Ah, perhaps its time to make up your mind..

Are they glued to their Playstations, which can give them cancer, according to The Da*ly M*il or are they all latter-day Dennis the Menace wannabes?

The latter is healthier if you survive the pranks I suppose. We used to wrap sellotape around bangers to make them more powerful and much louder. One trick that got my mate expelled from school was to wrap a banger as above, place it in a plastic bag, big enough to have enough oxygen for the blue touch paper but small enough to successfully flush....

You can guess the rest. It went down in school folklore as the day of the flying turds...

Me? I just supplied the banger, the bags and did a dry run to see what size would flush. That's what mates are for, he said it was just him. That mate? We know him as Steamin' Willie on Mudcat pages and many on the folk circuit know him under his real name, although he insists on his ridiculous nom de plume...