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The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

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Re: The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

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Post by iamdave »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #170
iamdave wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it may just be a matter of perspective; a manager might call a customer raising a complaint about terrible service someone whining for rebates on their next meal. Does the customer see it that way? Are they venting to feel better or are they making a complaint because they want to redress a failure to deliver qualitatively on their expectation as patrons? Is it both? Is asking to be escalated to a manager when you…

As long as you provide a way forward, a suggestion or solution, that's cool. Just complaining - that's unproductive.

I'd lean towards saying a complaint without ends to improve is whining. On the whole though, we agree.

Re: The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

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Post by jedrek »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #46
jedrek wrote: post #37

April Fools' Day is amateur hour for people who aren't funny the other 364 days of the year. It's much like New Year's Eve for people who don't party or Valentine's Day for people who aren't romantic. They feel like they have to do this on this exact day, which of course leads to an embarrassing situation for everybody.

> April Fools' Day is amateur hour for people who aren't funny the other 364 days of the year. I'm keeping this in my "quotable quotes" file - do you have a preferred attribution, or is "jedrek" sufficient?

jedrek/jędrek is sufficient

Re: The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

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Post by jedrek »

snowwrestler wrote: post #91
jedrek wrote: post #37

April Fools' Day is amateur hour for people who aren't funny the other 364 days of the year. It's much like New Year's Eve for people who don't party or Valentine's Day for people who aren't romantic. They feel like they have to do this on this exact day, which of course leads to an embarrassing situation for everybody.

All of these holidays are also amateur hour for people who view themselves as intellectual social critics--people like the OP. I contend there are worse things that businesses can do with their time than think up bad jokes. Let's keep some perspective here, people.

Oh, I agree. But realizing what they are can help you deal with them better. My GF and I are pretty romantic, we like to go out and love fine dining... So on v-day we have steak dinner and watch a movie at home. If we don't have a great house party to go to on NYE, we'll head out of town and just spend the night wandering around some other city.

The one time I went to an organized party on NYE, the bathrooms were all vomited over by 11pm.

Re: The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

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Post by GrinningFool »

mbillie1 wrote: post #78
rnernento wrote: post #72

"I have a sense of humor. Really I do." Are you sure? I think you're taking yourself and the internet a little too seriously. If the jokes aren't funny don't laugh and don't click. If it really bugs you go ahead and spend a day without reading news on the internet, you'll survive, I promise. April Fools is interesting on the internet because attention is rewarded and that encourages companies to put real effort into…

> It's okay to be silly sometimes, it's actually important. I agree with this entirely, but I think the argument here is that none of these corporate April Fool's jokes are silly, or funny, or clever, or interesting. They're the minimum effort to justify being a "gag" in order to farm page hits. Honestly, when was the last April Fool's prank that "got you" or made you laugh?

Yesterday.

Rotisserie Chicken was actually pretty funny.

Re: The crushing lameness of April Fools Day on the Internet.

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Post by Houshalter »

Can you give some examples? The only april fools things I saw was reddit's webcam thing which I thought was great, and an icon on the corner of youtube which went to a great parody video mocking memes. I later found out about Kaggle's Random Number Challenge which I thought was funny.
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