Alternative names used for certain products that aggravate the hell out of you

[digs]

@Atamasama

“Vegees” is a nonsense word, to be honest outside of the context of this thread I’d have no idea what it meant.

@Broomstick

It’s the way I talk, it is what I heard growing up.

This is pointless unless we know how you say it.

If you pronounce it the same as “veggies”, well that’s common usage. If it’s VEE’-jees (like the BeeGees, only less fun at cookouts), then I’d understand your “may be irritating to those outside the dialect” defense.

[Acsenray]

@Broomstick

Also called “duct” tape, as you can even see in small print on the image linked. It’s just that “duct” and “duck” are pretty close when you’re speaking that the one became the other.

OED attests “duck tape,” that is, tape made from cotton canvas duck cloth to 1899 – https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/58180

“Duct tape,” tape for ductwork, is a much more recent term-- recorded in 1965 by OED – Oxford English Dictionary

[Broomstick]

@needscoffee

@Broomstick

It’s the way I talk, it is what I heard growing up.

I think his/her point was that the word isn’t spelled “vegees”. It’s “veggies”.

Well, goodness, I’ll accept that chronic spelling errors are also annoying as heck, too!

For the record, I pronounce it “VEH-geez”, but I always thought of it as an informal abbreviation of “vegetables” and don’t get too hung up about the details.

[Broomstick]

@Acsenray

@Broomstick

Also called “duct” tape, as you can even see in small print on the image linked. It’s just that “duct” and “duck” are pretty close when you’re speaking that the one became the other.

OED attests “duck tape,” that is, tape made from cotton canvas duck cloth to 1899 – Oxford English Dictionary

“Duct tape,” tape for ductwork, is a much more recent term-- recorded in 1965 by OED – Oxford English Dictionary

Yes, hence why I said “also” and not “originally”.

[kayaker]

@Broomstick

For the record, I pronounce it “VEH-geez”, but I always thought of it as an informal abbreviation of “vegetables” and don’t get too hung up about the details.

I got in trouble the other day because I was preparing dinner and my gf said that my main course (a pasta/meat thing) should be served with a veggie. I made french fries. My gf was upset, I pointed out that potatoes are a vegetable. She said maybe they are, but they are counted as a starch.

I never took home ec.

[Buck_Godot]

@JohnGalt

I hear you! (I’m in the same TV market.) Although I give them some credit, since there some other places such as the “Twin Cities”, “Quad Cities”, the "Metroplex’, etc.

Around my neck of the woods there is the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) for the DC metro area. Which I can’t help but automatically translate into Department of Motor Vehicles. So when I hear someone comment that “The DMV is home to a lot of good restaurants” my mind instantly thinks of an employee canteen.

@Atamasama

When people shorten pizza to “za”. No. If you talk about “za” I want to punch you.

I would agree with you 100% were it not for the fact that it gives me a convenient place to play my Z in scrabble.

[Broomstick]

@kayaker

I got in trouble the other day because I was preparing dinner and my gf said that my main course (a pasta/meat thing) should be served with a veggie. I made french fries. My gf was upset, I pointed out that potatoes are a vegetable. She said maybe they are, but they are counted as a starch.

I never took home ec.

I never took home ec, either, I opted for drafting and woodshop.

Potatoes are BOTH a vegetable and a starch, like tomatoes are BOTH a vegetable and a fruit. Context matters, and also how technically correct you want to be.

[RTFirefly]

@Buck_Godot

Around my neck of the woods there is the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) for the DC metro area. Which I can’t help but automatically translate into Department of Motor Vehicles. So when I hear someone comment that “The DMV is home to a lot of good restaurants” my mind instantly thinks of an employee canteen.

THANK YOU. Lord, do I ever hate this shorthand, and for exactly that reason. For as long as I can remember, ‘DMV’ has meant that place where you wait in line to get your license, title, and tags. That’s true for me even though I’ve been living in Maryland for the past >20 years, and it’s the MVA on this side of the Potomac.

Is it really too much trouble to say “the DC area” instead of “the DMV”? Are those extra two syllables going to be too much for the deejay to handle? (The radio tends to be where I hear it the most, especially DC-101.) Sheesh.

[Gatopescado]

@Senegoid

In one of those little stagecoach towns along I-80 in mid-Nevada there’s a cowboy museum of some sort.

The Cowboy Arts & Gear Museum is in beautiful Elko, indeed along I-80, but more towards the east side of the state. Stagecoach is on US-50 ( “The Loneliest Road in America” ) way out on the west side, and there is fuck-all worthy of note.

[LSLGuy]

@kayaker

I got in trouble the other day because I was preparing dinner and my gf said that my main course (a pasta/meat thing) should be served with a veggie. I made french fries. My gf was upset, I pointed out that potatoes are a vegetable. She said maybe they are, but they are counted as a starch.

I never took home ec.

Here’s an easy technique for keeping your plants straight. Apply each rule in order until you get a match:

1. Can you make wine from it? If yes, it’s fruit.
2. Can you make booze but not beer from it? If yes, it’s starch.
3. Can you make booze or beer from it? If yes, it’s grain.
4. It won’t make alcohol at all? If yes, it’s a) useless and b) vegetable.
5. By process of elimination, it isn’t edible. Or drinkable, which is what really matters.

You’re welcome.

[Saintly_Loser]

@Acsenray

OED attests “duck tape,” that is, tape made from cotton canvas duck cloth to 1899 – https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/58180

This sounds more like what we’d call gaffer’s tape today.

@Acsenray

“Duct tape,” tape for ductwork, is a much more recent term-- recorded in 1965 by OED – Oxford English Dictionary

Right, and it’s not cloth-based.

[BippityBoppityBoo]

@LSLGuy

You’re welcome

Need to post that in my kitchen. It’s great-thanks!

[Broomstick]

@Saintly_Loser

This sounds more like what we’d call gaffer’s tape today.

Gaffer’s tape and duck/duct tape do superficially resemble each other, but gaffer’s tape is pretty much always matte and leaves a hell of a lot less sticky residue when you remove it. Duck tape, on the other hand, is often shiny or metallic and usually leaves a mess behind.

[tuesdayweld]

This thread has resurrected the spirit of Andy Rooney - I kept hearing his voice inside my head while reading through the posts.

Neon signs. Taking fiber optics and LEDs out of the equation, when people refer to a neon sign chances are good the sign doesn’t contain any neon gas. Many “neon signs” contain argon gas (and mercury).

[D_Anconia]

Yes, it is an informal abbreviation of “vegetables”, but why do you insist on spelling it your own special way?

[california_jobcase]

Tinfoil. It isn’t tin. I bet no one posting here has ever seen tin foil. It’s aluminum, and says so right on the box.

I never heard anyone say tinfoil until I moved to Georgia. We always just called it foil in central Indiana.

[Atamasama]

I’ve always called it “aluminum foil”, I think the only time I’ve ever used “tin foil” is when it is followed by “hat”.

[digs]

Yeah, a lot of Q-anon/Sovcits use plain aluminum foil for their hats, which only block 4 1/2 G radiation.

[Senegoid]

@D_Anconia

Yes, it is an informal abbreviation of “vegetables”, but why do you insist on spelling it your own special way? 

Quite possibly just to aggravate the D_Anconia’s of the world, and successfully so it seems, which is plenty reason enough.

[Broomstick]

@Senegoid

Quite possibly just to aggravate the D_Anconia’s of the world, and successfully so it seems, which is plenty reason enough.

Got it in one.