If you’re looking for some April Fools pranks to cheer you up during the coronavirus pandemic then perhaps that’s the biggest joke of all.
As the world mourns and borders close, the self-isolation policies being imposed by governments means many families are suffering through a cascade of Dad jokes that cannot be escaped from or ignored.
Vegemite on the toilet seat … check!
Alcohol sales banned during lockdown … yep, mum panicked at that one!
All sport, schools and work closed down for months … gotcha a beauty!
Oh wait, those last one’s are true.
The reality is that some of the world’s biggest news stories read like one long April Fools day joke.
For instance, did you hear the one about Australia’s all powerful Border Force that knows the location of every Indonesian fishing boat in northern waters, but apparently has no role to play when waving through passengers into central Sydney off a ginormous floating petrie dish?
One Twitter wag even got a few heart racing after claiming Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has resigned. April Fools! His just missing, not gone.
Tweet from @ComissionerKate
Traditionally April Fool’s pranks have been the specialist domain of the Under 12s and FM radio show talking heads, with a few advertising men thrown in for good measure.
This year, with the world going to hell in a not so funny handbag, the marketing men have taken a backseat in fear of getting their timing wrong and blowing up the last two bob of revenue they have coming in.
One mob who were not scared of scaring off their customers was Optus Sport … who – in an era of no televised live sport – hardly have any customers to drive off.
Instead they offered up marble racing, which it must be said hardly counts as a joke because it actually more entertaining than most of its usual programming. Nah, only joking.
Tweet from @OptusSport
Search engine company Google also ignored the tradition of setting up a page dedicated to pranking people, saying it wanted to show respect for those fighting the pandemic.
“Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let’s save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one,” the company said in a statement to staff.
And while social media was full of warnings not to joke about coronavirus – particularly fake diagnostic positives – the governments of India, Taiwan and Thailand have outlawed Aprils Fools pranks altogether, with hasr prison terms for offenders.
Thailand warned on its twitter account that there would be harsh penalties for anyone who made April Fool’s jokes about having the coronavirus.
In any other year, that in itself would constitute a prank, so it as left to one brave political protestor to offer up his view of the Thai government.
Tweet from @RichardBarrow
Of course if you’re determined to keep up the April Fools tradition in a time of anxiety and family lockdowns the New York Post – in a unique act of a bastardry – has offered a handy hints guide that includes “swap out the family photos”, “pretend to be typing forever” and that old laugh-a-minute favourite “flatulence”.
Go to it, kids … unless you’re in Thailand.
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