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Don't forget to spend all day of the Super Bowl telling everyone on the Internet how you don't watch football.

Except we didn't subscribe to the LameJokes channel, so why should we receive jokes instead of whatever the channel was supposed to give us?

You should realize that this is the internet, not America, and April's Fool is an American tradition.

This is completely incorrect. It's celebrated widely in European countries & elsewhere. April Fools didn't even start in the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day

It's not celebrated in Asia, Africa, South America, and in most European countries. Probably your propagandized media and education system lead you to think that everyone celebrates American holidays.

FWIW, Wikipedia has good looking sources putting the April Fools tradition long before America [0]. I think it's safe to say it's a Western tradition at the very least.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day#Origins

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