Friends, and ragging on each other

[aerius]

One thing I've noticed over the years is that whenever I get together with my friends it doesn't take long before we all start making fun of each other in a pretty spirited way. For instance I'll get man-slut jokes tossed my way thanks to my antics in 1st & 2nd year university, my cop buddy gets hit with pig jokes galore, another friend is the butt of druggy jokes because of his experimentation a few years back, and another guy's the victim of welfare bum jokes since he's unemployed for long stretches. Sex jokes, penis jokes, race jokes, brown people taxi driver jokes, pretty much everything we can think of is fair game. It's all in good fun, there's no hard feelings, we all have a good laugh about it and to us it's all just part of what makes our group of guys so fun to be with.

So I ask, when you get together with your close friends, does something similar happen and do you think it's healthy or assholish behavior?

[DrkHelmet]

That's pretty standard between friends. I've observed this behavior on many occasions between friends.

[Mr Bean]

We here in our Nations armed forces would NEVER dream of ragging on our fellow memebers. Why we greet each other with a smile and a nod(Or Salute when apporate) and exchange comradey good greetings whenever the chance presents its self.

Of course of a certian E5 got caught getting off the elevator with a hooker on our offical TAD trip(Coming off into the lobby not going up to his room) then of course all bets are off.


Yes normal heathy behavior.

[Imperial Overlord]

Similar things happen, but its all in good fun. We don't hit at our real soft spots or vulnerable points and we know each other well enough that we could. Just joking around for fun, no harm, and no intent to harm. It's all good.

[Dillon]

Standard procedure between me and my best friend. In fact, I've found that as we get closer, we do this even more. But it's all in good fun.

[Alferd Packer]

I have stated to my two best friends point-blank: "I love causing you guys pain, be it physical or otherwise." And it's true. One of them trips, I point and laugh. One of them loses in a video game, I mock him.

I love antagonizing them, because I get it just as good from them, the fucking bastards. And yet I just spent my Sunday in a stage shop, helping one of them build a set for a play. I didn't have to; it was his job. But he asked for help, and he's my friend. It's as simple as that. Perhaps the behavior is pardoxical, but I think we all know what's serious and what isn't.

[Gandalf]

We mock the hell out of each other. Basically no jokes are out of bounds. The only time anyone was offended was when Catholic Church jokes were being dispensed after JP2 died. We forgot we had a hard core Catholic in the room.

Though everyone knows it's all in fun.

[SpacedTeddyBear]

It would be unusual for me and my friends to not rag on each other. I think that when you're friends with a bunch of guys for a while, casually calling them a bunch of "cock jugglers" is something that's no longer taken personally.

[WyrdNyrd]

When I was back in 'varsity, this was pretty much standard practice, too. We were just careful not to make the jokes "too close to home".

So if a guy was failing his courses, and was worried about flunking, we'd tease him about his clothing sense, not his academic performance. Whereas if a guy fucked up a test because he was out drinking the previous night, we'd rag him by asking him if he'd be studying with us the next year, or waiting tables for a living.

One guy we teased about his sexual relations with children and small animals, for no reason at all. It was all cool (mostly) because we knew damned well that the teasing didn't have the remotest relationship to reality.

[CaptainChewbacca]

Its ok if people get a little hurt or cracked on, as long as everyone knows the limits. My friends and I rag on each other, but they know I have a thing about people talking about my mom, and so they don't say about her.

[Durandal]

Happens all the time. My best friend calls me a greasy dago, and I make fun of Polish people.

[Rye]

It's the norm for male friends at least. I believe I've got a book somewhere that details a lot of the social and mental differences between men and women, and this is one particular phenomenon it focused on.

At the moment, grossouts tend to be the camaraderie of choice in my group of friends. Like someone will say something profane, then someone else will say, "you kiss your dad's dick with that mouth?" and the response will be "no, I kiss your dad's dick with that mouth. Got a problem with that?"

We call the other stuff "burning" one another though, and say "ooooh, buuuurn" when it happens.

[muse]

I think it's normal for any close-knit group of people, I don't get into it as much as the guys but we still have our ways of knocking each other around for fun. Whenever I get together with friends, my swimclub, or the school swimteam we always end up having a good laugh at each others expense, just part of the camaraderie.

[Darth Wong]

That is how single people bond. When you're parents and you try to hang around with other parents, you behave in a more dignified and adult manner. In part, that's because you want to set a good example for your kids. But also, you just tend to get more mature and act less like children as the years go by.

[Tsyroc]

That is how single people bond. When you're parents and you try to hang around with other parents, you behave in a more dignified and adult manner. In part, that's because you want to set a good example for your kids. But also, you just tend to get more mature and act less like children as the years go by.

Until you children reach the age where you can pick on them and they can pick on you back. At least my dad and I pick on each other a lot.

[Oni Koneko Damien]

I think it's fairly normal. I see it as sort of a safety-net, to remind all involved not to take each other too seriously. Of course, if an actual serious problem comes up, all ragging immediately stops until it's resolved, but afterwards, all bets are off.

The most recent example would be a friend of mine who said that I looked like an anorexic ferret when I danced. My immediate reply was that he isn't one to judge, seeing as how he's thinner than I am.

~Damienkitty

[Sr.mal]

MY nickname amongst the friends is the Kraut. My best friend is Jewish. Just imagine the hilarity that ensues........

[Enforcer Talen]

One thing I've noticed over the years is that whenever I get together with my friends it doesn't take long before we all start making fun of each other in a pretty spirited way. For instance I'll get man-slut jokes tossed my way thanks to my antics in 1st & 2nd year university, my cop buddy gets hit with pig jokes galore, another friend is the butt of druggy jokes because of his experimentation a few years back, and another guy's the victim of welfare bum jokes since he's unemployed for long stretches. Sex jokes, penis jokes, race jokes, brown people taxi driver jokes, pretty much everything we can think of is fair game. It's all in good fun, there's no hard feelings, we all have a good laugh about it and to us it's all just part of what makes our group of guys so fun to be with.

So I ask, when you get together with your close friends, does something similar happen and do you think it's healthy or assholish behavior?

I do that all the time with guy friends. with girl friends, Im a little more cautious.

[IndustrialNoise]

I constantly do that with my friends. We use "whore" more than we do our actual names...it's become natural. Mostly stuff like that. Also the normal "Fuck you!", etc., which are usually followed by a sexual response, depending on the friend.

[YT300000]

One of my friends was being annoying, so I started calling him Bitch. Now thats what everyone calls him.

[CmdrWilkens]

I great my best friend with the honorific "hooker" on the phone or when I get home to the house from work. He in turn simply refer's to be as "bitch." Such is the way of things.

[Glocksman]

That is how single people bond. When you're parents and you try to hang around with other parents, you behave in a more dignified and adult manner. In part, that's because you want to set a good example for your kids. But also, you just tend to get more mature and act less like children as the years go by.

Until you children reach the age where you can pick on them and they can pick on you back. At least my dad and I pick on each other a lot.

My best friend and his daughter argue and fight like brother and sister, not father and daughter.