Most trivial change in your life time...

[simoncc]

Changing the flavour of the black in Lions Sport Mixture from liquorice to blackcurrant.

This topic is about trivial changes.

 

[Amanda P]

You used to be allowed to put the tyres on your bike whichever way round you liked. Now they have to rotate only in one direction.

 

[Pottsy]

Pulling out the Choke on a car to start it.

Oh yes, very good. Having to get the amount of choke and amount of throttle just right or you could 'flood it' and have to wait 10 mins until the smell of petrol drifted away and it was time to try again.

Or maybe it was just me that had rubbish cars when I was younger (covered in sparrow sh1te).

 

[Andy in Sig]

When we had to wear different coloured school ties on going from the fifth form to the sixth form.

 

[Andy in Sig]

Satsumas are a very small citrus from, unsurprisingly, Satsuma in Japan - and do not look much like what we call 'satsumas' anyway. The Japanese have loads of varieties of citrus that are all different and some have amzingly scented flavours - used in cooking and in winter baths. I miss proper Japanese baths...

I think the most trivial change is the advent of web forums... or was that change to the trivial?

I can see why you're an academic.

 

[ChrisKH]

I'll grant you that and raise you

Jif to Sif

(or is that the wrong way round )

Trivial to you sir, but I have never got over it. It will always be Jif in our household.

 

[Kirstie]

The Cedar Tree not being on TV any more. My mum used to like watching it when I was a kid.

 

[Pottsy]

Screw fitting light bulbs.

 

[Plax]

Kit-Kats having the new wrapper.
No more tiny slivers of tin foil touching a tooth filling.

I suspect that has something to do with heroin addicts using the foil for a quick fix. Same as the blue lights in supermarket toilets. Apparently it is so the addicts can't seen where their veins are.

Nobody has mentioned the decrease in size of Creme Eggs!

The only thing I cna think of is the likes of Hooch and Lemon Head and I suppose Reef rarely, if ever, being sold in pubs now.

 

[ChrisKH]

I suspect that has something to do with heroin addicts using the foil for a quick fix. Same as the blue lights in supermarket toilets. Apparently it is so the addicts can't seen where their veins are.
Nobody has mentioned the decrease in size of Creme Eggs!

The only thing I cna think of is the likes of Hooch and Lemon Head and I suppose Reef rarely, if ever, being sold in pubs now.

Well I've never come across that before. You learn something new every day.

 

[Plax]

When we had to wear different coloured school ties on going from the fifth form to the sixth form.

That's another change - all the schools round here seem to have gone from skirt/trousers, shirt/blouse, V Neck jumper and tie to trousers, polo shirt & sweater!!!

 

[Globalti]

Milk bottles are shorter, fatter and lighter.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

You can't 'slam' train doors anymore.

 

[Speicher]

Oh yes you can - at Severn Valley Railway and other such Heritage Railways. But if I was wearing my Ticket Inspectors Hat, I would tick you off.

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Oh yes you can - at Severn Valley Railway and other such Heritage Railways. But if I was wearing my Ticket Inspectors Hat, I would tick you off.

I wouldn't dare slam a door on one of those retro beauties.