Crappest April Fools

[Ian]

Urgh. So despite last night being the mildest of the year, apparently "two icebergs have been spotted in the Solent." /Express FM.

Earthquake in Blackpool /BBC.

What other **** ones have you come across?

Although I did LOL this morning when I read the local paper's website. One bloke is commenting "April's Fool!" on every news item, even the serious ones. Brilliant! http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/

 

[Martyn]

April fools day is f*cking tedious. It's the Internet's fault.

Google always do something, and they put a bit of effort in and it's very clever, but it's just obvious.


Blackpool really could do with a quake and a tsunami though.

 

[Ian]

^ That'll be the Gmail Motion one then.

 

[Martyn]

Yeah. YouTube's "1911 mode" too.

YouTube's are always kinda weird anyway, they're just more interesting, amusing features rather than trying to make you believe something.

Last year's (I think) text mode for videos was pretty mega, just from a how-the-f*ck point of view!

 

[LiveForTheLaunch]

I hate April fools, it's so pointless and I'm not a good prankster .

 

[Artichoke]

I'm a really good prankster. I don't really celebrate it like that, but when I do... I get em good :--D

 

[davidm]

Do we not think "Earthquake in Blackpool" is a little poor taste to be a April Fool by the BBC?

My money is rather on "Electric Rolls-Royce"

--

LinkedIn has "people you may know" all as famous fictional characters this morning.

 

[furie]

I loved the Firebox "Bacon Inhaler".
http://www.firebox.com/product/3527/Bacon-Inhaler

I'll get back to doing one for CF next year.

 

[ECG]

It's snowing here. This better be a

ing April Fools joke.

 

[Ollie]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... &ATTR=News

 

[peely]

Thought this was amusing!

http://www.trustedreviews.com/pcs/revie ... ir-ZX81/p1

'Better than iPad', or 'or typed in manually - a facility no tablet offers'

:--D

 

[Nemesis Inferno]

'Spanner'head sharks :roll:

 

[Will]

This went out to the winners of Force India's VJM05 test driver competition...

Made me smile, but was kind of obvious.
Better than this ****ing colour scheme though!!

 

[Lain]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foot ... 58903.html

Lolz.

My money is rather on "Electric Rolls-Royce"

That one is for realsies!

 

[ciallkennett]

I hate April Fools day, however, I swiped my mates phone earlier and changed my name in his contact list to "God". I'm just about to ring him so his caller display will read "God is calling" and I hope he picks up

Google's this year is to type "Helvetica" into Google...

V That's the one

 

[Hixee]

^'Helvetica' you mean.

 

[furie]

Some subtle, some not so subtle... How many of mine did you spot?

Love this one BTW:
http://www.optipess.com/2011/04/01/that-great-old-one/

 

[nadroJ]

Sam found one on the BBC Sport website this morning, something about Portugal selling Christiano Ronaldo to Spain even though they can't technically do that. He got very angry and annoyed and then I pointed out the date, and yet he still went 'it might be true though'. No Sam.

 

[tks]

You know the Earthquake in Blackpool was real right?

 

[Mike]

There was one I saw earlier about something changing colour and make my eyes hurt for a little while. Pretty crap tbh!