Excellent Guardian article

[Guest]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/video/2013/apr/01/guardian-goggles-video

[Flosshilde]

Not a subtle as San Serif.

[Richard Tarleton]

- reminds me of Zaphod Beeblebrox's Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

Something on Today about some train company putting bar codes on the side of its locomotives so that trainspotters who have downloaded the app can snap them and find out all about the engine.....Also a smart phone which you don't have to touch - it's getting impossible to know what's an April Fool and what isn't. Best not to believe anything for the rest if the day.

[jean]

...Something on Today about some train company putting bar codes on the side of its locomotives so that trainspotters who have downloaded the app can snap them and find out all about the engine...

I've only just realised I shouldn't have believed that - but I was half asleep at the time!

[ahinton]

- reminds me of Zaphod Beeblebrox's Peril Sensitive Sunglasses.

Something on Today about some train company putting bar codes on the side of its locomotives so that trainspotters who have downloaded the app can snap them and find out all about the engine.....Also a smart phone which you don't have to touch - it's getting impossible to know what's an April Fool and what isn't. Best not to believe anything for the rest if the day.

Well, I did wonder about both of those as candidates but at the same time worried that they'd not usually include more than one April Fool item into a single edition of Today, from which fact I concluded that today's was neither of these after all - which was not especially difficult to do when the obvious candidate was the Iain Duncan Smith interview...

[jean]

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en-GB/landing/nose/

[Resurrection Man]

Well, I did wonder about both of those as candidates but at the same time worried that they'd not usually include more than one April Fool item into a single edition of Today, from which fact I concluded that today's was neither of these after all - which was not especially difficult to do when the obvious candidate was the Iain Duncan Smith interview...

Is it mandatory on the forum that one cannot have a simple thread without someone dragging in a snide little comment ?

[eighthobstruction]

Where was the snide comment??....I thought it was humour....

[Mr Pee]

http://metro.co.uk/2013/04/01/exclusive-sherlocks-the-reichenbach-fall-fake-death-mystery-revealed-3566654/

[Bryn]

Where was the snide comment?

It comprised RM's message, perhaps?

[Flosshilde]

It comprised RM's message, perhaps?

See also http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...893#post278893 for humour by-pass.

[Mr Pee]

See also http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...893#post278893 for humour by-pass.

Why did you feel the need to insert that link Flosshilde? It is depressing how quickly a light-hearted April Fool's thread has degenerated into mud-slinging.

[Beef Oven]

Is it mandatory on the forum that one cannot have a simple thread without someone dragging in a snide little comment ?

Maybe ff et al should refresh the house rules and protocols and re-circulate them. I am struggling to keep my chip as far down on my shoulder as possible, handle my me, me, me persecution complex and proclivity for immature sarcastic remarks as best I can.

It's been quite a season lately for this sort of thing. Perhaps the time has come for reminders, refreshing?

It might help a large number on these boards, not just me.




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[MrGongGong]

I think there's a very useful EU directive on the subject Beefy ................ (JOKE, just in case) )

[Beef Oven]

I think there's a very useful EU directive on the subject Beefy ................ (JOKE, just in case) )

I'm in remission GG, I need all the support I can get