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April Fools 2022

1 04 2022

Hello hello! Another year, another morning of scouring the internet for what companies have come up with this year!

It’s good selection in the end, though with a few gaps from some of those who are normally pretty regular, which was a shame. I couldn’t even find any other sites doing roundups to check for what I may have missed, which was odd, but if I find any more later, I’ll add them in at the bottom!

I’ve put captions under each one as some companies delete the posts after the festivities have passed.

Enjoy 😊

Mud from Marble Arch mound to be used to rebuild part of Hadrian’s Wall as part of ‘levelling up’ plans.

Second Severn bridge (Prince of Wales bridge) to be renamed Gareth Bale bridge

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Ant & Dec launch Toon Coin cryptocurrency

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Walkers launch bread shaped crisps

🚨🚨🚨Excited to announce that I will be hosting a ground-breaking new show on @GBNEWS where politicians will settle their differences by actually having a fight. ‘GBH with Tim Farron’ coming to your TV screens soon!
— Tim Farron (@timfarron) April 1, 2022

Tim Farron hosting political fighting show on GB News

What do you think of our new line in eco keys? pic.twitter.com/MYIEyRzLUt
— James Timpson (@JamesTCobbler) April 1, 2022

Timpson launch wooden eco-keys

https://twitter.com/mikepilav/status/1509730100870361107

Mike Pilavachi quitting Soul Survivor to open a restaurant

🧀 New scent announcement! 🧀

Life’s better when you’re eating cheese. And when we’re not tasting cheese, want to be smelling it. That’s why we’ve hooked up with @TheCheeseGeekUK to bring you a range of not one, but three, cheese scented deodorants 🧀 pic.twitter.com/XPGwCisuHJ
— Wild (@WildRefill) April 1, 2022

Wild deodorant launch cheese scent

Just landed, the burner of all candles 🔥 pic.twitter.com/BXj03buRs0
— Co-op (@coopuk) April 1, 2022

Co-op launch luxury salt and vinegar candle

There's a new voice in town, and their name is….Rylexa? 🤔 We can work on the name @Rylan . 😘

Have a go today by saying "Alexa, Hello" or “Alexa, what’s your name?” #Rylexa pic.twitter.com/YrZ6ElHkxN
— Amazon.co.uk (@AmazonUK) April 1, 2022

Rylan voicing Alexa

We're pretty fly. #AldiAir pic.twitter.com/1iZVj8maoR
— Aldi Stores UK (@AldiUK) April 1, 2022

Aldi launch an airline

The first airline with no restrictions on excess baggage. #AldiAir pic.twitter.com/s8pFJRjZHE
— Aldi Stores UK (@AldiUK) April 1, 2022

That’s right…Dip Taps are serving up Garlic & Herb goodness by the LITRE in store 🤤 So, follow the link to find your nearest Dip Tap and get your fill NOW! https://t.co/drBZpZHxhd pic.twitter.com/F5sJAQDvIn
— Domino's Pizza UK (@Dominos_UK) April 1, 2022

Dominos garlic and herb dip on tap

Love strawberries? Raspberries? Blueberries? 🍓

Look no further.
Sainsbury’s brings you… 🥁
The Sainsberry.

A strawb-rasp-blueb-goji-cran-berry hybrid.
Your five-a-day in just one fruit.
Berry impressive… don’t you think? 👀
— Sainsbury's (@sainsburys) April 1, 2022

Sainsburys launch berry hybrid, the Sainsberry

💛🖤Krispy Kreme X Marmite🖤💛

Love it or hate it, we've created something special with our mate @marmite 🍩⚡

For a limited time, enjoy the classic taste of our glazed doughnuts with the oozing goodness of Marmite 🤤

Which one do you fancy first? 👀#krispykrememarmite pic.twitter.com/0uQi3duZbd
— Krispy Kreme UK (@krispykremeUK) April 1, 2022

Marmite Krispy Kremes

Every jar in our new Pre-hated range has been officially de-tested. These jars are guaranteed 100% hated. Although actual amount of Marmite will vary depending on levels of repulsion. Shop now. Their hating is your saving. https://t.co/cKqYstzMVq pic.twitter.com/xdAmqeRc17
— Marmite (@marmite) April 1, 2022

Pre-hated jars of Marmite

🚨 NEWS:

We're delighted to announce that now EVERYONE can claim a free Guinness World Records certificate for once being the youngest person on Earth.
— Guinness World Records (@GWR) April 1, 2022

Everyone can claim a Guinness World Record certificate for when they were the youngest person on earth

We have an exciting announcement… #BlandDesigns 🏡 pic.twitter.com/BCzXArR9P6
— granddesigns (@granddesigns) April 1, 2022

Grand Designs spin-off, Bland Designs

We’re testing real life contours! Contours are a feature of many of our mapping products; and now we’re taking them to the next level with our eco-friendly contour paint. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/mY0twXx5Hb
— Ordnance Survey (@OrdnanceSurvey) April 1, 2022

Ordnance Survey painting real life contours

Anything can happen on live television… 😳

Poor @Lauratobin1 😭 pic.twitter.com/X5FgnP5cXR
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) April 1, 2022

Good Morning Britain hosts drops unique plant

The Royal Albert Hall is delighted to launch its first ever collection of NFTs, as we diversify our offering in the wake of the pandemic.

We’ve partnered with CryptoFarm and artist Problematic Dave to create these unique artworks. Full statement here 👉 https://t.co/ixcpsdHWiu pic.twitter.com/Md3cilxKaH
— Royal Albert Hall (@RoyalAlbertHall) April 1, 2022

Royal Albert Hall launches collection of NFTs

https://twitter.com/paulsinha/status/1509798113669697582

Introducing the newest member of Surrey Fire and Rescue Service, Brian! 🐾

Brian is a Sniffing Around Urban Small Areas & General Explosives dog who will be joining our Fire Investigation and Drone teams. pic.twitter.com/bHwS8BFhve
— Surrey Fire & Rescue Service (@SurreyFRS) April 1, 2022

Sniffing Around Urban Small Areas & General Explosives dog joins Surrey Fire & Rescue

So pleased Twitter has finally added an edit feature. It is going to make life so much easier.

If you haven't read about it – within a minute of tweeting, just highlight a tweet and then hold down the SHIFT key at the same time as A and F.
— Martin Lewis (@MartinSLewis) April 1, 2022

Martin Lewis says Twitter are adding an edit button

Big news today! @chortle @EdGambleComedy @OffMenuOfficial #JamesAcaster #nocontext #offmenu #AprilFools pic.twitter.com/IVhbbVTgt2
— No Context Off Menu (@nocontxtoffmenu) April 1, 2022

BBC remaking The Trip with Ed Gamble and James Acaster

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Halotop ice cream launch avocado flavour

YASSSSSS! We GOT him! Best #AprilFools ever! How's your pie @GethinCJones? 😂 #MorningLive pic.twitter.com/I19L5iCbES
— BBC Morning Live (@BBCMorningLive) April 1, 2022

Morning Live feed Gethin a very spicy apple pie

🚫 We’re kicking ketchup to the kerb 🚫

From today onwards, we will no longer be serving condiments in any of our restaurants. Yep, that’s heck no to mayo too!

Our food is so good there's no need for extra sauce…

Here’s to an all new condiment-free Frankie’s 💪 pic.twitter.com/DxARqmw8zz
— Frankie & Benny's (@frankienbennys) April 1, 2022

Frankie & Benny’s ban ketchup

Somebody better check the Garlic and HERB Salmon…😉😁#HashBrownFries #GarlicandHERBsalmon pic.twitter.com/CE11Ds6Lu2
— Iceland Foods ❄️ (@IcelandFoods) April 1, 2022

Iceland launch “Hash” brown fries

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Guide Dogs UK employ a dog

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Solar powered, rain sensoring windscreen wipers for glasses from Must Have Ideas

You asked, we listened: introducing our new fragrance, Eau de Dough 🥐

With notes of vanilla and undertones of flakey pastry, this sweet scent is almost good enough to eat… pic.twitter.com/ITl1rik3pM
— @LidlGB (@LidlGB) April 1, 2022

Pastry scented perfume from Lidl

A MINI Cooper S Limousine? With a hot tub? Enough said.

