Journal tompaulco's Journal: The April Fools are loose again! 1
I hate April 1st. Okay, so maybe it was funny for the first couple of hundred years to make fun of the pagans celebrating the new year 3 months into the Christian calendar, butI think April Fools day has lost it's way. Probably very few people remember the origin of the holiday and instead spend the entire day making up horrible ways to trick people and making up phony headlines. Today I heard some idiot on the radio convince a DJ to call his wife and tell her he was a Law Enforcement Officer and that her husband had been picked up for solicting for prostitution. That's not funny! That's horrid!
To me wading through the jokes and fake slashdot articles and all the other BS on April 1st is just a chore. I liken it to having to "just hit delete" on the 1,000 or so spam e-mails I get a day.
Of course, I also hate the commercialism of Christmas, and having to wear green on Saint Patricks day. In fact, I pretty much hate tradition right down the line. I mean, tradition is supposed to be about remembering the origins of a practice. But nobody does! It becomes tradition for tradition's sake, which is meaningless and an afront to the thing you were trying to memorialize.
There may be those who take offense at my attitude towards April Fool's day. They say I should just enjoy it. I hope they also equally enjoy my own tradition which I invented for this day. Every time someone plays a joke on me, I punch them in the face. If they don't enjoy it, perhaps they just need to be more open minded and realize that, hey, it's just an April Fool's prank.
To me wading through the jokes and fake slashdot articles and all the other BS on April 1st is just a chore. I liken it to having to "just hit delete" on the 1,000 or so spam e-mails I get a day.
Of course, I also hate the commercialism of Christmas, and having to wear green on Saint Patricks day. In fact, I pretty much hate tradition right down the line. I mean, tradition is supposed to be about remembering the origins of a practice. But nobody does! It becomes tradition for tradition's sake, which is meaningless and an afront to the thing you were trying to memorialize.
There may be those who take offense at my attitude towards April Fool's day. They say I should just enjoy it. I hope they also equally enjoy my own tradition which I invented for this day. Every time someone plays a joke on me, I punch them in the face. If they don't enjoy it, perhaps they just need to be more open minded and realize that, hey, it's just an April Fool's prank.
waa waa waa (Score:1)
<ducks virtual punch in the face>