write essay on practical jokes should be banned
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A practical joke, or prank, is a mischievous trick played on someone, generally causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.
While practical jokes can be fun for the person creating them, the victim of the prank may not have been okay with it. The pranked may feel bullied, and may get upset at the prank(s). In addition to this, while some practical jokes are harmless, many go wrong. Someone can get hurt, and that in itself is bad. To avoid this, the practical jokes should be banned.
A holiday season is upon us. But unlike, say, Christmas, this is not a time to see family, enjoy a warm fire or exchange presents with loved ones.
No, this is a holiday where an unscrewed salt shaker might ruin your lunch, or a short sheeted bed could frustrate you at the end of a long day. Or perhaps you’ll be embarrassed by a co-worker sneaking up behind you to try out their new $5 fart app. You might even just be outright lied to, straight to your face.
It’s April Fool’s Day!
There is some debate as to the origins of April Fool’s Day (or All Fools Day, as a man with a ponytail might say). Some believe that the first reference to the holiday can be traced back to 1392, when Chaucer wrote in The Canterbury Tales of a mischievous fox who pulled off a trick on “March 32nd.” This was assumed to be an example of Chaucer coming up with a fun way of saying April 1st, but several scholars have suggested that the date could just be a typo. (Bummer.) Others think the origins of April Fool’s might be found in the 16th century, when the Gregorian calendar was introduced, and those still following the Julian calendar were fooled by the date change. Idiots!
However it began, April Fool’s Day has certainly given us an awful lot of well-known pranks over the years. Perhaps the most successful one occurred in 1962, when a Swedish television program reported that pulling a stocking over your black and white television set would transform the image to colour. It’s said that thousands of Swedes were tricked into giving this a try. It’s therefore safe to assume thousands of Swedish women returned home that day to see that their husbands had attempted this sad undertaking, before quietly uttering something like “Oh Arvid … we need to talk.”