Most trivial change in your life time...

[Maz]

No longer allowed to have a BBQ on a petrol station forecourt.
It's Political Correctness gone mad.

 

[gavintc]

The loss of double deck buses with a rear open platform. I used to love them as a kid.

 

[Over The Hill]

When 01 became 071 and 081 and then 0171 and 0181.

They used to say
"Oh-one, if you are outside London" when giving out the number.


Also on the same line (line- geddit)

Phone numbers when you gave the town rather than the phone code (and whoever phoned you had to look up the code for that town).

And you said your number when you picked up the phone.

 

[newbiebiker]

the existence on all 'instant' noodles and the like. just add hot water. i still miss the no short-cut type.

 

[ChrisKH]

The kitkat wrapper thing: Nestle claimed it was to improve freshness. I remember it getting onto the Today programme and John Humphreys ripping the Nestle bloke apart:

Humphreys: So why have they changed?
Nestle bloke: To keep the kitkats fresher.
H: So, have we been eating stale kitkats all these years?
NB: No, but these will be fresher.
H: But if they weren't stale before, how can they be fresher?

And so on, for some minutes... I assume (and I think this was Humphrey's idea too) that it's cheaper and simpler to run a single flow-wrap machine than one foil wrapping machine and one paper wrapping one. But they tried to say it was for improved freshness, as that sounds better...

It was a sad day. No longer can you rub the foil to see the pattern underneath, and then run a nail along the groove to snap the finger off.

Also, kitkat quality control is rubbish these days, I keep getting them all off centre, so you get thicker chocolate at one end, and exposed wafer at the other.

You can still get two finger kit kats in foil if you buy them in bulk (ie twelve bars). I have several (ahem) in my fridge. Only 110 calories each.

 

[JtB]

When Zebra crossings got zigzags on each side to stop people parking there.

Proper zebra crossings with just the orange (lollipop shaped) flashing light have all but disappeared now.

 

[Arch]

They used to say
"Oh-one, if you are outside London" when giving out the number.

"01 811 8055"

The number for Swap Shop. Yes, I'm that sad, I remember it...

 

[ColinJ]

Who killed Blair Peach?

That's what I want to know. Graffiti on the wall of the tunnel onto Bury market in the 1970s.

The SPG (Special Patrol Group)?

Linton Kwesi Johnson's take on knife crime? Taken from Dread Beat An' Blood.

 

[Greedo]

Did she only use the bag a couple of days per month?

One of my ex girlfriends had a string bag that her mum had made from the string they put on tampons. New, not used, I hasten to add; she'd acquired some from the factory.

 

[Stan]

Who killed Blair Peach?

That's what I want to know. Graffiti on the wall of the tunnel onto Bury market in the 1970s.

Blimey, used to live in the town and remember seeing that. Used to wonder myself and now I know!

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=393

 

[Mr Phoebus]

Blair Peach? It'll be Bobby Sands, next.

 

[Maz]

George Davis is innocent!

So is Bill Posters!

 

[jay clock]

Ambulances. One minute they were white vans with tinted windows and a couple of blokes in prison uniforms, then they are super coloured, high tech with people in green pyjamas

 

[Kirstie]

Blimey, used to live in the town and remember seeing that. Used to wonder myself and now I know!

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=393

I had a feeling it would be dodgy...

 

[ColinJ]

George Davis is innocent!

Well he might have been first time!