Welcome to April 1st!

Ariadne

Well-known member
And more importantly the various pranks that comes with the day. I spotted my first one as soon as I came online.

Google Gnome

[video=youtube;vNOllWX-2aE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOllWX-2aE[/video]


And in a facebook post from the Russian Foreign Ministry. (I found this while reading the news.)
Agency's New Switch Board message
[video]https://www.facebook.com/MIDRussia/videos/1008139769285464/[/video]
If you can't understand Russia (like me) there is an English translation in the second half of the audio.


So what else has everyone found or had happen?
 
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Aniseteph

New member
Shame, i rather like the Google Gnome, it's cute. Though it would it would probably eventually be reporting back on inadequate lawn mowing or sending you text reminders to prune the roses. Yeah whatever. Gnome, set gardening standards to lax.

The indoor things you talk to make me nervous. Electronic internet-connected things that is. I can cope with husband and the cat.

The only media April Fool thing i could think of is so unfunny i can't be bothered to even think about explaining it for people who are lucky enough not to have a clue who George Osborne is. We have Brexit, but that is apparently for real and not a long running April fools gag triggered a couple of days too early.
 

Darshiva

Moderator
Just the usual swathe of hur dur I'm pregnant lolz not really, why is everyone who keeps miscarrying/is infertile getting so upset with me u guyz have no sense of humour derrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp!
 

Ariadne

Well-known member
Yeah, I'm with you on that one Darshiva. I don't really care for most people's ideas of pranks- it's the online ones that I get a real kick out of. Turns out Google had a lot more then just the google gnome.

All of Google's April's Fools Day Pranks (so far) 2017

Also there is:

April Fools Day, the best and worst

April Fool's, Online Gags and Pranks

Video Game Joke Roundup

Though I think my favorite one so far has to be the "Stack Overflow Introduces Dance Dance Authentication".

[video=youtube;VgC4b9K-gYU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgC4b9K-gYU[/video]
 

Aniseteph

New member
I love the dance dance authentication. I had to get my laptop sorted out today and the procedure was entirely dance free - the IT helpdesk guy sorting it out with a few moves would have been awesome.
 
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