In the 50s women didn't need to work because the men brought in twice as much the salary for the women to keep. It was the women's job to be at home and keep the house clean and cook when the children were at school. Once they had finished the housework they chilled out and watched tv however tv started late in the afternoon in those days about 3:00pm, not like now with 24 hour programming.
It was all a conspiracy. Mr Jones didn't really have a wife. He couldn't find one as he was next to useless and so he had to pretend to wave to one so that the neighbours wouldn't gossip. He hadn't had breakfast because he had forgotten to pay the milkman (who was busy supplying Mrs Clark with her gold tops at No. 49).
@MrStinkyWilson wow i wish you had told me that before i started working 40 hours a week and go to school at the same time as raising my children...yup i sound really useless....
Thanks for posting this wonderful video, I've been telling my wife for twenty years that everything's her fault including the economic collapse. Thanks to this no-nonsense commercial I now have the proof.
Was his wife broken? Jeez, the lazy hag has nothing better to do anyways. And after he finishes those cornflakes she better be grateful for the opportunity to wash the dishes.
As far as I know the clip begins in Cornwood Close, London N2. Or Blandford Close next to it, but very unlikely to be anywhere else. Definitely Hampstead Garden Suburb though, I spent 28 years in an adjoining road so spotted it immediately.
Ha! Couldn't find the "shedule" because he didn't complete it in the first place, and he got in big trouble with his boss, and it's all his lazy wife's fault!
It was like that in the fifties. And older men still knows nothing about making food. There is a funny scene in a film from 1957 were the husband is trying to cook an egg. I can say that it is rather hopeless. It is nothing strange that the church teaches old widowers to cook food.
see....if the woman treated him right with corn flakes she would get a nice reward such as lovely flowers, or she would get a beating. either or. her choice.
Ya'll don't get it. Back then being a housewife was a JOB. You don't just sit around and do nothing while your husband makes his own breakfast. He worked hard, so did she. It wasn't sexist. It was just they had different roles. She was expected to actually do stuff at home, not just sit around watching youtube.
@poetryofimage Sorry to say but it is sexist. The old "get into the kitchen" shit. Sorry but I as a woman should be able to have my own job and support my family if I choose to do it. Not someone choosing it for me. That my friend is sexism.
@poetryofimage The exploitative nature of housework lies in that it is not a full day's work, but a 24-hour job. When your partner and family are relaxing after work or in their spare time, you are still responsible for their comfort and their domestic environtment.
@poetryofimage Housework doesn't end in retirment. If you stay married, you will continue looking after your partner throughout your life (even while they are retired, and can watch YouTube all day). If your partner turns out to be unpleasant or abusive, you risk your whole livelihood by leaving them. If you're been a homemaker your whole life, you'll get no pension.
@poetryofimage this is true- housework is somewhat easier now, in some ways, so I think being a housewife isn't as.. admirable? a thing as it was back then, and for the past 1000 years.
@RinEditionB I love hearing peole who know fuck-all about history make statements about what "housewives" have been like for the past 1000 years. The housewife is a concept that originates in the small bourgeoisie of the 19th century. Most "housewives" of the 19th and 20th centuries have done paid work, in the home or without the home, simply because having a single provider is not realistic for most families. These women thus had the double-burden of paid work and home-making.
@poetryofimage I realize yours is an old post (four years), but I completely agree. I am a full-time housewife and I work VERY hard. I am not 'oppressed' in anyway; my husband and I are equal partners in this life and I am very content.
@poetryofimage Don't forget there was no daytime tv in the 50s either. So women didn't sit on the couch and watch tv. They were active, hence why they were so fit.
Heh, it's so strange to see how far 50 years will take you. What I'm wondering is, if he was hungry, why didn't he make himself a bowl of cereal? The wife's fault indeed.
I think that ad is wonderful and I think that women that hate this are nothing but feminist and in the end are going to have miserable lives alone & if your'e not chances are your going to get a divore & he'll get a new wife who will take care of herself and him! oh an p.s. I a girl that is saying all this and I not even 18 yet boy it a shame that all you women that dispise this ad are going to get a divorce or die alone but no worries there are women like me you will keep the population going!
Are you crazy!? Women don't HAVE to be married, we are independant, strong-willed and do not need men to make us happy! Your views coincide with the sad patriarchal society that we are all somehow shoved into at birth. and what is wrong with feminists? You say it like it's a bad thing. Women should be strong and stand up for themselves. We are not obligated to marry and stay pregnant, PLEASE. I can tell you're not 18.. you have not yet seen the world or know anything about it.
girl please man an't change snince Adam and they all want the same thing a summisive wife you cooks, clean, and does laundry and who said that you can't be independent with a husband you make it seem that women you summit you their husband are oppressed and the reason way some wives (not all) are always pregnet is that some believe in big families (besides god said muiltply not to have one or two kids)
Stupid wife, ruining everything! Best have a go on the secretary, that'll learn her.
