April Fool's Day

Asos did a clip on manbun which made me laugh!

Barry M also advertised "nip glitter" which was rather amusing!

Lol. Manbun

One year we ticketed a large and IMO somewhat pretentious arts festival (I won't say the name of it!) and a local news website decided to do an April Fool by making up a fake event that was part of it. April Fools Day fell on a Sunday so the poor call centre staff got loads of calls from people wanting to book it and there were no admin or support staff in to help them. I got a couple of calls on the Monday, even after the website had put in bold that it was an April Fool at the bottom. One woman was really quite angry (because of course it was my personal fault that this site had taken it upon themselves to do it). The worrying thing was that there were only a couple of very minor details that stopped it being completely convincing...

The only one i've seen was posted by Battersea dogs home on Facebook.

They'd posted to say they had an unusual resident after a number of big cat sightings in London. Along with it was a photoshopped picture of a lion in one of the enclosures alongside their usual 4 legged friends.

Not seen much of it this year!

Pets at home put up something on their Facebook to say they are introducing Dog self service tills! Also got an email this morning from Not on the High Street saying you could order eggs with your name on it that would hatch on Sunday to live chicks! That one actually got me for a minute!

You can play pacman on google maps. ? Just checked, and it's still there.

Oh, my H read that out to me last night! So if they put it up last night surely that's cheating. I was only half paying attention so I didn't really question it.

Http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/04/03/philly-city-hall-jokingly-creates-e-lanes-exclusively-for-texting-walkers/

I guess last night it was the morning of April 1st in NZ (for example) and it is still the morning of April 1st in the States...?? I dunno! ?

Oh, I guess. Time zones, they are indeed a thing.

Disappointing turn out this year. Apart from this random email from bathstore!

This was quite good: http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/01/jeremy-clarkson-joins-guardian-drive-for-fossil-fuel-divestment

I saw the pacman one - had me fooled for a while there. I never do get jokes though!!!

A geeky medic one, on facebook, and one from my old college, pretending they had found badgers living under Old Court (the recently retired Master was Prof Badger).

I think you probably had to be there...

I liked the TFL one; particularly the very excited response they had on twitter ?

http://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Tube2.jpg

Also, as a social worker (in training) I loved this article on Community Care, stating SWs are getting immediate extra training to cope with 'Zayn Pain', aka the trauma felt by Zayn leaving One Direction ? ? ?

http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2015/04/01/social-workers-receive-emergency-training-help-children-cope-zayn-malik-leaving-one-direction/

Ha Nimsay, you wouldn't believe the amount of times Zayn's departure has come up on my stat visits this week!! There are some very distraught young people out there!

Ooh also, do you follow The college of social work on fb? They were looking for students/professionals to get in touch to review books for them. Get involved. Free uni books!

I do, but I'd missed that post- clearly not facebooking enough!!- so have just fired off an email! Thank you, the nerd in me LOVES opportunities like this

We live close to Bicester Village and my OH shouted yesterday morning that it was on fire. I thought it was an April Fool until I looked outside and saw the smoke and heard the fire engines :/

The Battersea dogs home one was good. An acquaintance of mine wrote on Facebook that he had been sent a letter saying that he had to do his National Service in Kuwait -that's where his parents are from. Overall a disappointing year this year.

Myself and OH got taken in by an April Fools that was not an April Fools

Our friend texted to say it was her BF 30th Birthday - her BF does not look 30, he does look though as he is nearing 40 as she is herself. In the last three years, the issue had never been brought up which was unusual as her last BF was younger than her and it was something she fit into nearly every conversation boasting that she had a toyboy.

Anyway, texted back 'yeah right...30? Happy April Fool's Day'

Only to find out - he is 30 and he was 30 on April Fool's Day.

Bloody hell, nobody would get taken in if I tried that one. Every man I've dated or slept with in my adult life has been younger than me!

With this one however, he just didn't look 30 - the previous guy, you knew he was younger but this one, you actually thought was older than her. Plus i did think it would have come up in conversation i.e. when he went to school or what he was into when he was a teenager, but there were never any clues.