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NiceKindaSpice
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April Fools Snark
A friend called me up and asked me to pretend to be her doctor and call her confirming she's pregnant. She wants to trick her boyfriend and his parents. I think such "pranks" are in poor taste regardless of situation but this situation is especially compelling. Boyfriend's parents had eleven miscarriages before he was born. Friend knows this and still doesn't catch the insensitivity because " it's been so long" and "it's about a grandkid now, not a kid" and "they think he's too young for kids anyways". People are so daft! What April Fools pranks are you side-eyeing this year?
Re: April Fools Snark
We didn't do April Fools, but my dad and I did pull a few practical jokes on family members at other times of the year. April Fools is too predictable.
Pregnancy jokes are not funny and they're just plain bad taste.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/april-fools-2017/?icpg=HP_Carousel_looflirpa2017_1
Like, why can't she say she won the lottery? Or that she did something nice for someone who happened to be billionaire and she bought her a new car? Or that she saw (insert famous person) on the street, asked them over for dinner and they're coming? Or that she was the 1 millionth customer at the local Kroger and got free groceries for a year? She could freeze someone's cereal, put a rubber mouse on the floor, put a giant picture of yourself in someone's medicine cabinet....
I mean there are literally 1,001 things she can do that are harmless. Why go the insensitive bitch route?
I know a few people who are Ricky & Morty fans and like @Greenjinjo Adult Swim played season 3, and people were freaking out because not everyone was able to see it :')
This was the level of my April Fools joke:
Once a kid brought me a dirty old used paper back book and a container of tic-tacs. Wrapped so nicely. When I opened them up, he yelled, "YOU THINK I GOT YOU A BIRTHDAY PRESENT?! APRIL FOOLS!!!!!!" Yeah, good one, douche.
I feel like pranks have just evolved into some kind of meanness competition, honestly. Especially with the YouTube culture. Aforementioned friend has a vlogging channel with 200K+ subscribers. (I know that isn't much for some but I personally think it's a lot.) Additionally, there are so many famous prank channels and most of the stuff they do is mean. Maybe I'm boring, but I think any prank that saddens a person isn't really a prank. Pregnancy pranks, cheating pranks, injury pranks, breakup/divorce pranks, and so on. But I have noticed that these pranks are a bit of a trend.
Anyways, I'm glad April Fools Day is over.
@southernbelle0915 I may be wrong, but I presume that anyone who plays such insensitive jokes probably also has some other empathy flaws. I just want someone who plays such pranks to actually explain to me ALL the logic and objective justifications that hold weight.
ETA: To clarify, I'm using the term "friend" very loosely. It's a pretty one sided "friendship" where she's just approaches me when she desires something of me and I don't really ever approach her. I don't actually have many proper friends. Acquaintance would be a better term. But I've been told I come across as arrogant when I refer to people who consider me their friend as my acquaintances. Sorry for the confusion!
Totally writing a post that's completely opposite of what I hold most dear in a lame attempt to shock my friends.
Friends shocked and appalled!
Now pointing and laughing at friends and saying April Fools and mocking their sincere concern.
Where did all my friends go?
I'm with most of you. I really don't like pranks. At any time of the year. Most aren't funny and just fall into the category of "mean".
@NiceKindaSpice, your friend's "prank" is especially galling. Is she also planning to ROFL when her b/f's mom breaks down into tears after friend says, "April Fool's!"
I like @missfrodo's work's version. It's just fun and funny, nothing mean spirited.
In my neighborhood there's a restaurant that participates in April Fool's by changing their sign to something crazy. This year they put up something in Russian and I heard it was about Putin taking over the restaurant and offering a 13 inch hot dog. Heh.
But also... I follow my neighborhood Chamber of Commerce on Facebook. On 4/1 they posted something about changing their mission and now The Rock was taking over and all things would now be related to wrestling. Silly, right? Well on 4/2 they posted a sincere apology to upsetting their audience. What. The fuck? People got pissed over that? Unbelievable.
We were adopting a puppy and hadn't thought people would jump to the wrong conclusion because all our fb friends are either family or good friends... it actually back fired on me really cause i got really upset when people said our puppy didn't count as a family member.
My favorite one (I was just a witness) happened on a youth group retreat. I was one of the chaperones. The retreat center was "next door" to a farm. One year some of the kids opened the gate and a few cows got out. It was a mess. So "don't let the cows out" became an official retreat rule. The next year the retreat was on April Fools. One of the other chaperones convinced one of the teens to tell the youth minister that they accidentally kicked the soccer ball over the fence, so they opened the gate to grab it when the cows got out. The youth minister was so pissed for about 30 seconds until the chaperone let her in on the joke. It was a good 10 years ago and we all still laugh about it.
Any "pranks" regarding pregnancy are absolutely uncalled for.