Have you ever been blackmailed, or blackmailed someone?
(Please No specifics.....it's a crime after all.)

What do you think consitutes blackmail?
For instance if you said "I'll tell mum that you said she looked fat in that dress....unless you let me watch my programme on tv" does that constitute blackmail?
If you hinted you'd publish someones private letters to you unless they kissed your ar$e... would that consitute blackmail?

If you were being blackmailed by someone you held an equal amount of dirt on....would you counter blackmail them...or not sink to their level?

Would you just go to the police?

Originally posted by Lickszz
What do you think consitutes blackmail?
For instance if you said "I'll tell mum that you said she looked fat in that dress....unless you let me watch my programme on tv" does that constitute blackmail?
If you hinted you'd publish someones private letters to you unless they kissed your ar$e... would that consitute blackmail?


I think both of these examples are blackmail. There's just various degrees of severity of it IMHO. I have kind-of teased someone about telling something I knew about them if they revealed something about me! But it was petty stuff and it generally gets forgotten about. Thankfully I've never been in a position to be blackmailed over something scary or seriously threatening. Anyone else got any other comments? :D

Yeah I agree with Lou, both examples are blackmail, just one less extreme than the other.

I have blackmailed little things (i.e. make me a cuppa tea and i'll not tell your mum about that bottle beer you nicked from her cabinet.... going back to school days).

If I had reasonable dirt on someone I would deffo counter blackmail... no doubt about it!

I prefer Bribery more myself! :P

Ok, lets look at this from another angle. If the simplest definition of blackmail is something along the lines of enforcing an action with the threat of a reprisal, then is the law itself not guilty of blackmail?

i.e. "Unless you keep on the right side of the law, then we will prosecute". :)

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Yeah I agree with Lou, both examples are blackmail, just one less extreme than the other.

I have blackmailed little things (i.e. make me a cuppa tea and i'll not tell your mum about that bottle beer you nicked from her cabinet.... going back to school days).

If I had reasonable dirt on someone I would deffo counter blackmail... no doubt about it!

I prefer Bribery more myself! :P Don,t they mean the same thing DB.
I'll tell your mum that you knicked a bottle of beer if.....

No... bribery would be, make me a cuppa tea and I'll give you a some of my chips.

Blackmail would be, make me a cuppa or I'll tell yer mum you nicked her chips!

Yeh i see the comparrison, and its different.

and of course everyone knows that there are no calories in nicked chips

Originally posted by LouiseB
and of course everyone knows that there are no calories in nicked chips

Must be true, it sez so on the tele!!

Doesn't blackmail only mean something if you actually give a ***** about the information the other party holds which is potentially (or so they say) damaging? I would have though if you didn't really care too much (or at least not show it) it reduces its weight?

Originally posted by Lickszz
Have you ever been blackmailed, or blackmailed someone?
(Please No specifics.....it's a crime after all.)

What do you think consitutes blackmail?
For instance if you said "I'll tell mum that you said she looked fat in that dress....unless you let me watch my programme on tv" does that constitute blackmail?
If you hinted you'd publish someones private letters to you unless they kissed your ar$e... would that consitute blackmail?

If you were being blackmailed by someone you held an equal amount of dirt on....would you counter blackmail them...or not sink to their level?

Would you just go to the police?

In ancient Babylon giving false witness was punishable by death.

Originally posted by 1Man&hisBMW
Doesn't blackmail only mean something if you actually give a ***** about the information the other party holds which is potentially (or so they say) damaging? I would have though if you didn't really care too much (or at least not show it) it reduces its weight?

Generally speaking I suppose this is right. A common solution is for one to call the bluff of the person blackmailing you by trying to make out that you don't care.

Wow lickszz, you took a long time to think about the answer :confused:

Not really, It took me about 20 seconds tops from first seeing the post. I was going to start a new thread based on a recent experience but decided against it for now.

Is there anyone else that thinks, that Trick or Treat is a sort of blackmail?
Hazel