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In the 50s women didn't need to work because the men brought in twice as much the salary for the women to keep. It was the women's job to be at home and keep the house clean and cook when the children were at school. Once they had finished the housework they chilled out and watched tv however tv started late in the afternoon in those days about 3:00pm, not like now with 24 hour programming.
boffinme80 1 month ago
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boffinme80 1 month ago
@MrStinkyWilson ??
SuperBlackChic 7 months ago
@MrStinkyWilson heeheehee yup we be dum and undereducateded but we be happy...
bettypro 8 months ago
It was all a conspiracy. Mr Jones didn't really have a wife. He couldn't find one as he was next to useless and so he had to pretend to wave to one so that the neighbours wouldn't gossip. He hadn't had breakfast because he had forgotten to pay the milkman (who was busy supplying Mrs Clark with her gold tops at No. 49).
72greencourt 8 months ago 2
@MrStinkyWilson wow i wish you had told me that before i started working 40 hours a week and go to school at the same time as raising my children...yup i sound really useless....
bettypro 8 months ago
take out life insurance on hubby - don't pour his cornflakes - profit?
girlhitsbus 11 months ago
Thanks for posting this wonderful video, I've been telling my wife for twenty years that everything's her fault including the economic collapse. Thanks to this no-nonsense commercial I now have the proof.
kaferere 11 months ago
in my opinion the advent of cornflakes was the start of the demise of Great Britain. Bring back cholesterol and bacon and eggs!
20callenderslady 1 year ago
the comercial mention it was his wife's fault he didn't eat! OMG! fix your own dam breakfast!
magicalhoneypie 1 year ago 2
The only thing that didn't sit well with me was that she added sugar to the cornflakes! What the fuck are you doing, woman!?
Pander8874 1 year ago
Add some more sugar to the already sweetened corn flakes, in order to make sure your husband will die soon from diabetes. :)
dglekjofg 1 year ago 10
@icfireplace Were yes. Should be? only if you find the right woman, and you have a good paying job.
MiFFiL 1 year ago
"... a good big plate of CORRONN flakes ..."
palegrey 1 year ago
It's time for tea and Meet The Wife.
ClassicGarth 2 years ago
losing your job, its her fault really XD
lolgirly100 2 years ago
Aren't corn flakes fantastic!
Avillageidiot59 2 years ago
THeres really nothing wrong with this commercial.. Except it's a little sexist.. BUT WHO CARES?
gtas123 2 years ago
I'm going to the shop to buy those corn flakes right now!
noswonky 2 years ago
See you get cereal for your lazy ass husband and you get flowers in return. It's a win win situation XD
BSacchetti13 2 years ago
ITS HIS WIFES FAULT REALLY !!
fordlandau 2 years ago 3
I'd tell my husband to make his own damn cereal, wouldn't you? -.-
demondumpling 2 years ago 2
And he'd tell you to go buy your own damn clothing and shelter...
grantsinmypants2 2 years ago 2
Kellogg´s showing the function of the Corn Flakes to men of business, yeah!
abrahamWCE 2 years ago
Was his wife broken? Jeez, the lazy hag has nothing better to do anyways. And after he finishes those cornflakes she better be grateful for the opportunity to wash the dishes.
BillyDa59 3 years ago
lmao! they said cornflakes and schedule so weird! hahaha
HPfan4ever22 3 years ago
well...it sure shows a startling difference between then and now.
chinangel 3 years ago
Heh..."coron" flakes
Phobos957 3 years ago
As far as I know the clip begins in Cornwood Close, London N2. Or Blandford Close next to it, but very unlikely to be anywhere else. Definitely Hampstead Garden Suburb though, I spent 28 years in an adjoining road so spotted it immediately.
satguru 3 years ago
Ha! Couldn't find the "shedule" because he didn't complete it in the first place, and he got in big trouble with his boss, and it's all his lazy wife's fault!
hebneh 3 years ago 3
Lol, that guy is such a douche. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to pour a bowl of cornflakes.
dyad44 3 years ago 2
It was like that in the fifties. And older men still knows nothing about making food. There is a funny scene in a film from 1957 were the husband is trying to cook an egg. I can say that it is rather hopeless. It is nothing strange that the church teaches old widowers to cook food.
Ntittare 3 years ago 4
I daresay that the cornflakes have given Henry here the energy to shag comely Miss Allagash.
rasputin63 4 years ago 3
LOL!! I daresay you're quite right, rasputin! And, I've no doubt he'll make quick work of it!
alteregosuzy 3 years ago
This reminds me.....I need to get some Corn Flakes.
akrobin31 4 years ago
see....if the woman treated him right with corn flakes she would get a nice reward such as lovely flowers, or she would get a beating. either or. her choice.
ECUPIRATES10S 4 years ago
It's the 50's so women didn't get to make important decisions like that.
