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I think most agree it was a bad joke - there is no 'absurdity' to it. Even when you find out it is fake, it's not really funny, it's more like "oh, why did you do that".

That said, I'm amazed how angry commenters here seem to be getting over it. Yeah, they tried to do something funny, it wasn't, it backfired and annoyed people. But at the same time, lighten up. Not everything needs to be a rage-inspiring transgression.

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Come on, people may have 600€ in their bank account to survive a month and they receive some fake ass invoice, which is supposed to clear almost all of their savings. That’s the definition of “not cool” April fools joke.

I'd concede that it's not cool, if true, that banks and tech companies have so much power over people that a fake invoice someone knows they aren't responsible for makes them afraid for their survival.

Cmon dude. Everyone’s made different. Such an email would Be very concerning. Especially during this economic period where people are losing their jobs.

It’s not cool at all

If your monthly food budget is 500 EUR, which is realistic for a family of 4 in western Europe that shops with some care and only occasionally uses Deliveroo, this could be scary until you realize it was a bad joke - so scary that you immediately acted on it, causing yourself further aggravation and expense (banks in Germany often charge for replacement cards).

So yeah, it would have enraged me, as I would have immediately canceled that card, having had a credit card number stolen and abused before and having to wait for the bank to finish investigating the fraud to get my money back.

Haha, I guess I'm a minority. Other commenters thought it was "morally reprehensible", "fraud", and are "livid". I'll try to do a better job of seeing how evil those around me really are.

At this point I try to laugh at everything, with the possible exception of low racist crap, just so I'm not associated in any way with the stick-up-the-ass no-one-can-laugh-if-not-everyone-is-laughing crowd.

It hurts me, because I used to have very sophisticated taste in humor.

There is another comment in the thread where someone suggests that maybe its time we do away with april fools. Personally, I think most of the jokes are dumb (and honestly mostly closer to the kind of inoffensive-to-all anodyne crap that can still be distributed as a "joke"). But I find it horrific that people think doing away with it is the answer (it's also possible that person is trolling I suppose)

Anyway, I've said before, this reminds me of "The name of the rose" where the inquisition era zealot couldn't accept that religious men should laugh, because if they can laugh, they could laugh at God and the whole power of the church would fall apart. There is an echo of this in the current lack of tolerance for any humor that derives from making fun of something, grounded in the misunderstanding that finding humor in something means disrespecting it.

I don't agree. I think some people are just too lazy to think of a good, funny joke that may or may not be offensive to some, but that in any case does not make anyone truly worried. These did and still do exist.

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