I hate April Fools Day

I hate April Fools Day. I often remember about it when I wake up, but forget about it when I read some joke. Then I spend most of the day wondering what the hell is actually real — it’s like a chronologically localised psychosis. What makes it worse is that most of the tech-related blogs I read are from the US, so I can never tell when they’re officially into April Fools or not.

One not-too-subtle joke brought to my attention this morning was a piece in the SMH food magazine about a whale meat restaurant opening in Sydney. But is Andrew Bolt really running for parliament (via)? He never struck me as having a sense of humour (sense of anything, really), but he’d have much less influence peddling his hate as a back-bencher than as a columnist in Australia’s best selling tabloid, so I really hope it’s true, but I’m sure the timing is not a coincidence, so it probably isn’t.

Then there was the email I received at work about mobile phones being more cancer inducing than smoking or asbestos. I’m pretty sure the jury is still out on that one, but it’s pretty cruel to send it around on April Fools Day anyway.

Of course, Google has got in on the act (via), which is quite amusing, and significantly less evil than releasing gMail (which actually was real) on April Fools Day a few years back.

Maybe I have no sense of humour, but I hate being fooled!

Edit: Okay, I'm not completely without a sense of humour. I did enjoy the JJJ April Fools competition where they wanted girls between 15 and 25 with low self esteem to send them a 2 minute video as to why they should win breast augmentation surgery. It was outlandish enough to be obviously a joke, but done in convincing enough a way to make you wonder whether it was real.