A grain or two of truth among the chaff

[peredur_glyn]

Am I the only one who finds the concept of April Fools Day sinister? Or at least irritating

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[symbelgal]

...though there is something about penguins flying in Antarctica which might just be it...

...as the BBC itself confirms.

[symbelgal]

Ah, you posted the same link yourself. Never mind.

[fu_manchu12]

It can cause a certain amount of confusion. Today, for example, an email request by an associate for someone to 'take a taxi to north London and pick up a kitchen mixer' sparked a certain amount of debate among the trainees as to whether it was an April Fool's joke. It wasn't.

[kezza1970]

I so agree. I hate April 1st.

In Finland many people thought THIS http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7323940.stm was a hoax.

But when our minister of finance announced it in a press conference a while later (and broke into tears haha), we all realised it wasn´t.

[ruchbah]

Talking of news that comes out on April 1st and you aren't sure if it's true. The Canadian province of Nunavut gained independence from the NW Territories on April 1st about 7 or 8 years ago. The federal government had finally got guilty about having snatched all the land from the inuit and granted them an autonomous region.

I think by now I am convinced it is true, but there was something about the name (We're having Nunavut) that made me suspicious. Though it is almost def a real work in Inuktun or something. And I read it in the Guardian (where else) on 1.4 so I was just, I dunno , curious.

[fredsmith518]

Hello, I was reading your erudite comments in dsygu_cymraeg and being nosy, came to see who you were...

You are the second person only, I've bumped into 'ar y we' from the same area as myself...