Do You Believe Grown-ups Who Do April Fools Jokes Should Be Punished In Some Way?

[CrazyGirl2]

Obviously, I'm not exactly talking about Life in Prison here, although that IS a decent starting point for negotiations. No, I’m just talking about perhaps, a light shunning from society, or sentencing them live in the wilderness, at least a hundred miles from any other human, or internet connection! Untill they learn that they are an adult, and that is silly!
What do you think? Yes? No? Maybe? Perhaps just a stinging slap from Will Smith, live in front of a billion worldwide viewers?
What are your thoughts on grown-ass adults plating April Fools “jokes” as if it’s high school again, and the class turned the teachers desk around and put everything back on the desk as it was right before they turned it around, or put Saran Wrap on the toilet!

Updates

+1 y

THIS IS A JOKE! How could anyone believe that a 19yo girl would be in favor of “Life in prison as a good negotiations starting point” for doing an April fools joke?
Make no mistake, I KNOW its not April 1st, but THIS is not an “April fools joke” it’s just one of those regular jokes we do on the OTHER 364 days a year! It just HAPPENS to be about April fools, b/c when I wrote it, April fools only JUST ended. Guys, please lighten-up, Most people get it, but I’m getting way too many nasty comments!

[AndrewMG]

Oh 100% and I know you've had to defend yourself but be strong this is a life sentence without parole scenario every day of the week! lol
The only thing that deserves a more severe sentence can only be described in a scenario that genuinelly happened. So catching a train home on Christmas Eve a few years back a couple of the children in the opposite carriageway began to sing Christmas songs (now bare in mind I was hungover so not in the best of moods lol), now that I could cope with, what I couldn't cope with though was there mother joining in and singing much louder over the top of them and drowning thenm out as if she was auditioning for Britains got talent! There's certain times where grown ups should know there role and leave these things to children lol

[Still-alive]

Time to break out the bull whip and hand cuffs!

jk

eh its whatever to me lol

[CrazyGirl2]

As if I'm being serious Doug! “Life in prison as a good negotiation starter”? Seriously? Come on im not very happy right now b/c of my mom’s health, but she is the one dying, not my sense of humor!

[Still-alive]

Apologies my dear. My hearts with you babe :*

[CrazyGirl2]

No, not at all! Don’t worry, I genuinely appreciate the MASSIVE amt of love and support I have received. I just figure I need to re-compartmentalize my life, and on here, its not about my moms health. Besides, she is past the chronic illness stage safely, and is now in the long-term recovery stage.

[Still-alive]

oh good!

[petitedollbabee]

A little bit of immaturity is good for the soul. No one wants a grumpy old man or woman who can’t take a joke and takes life too seriously. I think April fools jokes are harmless, for the most part. It’s only people who take it too far and get themselves or others seriously injured that deserve to be punished.

[CrazyGirl2]

I absolutely agree… NOBODY should take life, of GaG questions too seriously, especially when they speak of shunning someone 100 miles into the wilderness to live otu the rest of their life… OVER AN April FOOLS JOKE! Sweetie, I was obviously kidding

[petitedollbabee]

It’s April 2nd, so April Fools day is over here 🤷🏻‍♀️ didn’t know it was a joke question.

[CrazyGirl2]

Ahhh, they words “April Fools Jokes” in the title should have been a give away. But thats okay I didn't even realize it was April 1st until 2am on April 2nd! So lets all just be happy ant love one another. Eh?

[CrazyGirl2]

@petitedollbabee P. S. Im really sorry about all the darn typos, I guess I was more tired than I thought at almost 4am this morning.

[CrazyGirl2]

Just to clarify sweetie, this was a joke question. It was not an April fools, because as you aptly pointed out, it was no longer April 1st or April fools day. However, this joke-question, was merely one of those regular, standard, non-April-fools joke that are told on the other 364 days a year. Thank you so much for your answer, specifically for taking your valuable time to answer me. I always appreciate everyone who takes the time to answer my questions. 😘💋

[petitedollbabee]

@CrazyGirl2 ?

