April Fools day

Kermit.de.frog

Tomorrow is April fools day.

Anything that might catch some out post it here. I've spotted nathin so far in the normal sources, ie the papers.

Montage of Feck

It feels like the past year has been the joke.

con747

Just don't do a Volkswagen. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/30/business/nightcap-voltswagen-nike-spacex/index.html

uch

Me Late Ma's Birthday, she'd batter us if we acted the Maggot

JupiterKid

The Government have announced a viable, phased road map out of Lockdown III.












....like hell!!

Ten of Swords

I find it slightly worrying that April 1st is the only day of the year that people really critically analyze the news before accepting it as true

is_that_so

Seems a good time to wheel out the all time classic, with an explanation of how it came about!

Gregor Samsa

Ten of Swords wrote: »

I find it slightly worrying that April 1st is the only day of the year that people really critically analyze the news before accepting it as true

Hmmm, I don't believe this.

rock22

Well here's one I spotted earlier

Dubmany

I've sent an unexpectedly high value invoice to a client this morning, hope he doesn't think it's an April Fools' joke.

beertons

Got the kids already. The key broke in the sitting room door last night, so we have no access to the telly, laptop, playstation or ipad. There may have been tears. I owned up after breakfast.

Sir Galahad

A Northside attempt.

the beer revolu

I fell hook, line and sinker for the Newstalk gag with Shane Coleman walking out in a strop with Ciara Kelly.
I was on his side:P, claiming that CK is an annoying conservative who can't see beyond her own middle class bubble, accusing SC of being a grinch because he likes different things to her!!
Morto.

buckwheat

beertons wrote: »

Got the kids already. The key broke in the sitting room door last night, so we have no access to the telly, laptop, playstation or ipad. There may have been tears. I owned up after breakfast.

Mine (9 and 7) were pulled out of bed and school uniforms thrown at them. Told them there was an announcement that schools had to start making up time. Not impressed.

Flowergirl201

buckwheat wrote: »

Mine (9 and 7) were pulled out of bed and school uniforms thrown at them. Told them there was an announcement that schools had to start making up time. Not impressed.

I told mine they were going back on Tues and there was a heap of homework to be done before they had to go back. 5 yr old didn't care, 8 yr old didn't believe us and 13 yr old threw a strop. Fun

beertons

Flowergirl201 wrote: »

I told mine they were going back on Tues and there was a heap of homework to be done before they had to go back. 5 yr old didn't care, 8 yr old didn't believe us and 13 yr old threw a strop. Fun

I did the school one last year, they wouldn't go for that again.

Yester

rock22 wrote: »

Well here's one I spotted earlier

As soon as I clicked it I thought it was going to be an Aprils fools trick and I was caught. Phew! Now I just need ot go offline and not talk to anyone for the rest of the day and I should survive unfooled.

The One Doctor

April Fools is dead, nothing can top the real headlines over the last year.

lucalux

Drive thru weddings at Supermacs

https://supermacs.ie/drive-thru-wedding-service/

(free cookies on online orders if you missed the reception, use code HITCHED )

odyssey06

Barge carrying third Luke Kelly sculpture wedged in Royal Canal

https://www.thejournal.ie/royal-canal-5398143-Apr2021/

.anon.

The One Doctor wrote: »

April Fools is dead, nothing can top the real headlines over the last year.

If he had any sense of humour at all, the chief medical officer would appear stony-faced on the 6-1 news tonight to announce a new and highly contagious variant of Covid19 that's totally resistant to vaccines and completely untreatable. Anyone who contracts it (and because of how contagious it is, that'll be everyone) will be dead within a matter of hours.

And then he'd appear on the 9 O'Clock news with a big grin on his face to announce that he was only messing and that everyone should carry on holding firm and staying safe, etc.

