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>April Fools' gags in tech have grown stale Or you have gotten older.
by chippy 13y ago
>April Fools' gags in tech have grown stale
Or you have gotten older.
- berrypicker 13y agoWhat's the average age here? I feel like I'm in a no fun allowed zone.
- davidw 13y agoI've had jokes upvoted here. The ingredients, as far as I can tell, were that they were original, topical, and required a bit of thought about the subject. In other words, the opposite of memes, or generic jokes that are probably retellings from somewhere else. Here's one from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7500889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7500889
- antihero 13y agoIndeed - I think accepting some degree of silly humour, even if it is lame, is important, as otherwise even when you consider yourself to be not taking yourself seriously, you are in fact maintaining some degree of elitism.
- panacea 13y agoIf only there were other places on the internet to get your kicks off.
- trentmb 13y agoThey were stale when I was 15 and reading /. in 2005, they're stale now too.
- scrollaway 13y agoDid 2048 clones stop reaching the front page because I have gotten older? Imagine the front page being filled by 2048 clones every day. Then imagine it being filled like this every two days instead. Then imagine it's not just the front page, but the entire internet being filled with those clones every two days. Then imagine it's not every two days, but every year. It's gotten stale.