What products do you name by there brand?

Elephant Monkey

Sellotape - a brand of sticky tape/plastic (remember bluepeter never said sellotape)

Jeep - A brand of vehicle not any 4x4 even the VRT website refers to 4x4's as jeeps! 'hey is that your jeep parked there? No thats my Toyota

Hoover - when talking about vacuuming, Hoover make washing machines too!

Can you think of anymore?

Happy Friday

RATM

Posted by Elephant Brand Monkey:D

iPod for some people refers collectively to all MP3 players

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Viagra.

OldGoat

Guinness

Cookie_Monster

Elephant Monkey wrote: »

Jeep - A brand of vehicle not any 4x4 even the VRT website refers to 4x4's as jeeps! 'hey is that your jeep parked there? No thats my Toyota

Jeep didn't used to be the brand either. It came from the Willy's GP (general purpose) which sounded like jee-p and thats where it came about during WW2

shenanigans1982

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

Fajitas!

Cola = Coke

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shenanigans1982 wrote: »

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

Would you prefer "crips?"

gerkoff

Frisbee for flying disk

Biro for pen

Blu-Tac for blue sticky stuff

Danbo!

Rollerblades. Although the generic name sounds shit - Inline skates.

And while we're on the subject -
What's the hardest thing about rollerblading?
Telling your parents you're gay.

slavigo

Tayto is a brand of crisp.

"Can I have a bag of taytos?"

monkeyfudge

Tannoy.

Cookie_Monster

DART - train

Zwillinge

Sudocrem - Antiseptic healing cream

Vaseline - Petroleum jelly based goop

Ostrom

Older people call all video games and systems 'nintendo'

missbaker

Perla Jolly Pollution wrote: »

Would you prefer "crips?"

haha . .crips is a bad one . .reminds me of people saying aks instead of ask!!

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missbaker wrote: »

haha . .crips is a bad one . .reminds me of people saying aks instead of ask!!

"Sangwidge" is a common one as well.

missbaker

Perla Jolly Pollution wrote: »

"Sangwidge" is a common one as well.

Hang sangidge lol

Leeby

gerkoff wrote: »

Biro for pen

Biro is a brand? No it's not. Bic is a brand. Biro is a biro.

Zwillinge wrote: »

Vaseline - Petroleum jelly based goop

I say vaseline, but to be fair I don't think I've ever bought petroleum jelly that wasn't Vaseline.

Yeah the Tayo thing annoys me too.

My mum says J-cloth for any kind of cloth.

Scoobydoobydoo

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

Yes!! My country cousins always did that - I couldn't understand why they'd be munching on a packet of King, but insisting they were Tayto. Every brand was a type of Tayto, not a type of crisp!

stovelid

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

Or Fanta - indeterminate, wide variety of carbonated drinks.

Lobelia Overhill

Coke seems to mean any brown fizzy drink. No it's the one in the red can with the white dynamic curve thanks

Jacuzzi = any whirlpool type bath.

I've heard people referring to any car larger than a Mini a 4x4 regardless ...

Permabear

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nedd

Lego
Tipp Ex
Xerox (more America really)

SEPT 23 1989

Blu-Tack

Post-it notes

brickmaster

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

I hate it when city folk call all diacetylmorphine Heroin. Its like they never heard of any other brand :rolleyes:

Blowfish

Google - then again I don't tend to use anything else to search.

here.from.day.1

Red bull - Any type of canned energy drink.

evercloserunion

Internet.

rubadub

RATM wrote: »

iPod for some people refers collectively to all MP3 players

Similarly people call DAP's mp3 players, when they can play all sorts of filetypes.

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

slavigo wrote: »

Tayto is a brand of crisp.

"Can I have a bag of taytos?"

He was talking about people who would ask "can I have a pack of walkers taytos". using tayto as a generic term

Perla Jolly Pollution wrote: »

Viagra.

solpadeine, neurofen etc. Lots of people do not konw the generic name for drugs which is often difficult to pronounce.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

DART - train

I have never heard people describe, say, a dublin to galway train as a DART.

Zwillinge wrote: »

Sudocrem - Antiseptic healing cream

Vaseline - Petroleum jelly based goop

Leeby wrote: »

I say vaseline, but to be fair I don't think I've ever bought petroleum jelly that wasn't Vaseline.

Many supermarkets do petroleum jelly, never saw a generic sudocreme though. I tried to get some in NZ and none of the NZ family I knew had ever heard of it, my mate had some there for her baby, I showed it to them expecting them to go "oh, *brandname* cream", but they had never seen anything like it before (and several had children BTW).

efla wrote: »

Older people call all video games and systems 'nintendo'

Or playstation now.

The media always tend to call any strong herbal cannabis "skunk" which is sort of a brand name for one particular strain. i.e. you can buy skunk "brand" seeds, and in fact it is not particularly strong relative to other strains/brands.

Also "baileys type drink" is used rather than cream based liquer

Pace2008

donegalfella wrote: »

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Guilty of about half.

Eoin

Leeby wrote: »

Biro is a brand? No it's not. Bic is a brand. Biro is a biro.

Biro is a trademark of BIC. Ballpoint pen is the proper generic name. I would say J-Cloth though.

ejmaztec

"For the last time Mrs Ejmaztec, you've got a Creative Zen, not a fuckin' Ipod!"

rubadub

eoin wrote: »

Biro is a trademark of BIC. Ballpoint pen is the proper generic name.

I am not so certain.

http://www.rickconner.net/penoply/glossary.html

biro. A generic term (used outside the U.S.) for ballpoint pens, in honor of their inventor, Ladislo Biro.

Maybe it is a trademark, but still...

Cookie_Monster

rubadub wrote: »

I have never heard people describe, say, a dublin to galway train as a DART.

No but you can't actually get on the Dublin Area Rapid Transit
you get on the trains with that livery or...brand

Elephant Monkey

Marigold for Rubber Gloves!

cabra64

Leeby wrote: »

I say vaseline, but to be fair I don't think I've ever bought petroleum jelly that wasn't Vaseline.

Dax hair product is petroleum jelly and fragrance.

aside: blu tak claims to have 1000s of uses. Its written on the side of the packet. I can think of two; 1. stick a to b
2. stress ball substitute

junior_apollo

evercloserunion wrote: »

Internet.

Fail everyone knows its the Interwebs

iPlop

shenanigans1982 wrote: »

A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

Yeah but if you asked for them in England a few years ago rather than king you got the bollix kicked out of you!

Eoin

rubadub wrote: »

I am not so certain.

http://www.rickconner.net/penoply/glossary.html

Maybe it is a trademark, but still...

I think that says the same thing I said. It's a term for a ball point pen. It's a genericized trademark like most the ones in this thread.

rainbowtrout

I say Ribena for all blackcurrant drinks
Some people still say Pass card (Bank of Ireland) for any ATM card

Fiona44

xerox, tippex, heinz, photoshop, podcast

also...apparently escalator was originally a brand name