Different Names for Things (Was: Brand Names Used in Place of Generic Descriptions) — Page 3

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In Scotland all sweet soft drinks are often referred to as Juice or Ginger even if they don't have juice or ginger in them.

Bingowings said:

In Scotland all sweet soft drinks are often referred to as Juice or Ginger even if they don't have juice or ginger in them.

As in carbonated drinks? You might order orange juice and get Fanta!

I think that might be stranger than using Coke for all carbonated drinks. Is that usage more prevalent with older people or all ages?

I've heard people in their twenties still using both terms.

It includes carbonated drinks and cordials (squashes).

Thanks Bingo. I read your comment about rhyming slang in the Blu thread. That was a Sydney Morning Herald web address which probably explains it. I think that rhyming slang is so uncommon in Australia nowadays that if you don't use the rhyming word, nobody understands what you're talking about. I hear it used very rarely and when I do it always rhymes (e.g. skyrocket for pocket).

If you hear the rhyming end it's a more gratuitous affectation. 

Sometimes even the non-rhyming end is truncated (e.g Berk).

Luckily you are playing Basher in doubleofive's 11 - you can explain them all to us ;)

I didn't mean to call you a meatloaf Jack.

As I have no idea what that means, it is probably applicable. Skyrocket was literally the only rhyming slang I could think of.

The link is tenuous but I couldn't think of a Mixed up Move quote that quite got there.

But Meatloaf has a nice pair of Bristols in that shot.

Oh, no wonder I was extra confused, I replied before the picture came up!

You are doing it wrong.

It should be in capitals with an exclamation mark on the end :-D

This might come in handy for you.

"Blobs" are fading Northern English slang for condoms.

Probably independently 'being on the blob' is slang for that special time of the month for ladies of the opposite sex.

So reading about Lando being involved in Blob Races in the EU has twice the fun.

^ Needs moar Secret of Nimh.

(shoots first)

This one came to me while in class today.  We were discussing the fact that as nurses we will have to change adult diapers.  "But we never call them diapers," said the instructor.  "We call them Depends."

So there ya go.

"If you type 'google' into google, you can break the internet."

In Germany every type of handkerchief is called a "Tempo".
Every chocolate spread is called "Nutella".
Every type of kitchen paper is called "Zewa".
Diapers are "Pampers".

Here in Texas, all soft drinks are Coke. If you sit down at a table and the waitress asks what you want to to drink (tea, water, Coke), you say Coke, she'll then ask what kind. I noticed it years ago that people from other states would get flustered at that point. It was just common place to me to order a Coke and then specify a Mountain Dew.

All ramen noodles are simply ramen noodles.

All "weed whackers" are weed eaters.

Every reciprocating saw is a Sawzall.

ferris209 said:

Here in Texas, all soft drinks are Coke. If you sit down at a table and the waitress asks what you want to to drink (tea, water, Coke), you say Coke, she'll then ask what kind. I noticed it years ago that people from other states would get flustered at that point. It was just common place to me to order a Coke and then specify a Mountain Dew.

I imagine it could be flustering the other way around too.

Non-Texan McDonalds: Would you like Coke with your value meal?

Texan: Yes...

Staff member walks off and gets Coca-Cola.