Products that have gone downhill - Page 2

crich70 · 10-06-2011, 11:55 AM

Comic books. When I got them as a kid they had a decent page count and were reasonably thick as a result. Not now, and of course the price for comics went up as the page count went down. They used to have comic 3 packs too. 3 comic books for $1.25 but that is long gone I'm sure.

kindlekitten · 10-06-2011, 12:09 PM

commercially supplied food

MJK2111 · 10-06-2011, 01:17 PM

Does my sex life count as a 'product'...?

pdurrant · 10-06-2011, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I almost prefer flourescent over many of the energy efficient light bulbs out on the market today.

The energy efficient light bulbs on the market today are fluorescent! Unless they're LEDs, but they're still reasonably rare and expensive.

Rumpelteazer · 10-06-2011, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I hate trying to find a decent light colour from the new energy efficient lightbulbs. Anyone got any recommendations for good brands/options. Generally they are cold blue-white and make everything look terrible. I almost prefer flourescent over many of the energy efficient light bulbs out on the market today.

In some countries they mostly sell the cold colours. In the Netherlands we like soft, warm colours. The warmest colour all the big manufacturers make that comes closest to incandescent light bulbs is number 827. The 8 stands for the quality and the 27 means 2700 Kelvin, and a 950 is a daylight colour quality 9 (you judge colours, often used by printers) 5000 K and a 640 is a low quality cool colour, etc. A wikilink) with explanation. There is one very small manufacturer called Dura that makes energy saving light bulbs in colour 825 which is even warmer. Philips sells the flame/terracotta energy saving light bulbs but due to rules they are rather pale.

A local electronics store sells those coloured plastic sheets for disco lights in "pale gold" which is a light terracotta, depending on the light fixture you could get creative with that to make the light even softer.

HomeInMyShoes · 10-06-2011, 05:56 PM

^Awesome. I knew they were flourescent pdurrant, but I find the lighting off my flourescent tubes in the basement better than the lighting I get out of the CFs (compact flourescents) which is what I was comparing them to. I should have been more specific.

DixieGal · 10-06-2011, 05:56 PM

Soap bars have been sliced in half

Boxes of frozen cheese bread have gone from 8 pieces to 5 pieces

Juice bottles still look the same from the front, but half of the back is flattened to make a deep handle

cromag · 10-06-2011, 06:37 PM

Peanut butter jars -- the same height and diameter, but the flat bottom is now deeply concave.

wannabee · 10-07-2011, 05:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer

Incandescent light bulbs.

They were outlawed here a few years ago. I thought about buying a couple of years worth but they went quicker than I acted. Now a 79 cent bulb is replaced buy something that costs about $3.
And ugly.

pdurrant · 10-07-2011, 05:49 AM

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Originally Posted by wannabee

Now a 79 cent bulb is replaced buy something that costs about $3.
And ugly.

... but uses 1/5th the electricity and last 5 times longer.

rhadin · 10-07-2011, 07:11 AM

Teachers -- used to be that teachers were well read, literate, understood grammar, and were "experts" in their subject matter concentrations. As a result of teachers going downhill, education has been sliding down the slippery slope of "why bother in 140 characters or less!"

andyh2000 · 10-07-2011, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by rhadin

"why bother in 140 characters or *less!"

*fewer

;-)

wannabee · 10-07-2011, 08:46 AM

Manners!
When I was a kid, even if you were the first at the bus stop, when the bus came and an adult was present, you let the adult on first. Mainly because manners insisted that a child should give up their seat for an adult. My wife told me today that while at work in a radiology practice full of sick people, children accompanying an adult because of school holidays occupied seats with their parent while sick adults stood and could not sit on the empty children's seats available for children because they are too small.

and . . .

R.I.P.
Good Manners
Born in antiquity
Ignored to death by Generation X

RDaneel54 · 10-07-2011, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Pookeysgirl

Laundry Detergent and dish detergent. You get half the bottle at double the price nowadays.

Slightly smaller sizes for many, many products at the same price. If it used to be 16 ounces, now it's 15, etc.

Another one is customer service. The service part is now fulfilling another definition of service.

Bikeridr · 10-07-2011, 03:19 PM

Tooth paste tubes (or any other product contained in a tube)
Same size, same weight, higher prize and larger hole so that the product is consumed faster and hence must be bought more often.

"Destruction chips" contained in electronic products so that you have to buy new ones. Like the chip in (especially) laser printer toner cartridges so that they only last a year, regardless on how much toner has been used, then go "empty".

Money, they used to last longer a couple of decades ago

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10-06-2011, 11:55 AM	#16
crich70 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,310 Karma: 43993832 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Monroe Wisconsin Device: K3, Kindle Paperwhite, Calibre, and Mobipocket for Pc (netbook)	Comic books. When I got them as a kid they had a decent page count and were reasonably thick as a result. Not now, and of course the price for comics went up as the page count went down. They used to have comic 3 packs too. 3 comic books for $1.25 but that is long gone I'm sure.

10-06-2011, 12:09 PM	#17
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	commercially supplied food

10-06-2011, 01:17 PM	#18
MJK2111 FUBAR! Posts: 1,946 Karma: 15018767 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Woodstock, IL Device: Kindle 3, Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 S	Does my sex life count as a 'product'...?

10-06-2011, 05:56 PM	#21
HomeInMyShoes Grand Sorcerer Posts: 19,226 Karma: 67780237 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: none	^Awesome. I knew they were flourescent pdurrant, but I find the lighting off my flourescent tubes in the basement better than the lighting I get out of the CFs (compact flourescents) which is what I was comparing them to. I should have been more specific.

10-06-2011, 05:56 PM	#22
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	Soap bars have been sliced in half Boxes of frozen cheese bread have gone from 8 pieces to 5 pieces Juice bottles still look the same from the front, but half of the back is flattened to make a deep handle

10-06-2011, 06:37 PM	#23
cromag Surfin the alpha waves ~~ Posts: 26,154 Karma: 459735575 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: New Jersey Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids	Peanut butter jars -- the same height and diameter, but the flat bottom is now deeply concave.

10-07-2011, 07:11 AM	#26
rhadin Literacy = Understanding Posts: 4,833 Karma: 59674358 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The World of Books Device: Nook, Nook Tablet	Teachers -- used to be that teachers were well read, literate, understood grammar, and were "experts" in their subject matter concentrations. As a result of teachers going downhill, education has been sliding down the slippery slope of "why bother in 140 characters or less!"

10-07-2011, 08:46 AM	#28
wannabee Media Bloke Posts: 2,382 Karma: 113956855 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: NSW - Australia Device: iOS	Manners! When I was a kid, even if you were the first at the bus stop, when the bus came and an adult was present, you let the adult on first. Mainly because manners insisted that a child should give up their seat for an adult. My wife told me today that while at work in a radiology practice full of sick people, children accompanying an adult because of school holidays occupied seats with their parent while sick adults stood and could not sit on the empty children's seats available for children because they are too small. and . . . R.I.P. Good Manners Born in antiquity Ignored to death by Generation X

10-07-2011, 03:19 PM	#30
Bikeridr Information Acquirer Posts: 436 Karma: 4265156 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Latvia, Rigas Rajons Device: Kindle 3 International, Pocketbook Color	Tooth paste tubes (or any other product contained in a tube) Same size, same weight, higher prize and larger hole so that the product is consumed faster and hence must be bought more often. "Destruction chips" contained in electronic products so that you have to buy new ones. Like the chip in (especially) laser printer toner cartridges so that they only last a year, regardless on how much toner has been used, then go "empty". Money, they used to last longer a couple of decades ago

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