They Don't Make Them Like They Used To

[Red Advent 04]

yung hita/pecho ng manok ng mang inasal dati malaki ngayon maliit na..
yung una labas ng longganisa ng jollibee dati malaki panun, way back mga 1996 tas ngayon liit nadin..
sa kfc dami nadin mga gud fud na nawala mga pumalit dina ganu masarap..

[tidus1203]

Honda's... Today's Honda's are nowhere near as exciting as the 90's Honda's...

[donbuggy]

200 year old Volkswagen Beetle in "Sleeper", a 1973 futuristic sci-fi comedy.

[donbuggy]

The Cars of the Seventies Had Some Incredibly Stupid Designs

by Peter Egan, Road and Track, June 1992

"What a stupid design!" In the mid-Seventies, when I was a mechanic in a shop called Foreign Car Specialists, those words used to ring through the building, shouted with humorous regularity by my fellow mechanic, John Oakey. John had the ability to deliver that phrase with a wonderfully cathartic combination of angst and frustration, like a man on the edge of breakdown. The rest of us would look up from our work and grin, trying to imagine the source of the irritation. It could be almost anything.

Beyond engineering problems and federal regulations, there was also another viper lurking in the old woodpile.

Attitude.

It was a spinoff from the Sixties. Probably at no time in world history did more people consider their corporate employers to be some sort of bottomless well of paychecks and benefits, for which very little had to be traded in exchange. Worse yet, there were actually political virtues ascribed to poor productivity. Sloppy workmanship was a blow at the System. Think of it: At last, incompetence as duty! England is still reeling from two generations of workers who thought their real job was to alienate the customers, put the company out of business and build Paradise in the ashes of capitalism.

What's most interesting about the era is that the Japanese were doing none of these things. And during that decade, as others were dropping the ball, cars from the East were slowly getting better and better. They never lost sight of the simple fact that price and value are better long-term sales tools than patriotism. Or that the primary function of business is, as Theodore Levitt points out, not just to make a profit, but to get customers and keep them. Profit follows that impulse, but seldom leads it for very long.

The Cars of the Seventies Had Some Incredibly Stupid Designs

[_Cathy_]

Islander Slippers. I've been wearing this since GS I think. I always buy super oversized because I used to wear my Dad's islanders LOL! It used to last me years and now I have to replace it every year

[tarzegetakizerd]

Islander Slippers. I've been wearing this since GS I think. I always buy super oversized because I used to wear my Dad's islanders LOL! It used to last me years and now I have to replace it every year

baka bumibigat ang paa hehehe

[dr. d]

baka bumibigat ang paa hehehe

i second the motion.