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Yesterday I got my annual pension statement for this small pension I have alongside my NHS one. What a load of useless information, unit price, number of units, Plan value, something called Imp Pens Eq Acc (seriously) & Managed Retirement - everything but what will be my high and low estimate of my annual pension next year. It is a Canadian company as the UK one I paid into got bought out.

What is the most informative information that you have found that actually is meaningless?
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The bag of Dry Roasted Peanuts which states in the Allergy Advice box "May also contain Nuts."
I should b****y well hope so!
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FredFromOssett wrote:The bag of Dry Roasted Peanuts which states in the Allergy Advice box "May also contain Nuts."
I should b****y well hope so!


Would seem commonsense has gone out of the window.
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I've not really started gardening this year, I've been stuck rebuilding a bathroom. I've been moaning about instructions; they've varied from non-existent through incomprehensible to simply wrong, often caused by design changes not being reflected in the instructions. For example, I had an end bath panel with big lugs sticking out on each side so there was no way you get it flush against a wall, took an email exchange to find out you decided which hand you wanted it then modified it with a hacksaw. Their attempts to be multi-lingual by omitting all words have also been fun, like this one:

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Unintelligible, Misleading, Nonsensical, Inappropriate, Incomprehensible.
All words you may care to use singularly.

You Lucky People.

All those words apply every day to television subtitling. If you use it you will know exactly what I mean, if you don't have to use it then try it sometime and you will soon see what I mean.
A news report the other day involved the Arsenal Manager, Arsene Wenger.

Subtitle text came up with Arson Finger.

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Goodness Geoff, I think you may be winning. Actually noted the pic in 8 shows full & 1/2 flush side by side but by 9 it was front & back!

Pa - I laugh at that a fair bit, if before 6am & still BBC world news on & they run the breaking news thing at the bottom it can be very bizarre, let alone actually sub-titles!
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I would open the box use the instructions for lighting the fire then assemble the best way I can
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