TheValeyard

I liked the Voltswagon one. Dont care they had to apologise.

https://m.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-news/april-fuel-journalists-shocked-by-spoof-volkswagen-e-car-press-release-40259884.html

maudgonner

https://twitter.com/Mayo_History/status/1377577774446211073

fryup

TheValeyard wrote: »

I liked the Voltswagon one. Dont care they had to apologise.

https://m.independent.ie/life/motoring/car-news/april-fuel-journalists-shocked-by-spoof-volkswagen-e-car-press-release-40259884.html

ze germins have a sense of humour???? surely that an april fool's prank in itself

Muahahaha

The blockage of the Suez canal is estimated to have cost hundreds of millions of pounds, as well as threatening Europe’s vital supply chains from Asia, bringing everything from toilet roll and iPhones to takeaways and PPE.

The UN had previously commissioned a feasibility study from the international tunnelling company OFP Lariol, which estimated “Suez 2” could be dredged within five years.

The canal would run in a near straight line into the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea.

“Technology has moved on considerably since the excavation of the first canal in the 1850s,” said the study’s author, Iver Shovel.

“A separate issue is the slight fall in sea levels in the Mediterranean that may happen once we flood the new canal, which could lead to wider and longer beaches.”The Foreign Office said it was aware of the plans, which are being overseen by the UN committee for Trade Routes Uniting Economies.

Sources said the UK would be prepared to play a leading role in any project to help “level up the region and build back better”.

“We have the expertise and could share our preliminary designs for the proposed tunnel links to Northern Ireland,” said an official, who also pointed to the prime minister’s successful track record in large-scale infrastructure projects.

Another alternative the UN is looking at involves recreating an ancient passage to the Nile from the Red Sea.

“It’s an exciting idea,” said Mo Sez, a regional expert in water division management, whose staff are managing a feasibility study of the area.

Although maritime engineers have warned that the river would not have capacity for 20,000-container “megaships” such as the Ever Given, transferring goods to flotillas of smaller boats could provide a modern solution.

Felucca operators could carry as much as 28% of the Suez cargo volumes, or less. Camel trains would be on standby should water levels in the Nile drop.

Questioned whether such a scheme remained feasible, a spokesperson said: “See those pyramids? We built those, didn’t we?”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/01/suez-2-ever-given-grounding-prompts-plan-for-canal-along-egypt-israel-border

Kudos for Mo Sez the water division manager

Gregor Samsa

Muahahaha wrote: »

Kudos for Mo Sez the water division manager

And “UN committee for Trade Routes Uniting Economies.”: UN TRUE

sidcon

Got my wife's family with this
Loof lirpa 16:45 Uttoxeter current 4/1 fixed race for anyone interested

Even had some of them transfer money so I could put on bet as they could not find the horse🀣🀣🀣ðŸ´ðŸ´ðŸ’°ðŸ’°

Wife made me give the money back😭😭

nibtrix

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

And “UN committee for Trade Routes Uniting Economies.”: UN TRUE

And the study author, Iver Shovel

is_that_so

https://twitter.com/Decokelly/status/1377662127939407872

fryup

anyone see Matt Lucas's prank on the One Show yesterday?? t'was class

Gregor Samsa

Deliveroo in France send everyone fake bills for €466 for pizza they didn’t order as a joke.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56617049

I remember having to go to a work thing in the UK with a load of people from my office, and the receptionist at the shítty Premier Inn we were staying in telling me that I’d used £60 worth of stuff from the mini bar. After 5 minutes of arguing with her, she cracked up laughing and told me she was joking and that I “should see my face”. Turns out she was doing it to everyone who was paying their bill (about 30 people), which explained why it was taking so long. I didn’t really see the funny side of having my time wasted in an attempted fraud, to be honest.

fryup

well it wasn't attempted fraud if it was an april's fool prank

Gregor Samsa

fryup wrote: »

well it wasn't attempted fraud if it was an april's fool prank

My trip wasn’t in April. I’m not sure what she would have done if anyone just paid. She was really dragging the arse out if it. Let’s settle on “extremely unprofessional behaviour”.