Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 14:04:22 GMT
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 14:18:19 GMT
When you fail to spot an April Fools even when it says it's an April Fools in the text.  |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2018 14:31:07 GMT
When you fail to spot an April Fools even when it says it's an April Fools in the text. I only just noticed it lol 😂😂 |
|
class411
Operations: Normal
Posts: 2,748 
|
Post by class411 on Jul 13, 2018 18:19:41 GMT
It's a very poor April fool. A good April fool should be taking something that's actually impossible/vanishingly unlikely, and making it seem real. Unless you are an 'underground nerd' you'll have no idea whether or not reopening any particular station is feasible and it may well be a superficially very desirable idea. A good April fool gets more and more outrageous until only the slowest fail to get it. Whereas this just waffles on in a vaguely believable way and at the very end say's it's a lie.
|
|
|
|
Post by stationless on Jul 13, 2018 23:36:17 GMT
Strand station can't reopen as it was never closed - just renamed Charing Cross.
|
|
|
|
Post by aslefshrugged on Jul 14, 2018 0:16:57 GMT
Strand station can't reopen as it was never closed - just renamed Charing Cross. Aldwych was called Strand when it opened in 1907 but was renamed soon after to avoid confusion with the one at Charing Cross.  |
|
|
|
Post by croxleyn on Jul 14, 2018 19:58:53 GMT
Some years ago, chatting to my father's carer, a South African lady, we got to talking about remembering things one had heard as a child. I commented "its like believing spagetti grows on trees". I got an odd quavery look, and was told that she had said just that to her daughter, with the response "Don't be silly, mum, of course it doesn't!". Ho hum, what have we here. I then called up the 1957 broadcast on youtube. "Oh thank you, thank you". She genuinely hadn't realised it was an April Fools, I guess the media being far more limited in her homeland at the time!
|
|
|
|
Post by John Tuthill on Jul 14, 2018 20:12:40 GMT
Some years ago, chatting to my father's carer, a South African lady, we got to talking about remembering things one had heard as a child. I commented "its like believing spagetti grows on trees". I got an odd quavery look, and was told that she had said just that to her daughter, with the response "Don't be silly, mum, of course it doesn't!". Ho hum, what have we here. I then called up the 1957 broadcast on youtube. "Oh thank you, thank you". She genuinely hadn't realised it was an April Fools, I guess the media being far more limited in her homeland at the time! That was the famous 'Panorama' spoof fronted by Sir Richard Dimbleby |
|
|
|
Post by arun on Jul 14, 2018 20:16:41 GMT
See also the 1977 Guardian supplement on the history, geography and politics of the Indian Ocean island of San Seriffe - covered in Wikipedia for those who weren't around at the time.
|
|
|
|
Post by holborncentral on Jul 16, 2018 8:04:13 GMT
It's an April fool but I can see how easy it is for people to fall for it, especially those who aren't LU enthusiasts or have an extensive knowledge of the network like we do on here. I don't really understand why newspapers publish hoax stories. I bet many fall for them and actually believe they are genuine. I always avoid news sites on April 1st.
|
|
