In the UK: Hoover is what everyone called their vacuum cleaner. Can't stop for tea, I have the hoovering to do at home
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Roomba is a big one that is missing.
Onesie??? For real? All the others i already knew, but that one got me.
Vaseline, Velcro, Mace and Styrofoam aren't generic? The fuck? I didn't even know those were trademarked names. Vaseline maybe, but the other three are common enough that I was sure they were generic.
Super Hero is trade marked??? That one was surprising.
Realtor?
That's weirder than Duncan's claim on Yo-Yo getting rejected on a technicality, ninety-nine years late.
I've never heard Google, Uber or Zoom used unless it meant the specific company. "Google" became a verb, but I've never heard of someone saying they googled something on DuckDuckGo, for example.
You've never heard zoom used as a regular word to mean fast? The word itself is older than the program.
"Google it" means look it up on the Internet. My kids don't use Chrome, they use Google (probably call it that because it's the homepage of Chrome).
I've heard people say they're going to uber home. They sometimes use Lyft.
And I've definitely heard people say they were on a zoom call even when it was Microsoft Teams or Google ...what is the Google one called again? I don't remember anymore because people will say Google zoom call!!
A google zoom. (actually its meet)
TBF it's Google Chrome and it's owned by Google.
That's like complaining that someone who drives a Jeep Wrangler calls it a Jeep
I'd maybe add Solo Cups.
That one is weird for us Aussies since a 'Solo' for us is a local lemon squash drink
Hearing 'Solo Cup' I just think of a cup of Solo haha
This is fucking hook and loop.