[Apulu_3]

Of course they should be punished! April Fools Day is for kiddos! They are ruining the pride of adults. Shame on them.

*I'm sure this opinion is getting at least 1 dislike but people, seriously I'm just kidding. You know my life is a joke so whatever I say is a joke! Simple right?*

[Static_In_The_Attic]

April Fools!

Grownups shouldn’t be punished they should we rewarded especially if they think of something original like this. On the flip side if someone gets hurt that is another story.

[Jamie05rhs]

Haha! That's hilarious.

[CrazyGirl2]

@Jamie05rhs That really is hilarious… my only thought is this, who was the unlucky guy (no girl did that) who had to lay on the floor and crawl out from underneath the stall? I mean, it would only work if the door was closed. But w/o locking, they just swing open for that very reason, so nobody just stand’s there waiting for an empty stall!

[CrazyGirl2]

@Static_In_The_Attic Yes I absolutely agree with you, that’s part of the reason for this “joke-question “ I mean did you honestly read that “life in prison was a good starting point for a negotiation” and think it was something a 19yo girl would actually believe?

[Jamie05rhs]

@CrazyGirl2 Correct!

[Static_In_The_Attic]

It’s simple & you don’t even have to crawl under a stall you just need a quarter to lock the stall door @CrazyGirl2

[CrazyGirl2]

Huh? Amazing how little attention one pays to the door of a public restroom! I can honestly say that I never noticed that!

[NathanDavis]

don't know about punishments... but I know that I don't like to play pranks myself, I just don't enjoy making someone a fool, or scare them or laugh to their expense without them "knowing" or their consent... lol

it just weirds me out, so I don't like it... I don't enjoy it, not in this context when they're caught by surprise or they're not expecting it one bit

[CrazyGirl2]

Well maybe, on April 1st, you should just expect pranks, and then you wouldn’t be so surprised. Also gaining consent for a prank? It wouldn't exactly work if they knew you were doing it? As for context… April fools day, kinda great context for a joke, or prank.

[NathanDavis]

yes, that's absolutely right... lol

you can't have "consent" for a prank, it's a one-sided laugh to their expense... that's the one thing I don't like, so I just don't prank people, it weirds me out, lol

also... April's fool is not a universal and well known thing either... over here in Mexico this happens around December I believe, but even on the American side of things... I didn't see anybody pranking nobody either around my circles, if it weren't for that G@G colors thing, I would have not remembered it was April's fools... lol

[CrazyGirl2]

Apparently it’s more of an “older generation thing” it’s basically fallen out of favor, in recent years. I know about it because my parents did April fools jokes, and in middle school one year the teachers played April fools on the students. Again, as a big cultural thing, it’s basically fallen out of style. But it IS still a thing, even the people who didn’t realize the #ColorChange was b/c of April fools day, immediately knew what was going on when it was explained. I don’t know any of my almost 340 followers, who had no idea what April fools was.

[NathanDavis]

yes, I know that people are aware of things... but I meant it more about actually knowing about something... as in, even if you know that April Fools is a thing, and it is in the name April... and it happens on the very first day, I am sure 90% of people won't have it cross their minds before it happens, only till it happens and they're explained "it is 1st of April, so we make pranks" people will be like "oh yeah"

I do the same with my birthday, lol... I usually remember it on the very day, when I get notifications from people telling me about it

[Daniela1982]

I hope I don't get 30 days in the outhouse, without toilet paper, for short sheeting my sister's bed.

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[CrazyGirl2]

Oh I think you will be okay for that, 😉.

[Jamie05rhs]

What is short sheeting?

[CrazyGirl2]

@Jamie05rhs I think its where you fold the sheets on someone’s bed, do when they get in, the sheets are too short, get it? Short sheets. It’s what old people did for fun before the internet was invented.

