Flypast to honour US airmen.

@sonhouse said
@wolfgang59

I just saw 'Duck Tape' for sale at Kmart.

Good for you!

@sonhouse said
@wolfgang59

I just saw 'Duck Tape' for sale at Kmart.

Prove it.

@wolfgang59 said
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_tape doesn't exist though! 😉

Also Duck would not have been able to register "Duck Tape"
if that was already in use as a generic term.

However it seems so many are wrong that it is now "acceptable".

Like "septagon" entering some dictionaries. DISGUSTING!

If you were doing a repair job in your basement with a friend helping, and you
asked him to hand you the duck tape, would he say, "Sorry, Wolfie, I don't know
what you're talking about"?

@handyandy said
If you were doing a repair job in your basement with a friend helping, and you
asked him to hand you the duck tape, would he say, "Sorry, Wolfie, I don't know
what you're talking about"?

Wolfie has standards. He’s not some savage wandering the hills with a sheep skin loincloth.

@sonhouse said
@Hand-of-Hecate
fuk you assswipe. Prove me wrong.

Honestly Sonhouse, this is completely unacceptable. I am shocked and dismayed.

@handyandy said
If you were doing a repair job in your basement with a friend helping, and you
asked him to hand you the duck tape, would he say, "Sorry, Wolfie, I don't know
what you're talking about"?

Depends which friend - one would laugh at me and say "It's ducT tape"

If the point you are making is that people call it duck tape I agree ... but they are wrong (unless as we have established it is that brand)

Lots of people call duct tape duck tape.
Lots of people call heptagons septagons.
Lots of people call hippopotamuses hippopotami.
Lots of people call a die a dice.
Lots of people confuse affect and effect.
Lots of people confuse licence and license.

Lots of people are wrong.

@wolfgang59 said
4 thumbs down?
Anyone want to discuss that?

I heard 10 is a nice number 😉

@wolfgang59 said
Lots of people call duct tape duck tape.
Lots of people call heptagons septagons.
Lots of people call hippopotamuses hippopotami.
Lots of people call a die a dice.
Lots of people confuse affect and effect.
Lots of people confuse licence and license.

Lots of people are wrong.

Do you snarl and shake your fist while you recite this litany?

@handyandy said
Do you snarl and shake your fist while you recite this litany?

Damn ... I left my webcam on? 😆

@wolfgang59 said
@divegeester
OK ... fixed it for you!

Nobody cares where sonshouse lives. He’s not been burgled,
tied up with duck-tape® and sexually abused has he?

Do you think all burglars fussy about particular brands of duct tape?

Why is this bothering you ?

@divegeester said
Why is this bothering you ?

Not bothered.
Just a public service pointing out people's faux pas.
Does it bother you?

@wolfgang59 said
Not bothered.
Just a public service pointing out people's faux pas.
Does it bother you?

Only in that it’s not actually a “faux pas“ which is in fact ‘an embarrassing or tactless act or remark in a social situation’. Nevertheless I am satisfied that my presence here sufficiently annoys you such that focusing on it brings some small measure of joy to your online existence.

@handyandy said
Both duck and duct are acceptable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

Where do we stand on goose tape?