{"id":351,"date":"2008-06-07T10:54:02","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T09:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2014-04-17T10:55:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T09:55:49","slug":"darwin-award-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/351","title":{"rendered":"Darwin Award Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/spa.jpg' alt='Spa Invigorating Bath Jet' class=\"alignright\" \/>I don&#8217;t know if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darwinawards.com\/\">Darwin Awards<\/a> have a category for industry enabling, facilitating and encouraging the improvement of the gene pool. If so prime candidates would be Smart for their little two person car and B &#038; Q for their range of chain and bench saws.<\/p>\n<p>For a runner up I would like to nominate Tesco for their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.co.uk\/SPA-INVIGORATING-BATH-JET_W0QQitemZ140238439391QQcmdZViewItem?IMSfp=TL0806041618a13184\">Spa Invigorating Bath Jet<\/a>.&#8221; This device which looks like a cross between a fish tank filter and something that Ann Summers might sell is designed as a bathroom accessory to simulate a whirlpool bath. I am sure that it is safe and the instructions are &#8220;adequate&#8221; but it is just asking for those of pale complexion and intelect to run an extension lead (available on a nearby shelf) into the bathroom to plug it in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if the Darwin Awards have a category for industry enabling, facilitating and encouraging the improvement of the gene pool. If so prime candidates would be Smart for their little two person car and B &#038; Q for their range of chain and bench saws. For a runner up I would like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}