I'm thinking things like "Same-sung" For Samsung, because all their products look kinda generic and boring, or Ford standing for "Fix Or Repair Daily" because of the engineering and build quality, or "McDiabetes", for obvious reasons.
I'm thinking things like "Same-sung" For Samsung, because all their products look kinda generic and boring, or Ford standing for "Fix Or Repair Daily" because of the engineering and build quality, or "McDiabetes", for obvious reasons.
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frank@sopuli.xyz · 82 pts · 2d
I mean microslop is pretty dang good
NewDark@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 2d
Less good but also M$
Skyline969@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 2d
Micro$lop
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 12 pts · 2d
palordrolap@fedia.io · 9 pts · 2d
I bet they wish people had stuck with "Micro$oft"
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I usually call them Microshaft
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
He already named his company after his dick
spiderhamster@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 2d
There's a gas station chain called Kum & Go but it's also referred to as Jizz and Jet or Ejaculate and Evacuate.
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 35 pts · 2d
Skeet & Yeet
Bust & Bounce
Nut & Bolt
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2d
Nut and Bolt is fucking great!
khepri@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Nut & Bolt is getting added to the repertoire. Something about how the double meaning relies on changing them from two nouns to two verbs tickles something.
EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Blow Your Load and Hit the Road
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Shoot your shot and ride your rod
khepri@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2d
With a name like that you could say they were screwed from the start.
There could be a whole thread just on the variations of that concept, but the most obvious for a gas station has to be "Pump and Dump"
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2d
I believe they just rebranded as Mavericks. At least the ones around me did.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d
Iirc, Maverick is/was its own chain. Maybe they got acquired. The name change seems like a good move.
Also, not to hail corporate too much, but the Maverick burritos are legitimately the best value meal for food to go in my area. About $7 for a big burrito that doesnt make me feel like shit, and that I can walk in the door and grab from under the heat lamp myself.
0ops@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 2d
Honestly I hate to sound like an ad but I love mavericks. A: like you said, the burritos kick ass, no fast food breakfast even comes close, but B: they have the best implemented self-checkout of any place I've ever been to. No interruptions for special offers (but tbf the same can't be said for their pumps), they seem to take every kind of card and tap, it's not laggy and slow, no companion app necessary. It's just scan burrito, scan drink, scan card, bolt. If I know what I want I can be in and out in like a minute.
blarghly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Second button down on either side of the screen mutes the ads. I keep a sharpie in my car and write it on the button.
CreativeAlias@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 2d
Wawa and royal farms blow maverick out of the water. Royal farms breakfast sandwiches are so good.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 49 pts · 2d
Swasticar
khepri@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2d
And their premier vehicle, the CyberStuck
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 2d
I have a queer friend that calls his GMC Yukon his Gay Man's Chariot. When we go places in it he usually initiates by saying something like "to the chariot"
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2d
That is both awesome and the best acronym for GMC I’ve heard. The best one I’d previously hears was Get My Chequebook.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 2d
Whole Foods -> Whole Paycheck
Walmart is its own insult.
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 3 pts · 1d
I’ve never understood this. Whole Foods consistently costs less than competitors in my area.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 23h
That is a nightmare, sorry to hear
Badabinski@kbin.earth · 21 pts · 2d
When I had a Samsung TV, I hated it intensely and printed a label that said "scamsung." That TV eventually went to the recyclers with that label still covering the Samsung one.
McDonalds→McDicks→McPenis. I'm mature.
lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1d
Some ppl say "Mc D" or "Micky D" so ive taken to calling it "Mickeys D" or "Mickeys Dicky"
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 14h
Where I am from we call it MacDuk
dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2d
The American embassy for McDonalds
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 2d
Found On Road Dead
Just Empty Every Pocket
Fix It Again Tony
Fidgetting@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d
I prefer "Find Immediate Alternative Transportation"
And wanted to add "Acutely Unreliable Despite Investment"
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1d
I haven't heard that one before! That's good!
