Internet highlights – w/c 27th March 2022
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April Fools 2022
1 04 2022Hello 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 😊
Second Severn bridge (Prince of Wales bridge) to be renamed Gareth Bale bridge
https://twitter.com/paulsinha/status/1509798113669697582
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
Added after midday as I found them:
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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
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Funny You Should Ask… – by The QI Elves
6 03 2022The 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
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Internet highlights – w/c 20th February 2022
26 02 2022
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One Of Us Is Lying – by Karen M McManus
23 02 2022I’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!
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Internet highlights – w/c 13th February 2022
19 02 2022
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