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What products do you name by there brand?

  • 16-01-2009 12:34PM
    #1
    Elephant Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭


    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


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  • #2
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    Posted by Elephant Brand Monkey:D

    iPod for some people refers collectively to all MP3 players


  • #3
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Viagra.


  • #4
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭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

    fordGP_W-2017501_Baydeww2.jpg


  • #5
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,647 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Guinness

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6
    shenanigans1982
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,467 ✭✭✭shenanigans1982


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


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  • #7
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    Cola = Coke


  • #8
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    shenanigans1982 wrote: »
    A lot of country people call all crisps Tayto...that annoys the sh*t outta me.

    Would you prefer "crips?"


  • #9
    gerkoff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭gerkoff


    Frisbee for flying disk

    Biro for pen

    Blu-Tac for blue sticky stuff


  • #10
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭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.


  • #11
    slavigo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭slavigo


    Tayto is a brand of crisp.

    "Can I have a bag of taytos?"


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  • #12
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Tannoy.


  • #13
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    DART - train


  • #14
    Zwillinge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭Zwillinge


    Sudocrem - Antiseptic healing cream

    Vaseline - Petroleum jelly based goop


  • #15
    Ostrom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,483 ✭✭✭Ostrom


    Older people call all video games and systems 'nintendo'


  • #16
    missbaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭missbaker


    Perla Jolly Pollution wrote: »
    Would you prefer "crips?"

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


  • #17
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


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

    "Sangwidge" is a common one as well.


  • #18
    missbaker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 123 ✭✭missbaker


    Perla Jolly Pollution wrote: »
    "Sangwidge" is a common one as well.

    Hang sangidge lol


  • #19
    Leeby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭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.


  • #20
    Scoobydoobydoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 388 ✭✭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!


  • #21
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Lobelia Overhill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 704 ✭✭✭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 ...


  • #23
    Permabear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38,989 ✭✭✭✭Permabear


    This post has been deleted.


  • #24
    nedd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,114 ✭✭✭nedd


    Lego
    Tipp Ex
    Xerox (more America really)


  • #25
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    Blu-Tack

    Post-it notes


  • #26
    brickmaster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭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:


  • #27
    Blowfish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


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


  • #28
    here.from.day.1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,211 ✭✭✭here.from.day.1


    Red bull - Any type of canned energy drink.


  • #29
    evercloserunion
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭evercloserunion


    Internet.


  • #30
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #31
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    donegalfella wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.
    Guilty of about half.


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