[Jamie05rhs]

@CrazyGirl2 Ohhh. Hahahaha

[AviatorTom]

An occasional prank is fine, lightens up life. The best prank of all time, IMHO, was when a senior high school class somehow put a teacher's VW beetle on the roof of the high school building.

[CrazyGirl2]

Yes that story does seen to get around, in my high school it was allegedly the football team, who carried the Beetle onto the football field (obviously they had to lift it over the Ballard that prevent vehicles from getting on the field.) only thing was our football coach always drove a Mercedes.
Obviously, this was meant to be light hearted… what kind of lunatic would think “Life in prison was a good negotiations starting point” for an April fools joke?

[ohshee]

This is great I think everything you said was perfect that was better than any prank I loved it thank you for the smile

[CrazyGirl2]

You are SO welcome! Thank you for actually getting it, you’d be amazed the ant of people who thought I was serious! LOL 😂

[na2398]

There's no harm in being a bit childish as long as you're not hurting anyone. Forcefully trying to curb that little child inside you would do no good. :)

[CrazyGirl2]

I agree. Just as long as nobody is disrespectful to anyone while doing the joke… being disrespectful to someone who thought of you as a friend can be very damaging to the friendship. Thanks for your answer.

[na2398]

Hmmm.. True that. It's also about understanding and analysing other's perspectives :)

[sensible27]

Is this.. an April fools joke?

Happy April fools

[CrazyGirl2]

Clearly, who would seriously advocate shunning someone 100 miles away from civilization?
Happy April 1st

[shortster]

I think we should probably just end April Fool's Day. As the point of the holiday was to make fun of people who were still celebrating the new year on April 1st after they moved it to January 1st.

[CrazyGirl2]

Huh, I did not know that! Let’s keep is around a few more years at least, as my friends and I have some gold ideas already perculating for next year!

[genericname85]

yes. by making them fall victim to another April fools joke xD that's the entire point of that day.

[CrazyGirl2]

@genericname85 I am well aware of that… And although THIS is not an April fools, (because it’s April 2nd), this is STILL non-the-less only a joke! Did you honestly read “Life in prison was a good negotiations starting point” for an April fools joke? Then actually think that it sounded like something a 19yo girl would believe”? It’s just a joke dude, Go out, relax and have a drink on me (metaphorically). Take a nice refreshing deep breath of fresh air, and let go of the stress. Hell, that’s what I'm trying to do with this joke-post, my mother was JUST diagnosed with cancer, and yet as devastated as I am, I’m at least TRYING to de-stress by just doing one jokey post, to break-up all the shit we wade through on social media every day… JUST ONE JOKE! I truly hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you very much for taking your valuable time on a Saturday to answer my question, and I am truly sorry that I was obviously not clear enough in my wording to make it obvious that it was a joke.

[topramen1565]

Nah. It's the day for all impractical jokes to be done by everyone

[CrazyGirl2]

That’s very true, and the day after is the traditional day to ask joke questions about it 😁

[CuriousMufuxka]

They should totally have their next April Fools taken away! Well if they weren't creative enough..

[CrazyGirl2]

That’s thinking outside the box! Good one!

[007kingifrit]

grown ups enjoy fun and games... if they are healthy

[CrazyGirl2]

I absolutely agree with you. Life is already too serious, we need at least one day dedicated tp having a good time and joking around! Good for you.

[josephinelcajon]

All ages can take what should be a good-hearted joke and turn it into an evil cruel prank! Parents are the worst and will absolutely devastate their own child for a laugh! These are the people that should go to prison for child abuse!

[GingerGuy]

I've always thought it was ridiculous for anyone. Who ever came up with it or how it became a thing. But lots of things like that. Like Groundhogs day.

[Tstrbrainer]

You are reffering to punishing gag admins right?
I agree with you

[CrazyGirl2]

Well yes but for a hundred other reasons, but not necessarily over an April fools. This was only supposed to be a light-hearted fun reaction to yesterdays “switching the colors” and making girl’s accounts blue, and guy’s pink. Obviously, this was not meant to be taken seriously… what kind of lunatic would think “Life in prison was a good negotiations starting point” for an April fools joke? Or who would think “a light shunning a hundred miles into the wilderness” is a rational response to a prank? But please have a drink on me, enjoy life to the fullest, and I'm sorry if I made you think in anyway that I was actually serious about this.

