# How would you react to this April Fools joke? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053 "2015-04-07T18:25:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/21 "2015-04-07T20:04:36Z")
Anyone like BlackBox TV? They do extreme pranks, and they do them with excellent production quality. [Their new roommate prank.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-nzS7Vu7c) Too much? ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/22 "2015-04-07T20:10:03Z")
And then she told everybody at the office to further his humiliation! Just in case it wasn’t complete. Yeah, there’d be serious talks in our house. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/23 "2015-04-07T20:17:31Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > Where’d you get that? “He was upset and tearful, asking what he had done, how he could put it right, who was the other man etc” Those types of things are where you know it’s gone too far. Heck, I’d have probably linked [this article](http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150130-the-man-who-studies-evil) and unfriended her. > > It’s completely different from any joke I’ve defended, including **Idle Thoughts** ’ joke. There’s nothing hurtful about them, even if you did happen to think they were true. The only thing you have to worry about are people who get offended at the mere idea that they have been fooled–probably people you couldn’t throw a surprise party for, either. That was during the prank. 1. When he found out, he was relieved and kissed her. 2. She still thinks the prank was hilarious, so he did nothing that convinced her otherwise. 3. No report of subsequent divorce. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/24 "2015-04-07T20:31:38Z")
I can’t even conceive of making my wife cry on purpose and finding the situation “hilarious”. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/25 "2015-04-07T20:53:40Z")
The only thing that would make that joke funny is the husband replying “I’m actually relieved because I’ve been cheating too.” ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/26 "2015-04-07T20:57:56Z")
I would have been very upset. First off, telling someone an outright lie that is plausibly true doesn’t fit my definition of an April Fool’s joke. I suppose I can see the humor in something that is obviously wrong, but I’m hard pressed to think of anything that is so obviously wrong it fits that definition. Maybe if she said she’s leaving him to marry a giant stuffed teddy bear at a wedding presided over by unicorns. But leaving him for another man? That’s entirely plausible. Secondly, April Fools jokes are never funny if someone is hurt by them. Doesn’t matter how unintentional, or how temporary. “I only hurt him so we could laugh about it later” is just sick on so many different levels. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/27 "2015-04-07T21:34:56Z")
It’s cruel. It’s emotional manipulation. If she thinks it’s funny, I think she’s a bully. To hell with her. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/28 "2015-04-07T21:58:32Z")
I gotta go with the herd on this one - the wife sounds like an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/29 "2015-04-07T22:00:42Z")
I would react very badly if I was on the receiving end of such treatment, but I have no proper metric for understanding it as a joke. I can’t see that there _is_ a funny side. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/30 "2015-04-07T22:24:56Z")
That’s pretty messed up. I don’t know if I’d file for divorce, but I’d be really, seriously pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/31 "2015-04-07T23:21:27Z")
I would have inadvertently ruined the joke by confessing that I’ve been fucking her sister for the last 3 years. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/32 "2015-04-08T00:04:32Z")
It’s possible two people with the same sense of humor miraculously found each other. IF the husband thinks it’s funny now and is planning to avenge himself in similar fashion, maybe they are soulmates. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/33 "2015-04-08T00:31:47Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > First off, telling someone an outright lie that is plausibly true doesn’t fit my definition of an April Fool’s joke. I suppose I can see the humor in something that is obviously wrong, but I’m hard pressed to think of anything that is so obviously wrong it fits that definition. I opportunistically made up a totally bizarre Easter tradition from my childhood to tell my wife about as an April Fool’s joke, which mushroomed into accidentally fooling a lot of people on Facebook with the same story. But the point was (I hope) that the story was so weird that people enjoyed its telling first straightfaced and then later as I added so many ridiculous details that it collapsed under its own weight. Nobody got hurt by it unless they were embarrassed at believing it. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/34 "2015-04-08T01:15:35Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The only thing that would make that joke funny is the husband replying “I’m actually relieved because I’ve been cheating too.” Something like [this](http://pix11.com/2015/04/01/girls-april-fools-break-up-prank-totally-backfires/)? Not that I necessarily believe it’s real. But kind of funny in a schadenfreude kind of way. ‘I don’t like you any more. Ha Ha, funny joke.’ ‘No, _I_ don’t like YOU!’ ‘What?’ ‘Ha Ha, funny joke.’ ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/35 "2015-04-08T03:07:51Z")
That’s not a joke and the wife is an arsehat. If someone I cared about pulled that stunt on me I’d be seriously reconsidering the relationship. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/36 "2015-04-08T03:13:11Z")
My partner would never do that to me, because he’d know very well how I’d react. Not at all funny. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/37 "2015-04-08T05:17:08Z")
In my case I’d be asking “oh, I see. Have you found out what do we need for the divorce?” as soon as he said “I’ve fallen in love with someone else”. And then when he explained “uh, it was a prank” and depending on the case I’d either go and file for divorce or explain. Very. Clearly. That You Do Not Pull Shit Like This Again, because if you do I’m keeping the house, the car, the boa, the iguana and you’re keeping the dog\*. - Boas and iguanas don’t need to be walked. ---
**Author:** ![Gothic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Gothic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gothic)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/38 "2015-04-08T11:41:00Z")
Is she a mod? ---
**Author:** ![Emiliana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@Emiliana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emiliana)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/39 "2015-04-08T11:49:23Z")
> [@Gothic](#): > > Is she a mod? Mod jokes require a certain finesse. Practice more. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2015, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053/40 "2015-04-08T12:06:10Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > The only thing that would make that joke funny is the husband replying “I’m actually relieved because I’ve been cheating too.” Yes, you beat me to it. Take that bitch!! :mad: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-would-you-react-to-this-april-fools-joke/717053.md?page=3)