Collect HN: Aprils Fools • Hacker News Board

Hey guys, My goal since 2004 has been to keep a list of all AFD jokes on the web in one place. Check it out if you like. Have 66 there so far this year :) Feel free to submit any ones from THIS year to the site as well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394571

Re: Collect HN: Aprils Fools

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Post by uvdiv » Fri, Apr 01, 2011, 2:05 AM UTC

NZ_Matt wrote: post #33

Air New Zealand have introduced "pay what you weigh" http://promos.airnz.co.nz/payweigh/

Is fair pricing such an obscure concept that this is a credible April Fool's joke? Why shouldn't people get discounts for losing weight and saving the airline fuel expenses? Is there a implicit moral norm that those who consume less should subsidize those who consume more ("to each according to his need"), or is mentioning an awkward truth like "heavy people take more energy to lift" a social taboo, or do people just avoid thinking about this entirely?

I assume this would be illegal discrimination from a private New Zealand company, even though it's dandy for the NZ government:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5245...