[Tstrbrainer]

Well, you know some countries do kill people for watching porn or imprison people for saying something against the government.

So there are people who will punish like that lol

[Tstrbrainer]

Thankfully we are from safe areas

[CrazyGirl2]

Yes, thankfully both the the company “GaG, and their website AS-WELL-AS myself are located in the US where Freedom Of Speech are considered Human Rights! So we don’t have to worry about any of that Mishegas here!

[Tstrbrainer]

I thought gag was Turkish

[Mangospacho]

It’s might be a drastic move to make all April fools day jokes punishable by life imprisonment but it will definitely lower the rate of pranks. I’m all for it. I don’t see why everyone is all triggered

[CrazyGirl2]

You really should have read the entire thing (especially the update). It was a joke, I mean who would ever think a 19yo girl would actually advocate for life in prison as as starting point BECAUSE OF A JOKE? When I said “a slap from Will Smith in front of a billion strong live audience” You didn’t then think that “maybe this chick isn’t being serious”? What kind of psycho would think shunning a person more than a hundred miles into the wilderness and a hundred miles from another human being is an appropriate reaction to a joke? Seriously dude it was a just a JOKE!

[CrazyGirl2]

And if you would have taken the time to read through to the end, you’d have seen that.

[Mangospacho]

Ya I know it’s a joke. I was joking in return.

[CrazyGirl2]

Oh, sorry! My bad! I’ve just been dealing with the craziest people who took this seriously all day! Sorry.

[Mangospacho]

Yeah, I’m looking at all the other replies like 😮

[CrazyGirl2]

Yeah, it’s THAT bad! Thanks 🙏🏼

[Little_Bumblebee]

As long as it's not harmful, let the adults have some fun in their lives.
Adulting is a struggle, to begin with.

[jammcm]

April Fools jokes, pinching someone for not wearing Green on St Pats day, and day light savings time are all on my Uggg list. Tar and feathers seems a good punishment.

[CrazyGirl2]

Ahh, its not that bad, besides its only one day and it’s really fallen out of style lately. Most people were surprised about the #ColorChange yesterday, BECAUSE people hardly ever do April fools jokes these days. As for pinching me b/c I didn't wear green, that must be a guy thing, in my almost 20yrs of life nobody (especially strangers) have ever risked a battery prosecution, by pinching me. Im sorry that happened to you. (But ur right most people would never have sympathy for a man as they would a woman). And daylight savings time… at least one bill here In Florida has proposed eliminating Daylight Savings Time! So not only are we the “Free-State of Florida” but hopefully, we’ll soon be getting rid. Of the clocks moving back and forth twice a year.

[FunkyMonkee]

No, just the people that get their panties in a bunch over it.

[CrazyGirl2]

As a person who has been wearing panties since I got out of diapers over 17yo ago, I can tell you… they don’t actually get “in a bunch”. I suppose if they were all in the dryer, they could all bunch up, heck even get tangled together, but bunched up? While one is wearing them… Sorry that just doesn’t happen. Maybe you could buy a few pairs for yourself and see, they really don’t bunch up! Also, anyone who reads that life in prison is a good negotiation starting point, for an April fools prank, especially in the early morning hours of the day following April fools, and doesn’t see it for the silly jokey question that it is… is WAY too tightly wound (metaphorically, of course) and just needs to relax and actually try some of that April fools fun… or some weed if it’s legal there. If not just have a drink on me and have a wonderful day.

[FunkyMonkee]

I've worn panties a few times and they DO get a bit bunched up, at the elastic parts after a while and I've got to sort them out and have seen lots of girls doing the same thing (with their panties, not mine).

