What products that your family regularly bought growing up would you never buy today?

[Justin Passing]

Tizer
Corona

Corona!

 

[fixitflav]

Stick-on soles for shoe repairs

 

[fixitflav]

Yep, I used to buy detailed maps of areas I intended spending time in, now I just rely on the satnav, googlemaps on the phone. I still sometimes buy a road atlas, just for a general picture of the area.

I used to buy a lot of hobby magazines - car, electronics and computer mags. I never buy those now..

Car manuals. Now all on-line, I much preferred a hard copy.

 

[fixitflav]

Four-X ?
I loved those adverts!

You know why it's called Castlemaine XXXX?

 

[Brigadier]

Stick-on soles for shoe repairs

I bought some a few weeks ago!

They didn't stick

 

[Brigadier]

You know why it's called Castlemaine XXXX?

We used to call it (and latterly Foster's), "Dingo P!ss".

 

[Brigadier]

A Watney's Party 7 keg, to take to family get-togethers.

 

[securespark]

I'm not convinced that coal tar soap was transparent. I recall my grandfather used it as shaving soap, and it was orange with a distinctive scent.

Pears soap was translucent, if that helps?

 

[JohnD]

Pears soap was translucent, if that helps?

Yes, still is..

 

[Justin Passing]

Mackeson's. " I don't like it, but I like the men who drink it"

Whitbread Trophy
"How do you do it Stanley?" "Oh it's Trophy that makes me excel,......"
Whitbread Tankard


Quite a bit later:
Löwenbräu, Follow the bear.

 

[Brigadier]

Quite a bit later:
Löwenbräu, Follow the bear.

I thought that was Hofmeister (sic?)

 

[Nige F]

Cresta?

Corona

 

[crystal ball]

Double Diamond, Jubilee stout

 

[Nige F]

As a kid, I loved to love standing behind a car and sniff the 5 star exhaust fumes, doesn't mean that it was good for me...

Most cases of skin cancer are identified in the older range groups. I think it reasonable to assume that exposure to UV light has a cumulative effect.

Melanoma skin cancer statistics

The latest melanoma skin cancer statistics for the UK for Health Professionals. See data for incidence, mortality, survival, risk and more.

www.cancerresearchuk.org

We used to put a drop of Castrol R in our bike fuel tanks . Made a few people think the bikes were tuned up.

 

[Justin Passing]

We used to put a drop of Castrol R in our bike fuel tanks . Made a few people think the bikes were tuned up.

DIdn't try that. Only nitromethane...