There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick Blank faces abound. No, not all are blank: some are horrified, revolted even. What did I say? Security is swiftly called. The usual routine, I think, as a pair of uniformed bouncers slip unhurriedly into the open-plan office, fire doors swinging gently behind them. But no – they come to a halt several paces in front of me and …
NLCSGRV,
Nope !!!
They were available early 70's at least and had a completely different name.
Remember that they were for sale in my local Newpaper Shop / Corner Shop [UK] somewhat North of Watford :).
[Might even had been branded as another company other than Marabou. i.e. licensed to someone else !!!???]
Cannot remember the name but they disappeared for a few years then came back as 'Dime' Bars.
They then got re-branded to 'Daim' probably to make production/distribution cheaper as they could be made with 1 wrapper/name and shipped to whichever country needed the stock.
Nope - Didn't like the look of them - Brittle hard toffee/caramel with a thin coat of maybe-chocolate....?
I encountered Highland toffee bars long before trendy Dime...
Give me a Star Bar anyday - chocolate and caramel sleeve you could cunningly eat away to reveal yummy biscuity mash that had had the appearance not unlike a freshly delivered turd.
Leave that on the floor of the toilets and cause a school hygiene crisis for a half day off.
"the user is presented with an advertising jungle from the 90s and has to name the correct product to proceed""
I stopped watching commercial TV before 1990. An advertising impact study once asked me about a TV advert. I could remember the rather wooden public figure delivering the product endorsement - but couldn't remember which company it was for.
"I stopped watching commercial TV before 1990. An advertising impact study once asked me about a TV advert. I could remember the rather wooden public figure delivering the product endorsement - but couldn't remember which company it was for."
They stopped running the "easily-turn-off-and-on-able" ads because everyone thought they were for British Gas, I think.
@AC
I could remember the rather wooden public figure delivering the product endorsement - but couldn't remember which company it was for.
Sir Robert Mark? "I'm convinced they're a major contribution to road safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2RLAIjroE
Alternatively...
Still see them about in Ex-Pat stores here in Canada, original size & super long\large versions (Which I would have killed for as a kid).
https://swizzels.com/sweets/refreshers/
I used to like "Little Pals" a fruit gum scotty dog at a ha'penny each, then 1p then 2p, fortunately I moved to High School before the price could jump higher.
On a related note MacKintosh toffee (disappeared from my awareness in the late 60's early 70's) made a comeback, is freely available over here & tries to remove my teeth at a far cheaper & more pleasurable way than my dentist (Who is actually very very good, the worst part of my root canal was the initial injection).
Do you remember your first dime?
Never had one, not sure what one is.
But Marathon Bars, Jiff, Wimpy Burgers, OMO, Chocolate Cigarettes, a sachet of salt in every bag of crisps, Sherbet Dips very possibly being a mix of Cocaine and Novichok, Walnut Whips with an edible filling, Wagon Wheels being bigger back then - Now you're talking.
"Let's start with the last word of that sentence, which will suffice to tell you everything that's wrong with boiled cabbage: it's gdmf CABBAGE, ffs."
It's also the main ingredient in coleslaw and one of the veg overflowing from your kebab. The only problem with boiled cabbage is most people boil it to death.
Is it me or does it smell vaguely of boiled cabbage and urine in here?
People can't tell the difference between boiled cabbage and stir-fryed with bacon and onion it's a sad lookout.
Today its steamed, or what did you buy that expensive trendy pot with a plug on it for anyway? It just sits in the cupboard.
It is self-defeating having to explain the King James Bible or Shakespearean quotes that are intended to portray some human condition.
Even kids who religiously go to Sunday services with their mothers seem unaware of many biblical parables that were stock fodder at 1950s Sunday School.
I've given up qualifying an apparently generous charitable donation with the figurative shrug of "it's not not The Widow's Mite".***
***although there is apparently some debate about the exact meaning of that parable.
I was stopped short yesterday when the chap I was talking to (in his 30's) didn't respond positively when I observed that the system he was using offered up more granularity than the previous one. I thought it was a compliment.
He said something else and basically asked me whether I thought it was better or not. I responded, again, saying that the added granularity makes it a lot more efficient.
He finally says 'look mate, I don't know what granularity means' - OH! I see now. So I say 'oh, it means more accurate I suppose'.
To which he replies - 'Stick with accurate then, I'm from Suffolk'
I couldn't help laughing (not in a cruel way).
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