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Tarik One
10-08-2014, 04:19 PM
For instance sandwich bags. Most people would say "grab me a Ziploc bag", regardless of whether it's an actual Ziploc brand or not.

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Kool-Aid

MP.Trey
10-08-2014, 04:19 PM
Kleenex

KyleKong
10-08-2014, 04:22 PM
Band-Aid - Adhesive strip is the product

Kleenx - Tissue is the product

Sneakers (Adidas shoe line in the 1950s) - Athletic shoes is the product

Xerox - a copy machine is the product

hateraid
10-08-2014, 04:39 PM
This is a Filipino thing:

Pental Pen

embersyc
10-08-2014, 04:53 PM
I've heard plenty of people call MP3 Players and Tablets iPods and iPads.

:mad:

embersyc
10-08-2014, 04:54 PM
Also Jello.

Tarik One
10-08-2014, 04:56 PM
This is a Filipino thing:

Pental Pen
Gatorade:D

ZeN
10-08-2014, 05:04 PM
I've heard plenty of people call MP3 Players and Tablets iPods and iPads.

:mad:
That annoys the hell out of me.

bdreason
10-08-2014, 05:20 PM
Ranch.

rezznor
10-08-2014, 05:29 PM
Walter-mart

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/47855679.jpg

L.Kizzle
10-08-2014, 06:54 PM
Butter

BasedTom
10-08-2014, 07:14 PM
xerox
coke

If you're not drinking kool-aid, **** you.. Wylers??, go **** yourself.
This doesn't make sense. Unless you're at a drive-thru or restaurant and don't know if they have either Pepsi or Coke, then in that case it's understood that you want one or the other because they're both the same thing.

In any other case, if I ask for a coke and someone hands me a grape soda or sprite...then that person is in the wrong. The opposite applies.

L.Kizzle
10-08-2014, 07:15 PM
This doesn't make sense. Unless you're at a drive-thru or restaurant and don't know if they have either Pepsi or Coke, then in that case it's understood that you want one or the other because they're both the same thing.

In any other case, if I ask for a coke and someone hands me a grape soda or sprite...then that person is in the wrong. The opposite applies.
:biggums:

hateraid
10-08-2014, 08:00 PM
Gatorade:D
:lol Repped

joe
10-08-2014, 08:32 PM
Back in the day: Nintendo. "Its not a Nintendo Mom its Sega, JEEZ"

Bless Mathews
10-08-2014, 08:40 PM
Weed

embersyc
10-09-2014, 06:54 AM
I suppose 'Donuts' fit this category as well. It even passes spell check, they are doughnuts ffs.

embersyc
10-09-2014, 06:56 AM
Back in the day: Nintendo. "Its not a Nintendo Mom its Sega, JEEZ"

Dear old mom use to call the first Playstation a Nintendo.

I think this one went away though finally.

ace23
10-09-2014, 07:12 AM
This doesn't make sense. Unless you're at a drive-thru or restaurant and don't know if they have either Pepsi or Coke, then in that case it's understood that you want one or the other because they're both the same thing.

In any other case, if I ask for a coke and someone hands me a grape soda or sprite...then that person is in the wrong. The opposite applies.
Here in Texas, some people use coke and soda interchangeably.

VIP2000
10-09-2014, 07:42 AM
Frisbee