Step inside and read more on MINI Insider: https://t.co/4kLCN5iGjA #MINIInsider #MINI pic.twitter.com/twItwYI3uD
— MINI (@MINI) April 1, 2022

Mini limo with hot tub

As of today our fire fighting vehicles will be carrying new technology. In a bid to reduce water consumption & environmentally damaging fire water run off we are using flamethrowers. research shows that the phrase ‘fight fire with fire’ is beneficial to the environment pic.twitter.com/YgzzCWkZwp
— UK Fire & Medical Services Ltd (@fire_medical) April 1, 2022

Hampshire Fire & Rescue carry flamethrowers to fight fire with fire

Enjoy the comfort you love from our Azuma trains – at home! From April 1st, you can get your hands on the famous red seat you know and love.

👇Grab yours now (available in 1 or 2 seater editions) at: https://t.co/eMEQeLLvaq pic.twitter.com/1Acd7jxJnp
— London North Eastern Railway (@LNER) April 1, 2022

Buy LNER train seats for your home

Something big is coming. And we mean really, really BIG! pic.twitter.com/eOyxfyYna7
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) April 1, 2022

Lego launch maxifigures

NEW Bremont x @WilliamsRacing Ultimate Racing Watch! Cunningly concealed inside is a chamber filled with champagne. Press the button and celebrate your achievement in Racing style, spraying champagne over anyone nearby🍾
Register your interest by emailing olaf.pirlo@bremont.com pic.twitter.com/iyS2A3cFRX
— Bremont (@Bremont) April 1, 2022

Bremont Williams racing watch which sprays you with champagne

We're so excited to be the first to announce that a small herd of Thames Bison has been reintroduced at a secret location on the #ThamesBasinHeaths, where they’re helping to shape the heathland landscape. More on our website at…https://t.co/DmcUcgU6wl pic.twitter.com/HthjjsLUiw
— Thames Basin Heaths Partnership (@TBHPartnership) April 1, 2022

Bison reintroduced to the Thames Basin

Pucker up Garlic Butter lovers 😘

Celebrating the nationwide launch of Vegan Garlic Better than Butter in pizzerias. Tag a mate and you could get your chops on our limited addition Vegan Garlic Lip Butter 💋

We'll pick 5 lucky winners at 11am, on Monday 4th. GOOD LUCK 🙌 pic.twitter.com/1hlmIUojBz
— PizzaExpress (@PizzaExpress) April 1, 2022

Pizza Express vegan garlic lip butter

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Timehop predict toothpaste Oreos

Curators at Upton House in Warwickshire have found a novel solution to a unique conservation challenge.

While paintings are being restored, highly trained models are bringing artworks to life. pic.twitter.com/vZ36yB4C6o
— National Trust (@nationaltrust) April 1, 2022

Paintings at National Trust properties sent for restoration are replaced by human models

Could you be the next voice of 'See it, Say It, Sorted'? 👀

We're looking for talented singers to work on our upcoming single #Text61016, to be played on train tannoys across England, Scotland and Wales. 🎤🚂

Keep your eyes peeled for further announcements soon… pic.twitter.com/91obJ6iQ0U
— British Transport Police (@BTP) April 1, 2022

British Transport Police looking for people to sing on new See It, Say It, Sorted, single

🍊 TOWER TO TURN TANGERINE

We're delighted to announce our brand new partnership with Blackpool FC 🤝

To celebrate, the Tower will be painted tangerine for the first time in it's history.#TangerineDream #Blackpool pic.twitter.com/OI9FUabZCO
— The Blackpool Tower (@TheBplTower) April 1, 2022

Blackpool Tower to be painted tangerine

Big things happening at Dino HQ 💻🦖

To celebrate the first day of Dinosaurs! at Edinburgh Zoo we’re launching a unique webcam where you can keep up to date with all of our Doyouthinkhesawrus antics!

Watch Dino Cam NOW ➡️ https://t.co/tJMDsJQaJk pic.twitter.com/ZMxV6pQz9T
— Edinburgh Zoo (@EdinburghZoo) April 1, 2022

Dino-cam at Edinburgh Zoo

Big Ben’s £80,000,000 new look after five years hidden in scaffolding#BigBen pic.twitter.com/ovfXzHPFfb
— Lucy (@LMAsaysno) March 31, 2022

Mr Blobby on the new face of Big Ben

BARK AND YOU’LL MISS IT! Introducing the Pet Co-Pilot Front Seat model.
Drive around with your four-legged friend within paw’s reach.
Complete with Honda-branded harness and built-in squeaker.#honda #dogs pic.twitter.com/9IyAQOupbt
— Honda UK (@Honda_UK) April 1, 2022

