Alternative April 1st. Please contribute to our feel-good thread

01 April 2020

Overmatter

Social media has been a source of light relief for many

Instead of writing an April Fool’s story this year we’ve decided to take a different approach. We’ve created this ‘April 1st feelgood thread’ where readers can share links to things that have cheered them up or raised a smile in what we realise are dark and difficult days for many in the printing industry community.

We’ll start with a couple of links that have given us a welcome laughter boost.

The perils of video conferencing while WFH.

my boss turned herself into a potato on our Microsoft teams meeting and can’t figure out how to turn the setting off, so she was just stuck like this the entire meeting pic.twitter.com/uHLgJUOsXk
— Rach (@PettyClegg) March 30, 2020

Alternative signage options.

Ham window pic.twitter.com/lzBBTyVYkx
— Ham window (@jocelynseip) March 31, 2020

Finding something to do with all that stockpiled loo roll.

Day six of lockdown, and novel and strange forms of entertainment have sprung up; toilet paper has attained immeasurable value due to its secondary use as a cat hurdle construction material... pic.twitter.com/3OB4o6hzOX
— Dick King-Smith HQ (@DickKingSmith) March 29, 2020

And... we realise more than 8.3m people have already watched this brilliant bit of commentary from Andrew Cotter, but we reckon it's such a tonic it merits watching at least once a day.