Anyone who thinks practical jokes are funny is a childish moron who probably spent his grade school days bullying others. Fuck April Fool's Day, seriously.
This year it was a clever, but very assholish troll who lured me into a long-winded debate over the solidarity and accuracy of human concepts (which if you've ever debated it you'll know it's a self-corroding argument as time goes on).
But... if you knew that, why'd you need more than five minutes to tell the guy his argument was insubstantial?
I didn't know he would take the debate so far that his philosophy would nullify his own statements, and in the previous times that I've debated this subject, it didn't go nearly this far. This wasn't 5 minutes, this was upwards of 3 hours. The reason I didn't catch on is because he seemed geniuinely serious and not trollish about the argument until the end.
"How can you be so sure? I could be making the best argument in the world, and you may not even know it! But then again, you could be right. Who knows? Who can know?"
I always look forward to april 1st :) I love seeing what sites put together.
I very much agree with this post.
Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
Drama, too long, didn't read, lol.
What? In the US April Fool's is a holiday????
Anyone who thinks practical jokes are funny is a childish moron who probably spent his grade school days bullying others.
I'm astounded that people actually get into long philosophical arguments as an April fools joke. I must run in the wrong circles. And for me, the worst part of the day was the last 3 hours, with the shitstorm of horrible crap that landed in the submission queue. If you're going to try and do something funny, put some thought and work into it. Just being stupid isn't funny. It just reconfirms the rest of the world's assumption that you really are stupid.
Note that this is one big rant, so if you don't like whining and bitching, don't bother reading or replying. April Fool's Day is easily my least favorite holiday now (it used to be #2 after Valentine's Day). Every year I dread this day coming, and every year there's always some BS that I have to deal with, and it's not just the stale sarcastic jokes that were never funny to begin with, either. This year it was a clever, but very assholish troll who lured me into a long-winded debate over the solidarity and accuracy of human concepts (which if you've ever debated it you'll know it's a self-corroding argument as time goes on). He basically said that we can never be sure of anything, which basically boiled down to him playing devil's advocate about everything I threw at him, no matter what it was. The argument ended by my conclusion that everything he said was meaningless by his logic (and he knew it, too...that's why he started it) and he was thus willingly wasting my time as a prank. It may not sound like a big deal when I say it now, but believe me it was infuriating at the time.
It's too bad that they weren't all funny, but at least we got a new meme out of it : *Does not color a dinosaur
However, you've got issues if you are letting internet trolls get to you, legitimate or not. Yeah, I know. This point has been brought to my attention countless times on countless forums. It's because I have no social life at all (sad, I know) and I'm hopelessly addicted to computers, ok? I'm sure you'll find that hilarious, but I don't really care.
