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Original Fake News: Let's share and discuss [April Fool's] stories from around the web!
jakobagger
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Merry information evaluation day and a happy source criticism to all.
This is a thread for sharing and talking about the various actual fake news stories that every site feels compelled to make one of on this day.
Round-up of Google's several different pranks
http://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2017/april/140-stars-to-celebrate-twitters-greatest-moments-at-the-royal-albert-hall/
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/ - a kind of game/social experiment where each user can, with a 10 minute cooldown, place different coloured pixels on the same grid. Already it's a mix of dick jokes and weird cults because Reddit. R/denmark made a flag of red and white pixels that is now being slowly attacked by Swedish redditors armed with yellow and blue pixels - history repeats itself, first time as tragedy, second as farce, and 12th time as dumb internet bullshit.
https://www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/korrektur/259011?utm_source=jobindex&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=flow
Apart from links, personal anecdotes of real life pranks are also more than welcome!
This is a thread for sharing and talking about the various actual fake news stories that every site feels compelled to make one of on this day.
Round-up of Google's several different pranks
http://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2017/april/140-stars-to-celebrate-twitters-greatest-moments-at-the-royal-albert-hall/
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/ - a kind of game/social experiment where each user can, with a 10 minute cooldown, place different coloured pixels on the same grid. Already it's a mix of dick jokes and weird cults because Reddit. R/denmark made a flag of red and white pixels that is now being slowly attacked by Swedish redditors armed with yellow and blue pixels - history repeats itself, first time as tragedy, second as farce, and 12th time as dumb internet bullshit.
https://www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/korrektur/259011?utm_source=jobindex&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=flow
Apart from links, personal anecdotes of real life pranks are also more than welcome!
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I tried playing it in my neighbourhood but the fact that there are so few straight streets and right angles here makes it a lot harder. Seems better for cities on grid systems.
There are some really funny parts to it. You can tell he's having fun with it.
I work in a psychologist practice. My coworker came out of her first session this morning to see a ton of congratulation messages from friends and family on Facebook and SMS.
Her boyfriend waited until she left for work (It's Saturday here so he wasn't working, but we were), broke into her Facebook account and posted a sonogram with some sort of announcement message.
She was livid and simultaneously impressed.
Apparently he had been sitting on this idea for 3 years because they hadn't been in town together for April Fool's since he thought it up.
Please shoot me a PM if you add me so I know to add you back.
I absolutely hate fake pregnancy announcements for April Fools. There's nothing particularly clever about them, and they're punishing to people who are having difficulty conceiving or who lost a child.
Cartoon Network is putting googly eyes on shows.
Critical Failures - Havenhold Campaign • August St. Cloud (Human Ranger)
If bff asks for an update today I'm considering telling her we eloped last week. Reasons against this joke: BFF would believe it at least for a minute, and her boyfriend's lack of a proposal has been a touchy subject (so I probably won't).
I suggest surrender, and this time let them keep Bornholm.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
The danish flag seems to have been retaken, but right now the huge swedish flag in the upper part is growing east and looks like it's going to eat a stars and stripes on its way
Scared the shit out of me
I mean
somebody
Steam: adamjnet
I dunno, I've always thought we should instead ignore them and stop rewarding the practice so that this stupid "tradition" will die out already. Maybe that makes me a stick in the mud, I don't know or particularly care. Pretty much all April Fool jokes fall into 3 categories
-49.5% basically amount to "Isn't it funny to give a person a panic attack?". Well... no. No it's fucking not. It kind of just makes you an asshole.
-49.5% are getting somebody's hopes up and making them excited about something, then punching them down and laughing at their misery. Again, just makes you an asshole.
-The 1% that are actually cool, like Google maps going Pac-Man? Are just good jokes in general and not actually beholden to April Fool's. Meaning they could do them in the middle of November and it would still be good.
Seriously, we need to make "olol i lied" day not a thing anymore.
I would argue that some of the fake announcements are so obviously silly as to be unbelievable.
I mean, Google Gnome from this year for instance.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy
Too bad they then entirely forget how to do it the rest of the year.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
The World Endurance Championship saw Ford and Ferrari going slightly more traditional but still pretty funny - and good-hearted - to prank their own drivers:
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