnant wife at home Which today was cross country to a service call 4 hours from home. I had pranked her with a silly April's fools before I left. I received a phone call about an hour into my journey. She told me her waters broke and was going into labour. Due to the bad service the call kind of broke up so I laughed it off and continued my journey. The reception is really bad in rural ireland. Only when I got to work I got a barrage of missed calls and texts from my mother in law and my wife. I was going to be a dad in the next hour or two. I missed it. Fuck April fools.



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TIP a pranked a little kid by being a man lady.


So I was out for a jog today, and some little kid I'm passing by is yelling "ATTENTION! ATTENTION EVERYBODY" through a paper megaphone. He yells to me "ARE YOU A BOY"? Thinking of the smarmiest response I could muster, and since it's April Fools day, I said "NO, I'M A MAN-LADY". This confused him, for he paused, and then repeated his first question. I said "NO, I'M A MANLADY, I'M BOTH." Then he paused and said "No, you're a boy.", and I said "Want me to prove I'm a manlady?" Unbeknownst to me, his mother was gardening, turned around, and yelled "GET OUT OF HERE!". After a little confusion, I realized that she thought I was going to show that kid my junk. I hadn't even thought of that. Perverted old ladies, amirite?



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Tuesday, 31 March 2015

TIFU: Broke a whole carton of eggs because I was too lazy.


OK, I suppose I was a bit distraught at the time.


Background (non-essential but good to know):


The webserver for my blog was down and has been down as of this writing. However, all the evidence pointed to the fault of the web host. When I showed them the traceroute logs, customer support immediately started blaming my ISP. I tried accessing my blog on my smartphone and also had friends try who had different ISPs and none of them could connect. When I pointed this out, my web host mocked me and continued to hammer that I need to blame my ISP.


Nevertheless, since I've got no background in IT, I let it slide since even if it's their problem, they're probably working hard trying to fix it. However, that put me in a sour mood for the rest of the day.


Main FU:


I tend to be "lazy" when it comes to shopping and go on a single trip and get everything I need for the week instead of hitting the store every few days. After work today, I shopped at my local grocery store, Costco, and the petstore (in that order.) If you've ever shopped at Costco, you know that they don't provide you with bags and you might get cartons if you're lucky or bought a ridiculous number of items (which I didn't and hence, didn't get any boxes either.)


When I finished my shopping trip and pulled into the parking lot for my condo, I proceeded to bring my goods home. The bag from the grocery store (stop 1) was already starting to rip but luckily, I found a spare bag in my car and transferred everything into that bag. I then tried carrying that huge bag of groceries in one hand and a bucket of cat litter in the other and contemplated how I'd move the rest of my goods into the house.


While I was in the house after delivering the first batch of goods, I took this red bag I got from Target (you know those that will save you $0.05 every time you use it at checkout.) I stuffed a carton of 18 eggs and two half-gallon cartons of juice (bonded together) into that bag. I took that bag in one hand and a box of 90 trashbags plus 24 cans of cat food (on top of the box) in the other hand. Yes, it was a bit too much but I was determined not to have to make a 3rd trip out to the car!


When I got to the door, I started hearing some crunching sounds in my Target bag. It turns out the cartons of juice were pressing against the carton of eggs since the eggs were at the bottom but placed sorta on an angle and the gravity caused the juice cartons to bend my carton of eggs. I made it inside my home and tried setting down everything but the sheer weight caused me to lose balance. As I lost balance, my Target bag fell flat on the floor with the eggs crunched right between the cartons of juice and the ground.


I managed to recover about 6 of the 18 eggs and my Target bag was a eggoplasmic mess so I just threw it into the trash.


Oh well.. at least I saved myself an extra trip to the car hauling groceries which would have put me over the edge after what happened this morning with the server.. eggs aren't that expensive anyways.



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TIFU by Playing Ping-Pong


Ping-Pong has become increasingly popular in my high school. Most of the kids who play are moronic freshman. They skip lunch and all huddle around the lone ping-pong table in our school. As a junior, I thought it would be easy to beat any of the freshman. Anyways, I was playing this heavy-set, arrogant kid, who had never lost a game. The score was close, and I was nervous. I spiked the ball so hard and I won the game. I did the swing punch thing that athletes do after a big play. I swung a full 360 degrees. I did the whole circle. 360. I ended up punching two sophomore girls and the gym teacher in the face. Three apologies and an in-school-suspension later, and I am ready to ping the pong once more.


TLDR: Won a game in ping-pong, punched people in the face, suspension.



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