drunkenfool
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Nicked off the BBC website... ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6412083.stm )
Here are 30 of the best.
1. Coffee is served by the pint and it will cost more than a pint of beer.
Kate
Vat o' latte
2. Once you received your gas from British Gas, your electricity from your local electricity board and your phone service from BT. Now, you will get your gas from your bank, your electricity from British Gas, and your phone service from Tesco.
Colin
3. The DFS sale which started just before Rachel left will be ending soon.
Craig H
4. I remember arranging to meet friends at a given location/time many days in advance. If they were late you had to scratch around for 10p to ring from a phone box (and their mum would always tell you they had set off). They would never stand you up, as the cowardly way of cancelling without warning by text just didn't exist then.
Felicity Matthews
5. It's OK to take photos at concerts, so long as you use your phone.
Valerie
6. Marmite now comes in a squeezy jar.
Kelly
7. Elaborate descriptions adorn food packaging: "freshly made", "perfectly ripe", "deliciously creamy" or (a recent favourite) a "hand-stretched" pizza.
Cazza S-B
8. Beach huts used to be for nannas and grandads rather than property speculators.
Euan Grice
Ken Livingstone's "copyright" congestion charge
9. A "C" in the middle of a circle meant "copyright".
Nigel Macarthur
10. The M62 and M25 were still motorways rather than car parks.
Jared Read
11. "I was following my Sat Nav" is now the excuse for driving where you shouldn't.
Jan Podsiadly
12. Helen Mirren was occasionally called "Ma'am" by junior officers in Prime Suspect, but not by anybody else.
Nigel Macarthur
13. "Decking" now refers to something you do to your garden, rather than what one boxer does to another.
Valerie
14. Swear words are no longer asterisked in a newspaper.
Greg Hoover
15. Headline puns are no longer the sole property of the tabloids.
David Michael
16. A wag was something a dog did with its tail.
Lynda Taylor
Pricey beach huts by the British seaside - how very now
17. If children carried guns, they squirted water.
Amreek Singh
18. Policeman are still nominally unarmed but wander around in body armour - even in the Lake District - that makes them look like battle scene extras from Starship Troopers.
Richard Hardisty
19. You can no longer wear a hat or a hooded top inside a shopping centre.
Caroline, Southend, UK
20. A family seaside holiday in Britain is considered chic.
Mark Blackman
21. Northern Ireland is one of the UK's top tourist destinations.
Gordon Bingham
22. The customer is no longer wrong all the time.
Kerrin, Stratford
That shirt's gone too
23. The phrase "Big Brother is watching you" should actually be the other way round for many people.
Stig
24. Naked bottoms in TV ads!
Pat O'Donnell
25. Noel Edmonds is still on telly, but at least his Crinkly Bottom has been banished to oblivion.
Lee Dauphin
26. Daleks were reduced to scraping a living in Kit-Kat adverts 10 years ago. Today they're appearing on a lunchbox, annual, poster, t-shirt, DVD, sticker collection and life-size cardboard cut-out near you.
Rebecca
27. Passwords were for international spies and entry to gang huts a decade ago. Now you can barely buy milk without the need for some secretive alpha-numeric code.
Derek Scobie
28. People go to hospital to become ill.
Jan Podsiadly, Cheam
29. The UK will be just like Australia except the weather is worse and the coffee isn't as good.
Paul Woodfine
30. And everyone wants to move to Australia.
Lyndsey Davies
[Edited on 06-03-2007 by drunkenfool]
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