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"I need an Eskey" is still better than asking for the "Chully bun".

That pisses me the hell off. Mind you, that speaks to the sheer volume of market share they hold.

This speaks to the volume of the market share they all hold (or once held). This form of colloquialism irks me, but at times things are just so synonymous with a particular brand that I don't really mind it. I can understand an older person who isn't tech-savvy referring to MP3 players as iPods. On MSN earlier you actually referred to my MP3 player as an iPod. :P

That Band-Aid response I have used before. Freudian slip on my part, until he showed me his cut... "actually, skip Bunnings, head to the medical centre." :lol:

I thought you'd said you bought an ipod a couple of weeks back. I forgot you had that Cowon.

Fair enough.

I lol'd.

At least we don't say "go xerox it" instead of "photocopy it" or "get a kleenex" instead of tissue.

I hate the iPod reference too. It just shows ignorance of better products out there.

My mates called toasties "Breville's". His whole family does... I don't fucking know why perhaps they have had a Breville appliance to make them for years or something. That pisses me off.

My grandmother calls the vacuum cleaner a "Hoover". Even though "Hoover" is a brand and she doesn't have a "Hoover". :lol:

My grandfather calls any device that can produce the soothing sounds of radio ABC Victoria a wireless, even if it happens to be a CD player in a car.

Bout time you showed up with that...

The saying "I could care less". Even more so if you were to try and explain to the person how this is wrong, as they'd just retort, "I could care less". Brain explosion.

I'm very dissapointed in Imno. I was expecting him to have posted it almost straight away.

My family call them 'Breville's'. It annoys me when they say it too.

This is an English use of language. Jaffals or toasties are called Brevilles because they were the popular brand that made the device that cooks them. The same goes for Sharpies (felt tip permenant markers), Cello Tape (sticky tape) Print Stick (glue stick) and the list goes on.

I call them Jaffels.

Must be an Aussie thing

/racist card :P

I also call it a jaffal, but my wife's family call them roastie toasties :lol: cracks me up every time I hear it!

I would always get pulled up on how I pronounce things, for example I say oven instead of uven like 99% of people born in Australia - used to crack up my staff when I ran a pizza store.

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The same mistake is done with metre. In the Australian English I was taught metre is a unit of length, a meter is a device used to measure something. In American English only meter is acceptable. It pisses me off when spell check keeps on trying to correct my Australian English to American English or people tell me I am wrong for writing it the correct way.

Roastie toasties FTW! :lol:

Roastie Toasties?

Which part of a toaster has an oven that roasts bread?

only the best dam kind :lol:

I think you will find that sandwich presses (or whatever you want to call them) toast the bread but 'roast' the ingredients inside.

Seems like roastie toasties are my new fav name for toasted sandwiches.

Other wise known as a sandwhich press. Not a cafe press but one that turns the sandwhich into two little pockets of hot goodness.

oh god, how embarrasing :oops: :lol: i meant you're, i know it's you're, that was just an honest mistake

:lol: Yeah I know what it is. What I was getting at was how did that name come about? Roasting is done in an oven for meat. Putting bread in an oven is baking. And this is doing neither.


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Original content. Yay!

Hoover is the one that really pisses me off. As I said before, same thing with Esky.

Or when it's the other way around, when people call a Hills Hoist a Clothes Line. It's not a clothes line, it's a Hills Hoist.

:lol: I ALWAYS call it a clothes line.

A Hills Hoist the colloquial term for a rotary clothes line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hills_Hoist

There are specific patents to the design that makes it different to a standard rotary clothes line (fucked if I know what).

So you agree that it's a rotary clothesline, thus a clothesline :roll:

Unique features and patents or not, it serves the same purpose. By definition a clothes line is simply any cord strung between two points to hang clothes on.

Actualy, by definition a clothes line is a cord strung between two points with clothes on it, otherwise it's just a cord strung between two points.