New research has today revealed the nations favourite ‘builders’ pranks’ and shared some insights into the creative practical jokes experienced on Irish building sites.
Among the pranks identified in the new research, being asked to fetch a 'long stand’, was the favourite (27%), and most experienced prank (19%) cited amongst all those polled. For anyone who hasn’t experienced the prank, a ‘long stand’ is an imaginary object that someone is instructed to request from someone else, who then proceeds to leave them standing around waiting indefinitely while it is being "located."
This was followed closely by a quarter of people (25%), whose favourite prank is sending someone to get a 'glass hammer’, which was also directly experienced by a similar number of people (19%) while working on a building site. Again, the ‘glass hammer’ is an imaginary object, that is highly impractical but often, is used to keep apprentices and unsuspecting individuals occupied, for the entertainment of others.