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		zingplex on April 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day First China bans the pun, now they ban April Fools' Day. The first shots have been fired in China's war on humour.

hawkice on April 1, 2016 [–]

It breaks my heart but the first shots in that war were fired long ago, during the Cultural Revolution, when all humor had to be pro-"Revolutionary ".

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