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		<title>Environmental Unhealth</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/environmental-unhealth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suesyder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ugliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I WAS SOMEWHAT AMAZED TO SEE FOUR THREE-BAR ELECTRIC FIRES ATTACHED TO THE OUTSIDE WALL OF A PUB IN THE CITY CENTRE.
Furthermore, two of them were full on &#8212; and it was before 8 am! And as though all that was not enough &#8212; they were heating the rubbish bin!
I cannot see breakfasters or diners [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=888&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scent Off</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/scent-off/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/scent-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shawlander</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pish]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ANIMAL URINE SEEMS TO BE MORE OF A PROBLEM THAN WE&#8217;D FIRST THOUGHT.
After last week&#8217;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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=885&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Urinator</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/the-urinator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shawlander</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ugliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[piss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[urinator]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I HAD TO TAKE A SNAPSHOT OF THIS PRODUCT IN MY LOCAL SHOP.
The Urinator &#8212; 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=878&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scotch Tat</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/scotch-tat/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/scotch-tat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eastender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change For The Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ugliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonnie scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scotch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scotland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[souvenirs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[IF THERE WAS ONE THING THAT DIVIDED GLASGOW FROM EDINBURGH IT WAS TOURIST TAT.
But now it seems to be changing; I have seen tourist tat increasingly in Glasgow shops.  Please click on the picture to enlarge.
The doll girls in tartan skirts, the mugs and teatowels with Edinburgh castle or The Forth Rail Bridge is all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=873&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Name For Barbers</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/bad-name-for-barbers/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/bad-name-for-barbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shawlander</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change For The Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hairdresser]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wig]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I COULD HARDLY BELIEVE THE NAME OF THIS BARBERS SHOP! What were they thinking? We were sent this snap taken in deepest darkest England recently, and can only think that this must be an example of some wry local humour.
Things are definitely getting worse when a barber calls his shop &#8220;Wiggies&#8221;.  What do you think? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=868&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Danger Pond!</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/danger-pond/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/danger-pond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shawlander</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change For The Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glasgow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inconsiderate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shawlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ugliness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[algae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Green Algae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[danger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pond]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A PLEASANT STROLL AROUND THE PONDS OF QUEEN&#8217;S PARK SEEMED LIKE A DELIGHTFUL IDEA UNTIL THIS SCARY SIGN WAS NOTICED.
[Double left click on the image to enlarge, as always]
The picture I took shows a pond with a sign sticking out of it.  The sign simply says:
&#8220;DANGER
BLUE
GREEN
ALGAE&#8221;
What on earth does that mean?  Will this Blue Green [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=864&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weird Danger Sign</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/weird-danger-sign/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/weird-danger-sign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suesyder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garden centre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health and safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heavy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ornament]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stone object]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I WAS STRUCK BY THIS UNUSUAL WARNING SIGN.
It seems to be alerting people to the danger of heavy stone ornaments overcoming their innate inertia to convert their potential energy into kinetic energy by suddenly becoming mobile and &#8220;leaping&#8221; from pedestals and other high places onto unwary bypassers.
The full sign is shown below &#8212; please double [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=853&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Another Hero?</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/just-another-hero/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suesyder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change For The Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[action toy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heimlich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[male nurse]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[WHAT IS GOING ON THE MINDS OF TOY MAKERS? Is it that they have run out of inspiration, or are they being controlled by the politically-correct brigade?
Just look at this toy (double left click on the image to enlarge).
It is called &#8220;MALE NURSE ACTION FIGURE&#8221; and includes a stethoscope and an x-ray clipboard! The tag [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=858&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lidl Logic</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/lidl-logic/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/lidl-logic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eastender</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change For The Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bayonet cap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bulbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy saving light bulbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lamps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightbulbs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lighting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=848</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I WAS AMAZED AT A POSTER FOR LAMPS  SPOTTED IN A LOCAL SUPERMARKET.
Double left click on the image to enlarge &#8212; as ever
In case you cannot see the picture, it states:

Philips
Energy Saving
Light Bulb
* Bayonet Cap
*Screw Cap
49p each.
Under this, on a yellow background, it states:
 5 for 50p

Now, this is pretty amazing when you stop to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=848&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not an Exit</title>
		<link>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/not-an-exit/</link>
		<comments>http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/not-an-exit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>suesyder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Annoyances]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change For The Worse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inconsiderate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Bizarre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Inexplicable]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lower standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confusion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contradiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[escape]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire regulations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gettingworse.wordpress.com/?p=855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THIS IS A VERY STRANGE SCENE INDEED. We are grateful to have been sent this photograph; it shows very well that there are two main ways to approach a change of plan, namely: (i) that the original signs be removed, covered or replaced in favour of a new sign, or (ii) that a new, contradictory, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gettingworse.wordpress.com&blog=1023494&post=855&subd=gettingworse&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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