Most trivial change in your life time...

[Arch]

and the disappearance of string bags

Ah, string bags are making a come back, in these more waste conscious days of not using carrier bags. My Mum has two (and I knitted one of them myself!).

 

[Rhythm Thief]

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.

 

[terry huckle]

How about not being able to return empty Tizer bottles and getting a deposit back?

 

[Over The Hill]

How about not being able to return empty Tizer bottles and getting a deposit back?

It was Cream Soda in our house (Saturday treat only)

 

[Over The Hill]

I used to have a Telephone, now I seem to have a "Land Line".

 

[Over The Hill]

I used to bore my wife with my moans!!! Now ......

 

[Flying_Monkey]

I can see why you're an academic.

I got top marks in the 'recognising varieties of citrus that are all different' exam, I'll have you know.

 

[swee'pea99]

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.

Are you sure you needed to hasten to add that?

 

[Night Train]

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

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

 

[Fnaar]

The disappearance of Toffos. I actually didn;t know they had gone, but emailed them and got this reply

Top marks for trying to find out! I've lost many a filling whilst enjoying a toofo... I even liked the mint ones they brught out at one point...

 

[gbb]

Rear windscreen wipers....it's not trivial they fit them almost as standard now.....it's the fact as i drive along, if i see ONE drip of water going down the rear screen......i've GOT to get rid of it with the wipers.

Now that's trivial I hate it that i do it...but cant stop.

 

[Arch]

Having seen a police van on the way in today...

the change from SOCO to CSI...

When I worked at Iceland we had a breakin at the flat above the shop and the police said they'd send someone round to dust for prints etc. When he arrived, the manager was in the stockroom, so I had to ring him to come down, and it's an eternal regret of mine that I chickened out of saying loudly "SOCO's here, boss", like I'd seen in so many TV shows...

 

[Fnaar]

The loss of "Jeux Sans Frontieres" will always be lamented... especially the British "heats" aka "It's a Knockout" (it always seemed to have South Shields or Colchester in, for some reasons) and of course Stuart Hall collapsing in giggles, and taking the mickey out of Genarro (I think)

 

[Kirstie]

Who killed Blair Peach?

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

 

[Arch]

Trivial, but I finally got round to correcting my own typo in the title...