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what prank/petty revenge did you get away with? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by meatwads_tooth@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have 2 examples.

Ill share one; my stepdad was always a huge piece of shit. He still is, actually. He'd trick us into eating tomatoes. Me at 12 could eat them, whatever. My 5 year old brother was forced to eat them, and got grounded if he didn't. He would actually force us to eat foods we didn't like and would literally backhand us across the face for "disrespecting" that we had food on the table.

I worked at a sub shop that had the hottest of the sauces. I told a similar version of this story to my boss, and got my hands on an illegally 'hot" sauce. I poured the whole bottle into a store-bought salsa i knew he'd eat.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Overly technical one.

I was trying to download a 700MB game ISO over ADSL in 2007 in Australia. The modem sync speed was 10Mb of the supposed 24Mb that ADSL could get.
It would take a while but Dad was also home doing whatever he did online slowing the download. As I was doing my CCNA at the time I thought it would be a fun idea to stop all TCP traffic to my dad's PC so I could download the ISO faster and get to gaming.

About 10 min after configuring the modem dad asked if the internet is working for me and naturally it was but he could resolve DNS but not browse websites as they use TCP (this is pre Quic).

After my download finished I waited a bit longer and changed the modem settings back. I did this a couple times over the years before moving out.

A several years later when dad changed ISP he asked for my help to change the PPPoE details on the modem and he saw a disabled firewall rule called 'Suck it dad' and asked me what that was. So I told him, each time he had internet issues when he could resolve DNS but not access web pages it was me enabling that rule so I could download a game faster.

He wasn't angry just annoyed that he never looked at the modem when trying to work out his connectivity issues.

[–] wherearetheavocadoss@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

Damn I wish I could understand what this means.