BillyDa59 3 years ago
well it's alot better than the way things are now!
lonelysingingdoll 4 years ago
Ya'll don't get it. Back then being a housewife was a JOB. You don't just sit around and do nothing while your husband makes his own breakfast. He worked hard, so did she. It wasn't sexist. It was just they had different roles. She was expected to actually do stuff at home, not just sit around watching youtube.
poetryofimage 4 years ago 21
@poetryofimage Sorry to say but it is sexist. The old "get into the kitchen" shit. Sorry but I as a woman should be able to have my own job and support my family if I choose to do it. Not someone choosing it for me. That my friend is sexism.
LittlePinky82 1 year ago
@poetryofimage Yes, that is so true - this attitude even went on into the early 1970's when women stayed home after giving birth (like me)!!
arickett68 1 year ago
@poetryofimage The exploitative nature of housework lies in that it is not a full day's work, but a 24-hour job. When your partner and family are relaxing after work or in their spare time, you are still responsible for their comfort and their domestic environtment.
xGuerrillaGirlx 1 year ago
@poetryofimage Housework doesn't end in retirment. If you stay married, you will continue looking after your partner throughout your life (even while they are retired, and can watch YouTube all day). If your partner turns out to be unpleasant or abusive, you risk your whole livelihood by leaving them. If you're been a homemaker your whole life, you'll get no pension.
xGuerrillaGirlx 1 year ago
@poetryofimage this is true- housework is somewhat easier now, in some ways, so I think being a housewife isn't as.. admirable? a thing as it was back then, and for the past 1000 years.
RinEditionB 9 months ago
@RinEditionB I love hearing peole who know fuck-all about history make statements about what "housewives" have been like for the past 1000 years. The housewife is a concept that originates in the small bourgeoisie of the 19th century. Most "housewives" of the 19th and 20th centuries have done paid work, in the home or without the home, simply because having a single provider is not realistic for most families. These women thus had the double-burden of paid work and home-making.
xGuerrillaGirlx 9 months ago
@poetryofimage Who wants to do housework? Besides it was the 50s, most women were already working.
SuperBlackChic 7 months ago
@poetryofimage I realize yours is an old post (four years), but I completely agree. I am a full-time housewife and I work VERY hard. I am not 'oppressed' in anyway; my husband and I are equal partners in this life and I am very content.
alzorama 6 months ago
@poetryofimage Don't forget there was no daytime tv in the 50s either. So women didn't sit on the couch and watch tv. They were active, hence why they were so fit.
boffinme80 1 month ago
its always the wifes fault isnt it
BSacchetti13 4 years ago
Heh, it's so strange to see how far 50 years will take you. What I'm wondering is, if he was hungry, why didn't he make himself a bowl of cereal? The wife's fault indeed.
Skandranon2148 4 years ago
That voice over guy is a moron. That's not a plate it's a bowl!
fiddlefaddle 5 years ago
I think that ad is wonderful and I think that women that hate this are nothing but feminist and in the end are going to have miserable lives alone & if your'e not chances are your going to get a divore & he'll get a new wife who will take care of herself and him! oh an p.s. I a girl that is saying all this and I not even 18 yet boy it a shame that all you women that dispise this ad are going to get a divorce or die alone but no worries there are women like me you will keep the population going!
yoshi3329 5 years ago
Are you crazy!? Women don't HAVE to be married, we are independant, strong-willed and do not need men to make us happy! Your views coincide with the sad patriarchal society that we are all somehow shoved into at birth. and what is wrong with feminists? You say it like it's a bad thing. Women should be strong and stand up for themselves. We are not obligated to marry and stay pregnant, PLEASE. I can tell you're not 18.. you have not yet seen the world or know anything about it.
mccornel 5 years ago
girl please man an't change snince Adam and they all want the same thing a summisive wife you cooks, clean, and does laundry and who said that you can't be independent with a husband you make it seem that women you summit you their husband are oppressed and the reason way some wives (not all) are always pregnet is that some believe in big families (besides god said muiltply not to have one or two kids)
yoshi3329 5 years ago
Congratulations, Frau Lemming! Let me know how your new life as a doormat works, yeah?
pokethebadger 5 years ago
who's Frau Lemming? By the way let me know how you life as an barren old women with no husband who's about to die alone work, okay?
yoshi3329 4 years ago
FFS, that man can't even manage a fucking bowl of cornflakes, let alone manage an office!
This is hilarious, if only for the fact that it makes men look like crap mummy's boys!
sundaeg1rl 5 years ago
I can't believe they actually said such things!
blakta2 5 years ago
his wife sounds like a no-brainer.. imagine if this clown lived on his own, he would die of starvation in a couple of weeks.. love these old adverts
stevenalan 5 years ago
Yeah, blame the woman. What a turkey!
betwixtengram 5 years ago
damn indolent women!
fwad23 5 years ago
Awesome.
Alikchi 5 years ago
His wife's fault!
tamalli 5 years ago
The best Kellogs ad ever. None of this healthy rubbish, bring on the wife sux ness.
Renzosuken 5 years ago