Scent Off

ANIMAL URINE SEEMS TO BE MORE OF A PROBLEM THAN WE’D FIRST THOUGHT.

After last week’s post on The Urinator, we have received this photograph of a product called Scent Off. I Googled this name, and lo and behold a full page of results all about this product!  How very different from The Urinator!

Clearly the smell of cat and dog pee is a bigger issue than we’d known or suspected.  How come this is not advertised on TV? This ought to be part of the school curriculum.  We have to get the word out about this.

I would imagine that on a Saturday Night, a lot of places could do with being treated with Scent off or The Urinator.  Things are getting worse indeed!

 

The Urinator

I HAD TO TAKE A SNAPSHOT OF THIS PRODUCT IN MY LOCAL SHOP.

The Urinator — well, that caught my attention for sure!

Just in case you thought that The Urinator was some kind of strange superhero, it seems to be a product for potty-training infants!

So I thought I would find out more about The Urinator, and typed it into my browser’s address bar. I then got a pop up dialog box that stated:

Attention: The intent of the manufacture and sale of The Urinator is strictly for protecting your privacy of  a genetically predisposed medical condition

I clicked OK, and was presented with a website at www.urinator.com selling some “product” for nearly 150 US Dollars!  This simply cannot be the same thing as stocked in my local shop!

However, even after reading the page entitled “What is The Urinator?”, I had no idea what it is, does nor why it exists at all!

Another search turned up a tee-shirt at Zazzle.co.uk, so no luck with Google.

Things are getting worse when a product can easily be confused with another product altogether.

I eventually found a site called www.robharvey.com which had The Urinator – a product for cleaning items upon which cats and dogs have urinated. This doesn’t look like the product in my shop, and it is not for the same purpose (pets), but it is a lot nearer than all the other suggestions that the world’s favourite search engine returned. Anyway, couldn’t they have thought up a better name? Shhesh! It took me two minutes on the web, why couldn’t they have done this before naming their product and printing those labels?

Council Cleaning Con

THE CITY COUNCIL ALWAYS AMAZES ME BY THEIR SHIRKING OF RESPONSIBILITY.

Take this poster for example.  Double left click on the image to enlarge.

This is a poster in a charity chop window on Kilmarnock Rd (which is the main street in Shawlands). It is about so-called “Community cleaning of a lane”.

Yes, it is advertising the fact that the council wants local residents to clean their own streets and lane.  Hey, isn’t that what we pay council tax for?

Things are getting worse when the council can take council tax from us, and then get us to do the work ourselves! How Bizarre!

Kebab Lunch

I WAS STRUCK BY THE MENU POSTED AT KEBAB JUNCTION, SO I HAD TO TAKE A SNAPSHOT FOR THIS SITE.

Please double left click on the image to enlarge.

If you cannot see the image for some reason, it states:

KEBAB JUNCTIONS
LUNCH TIME MEAL DEALS

Chick/ Lmb + chips

Kebab + chips

Pizza + chips (1 topping)

Chips + cheese

Don + chips

Spicy chicken + chips

Tandoori chicken + chips

Curry souce + rice

Chips cheese + curry souce

Baked patatoe + spicy chick/lamb

The lack of apostrophe in the shop’s name pales in comparison with the spelling of sauce (souce) and potato (patatoe). On the one hand they have lamb, on the other it’s abbreviated to Lmb.

Things are certainly getting worse when, in a kebab shop called “Kebab Junction, almost everything has chips, and “kebabs” are somewhat thin on the ground!

Blind Smokers!

IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT I CAME ACROSS A BRAILLE NO SMOKING SIGN TODAY.

Yes; it’s true.  In the middle of a wall, a sign with Braille for blind people to read should they happen across it.

Things are getting worse when a blind smoker has to feel around all the walls to check in case there is a sign forbidding smoking!

GP Scared of Swine Flu

I WAS SURPRISED TO COME ACROSS THIS NOTICE IN THE WINDOW OF THE MAIN GP SURGERY IN SHAWLANDS.

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However, in case you cannot see the image properly, it states:

“SWINE FLU

IF YOU THINK YOU
MAY HAVE THE SWINE
FLU PLEASE DO NOT
COME INTO THE
SURGERY. GO HOME
AND CALL US AND WE
WILL ASK A GP OR
NURSE TO CALL YOU BACK.”

Boy is this GP scared of swine flu — he or she is not taking any chances — in case “the swine flu” (sic) can be transmitted by telephone, a nurse may call you.

Things are getting worse when a medical diagnosis is done over the telephone, and even worse when it may be done by a nurse!

• If you’re getting worse, you’re getting nurse. (apologies; I couldn’t resist that bad joke).

Now, the television and wireless have been keeping me bang up to date on the swine flu topic, and I have to say that I have been confident and reassured as a result.  That is until now.

When I saw this notice on the main road in Shawlands, I began to get scared for the first time. Things must be getting worse when the doctors are so frightened by it!

Vegetarian Chicken?

CHICKEN — THE VEGETARIAN OPTION.

Really!

We were sent this snapshot of a menu from America [click picture to enlarge]. It states:

“SPINACH CHICKEN
Grilled Chicken Breast with sautéed spinach,
mushrooms, onions, melted jack cheese, & topped
with Poblano cream sauce, served with rice.
Excellent for Vegetarians!!! $8.99″

Child Seat Recall

WHEN I SEE PRODUCT RECALL NOTICES, I ALWAYS WONDER ABOUT CUSTOMERS WHO DON’T OR CAN’T COME BACK TO SEE THE RECALL NOTICE — SUCH AS TOURISTS.

It is all the more chilling when it concerns a child’s safety!

Things are getting worse when notices taped to shop windows are considered as doing enough — why can’t the television news or newspapers carry a product recall section?

• See also : gettingworse.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/an-ill-wind/

Valentine’s Fixed!

A BOTTLE OF BUCKFAST WINE, 20 MAYFAIR CIGARETTES AND A PACKET OF CIGARETTE PAPERS — GIFT WRAPPED.

Yes, folks, welcome to the traditional Glasgow’s Valentine’s Day gift — for the gal in your life — a gift-wrapped bottle of buckie, fags and skins for your joints. Gorgeous! The “Buckie Gift Pack” — [click picture to enlarge]

Haddows Off-licence on Copland Road, Ibrox, Glasgow – all for just £9.08.  Apparently they are selling fast — so hurry!

Hospital Parking

HOSPITAL PARKING WAS A POLITICAL HOT POTATO. IT’S NOW FREE.

However, things are getting worse when the signs are so confusing!

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It says –

“New Parking Arrangements
From 31st December 2008
*No car parking charges
*Unauthorised Car parking
Notices in Force
MAXIMUM STAY
4 HOURS
(Monday to Friday)
Exemptions for patients and visitors”

Now, I don’t know about you, but “free car parking at all Scottish Hospitals” seems easy to understand. “No Car Parking Charges” pretty much covers that.

So — what’s this about a 4 hour maximum stay?

Now, there is a suggestion that this 4 hour maximum is flexible if you are a patient or visitor (i.e. almost everyone), only nurses and doctors will be getting tickets then. Weird!

What confused me the most was the “Unauthorised Parking Notices in Force” — what exactly does that mean — unless parking is “authorised” in the first place, it is meaningless.