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pheonix
Some companies have done such a good job marketing their particular product that similar products have come to be known by that name.
Take Chap Stick for instance. How many people actually call it lip balm (the correct term for it) and how many people call other types of "lip balm" Chap Stick?

Here's a few others

Kleenex = tissues
Q-Tip = cotton swabs
mezzir
escalator was one...mayonnaise i think?
buncha things we dont even realize are

some regions of the US people use Coke as synnonymous with pop or soda
weirdos :p
Spartan
dj_bas
Technics = turn tables
Remiks
techno = electronic music
D-res
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Originally posted by Remiks
techno = electronic music



:whip:

i like techno but thats just wrong.. i HATE it when people misuse "techno"
dj_bas
quote:
Originally posted by Remiks
techno = electronic music

oh yeah that's a good one...everyone here calls it "that techno stuff" im like UHH ITS HOUSE NUBZ..well i dont say nubz but i think it
Clovis86
quote:
Originally posted by dj_bas
oh yeah that's a good one...everyone here calls it "that techno stuff" im like UHH ITS HOUSE NUBZ..well i dont say nubz but i think it


Or I'm like...yeah so I went to this club where they play trance.

"Oh so you went to a rave?"


No...a club where people dance to music.

"really did you do E???!!!"

:wtf:
mezzir
quote:
Originally posted by Clovis86
Or I'm like...yeah so I went to this club where they play trance.

"Oh so you went to a rave?"


No...a club where people dance to music.

"really did you do E???!!!"

:wtf:

see when people say that, you just gotta have an unmarked bottle of excederin handy to whip out :p
i've done that before, we're talking about stuff like that and mid conversation i just reach into my bag, pull out a small white pill with an 'E' on it and watch people's reactions
Yan
Vaseline

dj_bas
quote:
Originally posted by Clovis86
Or I'm like...yeah so I went to this club where they play trance.

"Oh so you went to a rave?"


No...a club where people dance to music.

"really did you do E???!!!"

:wtf:

did you?...can i get some next time you greedy twat
Clovis86
quote:
Originally posted by dj_bas
did you?...can i get some next time you greedy twat


uhhh...no. :wtf:
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