April's Fool gags - did you get taken in by any?

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April's Fool gags - did you get taken in by any?

Post by gremlin »

To my shame, I did....

I practice Italian on Duolingo, the language app. Got this in my feed and thought, WTF, they really are milking the udder with this. A fecking stage show?..on ice?



Yeah....gullible, I know.
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The Shoei one that went around FB was quite good.


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Yeah. About 8 of us in the Enduro Watsapp group.

Told us he'd got a bird pregnant while skiing about a month ago. He had us all going for ages.
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SWMBO'd told me of a chap in Somerset had invented a device to translate cat into human.
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Don't think I saw any, nope that's a lie, Heinnie Haynes posted one on facebook but it was as subtle as a brick.
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I saw photos by La Plagne of a pretty big snow fall (for April) - turns out it wasn’t an April fools, the bloody weather waited till I wasn’t there to send a shit load of snow to resort :angry-cussingblack: :angry-cussingblack: :angry-cussingblack:
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Post by McNab »

Being a bank holiday I didn't really go on the internet or much social media. The only one I saw was a youtube video by the Fascinating Horror channel called The Glass Tower Disaster. It was obviously Towering Inferno.

Last year though, they got me with The Sinking of the SS Poseidon. I remember thinking "I didn't know it was a true story" and "That captain looks familiar" :lol:
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