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You are not a f*cking DJ. You’re an overpaid, untalented, cake-throwing c*nt.

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    #1652
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    jtsuited wrote: »
    ARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!

    It's Solpadeine. No H.
    People prounouncing it as if it has a h (or an f) actually drives me berserk. One of my many irritances.
    Pedantry is one of mine. ;)

    In fairness though, I am a bit of a spell check nazi too, but in this case it was a proper noun so I'll let myself off with it.


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    #1653
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    francois wrote: »
    Even worse is the confusion over loose/lose, that particularly gets on my wick

    jesus when I joined boards it was for the poker forum and every day there was a thread where someone would have to be corrected on the lose/loose thing.


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    #1654
    ianuss
    Registered Users Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭ianuss


    jtsuited wrote: »
    Is it not sticky back plastic if not using the tradename?

    Or was it actually called cellotape before the brandname?

    I would imagine they changed the c to an s to avoid being so instrument specific. Celiists aren't a big market like.


    Yes, it was cellotape before the brand name.


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    #1655
    Pace2008
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,587 ✭✭✭Pace2008


    ianuss wrote: »
    Sorry, I don't care what the name of the company is. The sh1t you use to stick to stuff is spelt cellotape. End of.

    I know the whole hoover/vacum cleaner and biro/pen thing. But that doesn't take away from the fact that people are eroneously using brands.
    It's a genericised trademark. There is no such word as "cellotape."


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    #1656
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    ianuss wrote: »
    Yes, it was cellotape before the brand name.

    done and done then.


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    #1657
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Well the fact you can't find any dictionary reference online to the mention of Cellotape would suggest that the manufacturers of Sellotape have been quite vigilant and I reckon the only way they could block the use of the word cellotape is if they could prove it was a corruption of their brand name. I'm probably wrong but that's my reading on it.


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    #1658
    francois
    Registered Users Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭francois


    Android 666 wrote: »
    Well the fact you can't find any dictionary reference online to the mention of Cellotape would suggest that the manufacturers of Sellotape have been quite vigilant and I reckon the only way they could block the use of the word cellotape is if they could prove it was a corruption of their brand name. I'm probably wrong but that's my reading on it.

    A sticky situation eh?


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    #1659
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    You see this is why we need a dedicated 'Adhesive History and Nomenclature' forum. I'm sick to the teeth of saying it.


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    #1660
    francois
    Registered Users Posts: 3,476 ✭✭✭francois


    jtsuited wrote: »
    You see this is why we need a dedicated 'Adhesive History and Nomenclature' forum. I'm sick to the teeth of saying it.

    sounds like a good new name for the thread


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    #1661
    ianuss
    Registered Users Posts: 3,019 ✭✭✭ianuss


    Pace2008 wrote: »
    It's a genericised trademark. There is no such word as "cellotape."

    While I'm loath to quote wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellotape), which mentions a change from 'C' to 'S' for branding purposes. I must admit that I'm struggling to find the proof I had before.


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    #1662
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    ianuss wrote: »
    Sorry, I don't care what the name of the company is. The sh1t you use to stick to stuff is spelt cellotape. End of.

    I know the whole hoover/vacum cleaner and biro/pen thing. But that doesn't take away from the fact that people are eroneously using brand names.

    No the sh¡t you use to stick stuff is self adhesive tape.

    If I use my biro to write my name on a xeroxed sheet and then c(s)ellotape it to my hoover I'd be exhausted from all the product placement.


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    #1663
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    Android 666 wrote: »
    No the sh¡t you use to stick stuff is self adhesive tape.

    If I use my biro to write my name on a xeroxed sheet and then c(s)ellotape it to my hoover I'd be exhausted from all the product placement.

    But if carlsberg did do product placement.........


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    #1664
    BaZmO*
    Registered Users Posts: 18,625 ✭✭✭✭BaZmO*


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0rtaDDSvxY


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    #1665
    joker77
    Registered Users Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    For those who haven't seen (Prenderville related):
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68829479&postcount=4408


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    #1666
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Ooh look, students rioting :

    http://twitpic.com/33kmrn


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    #1667
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    Haha, looks like some students occupied the department of finance offices. Had a few mates who did that a few years ago. Didn't even make the 9 o clock news at the time.


