April Fools Day is the dumbest holiday in existence
April Fools Day is the dumbest holiday in existence
The only person laughing is usually the person who made the joke and it's generally just irritating to everyone else who just wants to get on with their day. I might feel differently if we like, got the day off work for April Fools Day I guess
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Blame the king who wanted January 1st to be New Year's instead of April 1st. Were it not for him we'd still be using the far more logical start date of April 1st and there wouldn't be any pranks to make fun of people who think that the beginning of spring is a better start to the year than the dead middle of winter.
Curse you Numa Pompilius, second king of Rome! 😤😤😤
Serious question, why is April far more logical?
Yeah I don't know about "logical", I'd say it's arbitrary either way. I think in Asia the calendar traditionally aligned that way, since spring is "beginnings", but it seems every bit as logical to put the new year around the winter solstice.
I guess because that's around the beginning of spring? New year, new growth?
That's very north-hemispheric-centric of you.