Am I The Only Hater of April Fools Day?

[SlowwHand]

I've always hated it. It's boring and stupid, I think.
So many people seem to thrive with it.
With every single day filled with liars and fools, where is the need for a special day?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I wonder what the Onion does today? Seriously report the news?

[SlowwHand]

Imran, that's a very good question. A type of Bizarro World situation.

[Zkribbler]

Re: Am I The Only Hater of April Fools Day?

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I've always hated it. It's boring and stupid, I think.
So many people seem to thrive with it.
With every single day filled with liars and fools, where is the need for a special day?

I think it's because mose April Fool's pranks are so lame. 95% of them are stupid or mean spirited.

One of the exceptions was this morning's offer by Google for a new feature which would let people browse websites and webfeatures before they were created.

[Winston]

Am I The Only Hater of April Fools Day?

No. It's stupid, especially in news reporting. My daily paper, Denmark's largest, prides itself with being the only major media outlet which abstains from this nonsense. It simply has no place among otherwise serious and credible news coverage.

Now, if you can fool your friends and family, preferably making them cross into another room for it (old 'qualifier' in this country), by all means have fun with it. But the way it's started to take over public life, I suppose almost as sort of a new annual 'holiday', is just bogus and, basically, infantile in the extreme. I don't need this crap at all.

[Tiamat]

I just got pranked a few minutes ago. Daughter #3 calls and says daughter #2 who is pregnant and due in June that her water has broken and #3 doesn't know what to do (which is true she "knows nothing about birthin' no babies") and #2's boyfriend has taken the car. I have no car, it's in the shop, and tell her to keep #2 calm and that I was walking to their place as fast as I could get there and as I'm about to hang up the phone they both start laughing and yell April fools! Needless to say I was a bit pissed as I had just walked in the door from work. Obviously their not a dumb as I thought because within a minute or two they were both down here apologizing their little heads off.

Yeah......me to Sloww, I hate today.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
A type of Bizarro World situation.

WTF is Bizarro?

[Zkribbler]

Wikipedia has a long list of April Fools pranks. I like this one:

Every year National Public Radio in the United States does an extensive news story on April 1st. These usually start off more or less reasonably, and get more and more unusual. A recent example is the story on the "iBod" a portable body control device. It also runs false sponsor mentions, such as "Support for NPR comes from the Soylent Corporation, manufacturing protein-rich food products in a variety of colors. Soylent Green is People.”

[Colon™]

It's April fools today?

[Whoha]

April fools day would be pretty good without all the bad/obvious jokes.

[Wiglaf]

Originally posted by Winston

Am I The Only Hater of April Fools Day?

No. It's stupid, especially in news reporting. My daily paper, Denmark's largest, prides itself with being the only major media outlet which abstains from this nonsense. It simply has no place among otherwise serious and credible news coverage.

Now, if you can fool your friends and family, preferably making them cross into another room for it (old 'qualifier' in this country), by all means have fun with it. But the way it's started to take over public life, I suppose almost as sort of a new annual 'holiday', is just bogus and, basically, infantile in the extreme. I don't need this crap at all.

It's NOT COMMERCIALIZED. So many people are whining whenever something has ads during it. Well there are no 'April Fools Day sales' or napkins or computer games..it is a pure holiday, so I think you're just trying to stir up some ****.

[Asher]

April Fools Day Sucks.

[Wiglaf]

You're OUT OF YOUR ****ING ELEMENT It's one day out of 365, it can't' suck, it passes quickly and is a time for harmless pranks if you have friends and you can't get dumped either, because no one would take the girl seriously and it'd lose all emotional resonance she was going for.

[siron]

Am I the only one who thinks the Mosley thingi was way over the top?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by siron
Am I the only one who thinks the Mosley thingi was way over the top?

Is this what you're talking about?

FIA President Max Mosley has been caught on film taking part in a Nazi fetish orgy, a British tabloid revealed earlier today. Although we initially thought it was the world's zaniest April Fool's joke, we were wrong. Sick and wrong. During the five-hour orgy video, which the tabloid also has in possession (and which we have a quick clip from up top) Mosley both dominated and submitted to the five hookers, who dressed both as Nazis and concentration camp prisoners. The 67-year-old, who has been married for 48 years, was at one point whipped so hard that the orgy had to be halted while a bandage was applied to stop his bleeding.