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Wait... rNNNNNN that looks like an SVN revision number!
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SEN-SEN
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Ah, Remote, Sweden! Beautiful landscape, and the food also isn't bad.
5/5, would buy again!
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On the Switzerland one, perhaps a trailing whitespace that didn't get trimmed?
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Or someone thought to be clever and also grouped it by the local language because Switzerland speaks German, Italian, French.
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The Switzerland one is probably because Zürich (not Zurich, that's in the Netherlands at the Frisian end of the Afsluitdijk) is in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and Genève is in the French-speaking part.
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You forgot about Romansh!
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Wow, a spate of halitosis?
Sen-sen and TheraBreath plus on the same day, from different posters. Could WTF-submitters be more prone to ... garlic pizza?
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I had to check, and "Afsluitdijk" is a real thing and not just someone mashing keys on a keyboard.
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I recently fixed one of our Android Robolectric tests: someone changed an output string from Unicode U+2009 THIN SPACE to U+202F NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE in a date string format.
Whoever handed me that bug was initially puzzled by the complete similarity in the JUnit output (expected: blah 1; actual: blah 1).
That was amusing. I also learned that \s would not match 0x202f in a Java regex, one needs the more exotic \p{Z} for that.
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That page on the Halifax banking site used to be even sillier -- until recently I would be offered a choice of my actual number with some asterisks as shown in the post, plus two instances of "NO NU**ER".
They take security so seriously that they even protect phone numbers you don't have!
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I have a Halifax account and it does exactly the same thing to me (same phone number twice)
still, not quite as bad as the HMRC page which offers a choice of my mobile number and my now-non-existent land-line. I asked them how to get the land-line number removed and was told they couldn't remove it because it's not there in the system.