TVA@thebrainbin.org · 6 pts · 1d
Drips Oil Dirt & Grime Everwhere (or everyday)
starlinguk@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Fehler In Allen Teilen (failure in all parts).
dangrousperson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 13h
Für Italiener ausreichende Technik
Bahnd@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
Ive heard Fix Or Repair Daily
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -1 pts · 1d
Ford: Fix It Again Tony
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 16 pts · 2d
There’s a trucking company called Swift that gets a lot of flak for hiring inexperienced drivers. One of the nicer ones is So What I Failed Training. The rudest one I’ve heard ends with Toddlers, you can probably work out the rest, but you probably shouldn’t.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 2d
Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking is my personal favorite
volore@scribe.disroot.org · 6 pts · 1d
See What I Fucked-up Today is another good one
Inucune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Sure Wish I Finished Training.
315am@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
See What I Fucked (up) Today
sibannac@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2d
"Home Despot" is one of my favs from Joey Santore of crime pays but botany doesn't.
LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d
I've heard "Home Desparate" before
Curious_Canid@piefed.ca · 13 pts · 1d
Always remember that Microsoft literally means small and limp.
bonesawmcl@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
It's Microslop now
87Six@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
So, I guess, the same? LOL
palordrolap@fedia.io · 13 pts · 2d
Nintendon't on account of their rabid intellectual property protection and litigious nature.
Works as both what they might say to would-be infringers as well as advice to avoid them. (Which people ignore because Zelda, Mario and childhood memories.)
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 2d
Sega started that. “Sega does what Nintendon’t.” Going back to the 80s. Maybe 90s.
palordrolap@fedia.io · 3 pts · 2d
Interesting. For as long as I've been alive, it hasn't been legal here (UK) for a brand to specifically name and disparage another brand in their advertising like that. (This doesn't apply to political parties, for "reasons", but I digress.)
That is, I'm not sure how it came to be in my head. I had thought I had come up with it independently, but I have to admit there's a chance I've seen someone else use it over the intervening decades, and it has ultimately come from the advertising you're quoting.
Davel23@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2d
That slogan was used for ads comparing the Genesis to the Super Nintendo. The SNES released in 1991 in North America so it's no older than that.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 11 pts · 1d
Electronic Farts
Cockstar Games
Ubibad (pronounced You Be Bad)
Micro$haft (pre-MicroSlop era)
Nintendon't (thank you, SEGA)
Jizzard-Gotnovision
87Six@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
just Electronic
The arts are missing
BladeFederation@piefed.social · 8 pts · 1d
Jimmy Johns: similar to Pei Wei & PF Chang's, there is a fancier, more expensive version of the restaurant named James Jonathan.
Fiat: Fix It Again Tony 🤌🏻🤌🏻
Google: it used to be an in joke with my friends to say "giggle it" instead of google it. Now we don't use google of course...
Best Buy: Worst Buy
Target: it is pronounced "tar-jay" because it is the fancy version of Walmart
711 was a part time job!
Passerby6497@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I always called BestBuy Worst Purchase
brap@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d
Fiat: Fix It Again Tomorrow, Lotus: Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 7 pts · 2d
Ford = Found On Road Dead
Dodge (n.) - To avoid
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
And, Fix It Again, Tony.
Bruncvik@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
I'd tell you what Pontiac stood for, if it was still the 1970s. It hasn't been politically correct since then.
Triumph@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2d
Mopar: Nopower
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 2d
Dear Old Dad’s Garage Experiment is what we used to call Dodge back in the day.
CptHacke@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1d
F*ckin' Old Rebuilt Dodge
defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 1d
Samsung --> Samsucks
PlayStation --> PayStation (Not a company name, but close enough)
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
NoPayStation is software used to download PS games to install on consoles with custom firmware. (I'm not sure if it downloads from PSN or just pirated copies from somewhere.)
DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2d
Food court near me named Choices gets called "Chances".
Pontiac stands for Poor Old Neanderthal Thinks It's A Cadillac.
Donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
When I grew up it wasn't neanderthal 🫤
solrize@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 2d
Some friendlier ones. There was once an expensive camera brand called "Exakta" but Exakta owners affectionately called them "Approxima".
I worked near a slightly fancy Chinese restaurant called Royal East but my coworkers (who went there often) liked to call it "Royal Eats".
There was a nearby supermarket called Purity Supreme but people called it Poverty Supreme. That was waaaay before Whole Foods.
Amherst, Massachusetts was sometimes anagrammed to "Hamster". I mean you could address letters that way and they'd get there.
luthis@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 2d
McDoogles and Brogger Krog for mcds and burger king. Not sure why..
