Thread: Best ways to freak out/make people uncomfortable

Constantly cracking your fingers. That's what a friend of mine does. It drives me MAD.

You know how sometimes when you are riding in a car, and you stop at a stoplight, and the person in the car next to you is just staring at you? Throw yourself against the window without warning. That's for strangers.

To annoy people I dislike? Answer everything they say with a sarcastic comment. Or to make them uncomfortable, get really touchy feely all of a sudden, but you probably wouldn't want to do that.

That's what I do. Well, not constantly, but often. And it annoys me too, but other people even worse. They cringe.

EDIT
(That was a reply to Neko's post)

I like to walk through the library and stores, namely Wal-Mart, glaring, clenching and unclenching my jaw, and balling my hands into fists at my side, then unclenching them, and repeating, all the while tensing my upper body muscles. Combined, it makes me look like a total psychopath about to commit some horrible crime of rage. I get the oddest looks...

Cracking your knuckles works, but it's pretty subtle. Staring is a good one. Wait until they turn away, then stare hard at the back of their head (really focus, like you're trying to drill a hole through them with your gaze) until they turn around. Then look away. Wash, rinse, repeat. I can make nervous wrecks of people this way. It's that innate sense that we all have that makes the hair stand up on the back of our necks when we're being watched.

Another good one is to constantly mumble. Just make it one long stream of absolute incoherentness, with random sensible words inserted occasionally. Me and my brother used to converse like that in front of his wife, whom I can't stand, and it drove her freaking nuts. My brother and I could understand each other perfectly, but she had no idea what we were saying.

The most classic example is getting uncomfortably close to a stranger. You know, invade their comfort zone. You would be amazed at the results.

Sometimes I just stare at people with the most neutral face possible.

Act gay.

Originally Posted by Marvo

Act gay.

For the homophobe in all of us.

I find just staring at someone with wide, unblinking eyes works well, or finding someone's pet peeve and doing that over and over again. Like my sister hates the clicky/chewy noise you can make with your mouth by opening and shutting it.

Originally Posted by •Neko•

Constantly cracking your fingers. That's what a friend of mine does. It drives me MAD.

Hehe.. even better, cracking your neck. I dunno why but my neck often gets really stiff and then if I lean my head to the side, it lets out a really loud CRACK.

Then people freak out.

My Dad's ex's son used to periodically announce things like: "Did you know that you blinked 57 times in the last 3 minutes?" It was really annoying, I recommend it.

Hahaha, the useless information geek. I love it.

Sometimes I fall on the floor at random intervels and start twitching. Usually in the middle of a conversation or in a public place... then I get up and laugh.

He had to stare at you the whole time to count your blinks, and then you were aware of him continuing to stare at you.

Faking a seizure, good idea--incredibly annoying; and also good for distracting people.

Clicking stuff is good. I have clicky knuckles that can click just by making a fist. It annoys my sister.

"Have you ever had your eyeball licked?"

"No!"

"OH! You have got to try it!"

*move towards them*

"Have you ever had your eyeball licked?"

"Uhm, yes."

"Oh, so you won't mind then?"

*move towards them*

• shake with your left hand
• when talking to somebody look at their left ear
• adjust the colors on your TV so that everything is green and say you like it like that
• when it's quiet shout "all of you just shut up!"
• put stress on weird syllables and draw out 's' sounds when talking
• have conversations with your imaginary friend in public
• flush the toilet 3 times
• talk in the 3rd person
• only watch TV static
• always look at the ground
• when talking to a friend on the phone play a gunshot noise and scream
• if a telemarketer calls don't say anything just breathe really loudly
• only speak in a language you create
• soak your clothes in cannabis incense and go around pretending to be high
• stare at people and just smile
• just start laughing really loud
• collapse and when you hear the ambulance coming get up and act as if nothing happened
• yell cruse words out really loud randomly
• change your accent every 30 seconds or so
• when eating pretend to choke and then when people start doing the Heimlich say "I guess this was a bad time to practice my part in the play"
• randomly start crying and when people ask you what's wrong yell "rape!!!!!!!!!"
• talk very slowly
• give anybody who walks past you a suggestive wink
• say "that's what she said" randomly during convesations
• walk with a random person and say "don't panic, if you listen to me we will get out of this alive. tie your shoe. NOW!!!!" and if they don't do it point your finger at them and say "BANG you're dead"

• Act like you're stoned.
• End every sentence with "yeah".
• Slowly approach someone's feet and start to sniff them without saying anything.
• Say LOL in real life.
• When asking a question, always reply to the answer with "I thought so".
• Pretend that you're in a lucid dream and try to manipulate objects with your mind, doing dramatic arm actions along with it.
• In a cinema, keep asking the person next to you why things happened in a film. "Why did he do that?", "What's his name again?", "Do you like nachos?".
• When with a friend, occasionally say random words at the end of every sentence. "I thought that book was really good, cheese dishwasher."

Now this is for major freak out factor, got this from the "Body swap! =)" tread. Go up to a hot girl and say that you are going go turn into them in a dream then play with yourself, i bet that will get them to screaming.

Strike a pose. Don't move, don't say anything. Stay like that for an uncomfortably long period of time. Especially effective done in the middle of someone speaking to you (particularly if you aren't interested).

Originally Posted by •Neko•

• When with a friend, occasionally say random words at the end of every sentence. "I thought that book was really good, cheese dishwasher."

No, no, no. The random word has to be right in the middle of the sentence, where it doesn't make any sense. Then you look at the person intensely like you expecting an answer. eg.

I really enjoyed that book it explosion. Do look.

That's how it's done.

Look like this in public:



Without the headset ofcourse.

That is me by the way. After one hour of photoshopping, ofcourse :p

Uh-huh...Surrre that's photoshop..

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

• shake with your left hand
• ...
• change your accent every 30 seconds or so
• ...
• walk with a random person and say "don't panic, if you listen to me we will get out of this alive. tie your shoe. NOW!!!!" and if they don't do it point your finger at them and say "BANG you're dead"

Good ones. I actually do the accent one all the time. Annoys the heck out of my mom. That last one; Bourne Ultimatum much?

I'd say so, Marvo. Mascara work that sloppy is sure to frighten.

Ha ha. this is the best thread ever.
Ok, I'll try to add a few:

Answer every sentence in a conversation with a pun.

When you are at an elevator and it stops to let people in, stand as close to the door as possilbe so that when the people rush in they will almost knock you over.

When knocking on someone's door, look into the eye-hole, so that when they look out they will see your eye.

In conversations, pretend that you miss any hints for stuff that people feel uncomfortable to say, so that they will be forced to say it. For example, someone tells you: "So did you two ever..." keep a blank face, and watch them squirm!

On a bus or train, when someone sits facing you, stare at them directly and smile happily the whole ride.

Heres one that works well, if you talk with someone, and you want them to leave you alone, or maybe they made a decision that you don't like and you want them to change their mind, then voice a very low growl... the growl should be so quiet and deep, that only you will hear it. I found out that people feel it even without actually hearing and immediately react as if they are afraid that in a second you will actually jump on their throat like wolf.