For an IRL example... I explained April Fools Day to my 4 year old kid this morning for the first time. His first instinct was to wrap a piece of Lego in foil and have me write CHOC on it, then leave it outside the bedroom door for my wife (who was having a lie in). I think he gets it!
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He's been holding on to that prank for 4 years
Last year, the Flying subreddit (a subredit for pilots, both hobbyists and professional ones) had a mod post about changing focus to the more numerous group: The passengers, giving the impression that they pivoted to travel blogging. Due to timezones, the april fools aspect wasn't immediately clear, so the outrage was enormous.
My son (5 y/o) walked into my office and said “dad! I brought you something”. I assumed it was a piece of Easter candy because he had a hand behind his back. I asked him what did he have.
He turned around, let out a huge fart, and said “Fooled you!” Then he put on his cowboy hat and walked out of the room.
Yep, gottem.
Aha, Billy The Skid
I think The Lockpicking Lawyer (YouTuber)has consistently put out good April's fools videos. I do have a sophomoric sense of humor though, and they are all based on innuendo.
Context: BBC broadcast this on April 1st, 1957. A lot of people fell for it, seeking advice on growing spaghetti trees on their own. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti-tree_hoax
At the time spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, so many British people were unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water.
Spaghetti was unknown in the UK in 1957? My spaghetti history is woefully inadequate. The American school system failed me.
The real prank was the American education system all along 🥲
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The StreetComplete app for Open Street Map had its map cursor being a Nyan cat with a rainbow trail behind it.
Nothing online I've found is interesting. But I bought a pack of "Student Driver" magnets, and put it on my car enthusiast friends Porsche. Haven't heard anything yet, so im hoping its still on. Might throw a new one on whenever I notice its gone.
If left on, those things can scratch the paint. Dirt from the road works its way in. I had a friend who destroyed the paint job on his car with one. He had it on a pretty long time tho.
Co-op (British grocery store chain) posted this product announcement on their Facebook page, playing on the British predilection for enjoying horrible sandwiches.
Even as a non-Brit, I thought it was reasonably clever, not to mention rather well made.
It's more to do with the fact a decent sandwich can't be enjoyed without some chips in it. A fun joke.
Nope. Those zany Brits literally eat sandwiches with nothing but potato chips on them (except butter).
Not only that, but there are literally dozens of websites with recipes and instructions on how to make them (as if that required any sort of further explanation). Unless this is some sort of massive prank they’re playing on literally the entire rest of the world, I’m led to believe they actually do enjoy eating this.
I mean, with stuff is perfectly normal. On their own, yeah wtf.
A few Lemmy communities had at least an April Fool's Day joke or two from the mods. Unpopular Opinions is "Popular Opinions" today lol.
I do remember getting annoyed when Slashdot posted everything in ROT-13 on AFD several years back lol.
Some absolute lunatic on Sysadmin made a joke about Broadcom purchasing Veeam.
No one should ever joke about being purchased by Broadcom after what they are doing to VMware.
I switched jobs partly to avoid that BS. How much worse has it gotten since last year?
I don't deal with it directly. But brocade removing the free ESXi version and doing a 40-60% price increase will hurt a lot of places.
Yeah, last I heard, the place I worked at was going to be priced out of their products, from ESXi hosts to Horizon to WorkSapce1. ALL the eggs were in that basket.
They'll have to transition and retool for everything.
I work for a F500 org that does billions in sales a month and Brocade couldn't tell us if we were going to be invited to the new partner program. It was an absolute shitshow.
Makes me glad I only have to deal with Cisco and FortiNet.
Definitely a shitshow. I have some contacts internally over there that have led me to believe that it's as bad as it appears to be from the outside.
Sadly I feel like this tradition is drying up more and more each year. I remember like 10-15 years ago tons of sites did really big things for the day. I honestly forgot today was April 1st until I saw this post. I miss it.
Satisfactory's developer Coffee Stain Studio made a Satisfactory Direct video
It's under two minutes so it has a pretty good joke/time ratio
My kids mom made him a "cake". It was actually meat loaf with dyed pink mashed potatoes instead of frosting.
savagegeese (car youtube) put out an outstanding and genuinely hilarious video about a convertible Nissan SUV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6vprgDHFw0
20 minutes is way too long for a joke video.
worth it tho
Windows is very clean and performs very well