Ade’s Notes

Nice lesson in truth in advertising in today’s “Der Bund”

There’s an advert, printed in blue, which pollutes the whole page with its colour. The text of the advert: “Some facts about oil, for a change”. So… possible interpretations: “Oil pollutes far beyond expectations”, “Pollution doesn’t stop at borders”, “Oil pollutes more than the industry has paid for”… I’m open for additional suggestions…

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You know it’s Monday morning when you’re driving into the sunrise and think “why does this idiot not turn down his headlights?”…

Not that this would happen to me… erm…

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This sentence on my Google front page managed to confuse me until I read the corresponding article:

Ban cements lead in UN race

A couple of the weirder improbable interpretations going through my head at the time:

• Certain glues are banned - and attain a favourable ranking - in an UN motorsport event?
  
• Glue containing heavy metal is banned in an UN motorsport event?
• Heavy metal is firmly established in an UN motorsport event due to some ban?

Need to stop here, head spinning. Having a closer look at the sentence, there’s only two words (in and UN) that aren’t ambiguous enough to confuse.

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Right, that’s my last tour of duty in the Swiss army over and done with. I’m not going to lose more words than necessary on this: it was by far the worst I had, and that’s with an adjusted idiocy-threshold.

One thing that did disturb me though ist a label I saw on a box we used to put up one of our antennas. What on earth is this used for… no… don’t answer that. I honestly don’t want to know.

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