Yorkie bar

Dup said:
No, people have devolved and can no longer think for themselves without trying to find offence in everything.

It's just marketing, a joke, tongue-in-cheek and they have to play it safe. Let's just make the world devoid of personality. It's not like they forbid women to actually buy them like I'm forbidden to use the ladies changing rooms.
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I'd assumed that it was marketing campaign to get more women to buy it. Human nature - tell people they can't have something and they want it more. I thought it was a crap idea and I stopped buying Yorkies because of it. People here probably know I'm a bit of an extremist when it comes to sexual equality, so I doubt if anyone's surprised by that.
 
h4rm0ny said:
Really depends who says it and the context. Girls is diminishing in the same way that "boys" is. There are contexts where calling males "boys" by women can sound pretty derogatory. There are contexts where it can be playful, flirtatious or casual.
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I agree with that. Diminishing (or even outright insulting) words can be used with all sorts of meanings, even affectionate ones. For example, I've been called a poof and a queen in an affectionate way and those would usually be rather insulting words.

I certainly wouldn't send a professional email beginning "Hello Boys!" It would be sending very much the wrong message and tone.
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But not entirely with that. I wouldn't do it, but if someone else did it I'd try to hold fire on making a conclusion until I had more context. Maybe the person sending it was intending to be casual. Maybe they referred to women they knew and worked with as girls and were treating men they worked with the same way. "Hello Boys!" would grate on me in that context (referring to adults as children always grates on me), but I'd try to hold off on making a conclusion about the intended message and tone. Probably. Unless I was in a bad mood.
 
The biggest outrage is that they was 70g in 2002, now they're only 46g. Utterly disgraceful. I remember they used to have six chunks with a letter on each spelling Yorkie. Now they've dropped to five chunks with yorkie written on each chunk.

They're short changing us boys and girls. Actually, forget it girls, it's not for you anyway. You stick to Galaxy Ripples.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Not Chris Hoy in his prime, that's for sure, hence why it was more bewildering than offensive that he made that comment at all.
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Not bewildering at all - he also said he looked bad in lycra. His position is consistent and therefore not bewildering.
 
robfosters said:
The biggest outrage is that they was 70g in 2002, now they're only 46g. Utterly disgraceful. I remember they used to have six chunks with a letter on each spelling Yorkie. Now they've dropped to five chunks with yorkie written on each chunk.

They're short changing us boys and girls. Actually, forget it girls, it's not for you anyway. You stick to Galaxy Ripples.
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Yeah, it's happening with everything.

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DAIR said:
What happened to the "not for girls" symbol?

I just picked on up for the first time in years. And noticed that the symbol is no longer there!
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Why are you buying Yorkie bars anyway?

they're not for girls.
 
Hilarious the past 3 pages. Hilarious! Needs more comedy in the world.

Toblerone surely must be due an outrage. Wasn't that years ago?

robfosters said:
The biggest outrage is that they was 70g in 2002, now they're only 46g. Utterly disgraceful. I remember they used to have six chunks with a letter on each spelling Yorkie. Now they've dropped to five chunks with yorkie written on each chunk.

They're short changing us boys and girls. Actually, forget it girls, it's not for you anyway. You stick to Galaxy Ripples.
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I used to love a Galaxy Ripple. :(


I used to love the Yorkie easter eggs in the truck shaped cardboard packaging. :D
 
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robfosters said:
The biggest outrage is that they was 70g in 2002, now they're only 46g. Utterly disgraceful. I remember they used to have six chunks with a letter on each spelling Yorkie. Now they've dropped to five chunks with yorkie written on each chunk.

They're short changing us boys and girls. Actually, forget it girls, it's not for you anyway. You stick to Galaxy Ripples.
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I read an article about this recently and it's called 'shrinkflation'

The thing is because the price stays the same but the product size drops, it's not then recorded by official inflation figures, so pointing to again why inflation has been running higher than the headline figure.
 
robfosters said:
The biggest outrage is that they was 70g in 2002, now they're only 46g. Utterly disgraceful. I remember they used to have six chunks with a letter on each spelling Yorkie. Now they've dropped to five chunks with yorkie written on each chunk.

They're short changing us boys and girls. Actually, forget it girls, it's not for you anyway. You stick to Galaxy Ripples.
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That’s because all the fat lazy people ruin it for everyone else.
 
I bet there's still the same number of Toffee Pennies in the reduced size Quality Street, probably made en masse in the 80s still trying to get rid of them
 
Freakbro said:
I read an article about this recently and it's called 'shrinkflation'

The thing is because the price stays the same but the product size drops, it's not then recorded by official inflation figures, so pointing to again why inflation has been running higher than the headline figure.
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nah, that would be a bit of an obvious mistake, shrinkflation is actually taken into account in official inflation figures:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...#identifying-and-adjusting-for-weight-changes
 
Feek said:
It's been gone for years which is bonkers really, it's a bar that always, always advertised itself as being for blokes. I asked Mrs. Feek to pick me one up just a few days ago so I could eat it while driving my truck game thing.
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Haha :D

Euro Truck Simulator? Did you have your red checked shirt on too??
 
It's gone the way of the old greats, You know when you've been tango'd was another that got banned.
 
builder22 said:
I bet there's still the same number of Toffee Pennies in the reduced size Quality Street, probably made en masse in the 80s still trying to get rid of them
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The Cadburys tin used to have mini Bournville and mini Dairy milk bars in them, not its just the rubbish ones.


The comments on the YouTube video are hilarious, even two years a go the SJW were getting all upset by a funny advert.

It's no wonder adverts are made elsewhere then badly dubbed for our TV as comedy is no longer aloud :(
 
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