The FOC thread.

Protein Junkie said:
TV in the 1960’s.
Absolutely hated Loopy Lou in Andy Pandy. Always at the top of the stairs the freaky fucker.
The Herbs, Pogles Wood , Stingray , Trumpton and Camberwick Green.
The Antithesis of Loopy Lou was Elizabeth Montgomery.
Summer Holidays extra kids TV programmes like The Banana Splits and White Horses.
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Now tell me honestly, now… what did you think of Bill and Ben? And Weed?
 
I started work in 1973 and used to call in a newagent every morning to get a paper and I quite often bought a Mars bar. The current "Mars Bar" bears no resemblance to those at all. I can't remember when they first changed it (late 1970's?) but I do remember I stopped buying them after buying a changed one.
 
Really_here said:
I started work in 1973 and used to call in a newagent every morning to get a paper and I quite often bought a Mars bar. The current "Mars Bar" bears no resemblance to those at all. I can't remember when they first changed it (late 1970's?) but I do remember I stopped buying them after buying a changed one.
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1960s and earlier: Mars bars were larger than they are today, with variations in size throughout the years.


  • Late 1970s: A standard Mars bar weighed 57g.

  • Mid-1980s: The standard bar increased to 67g.

  • Early 1990s: Mars bars were at their biggest, with some weighing 65g.

  • 2008: Mars UK reduced the size of regular bars from 62.5g to 58g.

  • 2013: The "standard" Mars bar was further reduced to 51g.

  • Today: A standard Mars bar is typically 46g
 
Protein Junkie said:
TV in the 1960’s.
Absolutely hated Loopy Lou in Andy Pandy. Always at the top of the stairs the freaky fucker.
The Herbs, Pogles Wood , Stingray , Trumpton and Camberwick Green.
The Antithesis of Loopy Lou was Elizabeth Montgomery.
Summer Holidays extra kids TV programmes like The Banana Splits and White Horses.
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wasn't it Looby Lou?
 
mexico1970 said:
1960s and earlier: Mars bars were larger than they are today, with variations in size throughout the years.



  • Late 1970s: A standard Mars bar weighed 57g.


  • Mid-1980s: The standard bar increased to 67g.


  • Early 1990s: Mars bars were at their biggest, with some weighing 65g.


  • 2008: Mars UK reduced the size of regular bars from 62.5g to 58g.


  • 2013: The "standard" Mars bar was further reduced to 51g.


  • Today: A standard Mars bar is typically 46g
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Shrinkflation I believe they call it. The change I was on about was the ingredients. Dunno what exactly changed , more milk in the chocolate for sure but the whole thing was just crap compared to what it was.
 
mexico1970 said:
We had one in our brand spanking council place, red tile floors with a drain in the middle and a fancy clothes maiden on the roof you brought down with a pulley :)

Made a change from the spider infested outside lav and the Rats and cockroaches in Ancoats.
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Yer mean a clothes rack! We had one of these. They're all the rage in North London these days.
 
Really_here said:
Shrinkflation I believe they call it. The change I was on about was the ingredients. Dunno what exactly changed , more milk in the chocolate for sure but the whole thing was just crap compared to what it was.
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Chocolate just seemed to taste better, the metric people usually use is the wagon wheel, today's iteration of it is an abomination.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Looked this up in my OED. They class it as dialect, interestingly (and in effect it doesn't turn up in my other dictionaries, the Collins Cobuild, or the Penguin). And give the first written occurrence of it (that they found, and of course even the Oxford is limited in its reliability, as any dictionary is) as 1859. They don't give the source, but I bet it was a novel, probably a northern one — Elizabeth Gaskell, maybe?
I don't really know why they stopped making and installing them. They're a bloody good idea, as space savers. When you're not using it, you just hoist it up. More or less out of sight, more or less out of mind.
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Good research pal.
 
Lovebitesandeveryfing said:
Looked this up in my OED. They class it as dialect, interestingly (and in effect it doesn't turn up in my other dictionaries, the Collins Cobuild, or the Penguin). And give the first written occurrence of it (that they found, and of course even the Oxford is limited in its reliability, as any dictionary is) as 1859. They don't give the source, but I bet it was a novel, probably a northern one — Elizabeth Gaskell, maybe?
I don't really know why they stopped making and installing them. They're a bloody good idea, as space savers. When you're not using it, you just hoist it up. More or less out of sight, more or less out of mind.
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The word you use for it shows what class you come from, where we used to live you were posh if you didn't have rickets and your dad didn't half murder your Mam on a weekend on the stout.
 
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