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I bet you didnt know that

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As people here work in various jobs / professions they might know things from work or study no one here knows yet. this is what this topic is about.

what do you know that we have never heard of?

Eg: you don't need to be great at maths to be an architect

this is obvious to me but everyone says to me "i wanted to be an architect but i was bad at math,i can barely add"

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pekitivey

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

There are a whole load of these. The most surprising to me are:

Fiberglass
Dumpster
Jet Ski
Vaseline
Bubble Wrap
Chapstick.

Dumpster? Well I can go home today and tell my family that today, I truly have learned something new! LOL

:pac:

[Deleted User]

Jacuzzi
Crock-pot
Jeep
Bubble Wrap
Jello
Jet Ski

Also brand names used as generic names. Bubble Wrap is the one that surprised me most.

ETA Just noticed Bubble Wrap mentioned above, which I managed to not see.

cdeb

On pizza, there's a pizzeria on the Pitcairn Islands - population 50, all descended from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

It's called Andy's Pizzeria, and Google gives the address as "Unnamed Road, PCRN 1ZZ, Pitcairn Islands"

The effects of globalisation...

brainfreeze

Candie wrote: »

Jacuzzi
Crock-pot
Jeep
Bubble Wrap
Jello
Jet Ski

Also brand names used as generic names. Bubble Wrap is the one that surprised me most.

ETA Just noticed Bubble Wrap mentioned above, which I managed to not see.

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

There are a whole load of these. The most surprising to me are:

Fiberglass
Dumpster
Jet Ski
Vaseline
Bubble Wrap
Chapstick.

What are the generic names?

New Home

brainfreeze wrote: »

What are the generic names?

Vaseline is paraffin.
Bubble wrap is Pluriball (unless that's also a brand name)
Jello is gelatine
Crock pot (I think) is ceramic pot
Jacuzzi is the surname of the man who invented the thing, which is a hydrotherapy bath tub.
Chapstick is lip balm.

The rest I'm not sure.

Blu-tack is also a brand name, but you probably knew that already.

ohnonotgmail

brainfreeze wrote: »

What are the generic names?

Fiberglass Glass Wool
Dumpster Front Loader Waste Container
Jet Ski Personal Watercraft
Vaseline Petroleum Jelly
Bubble Wrap Inflated Cushioning
Chapstick. Lip Balm

pekitivey

brainfreeze wrote: »

What are the generic names?

The brand names listed are the generic names. For example even tho you don't know the brand of sticky tape you used to wrap a present, you still refereed to it as sellotape.

ohnonotgmail

New Home wrote: »

Vaseline is paraffin.
Bubble wrap is Pluriball (unless that's also a brand name)
Jello is gelatine
Crock pot (I think) is ceramic pot
Jacuzzi is the surname of the man who invented the thing.

The rest I'm not sure.

Blu-tack is also a brand name, but you probably knew that already.

Pluribal is the italian trademark name i think.

New Home

pekitivey wrote: »

The brand names listed are the generic names. For example even tho you don't know the brand of sticky tape you used to wrap a present, you still refereed to it as sellotape.

Or as scotch tape, for the same reason (Scotch being the other big brand that makes the same product). Blue Peter and Art Attack and other similar programmes refer to it as sticky tape or sticky back tape.

EDIT: Or adhesive tape.

Quazzie

New Home wrote: »

Vaseline is paraffin petroleum jelly.

FYP

sbsquarepants

Teflon is a trademark for PTFE (polytetraflouroethylene).
The non sticky white tape that stops plumbing fittings from leaking is basically same stuff than stops your fried eggs sticking to the pan.

[Deleted User]

And Jeep is often used as a catch all for any four wheel drive vehicle. Jello is a brand of fruit jelly, used to describe jelly of any brand in the US.

New Home

Quazzie wrote: »

FYP

Is paraffin also a brand name?

mikhail

New Home wrote: »

Is paraffin also a brand name?

Seems not: https://www.etymonline.com/word/paraffin

New Home

I have a bottle of "Liquid Paraffin" that I bought in the chemist's that reads "Oil of vaseline" underneath (small v). Go figure. Maybe that's only correct for the liquid form.

The Pheasant2

Actually there are a number of various products which share the name - kerosene fuel for example is also known as paraffin

New Home

cdeb wrote: »

On pizza, there's a pizzeria on the Pitcairn Islands - population 50, all descended from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

It's called Andy's Pizzeria, and Google gives the address as "Unnamed Road, PCRN 1ZZ, Pitcairn Islands"

The effects of globalisation...

Even Starbucks and McDonald's haven't made it that far! :pac:

cdeb

Yet...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

I have a bottle of "Liquid Paraffin" that I bought in the chemist's that reads "Oil of vaseline" underneath (small v). Go figure. Maybe that's only correct for the liquid form.

Vaseline is purely a trade name owned by Unilever; from the German for water and Greek for oil.

lmimmfn

Candie wrote: »

And Jeep is often used as a catch all for any four wheel drive vehicle. Jello is a brand of fruit jelly, used to describe jelly of any brand in the US.

Actually according to the excellent documentary "America the story of the US", Jeep is derived from the army name for a general purpose vehicle, I.e. GP or Jeep

gozunda

New Home wrote: »

I have a bottle of "Liquid Paraffin" that I bought in the chemist's that reads "Oil of vaseline" underneath (small v). Go figure. Maybe that's only correct for the liquid form.

Liquid Parafin is a traditional oral remedy for constipation

Vaseline isn't

New Home

gozunda wrote: »

Liquid Parafin is a traditional oral remedy for constipation

Vaseline isn't

Try it and let us know how you get on.

New Home

cdeb wrote: »

On pizza, there's a pizzeria on the Pitcairn Islands - population 50, all descended from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

It's called Andy's Pizzeria, and Google gives the address as "Unnamed Road, PCRN 1ZZ, Pitcairn Islands"

The effects of globalisation...

Still on this... where do they get the mozzarella from?!?

Water John

PTFE also used in ball seals, low friction co-efficient. Really good impact shock absorber.

reganreggie

Dublin fire brigade have so far this year answered over 100,500 medical calls with only 12 ambulances with Halloween and Christmas still to come

facehugger99

Heard this on Kermode and Mayo podcast last week.

Bovril, the first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning ox.

The -vril suffix comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

facehugger99 wrote: »

Heard this on Kermode and Mayo podcast last week.

Bovril, the first part of the product's name comes from Latin bovīnus, meaning ox.

The -vril suffix comes from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Therefore, Bovril indicates great strength obtained from an ox.

That's another Unilever product, along with Hellman's, Knorr, Ben & Jerry's, Lipton, Magnum, Carte D'Or...…...

Big Nasty

reganreggie wrote: »

Dublin fire brigade have so far this year answered over 100,500 medical calls with only 12 ambulances with Halloween and Christmas still to come

Only 12 Ambulances for the whole of Dublin? :eek:

That'd be close on 30 calls each / day.

Addle

Big Nasty wrote: »

Only 12 Ambulances for the whole of Dublin? :eek:

I didn't know that the fire brigade provide an ambulance service???

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Addle wrote: »

I didn't know that the fire brigade provide an ambulance service???

They do in Dublin.