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When we were living in Canberra the April Fool’s joke on the radio was that the ACT Govt had found a loophole in the GST legislation which meant that the GST couldn’t be applied in Canberra. We were so happy for about a minute, until we realised the date. Bastards.
I’d say the one about the drop bears is real, but NO REAL AUSSIE would give away that secret! (…unless Orroroo are stealth!Kiwis! omg!)
Is it that time of year already?
Deus Ex Macintosh’s last blog post..Have we met?
I’m guessing that the internet licence thing is the real one. >:(
I’m hoping (for certain values of “hoping”) that the Bacon Lube is the one that is real. Everything else makes my head hurt.
My guess, also, is that the Bacon one is real.
Child care would be nice… *sigh*
slimmer icon! wow I forgot about april fool’s day. my initial reaction to this post was: :-P
omg! – the licenses…..
THIS is what one of my staff was talking about yesterday.
I love her to death, but she’s young and….let’s just say not terribly tech savvy, nor experienced in the ways of the world.
It totally didn’t connect the whole “internet- it’s April 1st in other parts of the world already” when she was telling me about it.
In my defense, her telling of the story was lacking in useful nouns and filled with far too many ambiguous pronouns.
Well, I saw the licence thing as something similar to the British TV licences — it’s not that every single person needs one, but every person who has a connection in their name would need one — which is why I fell for it. :P
I gotta say that after some frustrating news, I totally needed this collection. Thanks, Lauredhel!
If anyone can check out Google’s American version, the bit they’ve done today is FANTASTIC.
I’m a member of the facebook group ‘A consortium of pub going, loose and forward women’, and someone has changed the name of the group to “Happy april fools, you dumb cunts”. The group logo of a picture of a pair of pink knickers has been changed to a photograph of faeces in a bowl.
huckle, have Facebook sorted that out yet? They’re usually pretty prompt with hijacks.
Beppie, I could see that making sense in Britain or Australia (which is where the joke orginated) but the American version that I heard had something to do with a virus that was scheduled to be let loose and that was the reason for the licenses or something. The point is that licenses is a simple enough idea to fool people, the whole virus story was too convoluted – even before it got to me – to be realistic.
(I am right that Australia has tv licenses too, yes?)
Tigtog – just checked and it has been fixed, four hours after it was changed. There is a message:
‘Hacked again ladies and gents! They loves us, don’t they. They can’t seem to stay away.’