# I hate April Fools' Day. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 1, 2011, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820 "2011-04-01T17:10:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/61 "2011-04-04T13:22:52Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > I seriously need to get new glasses: I read this as the **Feast of the _Incontinents._** > > :eek: Knowing how the RCC works, there probably is a Patron Saint of Folks In Their Second Infancy… wonder who it is? Our Lady of Good Hope, maybe? I’m afraid to look it up! ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/62 "2011-04-04T16:41:40Z")
> [@Boggette](#): > > Nope. I know they do other programming in the evenings. This was in the morning, during normal “kid hours”. AFAIK, the only thing they did for April Fool’s this year was show \*The Room \*again. And the suicide scene in that isn’t graphic at all, at least from a gore standpoint. I’d be more worried about exposing children to Tommy Wiseau’s creepy naked flesh. Regardless, I fail to see how this is a problem unless you’re mindlessly using the TV as a babysitter for small children. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/63 "2011-04-04T17:03:40Z")
> [@beartato](#): > > I think what most of us are saying, though, is not that we hate all pranks; we just hate the dumb one that can barely be called pranks. \ Yup. Someone posted about their photocopier at work being turned into a voice-activated one; that was funny. Calling someone up and telling them a loved one died - never funny. Ever. I guess the problem with April Fool’s Day is that there are always the assholes who don’t get it - it’s not a day for being mean or jerkish or just saying stupid things; it’s a day for good-natured leg-pulling. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/64 "2011-04-04T17:13:55Z")
Partially too, it’s hard to come up with a funny, clever prank. There are a lot of people that like the idea of playing a joke or a prank, but just aren’t really imaginative enough to come up with a good one, so then you wind up with 900 people all posting photos of positive pregnancy tests to Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/65 "2011-04-05T01:51:24Z")
Being subtle is the key and not overplaying your hand. At one work place, I would open a [car-freshene](http://www.little-trees.com/us/products_detail.php?x=x§ion=products&id=9)r and taping to the bottom of a desk in a lab 10 minutes before lunch. People get pissed off from the stink, but then they go to lunch, and I remove said freshener before they get back. One was sure that an office secretary was wearing some sort of pine tree perfume. Repeated the same trick for years. Nobody ever caught on that it always occurred on April 1st. ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/66 "2011-04-05T18:13:56Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > Maggie, I completely agree. Absolutely hate practical jokes of that nature. It really is sad that the only reason a joke like that succeeds is because that subject trusts you enough to not question your honesty or intention. > > My brother gave me a fake $10,000 lottery ticket on time as a joke. He really felt like an ass when he realized I was going to split it with him 50/50 and he had to explain it wasn’t real. A friend sent me one of those real-looking lottery tickets in the mail. I was really jazzed for the few minutes it took to realize I’d been fooled. I did the “right thing” and sent him a real-looking check for half of it along with a letter telling him how much I needed the money and that it was going to help me out so much, how much I appreciated his friendship and, of course, how the only ethical thing I could do was give him half to enjoy as much as I would enjoy mine. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/67 "2011-04-05T19:04:37Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > This morning my 13 year old daughter came running out of her room “Justin Beiber’s coming to Ottawa! There’s only 2,000 tickets available and you have to call a special number. But every time they give the number the radio keeps cutting out!” > > My wife said “You do realize today’s April 1st, right?” I like this one. My daughter is the only one out of all her friends who can’t stand Justin Bieber. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820/68 "2011-04-05T19:35:01Z")
> [@Ann\_Onimous](#): > > I like this one. My daughter is the only one out of all her friends who can’t stand Justin Bieber. I see you at least knew how to spell his name. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-hate-april-fools-day/576820.md?page=3)