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When I've got these antlers on, UGGGGHHHHH
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And nobody has commented on the php installer picture yet. Not even "PHP is TRWTF".
What's up with that? What is broken to give such an error?
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This actually gave enough information that you can indeed find it on Google Maps: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=chinees+indisch+restaurant+peking+&sll=52.031268,5.692635&sspn=0.062311,0.181789&ie=UTF8&hq=chinees+indisch+restaurant+peking&hnear=&ll=52.027783,5.670398&spn=0.238698,0.727158&t=h&z=11&layer=c&cbll=52.027783,5.670398&panoid=c74BfEmutxmmR6nAbpDGNg&cbp=12,241.59,,0,5.53
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Totally agreed.
I have received similar forms before. (Belgian instead of Dutch, but the same principle.)
The way it works:
The company uses form paper for their invoices. This paper is pre-printed with logo, contact information and so on. The bottom part is the money transfer form. (With perforations to facilitate tearing off.)
Occasionally, a client might get a refund. The invoice printer will happily print out the refund data and cross out the payment form. (Just in case someone signs the form and hands it to their bank.)
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The Dutch tax office has a much more WTF procedure, where they send you one letter stating that you owe them, but not how much, another where they state how much you have to pay them, but not why, and another one telling you to pay, which includes one of these yellow forms (typically without the Xs though).
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Every day without a wtf, anuther kitten dies.
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GOOD!
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Finally health insurance companies take customers' privacy and data protection seriously. So they XXXX-d all data.
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Tonight we ERROR in HELL!
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It's humorous, but it's not a WTF. It's a form alignment test header. The dumb part is that the guy who printed the bills didn't tear that sheet off the top.
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Yeah, that Reinier is probably a pretty stupid guy :)
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I once participated in a programming contest where every letter except the problem name, numbers/formulas and sample input/output was intentionally replaced by x (it was called a xxx contest of course). Testing psychic skills like that was fun.
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Well it's nice to see something else coming from South Africa besides Aparteid, Dave Matthews, or Yolandi Visser.
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More likely he was late with paying, in that case you get two bills, one with a letter saying you were late, with an XXXX'ed out acceptgiro attached, and the second one with the actual bill. At least that what happens to me sometimes.
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"XXXXXXXXXXXX" is just an alignment page -- printed on tractor feed fan-fold paper to verify that the forms are set properly in the printer before printing thousands of real statements. It's a standard practice.
The poster received it at his address, so the second page must have been his real and correct statement. So the only WTF here is that the sender forgot to tear off and discard the alignment page from the start of the run. ...a minor mistake, really.
(P.S. I see that they got the forms very well aligned too. I've received forms that were several characters off. The sender did a good job on the alignment part.)
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Jeroen, stop reading my mail you jerk! I just moved to a new town called XXXX in Xexas and I knew they'd get my mailing address wrong!. They didn't even spell my last name right, there's an extra X right in the middle. Jeroen, if you get any more of my mail, please forward it to me at:
XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXX XxxxxxX st. XXXX, XX XXXXX