Bacon and Banana

Recently a friend who lives in the UK posted a fascinating pair of pictures.

Being from Queensland I’ve always grown up with fresh delicious bananas being available during summer - and most of the rest of the year, to be honest. Having the idea of banana and bacon in a trifle brought to my attention was a revelation, to say the least!

From a Daily Mail post on the topic

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Traffic Infringement Malspam

This appeared in my email today:

From: 		Avis Vanhise <[email protected]>
Subject: 	TRAFFIC INFRINGMENT NOTICE
Message:
PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE
This is automatically generated message, please do not reply.

ou have been issued with a traffic infrigement:


 

Reason: negligent driving
Infringement No:  886658188
Date of issue:  11/10/2016 
Amount due: $  221  AUD

This fine will be sent to you by mail to your adress, but you can check it now, please click here   

https://traffic-law/notification/

This fine must be paid within the statutory period of up to 12.18.2016.

No, I didn’t fail to copy it, they misspelled “you” and “address”. The wording’s got the usual eastern-european mangling of phrasing, and it was neat that it identified that I’m Australian, sending me a fine in AUD. They used two different date-display formats, dots and slashes, but both dates seem to be in US date format, MM/DD/YYYY which is another tell.

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