I usually hate practical jokes and jokes that depend on cruel humour, but for God’s sakes, it’s April Fool’s Day. It says what’s going on right in the name of the day, boldly printed on calendars everywhere - if someone gets you today, it’s your own damned fault. I cannot support this rant. Sorry. 
I like them sometimes, but they have to be clever.
My area actually did get hammered with snow today. sigh Just when it was almost gone.
Here too and many schools were closed. Who was the jokester on that one?
Clever jokes that don’t make any one person the butt I like. Stupid jokes that get someone’s hopes up, like the fake lottery ticket, those suck.
I got taken in for a couple of minutes last year by an article posted on a serious academic page that purported to have located a small population of Carolina parakeet - the only indigenous North American parakeet species on record, which had gone extinct nearly 100 years ago. I was ready to do a happy dance at my computer when I read the comment section. It really would have made my day, week, month, and year. Bastards.
I hate people who can’t take advantage of rare moments of merriment.
sigh
What are you bitching about? You got $5,000 out of it…
…right?
If the pranks were actually funny, it would be okay, but too often they cross the line into cruelty. April Fool’s Day is often used as an excuse for people to be douches, assholes, or cunts.
The worst I’ve seen is Slashdot.
Basically every story is a prank, so they won’t fool anyone. I’m not even going to try to figure out if there are any real stories today.
If the rare moments of merriment in your life are dependent on abusing the trust of your relatives, friends, or co-workers, well . . . .
Maybe you need bigger panties.
Or, you could say “If the regularly-scheduled and to be expected annual moments of merriment in your life are dependent on abusing the trust of your relatives, friends, or co-workers, well . . . .”
Maggie, one of my friends did the same thing on Facebook. He’s the guy, and supposedly did the proposing. I’m inclined to believe it because his brother responded, but I’ll let you all know.
WTF is funny about saying you’re pregnant if you’re not? Is it okay if a verifiably pregnant woman posts, on 4/1, that she’s miscarried?
That makes it OK? Every April 1st, I can depend on not believing a word a relative, friend, or co-worker tells me? Including the email from my mother today that informed me my sister was moved back to the nursing home, or the email from my boss today informing me that he didn’t like my Design Requirements Document?
I’ll certainly feel free to answer to them, “Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.”
Cruel pranks aren’t any funnier today than they are on other days, IMO.
Wikipedia’s “Did you know…” links today were funny. They were all bizarre-sounding but technically true. Like “Did you know … Thomas Jefferson wished to practice free love, but the object of his affections got pregnant and gave birth to Frankenstein?”
Nooooooo
Yes, it does make it ok. Humor is a worthy cause.
Even better, it is a day where people exercise their skeptic muscle and think, instead of believe everything they are told or read.
And what part of the examples **Frank **posted gave any indication that there was anything skeptical about them? There’s a difference between falling for a joke that is clearly something out of the ordinary, and someone telling a completely believable and unremarkable thing and then being all “hahahaha, you actually believed me!?”