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27 May 2025, 12:53 pm

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27 May 2025, 1:31 pm

Ah, avoiding "washday red hands" as the makers of mild green Fairy Liquid used to say in their ads.

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27 May 2025, 1:33 pm

Yeah but I think the rubber of the gloves has got thinner because I seem to be getting through them at pace

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27 May 2025, 1:51 pm

babybird wrote:

Yeah but I think the rubber of the gloves has got thinner because I seem to be getting through them at pace

I have noticed the same thing has happened with kitchen roll over the past few years. It just keeps getting thinner and thinner.

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27 May 2025, 1:53 pm

Oh I got a good kitchen roll from Aldi last time

One sheet can do the whole house

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27 May 2025, 1:55 pm

babybird wrote:

Oh I got a good kitchen roll from Aldi last time

One sheet can do the whole house

Oh wow, that sounds really good!

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27 May 2025, 1:57 pm

:lol:

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27 May 2025, 2:02 pm

I should go for a sauna some time me

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27 May 2025, 3:08 pm

blitzkrieg wrote:

babybird wrote:

Yeah but I think the rubber of the gloves has got thinner because I seem to be getting through them at pace

I have noticed the same thing has happened with kitchen roll over the past few years. It just keeps getting thinner and thinner.

It's called shrinkflation, a dirty trick by the makers to put the price up without making it obvious. They did that with the taters, and ruined my recipe because I was just throwing the entire bagful into the pot and trusting the weight would be what it used to be. So I ended up with the wrong proportions of the ingredients and it was more like mashed lentils with a hint of potato.

Somewhere on the Web there's a picture of a tin of Quality Street as it will be in 10 years time. It's about the size of a penny.

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27 May 2025, 3:45 pm

Yeah but how do they shrinkflate a rubber glove

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27 May 2025, 3:49 pm

babybird wrote:

Yeah but how do they shrinkflate a rubber glove

Make the rubber thinner so it wears out quicker/is more prone to catastrophic failure.

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27 May 2025, 5:05 pm

^
Yep. Just the thing when you've got your hands in something horrible.

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