[CrazyGirl2]

Well I’m happy you decided to take a ride on the freak-train, but who knows why you experienced what you did, maybe, just maybe it was the penis that was never designed to be there, causing the issue? (I mean, jeez, you better hope your penis is enough to create an issue wearing panties) look, I don’t care about guys wearing panties… I’ve not been with THAT many men, but MOST have asked if they could try them on, if not outright wear them. As for the “women you’ve seen do it” No you have not seen women do that! Maybe with a bathing suit, especially when getting out of the water, I’ve had to run my fingers along the material of the butt, but that is usually b/c they migrate towards the center I. e. a wedgie. Even the front sometimes, as long as no one is looking, or the bikini is so uncomfortable that any embarrassment from NOT fixing it would be 10x worse! But no woman is going to do ANYTHING like that in public when it’s her panties… rear and front wedgies are fixed where such things are appropriate, in the restroom! Also as for “bunching” unless some weird brand of cheap nasty underwear does that, the only time I’ve even heard of girls or women even mention “panty-bunching” was either to insult some whiny Karen, or to ask one another “what the hell is panty bunching anyway? Do they mean like with a wedgie, or when they ride-up?” And I’m pretty sure my friends and I have discussed panties, amongst ourselves, in private more than any man has. Another thing, if we DO have an issue w/ our comfort vis á vis our underwear, we are certainly not going to announce WHY we are fixing ourselves! So you never heard that! Hell, even in the worst absolutely Unimaginably awful circumstances where she has no choice put to do it right there, no woman will announce why she is fixing herself, that would just draw even more unwanted attention! Come on dude? All this over a joke question?

[FunkyMonkee]

If it was because of my dick, why do so many girls have the same issue?
How in the world would you know what I've seen? I'm here to tell you that I saw one woman do it at a party while she was talking to some guy and his girlfriend just happened to pop into the garage at that time and saw her do it and then went off on an insane tirade about how she was doing it to steal him away from her when he never even noticed her do it and it was just something that girls have to do, once in a while! That wasn't you going of like that, was it?
So, if it happens with a bathing suit, what makes you think it doesn't happen with underwear?
"I’ve had to run my fingers along the material of the butt" OH, NO, YOU DIDN'T!! YOU just said that girls NEVER do that so, how COULD you have done it!!
WHERE did I say ANYTHING about girls ANNOUNCING the adjusting of their panties?
Yeah, REALLY!! ALL THIS over a joke question? Take a chill pill!! All I did was make a VERY short comment, YOU'RE the one that's blown it WAY out of proportion and taken it MUCH too seriously!!

[CrazyGirl2]

Dude I clearly said, and I quote:
“Maybe with a bathing suit, especially when getting out of the water, I’ve had to run my fingers along the material of the butt”
So yes, when getting out of the water, it sometimes causes the fabric to settle in an uncomfortable way. As for how if it happens w/a bathing suit why not panties? Well since were talking about wedgies, basically, it does happen, its just unusual for a woman to dig it out in public, so much so, that I have never seen it. Oh, I’ve seen it pleanty in the rest room, just not in public! But also, and I just thought of this… we don’t usually submerge our bodies in water while wearing panties. As for the woman at the party… what some chick did to try to turn a guy on, is hardly an exemplar for normal female behavior. But regardless, everything you have mentioned from my answer has related to underwear riding up and causing a WEDGIE. None of it has anything to do with the material bunching up! How the hell would that even happen unless the undies were WAY too big? I don’t know about the panties YOU wore, but panties are supposed to hug the body not too tight, but certainly NOT loose enough to allow the material to bunch-up at the crotch. It’s just not something that happens! And so far all you have described is women pulling the fabric out of her butt-crack. That is not bunching-up, dude, that’s a wedgie. In order to bunch up they would have to basically hang down below the vulva before you put your pants on. And it would simply be impossible to happen in a skirt or a dress (w/o pantyhose) but nobody but the poorest of women would ever wear anything that ill fitting anyway, and NO ONE would ever go digging around her crotch in public, ever! Not unless she was severely mentally ill. THAT is why I said you have not seen a woman “un-bunch” her panties! And again, even what I just described is giving you every benefit of doubt, because as I already said, fabric bunching at the crotch just does not happen.

