April Fools Day

...what a load of bollocks.

Its bad enough that sad tosspot individuals think it hilarious to pull practical jokes on their friends, but the media frenzy to construct april fool jokes on what they concieve to be a gullible public (well they have been gullible enough to buy their newspapers) is just poor, poor unimaginative humour, ill concieved and indicative of a complete lack of imagination.

I haven't checked the online newspapers yet, but they will be there, april fool headlines, a weak storyline that you see through straight away and then there at the bottom a footnote from the editor to say "ha! ha! check the date".

Thats even worse, it wouldn't be so bad if a newspaper would construct a believable april fools story, something like "Queen dies peacefully in her sleep" followed by thirty pages of black bordered obituary, but on the thirty first page some sub editor would have to put "ha! ha!, check the date" in a smarmy schoolboy prank sort of fekkwit way.

The BBC will do an april fool news story today and at the end the news reader will lean towards the camera, wink knowingley and whisper "ha! ha!, check the date", its pathetic, if you want to do a spoof story then run with the "Queen dies peacefully in her sleep" obituaries and no winking at the cameras at the end.