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10 of the most genuinely enjoyable April Fools' Day pranks of 2017

Trust nobody.

IT’S APRIL FOOLS’ Day, which means that you can trust nobody. Especially brands.

Here are some of the best April Fools’ Day pranks of 2017.

1. Pornhub frightened the bejaysus out of everyone by announcing that they had introduced “automatic video sharing to your social media accounts”

Genius.

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2. Supermacs announced their intentions to a sponsor a Formula 1 team

Pat McDonagh has announced that Supermac’s will sponsor a Formula 1 team in 2018 in a move to develop the Irish food chains relationship with the motorsport sector.

Subtle and weirdly believable. We like it.

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3. Meanwhile, BBC Three announced a new series entitled David Attenborough: Life of Grime

You may think that this one seems obviously fake, but Stormzy himself fell for it.

Job done so.

4. An Pucán and The Connacht Hotel teamed up on a rather elaborate prank announcing direct flights from Galway to Hollywood.

Per their press release:

Galway City Mayor Noel Larkin and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti have met over the past eight months and have secured a deal between Norwegian Airlines, Wild Atlantic Way and Galway International Airport located at Carnmore.
Mayor Garcetti known as one of the more eccentric mayors in the United States and the Mayor behind the biggest street party hosted by Steve Aoki is said to be extremely excited for this new flight path being operated by Norwegian Airlines.

 

They also stated that GalwayHood signs had been erected across the city and hijacked the URL galwayhood.com

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5. HB had people *shook* when they announced they were bidding farewell to the beloved Iceberger

Honestly, this is just insensitive. Don’t toy with people’s emotions like that.

6. Lyon’s pretended that they were introducing “reusable teabags” that would last for up to 50 cups of tea.

Maybe we’re just stingy, but this sounds kind of handy?

7. The Irish Times successfully duped readers into believing President Donald Trump had purchased Liberty Hall with the intention of turning into a luxury hotel.

Topical.

8. While Lidl teased the introduction of a machine designed to ascertain the freshness of certain items.

Again, this would be handy. Make it happen.

9. ASOS launched a new and innovative delivery service that would see off-duty ASOS models delivering parcels.

Bit long-winded, but sure.

10. And finally, kudos for knocking it out of the park yet again with this announcement that one of their students is set to travel to the International Space Station this year

“Zero Gravity Training will be completed at our specialised deep water training facilities at the National Maritime College of Ireland in Ringaskiddy,” they boasted.

Zero Gravity Training in Ringaskiddy? A likely story.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 4:44 PM

    9 of the 12 Irish MEPs supported the position of the Irish Air Line Pilots Association.
    Europe has disregarded the advice of its own scientific advisors, and missed out on an opportunity to produce scientifically based rules in favour of commercial interests.
    It’s a sad day for aviation safety!

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    Oct 9th 2013, 6:10 PM

    I thought pilots could only fly a maximum of 900 hours per year , why does the above say a reduction from 1300 hours to 1000 hours?

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    Oct 9th 2013, 7:37 PM

    What was advice?
    Does this not mean shorter working year for pilots? Good for FTE bad for contract?

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    Oct 9th 2013, 3:18 PM

    Once again those unaccountable pen pushers delve into industries they know nothing about, this is bad for passengers and pilots alike. The winners are arsehole airline management who will award themselves bonuses and politicians creating busywork for themselves. All the scientifically based rest and ftl rules go in the bin.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 5:50 PM

    Pilot can fly for 11 hours, truck driver can only drive a max of 10. Somethings not well thought out.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 7:33 PM

    but in fairness no auto pilot on a truck and only one driver

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    Oct 9th 2013, 9:34 PM

    At least if a truck has an emergency just pull over to the side of the road not the same for aircraft . And some air operations are single pilot.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 9:59 PM

    And a doctor can work for 36 hours.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 10:27 PM

    Commercial airlines have few single pilot. Do ialpa want hours flying even lower … is that why they object?

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    Oct 10th 2013, 12:11 AM

    If you understood what commercial flying is, you would know that all commercial pilots operating with companies with an AOC are bound by JAR-FCL which is the same as airline pilots.

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    Oct 10th 2013, 6:20 AM

    You are correct I don’t know the technical definition of commercial as I don’t work in the industry. But as a layman reading the article my take is that iapla want even further reductions and restrictions on flying time which would require more pilots to run a schedule. No doubt a pay cut isn’t part of their plans. Contract pilots likely to increase at progressive airlines. One layman’s view only.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 4:11 PM

    Have the airline pilots been asked for their opinion on the rule changes and if not why not, judging by their negative reaction it seems not, but now the EU have once again gone ahead and changed the rules without consultation.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 2:48 PM

    So the cost will just go up

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    Oct 9th 2013, 6:32 PM

    What people have to remember regarding pilots hours is they are calculated from off blocks (plane pushed off stand) to on blocks plane arrives at the gate.
    You then need to factor in taxi delays ATC flow restrictions,Turn around times of the aircraft and also the pre flight which normally is 1 hour prior to departure+post flight debriefing.

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    Oct 9th 2013, 6:29 PM

    Worst case: try driving your family laden car up rough slippery track into your unlit garage at speed on a dark wet night after 11 hours on the road…

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    Oct 9th 2013, 11:31 PM

    I hope the people that brought this in will be on board when the accident happens, pure madness

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