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    #1668
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    jtsuited wrote: »
    Haha, looks like some students occupied the department of finance offices. Had a few mates who did that a few years ago. Didn't even make the 9 o clock news at the time.

    Its already making the news as we speak, sent straight to my reporter mate, lol....

    :p


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    #1669
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    joker77 wrote: »
    For those who haven't seen (Prenderville related):
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68829479&postcount=4408

    As I read somewhere else today:

    He should have left the langer in the hangar.


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    #1670
    joker77
    Registered Users Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Still no mention on the Indo website... RTE and Irish Times have it. Odd.


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    #1671
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    I'd say the students are gonna get a good crowd of bystanders who are just thinkin 'fcuk this, may as well get involved' on the way to the dole office. More power to them imo!

    Maybe this could be the mini-riot that causes some change. Ah my youth is being reignited. Anybody wanna go lynch the dude from the Wi-Max ad? Not really related but a lynching is a lynching and that cúnt is asking for it.


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    #1672
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Ooh look, students rioting :

    http://twitpic.com/33kmrn

    Nah, its the police doing a flash mob, they all started singing 'Go West' and then they all just disappeared. It was hiwarious…


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    #1673
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Its already making the news as we speak, sent straight to my reporter mate, lol....

    :p

    see this is the thing. back then, the news media were very very very pro-government. You had to break a window at least to get some coverage. And even then you'd be portrayed as some lefty nutbag (which mightn't have been entirely inaccurate).


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    #1674
    joker77
    Registered Users Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    Tempted to take a stroll down...

    The first I heard of it was after lunch when 2 of the company directors (one being the MD) strolled through it accidentally.

    I suppose I'm not a student, am I alone though? Did this pass under the radar or did I just not hear anything beforehand?


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    #1675
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    Fieldog wrote: »
    Ooh look, students rioting :

    http://twitpic.com/33kmrn

    ah bollocks....SWP flags evident at the frontline. Those guys are soft cúnts. "Ogra Sinn Fein to the front desk. Ogra Sinn Fein to the front desk."


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    #1676
    Is mise le key
    Registered Users Posts: 3,344 ✭✭✭Is mise le key


    jtsuited wrote: »
    I'd say the students are gonna get a good crowd of bystanders who are just thinkin 'fcuk this, may as well get involved' on the way to the dole office. More power to them imo!

    Maybe this could be the mini-riot that causes some change. Ah my youth is being reignited. Anybody wanna go lynch the dude from the Wi-Max ad? Not really related but a lynching is a lynching and that cúnt is asking for it.

    Ahh the anarchistic force is strong within you young jedi, join with me & together we can...........

    Wait, no that was a movie, getting a little carried away here:D


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    #1677
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭jtsuited


    joker77 wrote: »
    Tempted to take a stroll down...

    The first I heard of it was after lunch when 2 of the company directors (one being the MD) strolled through it accidentally.

    I suppose I'm not a student, am I alone though? Did this pass under the radar or did I just not hear anything beforehand?

    I didn't hear anything about it til today on facebook when a load of people i knew were saying they were on their way in. And not exactly the beret-wearing Marx quoting idealists you usually find going to these things with gusto.


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    #1678
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,577 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Android 666 wrote: »
    As I read somewhere else today:

    He should have left the langer in the hangar.

    http://i55.tinypic.com/plr4j.jpg


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    #1679
    jimi_t2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,002 ✭✭✭jimi_t2


    148542_497153466578_698106578_7167798_7695425_n.jpg


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    #1680
    Android 666
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,577 ✭✭✭Android 666


    jtsuited wrote: »
    I didn't hear anything about it til today on facebook when a load of people i knew were saying they were on their way in. And not exactly the beret-wearing Marx quoting idealists you usually find going to these things with gusto.

    Hey Groucho Marx rocked! I'll quote him whenever I want!

    I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

    And the missus says the beret makes me look artistic (at least I think she said artistic, or was it autistic?)


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    #1681
    joker77
    Registered Users Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭joker77


    The media seem to be caught on the hop a little as well - the main pictures on the Irish times site are coming from people's twitpics


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