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What products do you name by there brand?

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  • #32
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,288 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


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


  • #34
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,387 ✭✭✭✭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...


  • #35
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #36
    Elephant Monkey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 74 ✭✭Elephant Monkey


    Marigold for Rubber Gloves!


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  • #37
    cabra64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭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


  • #38
    junior_apollo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 740 ✭✭✭junior_apollo


    evercloserunion wrote: »
    Internet.

    Fail everyone knows its the Interwebs


  • #39
    iPlop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,822 ✭✭✭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!


  • #40
    Eoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,288 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    rainbowtrout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,535 ✭✭✭✭rainbowtrout


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


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  • #42
    Fiona44
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Fiona44


    xerox, tippex, heinz, photoshop, podcast

    also...apparently escalator was originally a brand name


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