[clampfan101]

Not even kids should be doing April Fool’s pranks unpunished. An April Fool’s joke is sometimes fine I suppose, but all pranks are bad.

[CrazyGirl2]

Eh, some can be harmless fun. It’s important of be able to “play” as adults. Sometimes just letting your hair done and having a little fun sometimes is awesome.

[Sevenpointfive]

if you make the joke you get the blowback. that's just how it goes

[Razp_Sorbet]

Since when does being an adult mean you can't have fun anymore?

[jshm2]

They are, most don't get to live it down when they fall for them.

[melanieeeB]

Nahh why should they lol

[GlassTop]

Obviously Will Smith can’t handle jokes

[CrazyGirl2]

Not really the point of the question, but thank you for taking the time to answer my question.

[CallmeTheKnight]

That's stupid af. People can have fun all they want as long as it's not literally problematic like anything that traumatizing or emotionally overwhelming.

[CrazyGirl2]

Oh come on! “Life in prison was a good negotiations starting point” for an April fools joke? Do you seriously think this is actually serious? I’m 19! What 19yo is so curmudgeonly that she would advocate “shunning” a human being at LEAST 100 miles away from any other people? The UN has determined solitary confinement to be torture… do you know many 19y/o girls in favor of torture? It was a joke, dude!

[Wise4myage]

Only if someone got hurt.

[CrazyGirl2]

Well yes, but I believe existing laws would cover that, both criminally and civilly. I was speaking more in a light hearted way. Obviously no serious human would suggest “shunning” let alone 100 miles into the wilderness (unless perhaps they were Amish)? And obviously, nobody but a complete lunatic would think “Life in prison was a good negotiations starting point” for an April fools joke? But I to sincerely thank you for taking the time to answer my question sweetie. I’m sorry if I misled you to think I was being serious.

[Wise4myage]

You’re welcome

[Iron_Man]

No I don’t think so it’s only once a year

[CrazyGirl2]

Hun, it’s a joke! What kind of sick mind would actually want “life in prison as an opening negotiation” for an April fools prank?

[Iron_Man]

Just simple little practical jokes

[In_Trance]

I had no idea this was still a thing

[CrazyGirl2]

Yep! It really still is. Now obviously I am NOT in any serious way suggesting that “Life in prison is a good negotiations starting point”! The whole thing was supposed to be light hearted, but people took it WAY too seriously!

[JesseJayNeak]

That’s stupid. Punishment for having fun? If that’s the case then the world would be gray

[Guy13]

The jokes of a Teenager for sure…

[Anonymous]

You're awesome!!

[CrazyGirl2]

Omg, thank you so much Heather! You have NO idea how much that means to me, especially after all the “telling off” I got from guys who didn't understand that I was joking! You are welcome to follow me and be my new best friend for ever for that!

[Opinion Owner]

You're so welcome!! I can't believe that so many thought you were serious! SMH

[CrazyGirl2]

I know, but then again you and I are under 30, so we haven’t lost our sense of fun yet. 🤣 by the way, everyone who took it seriously really was over 30, most over 40! Only one negative comment came from a guy under 30, and he was 28, soooo… Eh close enough! 😄
Thanks for the follow sweetie, I followed you too 🤗

[Opinion Owner]

You're right we still have our sense of humor 😆

[CrazyGirl2]

Yeah. Some old guys here are pretty funny though. (Maybe we could finish this in DM so we don’t end up having a huge convo in the main page?)

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah!

[Likes2drive]

Not really unless it’s really bad and harmful

[Reijen]

Whoa, calm down there.

[RogerTomas4534]

Majority of the time, no. Lighten up.

[Rendomlikua]

Nope

[Jamie05rhs]

Lol.