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Irn Bru Snowman Advert

Love this! Commonly referred to as our “other national drink”, Irn-Bru have been producing humorous TV adverts for years. They’ve outdone themselves this year with a cheeky remake of the classic Christmas film “The Snowman“.

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No Shit Sherlock

Two Sunday papers carried stories about hotel review sites last weekend, reporting their shock and horror that it is possible to add a review for a hotel you’ve never been to and even hotel owners post reviews of their own hotels!

You can imagine how shocked we were, why hadn’t it ever been pointed out before! What would the great British public think if they found out? HW Headquarters was awash with a wave of cynicism and suspicion.

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Hard Landings

Not sure how the subject came up, but Bex and I were talking about the “Drunk Batman” advert, as she’d never seen it. YouTube to the rescue!

Apparently it’s to put you off drinking! I then found this animated short on YouTube’s home page, so you may well have seen it…

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The Magnificent Seven

Today sees the seventh member of the HW team complete her first arduous week with us! Hi Bex, and well done on getting through it!

So how did we get from two guys IM’ing from our spare rooms to a company of seven? Well when it was just Chris and I to begin with, we just worked bloody hard to keep everything working after we built the new site. After a while we were getting so many reviews (it seemed like a lot then!) it was hard to keep up and get on with developing and maintaining the site and other projects, so we took on Mark (Nov 2004) to help out with the day to day running.

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Hello world!

Woo! A blog. Like many others late to the game, but better late than never. It would have probably helped to know what it’ll be about, but I just got the urge and ploughed in.

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