Dookieman12@piefed.social · 5 pts · 2d
Cock-a-Cola
Pisspi
Dr. Pecker
Shitzza Hut
Little Weiners
Mountain DooDoo
Ball-Mart
Worst Buy
Shams Club
Panda Sex Press
Sub-standard Way
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2d
Pizza Slut for Pizza Hut
blackbrook@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 1d
Charbucks
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Starfucks
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org · 5 pts · 2d
I sometimes call McDonalds „The Gilded Seagull Inn“
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Fucking amazing. Some DnD game master is absolutely going to steal that and see how long it takes one of the players to break character.
toiletobserver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Walmart = Wally world Target = tarj mahal
Inucune@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Throwing Tar'je in the ring.
pdxfed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
Comcrap Slaveway Krueger Home Despot
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 4 pts · 2d
Accidenture.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
In our household McDonald's is nearly universally McZargald's, based on the Calvin and Hobbes strip. They're not much good for anything except a reliable place to stop and take a leak when you're on the hyperspace bypass anyway.
Similarly, I don't think anyone in my circle has referred to that Baja Blast, chalupa, and fried chicken establishment as anything other than "Cluckin' Bell" for several decades thanks to the early 3D GTA games.
Before they became Microslop, they were Micro$haft in the IT world. The double entendre is self explanatory.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d
I still call it reddit. It is already the name of a joke of a corporation.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 2d
McDeath
Burger Death
Needless Markups
315am@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6h
Delta
Don’t Expect Luggage To Arrive
-or-
Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 23h
Idiots Become Managers
Broadcum
But I've also just seen IBM and broadcom be used a verb for price hikes or rug pulls.
innermachine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5h
Home cheapo (home depot) Hazzard fraught (hobo freight) Clown fair (town fair) Found on road dead (Ford) Bonus: what do u call a f150 with a dual exhaust? A wheelbarrow with heated grips. Fix it again tony (fiat) Just empty every pocket (jeep) Hanafartz (hannafords)
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 5h
Constantly Having Every Vehicle Recalled Over Lame Engineering Techniques (Chevrolet)
mrmrguy@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 6h
Warmart
HamsterRage@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 22h
Everybody in Canada knows, "Crappy Tire".
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
disconnectikacio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5h
Microslop, microcrap, goo-gle
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 1d
How Not To Build
Xatolos@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 22h
Microslop, crApple, Scroogle (i know its from that lame MS commercial)
vortexal@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 5h
I've always like Microshaft, I don't know if anyone still uses that since every one calls them Microslop now.
I also used to see people use Microshit occasionally.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 1 pts · 1h
I will never respect Facebook's attempted rebranding, especially not a rebranding based on the name of their hilariously failed product.
facebook is facebook. instagram is facebook. whatsapp is facebook.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1d
Not a corporation, but my late uncle used to call the show "Big Brother" the big bother
Canopyflyer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
Flip Over Read Directions
Home Despot
Blood Bath and Beyond
Wally World: But not for Walmart. When I was a teenager I worked for a garden center called "Walnut Ridge" and everyone that worked there referred to as that.
Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 5h
Purolater not Puronow instead of Purolator
Day & Loss instead of Day & Ross
Loosit instead of Loomis.
Obviously I work in shipping and have to deal with a lot of courier companies
STUNT_GRANNY@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Whenever my grandmother talks about United Parcel Service, she always says "ups", one syllable, instead of U-P-S like most people do.
Lately though, whenever she gets a package that arrives damaged, she calls them "Oops".
Whenever I'd encounter 18-wheelers out on the road, everyone has the usual jokes about Swift. Sure Wish I'd Finished Training, Stevie Wonder's Institute For Trucking, etc. but there's jokes for every large trucking company.
TMC: Turtles Moving Cargo
Prime Inc: Please Remember, I'm Missouri Educated
CRST: Crash 'n Roll Stunt Team
U.S. Express becomes Useless Express in my head. The list goes on.
banause@feddit.org · 1 pts · 5h
Edeker
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 23h
Luis vattion but pronounced like a dude you met in New York.
Chanel like Channel
Annie's for ana crombe and finch
"BD"H&M
Gucci but pronounced the same as Buc-ees
I just really hate those brands lol. I heard a homeless man cussing them out to himself while fishing talking about burning one down. I have more respect for him then those brands, so yeah fuck em
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 6h
Blows hardware store.
dangrousperson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 13h
The Ford one made me think of a good one from old Top Gear:
LOTUS - Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious