Thread Number: 57708
/ Tag: Detergents and Additives
Pursil Cares For Your Hands |
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Post# 801202   12/28/2014 at 05:51 (3,401 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 801203 , Reply# 1   12/28/2014 at 05:54 (3,401 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 801215 , Reply# 2   12/28/2014 at 07:35 (3,401 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Funny how she took the saucer out of the suds and put it in the drainer without rinsing. The pronunciation seems quite proper unless one is used to hearing "er" lazily pronounced as "ur." |
Post# 801217 , Reply# 3   12/28/2014 at 07:47 (3,400 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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Ive never known anyone when I was growing up to rinse dishes under a wasteful running hot water tap.
Dishes were always hand washed in a bowl of piping hot water and either unrinsed which I don't believe to be harmful at all if the dosing of dish detergent is right or if like my Mum and grandmothers you preferred to rinse then you would fill a jug with water and slowly pour it over the dishes when everything was in the draining rack at the end of washing meaning it was less wasteful. I suspect most people rinsed the way my mum did when she hand washed anything that wouldn't go in the dishwasher. |
Post# 801236 , Reply# 4   12/28/2014 at 11:28 (3,400 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Thanks for the vintage adverts, Launderess. Veddy, veddy posh indeed! Makes me want to hop over to the BritSuperStore online and order a box. I loved Unilever's Persil Bio powder, but tired of paying through the nose for having shipped over the pond to the open prairie.
Hey, Persil comes in pod form, doesn't it? Tempting, tempting... Aside: Wouldn't have minded seeing the wringer washer in action. The chrome agitator cap had a very late-1950's Maytag look about it. |
Post# 801271 , Reply# 5   12/28/2014 at 16:40 (3,400 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 801273 , Reply# 6   12/28/2014 at 16:45 (3,400 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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As a wife she uses Persil. As a mother she uses Persil. Persil washes whiter!
This is part of a five part series exploring the history of modern British advertising. For anyone with some time to spare highly recommend seeing the lot. To those in the ad game and or loosely connected with same you'll notice many of the techniques introduced then such as "two tarts in the kitchen" are still used in some form today. |
Post# 801287 , Reply# 7   12/28/2014 at 18:23 (3,400 days old) by iej (.... )   |   | |
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One did all one's laundry in received pronunciation back in those days. The trick is to get one's voice so prim and proper that the dirt simply falls out of the clothes due to a strange sonic interaction between the narrow "o" sound and the water. |
Post# 801290 , Reply# 8   12/28/2014 at 18:39 (3,400 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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You're killing me! *LOL*
Love all the posh voices from persons whom probably never did a bit of housework in their lives, much less the washing.*LOL* Had always wondered how households coped with bed and other linens using a twin tub, then one of the clips above sorted that out. It is the one where the couple go shopping for a new washer and the sales person asks Mrs. if she would like to do her linens at home. This tells me that a good number of homes sent their linens out but did the family wash at home. After watching the lot one thing is clear; am going to make it my mission in 2015 to get a shopping basket. Have always fancied having one as they look so smart and seem a clever and "green" way to bring home the shopping. Now that there is a war on plastic bags..... |
Post# 801307 , Reply# 10   12/28/2014 at 20:05 (3,400 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)   |   | |
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When I was over in England I did notice around London they do pronounce Persil kind of like we say Pencil. Or PUR-CIL. I actually got corrected one time when I pronounced it PER-SILL, like window sill. |
Post# 801356 , Reply# 12   12/29/2014 at 05:12 (3,400 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 801362 , Reply# 13   12/29/2014 at 05:47 (3,400 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Lasted so long in Britain while in the USA and elsewhere women were moving onto fully automatic top or front loaders. The answer is in the last bit of this linked program and the next following.
Apparently Hoover and other makers of appliances bought into the scheme that women had (or wanted) to be kept "involved" with these new products. That is to say they weren't being made redundant in their own homes by say pre-cooked and reheated meals or just add water cake mixes. If products allowed Her Indoors some involvement such as adding an egg to a cake mix she could rightly came ownership. One supposes a twin tub with a spinner or wringer was a step up from boiling, scrubbing and mangling; however it seems totally unneeded. Yes, American and other housewives did so but that was because modern fully automatic washing machines hadn't come along. Then came the war which curtailed production but after that event many did move from semi-automatic (wringer machines) to fully or from doing laundry by hand to modern machines. Always cringe at the thought of some poor dear in 1950's Britain or the Commonwealth countries stuck with that Hoover or other twin tub on wash day. Speaking as one who owns such a thing cannot ever imagine doing a weeks worth of family washing that way. |
Post# 801369 , Reply# 14   12/29/2014 at 06:53 (3,400 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Before my mother bought her first automatic washing machine she used a laundry service for the bed linens and perhaps some other stuff as well. I remember the crispy feeling of the starched and ironed sheets. It was never the same again when the automatic washing machine came and the laundry service was not longer used. lol
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Post# 801371 , Reply# 15   12/29/2014 at 07:00 (3,400 days old) by aquarius1984 (Planet earth)   |   | |
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Post# 801537 , Reply# 17   12/30/2014 at 04:43 (3,399 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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It's an altered line from Lerner & Lowe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, My Fair Lady. It doesn't 'mean' anything. A tossoff. We 'were' speaking of voices. Posh ones. It works better in speech where one has a better chance of 'getting it' than in text.
I know the show so well that with a little work and a li^l bi^ o luck I could do a one-man stage show in character and in dialect. Except Freddy. Marry Freddy? HAH! I also do all 4 Beatles, Mick Jagger, Jim Backus (posh) and Ian McDiarmid's Emperor from Star Wars so well his mother couldn't tell the difference. And Bullwinkle so well HIS mother couldn't tell the difference. Thanks for inquiring, since my propensity for doing so will likely arise again. This post was last edited 12/30/2014 at 05:02 |
Post# 801657 , Reply# 19   12/31/2014 at 03:48 (3,398 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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@lej
Thanks for setting one straight. Couldn't imagine why all those British adverts showed these posh middle class and above women in often lovely homes (with fully fitted out kitchens etc...) doing laundry with a twin tub. Her sisters across the pond from that demographic and often even below had long moved onto fully automatic washing machines. Ok, some may have had wringers but still. Commercial laundries reached their zenith in the USA up through WWII and shortly afterwards. Women went to work outside of the home during the war, and with production limited for appliances because of that event fully automatic machines were hard to come by. Especially in urban areas many households still sent their washing out. It was that or use Laundromats. After the war and during the post WWII boom in the USA of course things change. In fact certain feminists blame that period for reintroducing laundry appliances and that task back into the home. Fully automatic washing machines and tumble dryers really took much of the need to send washing out. To further drive that point home there were messages about how "unsanitary" it was to send one's washing to a commercial laundry (you never know who touched it and what your wash was mixed with in the machines). Standards also began to slip. Less and less households demanded ironed linens (bed or dining) as what came out of the dryer was deemed good enough. It was that or ghastly cotton/man-made blends that promised no ironing. What didn't change from before the war and is still true today largely, men's dress shirts are often sent out even if the family wash is done at home. Besides sanitation knocks against commercial laundries came from complaints that had been around since they arrived; lost items and the fact you didn't have use of things while they were at the laundry. Depending upon the turn around time it could be days or weeks before your wash came back. In the meantime you had to make do with what was in house. If you had a bout of illness in the home and all the bed linen was soiled, well you were out of luck because the others were at the laundry. That is when the beauty of having your own washer and perhaps dryer became apparent. Commercial laundries have been losing things since they arrived and things still go missing. Again another reason to keep one's washing at home. Now a few queries after watching all those vintage vids: What is "Flash", the product used by the cleaner for mopping floors? There seems to be quite a lot of persons going out for the evening (to see a film in one commercial) and leaving dinner cooking in the oven. Was that normal? When did the "E for B" advert campaign run? Does anyone still use OXO cubes? |
Post# 801660 , Reply# 22   12/31/2014 at 04:03 (3,398 days old) by liamy1 (-)   |   | |
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Taken this for you just now :)
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Post# 801661 , Reply# 23   12/31/2014 at 04:04 (3,398 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 801662 , Reply# 24   12/31/2014 at 04:05 (3,398 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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