“Body scanning of bathers. Today, all bathers in Austråtthallen and Giskehallen must scan themselves before entering the pool. The scan is easy to understand (just place your hands and feet on the marks), and is of course completely anonymous.”
Sandnes municipality’s April Fool’s joke has received a lot of attention.
Photo: Sandnes municipality / Facebook
Sandnes municipality’s message on Facebook has received many reactions and over 100 comments, but based on what NRK could read in the comments section at 3.30 p.m., it seemed that people were fully aware of what date it is today.
There is also the question of whether anyone went to the Haugaland fire and rescue press release that the fire service would now use marshmallows as an extinguishing agent.
According to the press release, the fire chief must have stated that the effect of marshmallow as an extinguishing agent must have been “insane and completely unique”.
Grenland fire and rescue will also be in the joking corner and “advertise” the position of summer substitute for the fire marshal. Qualification: Life’s hard school.
The Oslo Marathon announced today new rules for participants. All runners must have a rucksack with x number of kilograms on their back when running the marathon.
While Sporveien AS, which, among other things, operates the subway in Oslo, reports:
“To meet the needs of our passengers, the subway is introducing 1st and 2nd class. Pay a little extra for comfort, free Wi-Fi, a separate seating area and a limited number of travelers per day. Carriage.”, they write on X.
Sporveien’s press officer Cato Asperud confirmed to Bergens Tidende that this, however, is not true.
Was tricked
On the occasion of the start of the football season, several clubs have also stepped up. Bryne FK announced on X that their home match against Start today had been moved because the pitch was too hot and humid. The joke plays on last year’s match in Kristiansand, which was canceled due to the cold and hard pitch, reports Stavanger Aftenblad.
NRK does not know whether anyone followed Jærbuene’s joke, but Strømsgodset succeeded better with its joke (if that was the intention). They announced that they would field a reduced crew for the start of the series due to a corona outbreak.
Both TV 2 and Drammens Tidende are said to have been joking.
TV 2 acknowledges on X that they were deceived by Strømsgodset.
Photo: TV2 / X
Most media outlets have stopped
The media used to be keen on April 1 hoaxes, but more and more have stopped in recent years.
Social media and the spread of fake news have been seen as a main explanation. Professor Kristin Skare Orgeret at Oslo Met explains to Aftenposten that the time when you reached everyone with one big joke is definitely over.
– We have lost the fact that the media were campfires around which everyone gathered. The common narrative is gone. Then it’s difficult with humor that everyone laughs at.
The local newspaper Strandbuen, which is based in Ryfylke in Rogaland, has also now indulged in the traditional joke.
“The credibility of the local newspaper is not to be trifled with,” writes editor Thomas Espevik in a comment.
But some still couldn’t help themselves.
Notifies sale of online newspaper
Danby Choi, the editor of the online newspaper Subjekt, which has criticized the distribution of power in Medie-Norge, reports that Subjekt is being sold to Amedia. The group that he has criticized.
In a “press release”, Subject writes: (NRK points out that here we link to an April Fool’s joke).
“On the anniversary of media diversity, Amedia will do something that no other media group is doing, namely to buy another newspaper to ensure media diversity.”
The local newspaper VårtOslo reports that billionaire Christian Ringnes is donating the remains of the fireworks that attracted attention on the occasion of his 70th birthday earlier this spring.
So the tradition, which according to Store Norske Leksikon may have lasted for over 400 years, lives on.