Honda have front seat pet co-pilot option

It’s official. Dodgy decisions are a thing of the past. ⚽

Introducing: SpecsaVARs glasses. Free for all @premierleague referees. 👓

Full details 👉 https://t.co/eu93Vo9o0y pic.twitter.com/5oANDQIW0G
— Specsavers (@Specsavers) April 1, 2022

SpecsaVARs glasses

Excited to bring you OODLES of NOODLES with NEW Pot Pizzas. Yes, that’s right! We’ve joined forces with @papajohnsuk to bring you three delicious noodle-topped pizzas. First up is our Bombay Badboy with Papa Johns American Hot. 🔥 🔥 🔥 #PotPizza pic.twitter.com/k0Vkub4psu
— Potty Noods (@PotNoodle) April 1, 2022

Pot Noodle pizza

And lastly, genuinely not sure if this is an April Fool or not, given some of the other mad things they’ve done, but LadBaby has done a Sausage Roll candle

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Added after midday as I found them:

“Oh my Christ!” It’s Pam. In this prequel to #GavinAndStacey we follow ‘Three Steaks Pam’ before she met her Mick. ❤️ #BBCThreeTV pic.twitter.com/JZkD4XaFFo
— BBC Three (@bbcthree) April 1, 2022

“Pam” prequel to Gavin & Stacey

Good morning everyone! We have some exciting news, this morning we have been testing out our new speaker and coloured rotor blades. The added sound and new purple colour will be used to help scare birds away from Helimed 56. We also think the purple looks lovely too 💜 pic.twitter.com/V0g5DwVtwo
— Hants & IOW Air Amb (@HIOWAA) April 1, 2022

Hampshire & IOW Air Ambulance scaring off the birds with new speakers and purple blades

Wired autocomplete glue

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Internet highlights – w/c 20th March 2022

26 03 2022

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Internet highlights – w/c 13th March 2022

19 03 2022

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Internet highlights w/c 6th March 2022

12 03 2022

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Funny You Should Ask… – by The QI Elves

6 03 2022

The QI Elves are the wonderful people who write the questions for the TV show QI [Quite Interesting], and more recently they’ve also been doing a weekly segment on the Radio 2 breakfast show where people call in with questions for them to answer. This book is based on some of those questions, as well as some tangents from those, and some brand new questions. Most are just a page long, some are a couple of pages and there are a couple of occasionally three page answers, but most of those are ones with a lot of pictures in them! It means that it’s all very bitesize and easy to read.

The questions themselves are brilliant, they include things like:

Who alphabetised the alphabet?
Which fruit came first, the grape or the grapefruit?
Why does red mean ‘stop’ and green mean ‘go’?
What happens if you try to use superglue on a non-stick pan?
Why do Olympic racers run anticlockwise?

A lot of the answers finish with some random related fact, where I learnt wonderful things like

A group of ducks on water is called a paddling.
Four of the characters from Frozen – Hans, Kristoff, Anna and Sven – are named after Hans Christian Andersen, the author of the film’s main inspiration, ‘The Snow Queen’.
Sodium citrate is used in the production of nacho cheese and has the chemical formula Na₃C₆H₅O₇.

Some of the answers left me with follow-up questions, but that’s part of the joy of it I think, finding more things to learn!

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Internet highlights – w/c 27 February 2022

5 03 2022

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26 02 2022

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One Of Us Is Lying – by Karen M McManus

23 02 2022

I’ve been describing this book as The Breakfast Club meets Agatha Christie: five kids from five different American high school stereotypes, all in detention together, one of them dies, whodunnit?

The book is narrated by the four other kids in turn as they try to work out what happened, who did it, and why. Is it one of them, or someone else? The boy who dies had a gossip blog which has a reputation for always being accurate, and had been about to post stories that would ruin each of the other four teenagers lives, so there’s a lot to dig through.

I did guess the solution, but not with all the detail that was revealed, so still enjoyed it as it worked its way through. And now that I’ve finished it, there’s a series of it that has just arrived on Netflix, so I’m ready to see what they’ve done with it!

And it has the added bonus of putting an Abba song in your head every time you look at the cover, even if it’s not exactly the same words!