Got this today and the qualities pretty good...

[welsh dragon]

Jesus. I think I have just wondered Into an episode of the twilight zone. To Capital or not to capital.

Any how. As so often happens penny wise and pound foolish is the sayjng isn't it? If it seems too cheap and too cheap, there is a very good reason. Because it's a fake. we often think we are getting a bargain, until the item fails. We have all done it, well most of us anyway.

i just bought a bog standard giro helmet, not that i use it anyway.. Is this thread still on topic by the way or has it gone orf on a tangent somewhere.

 

[screenman]

I bought a fake banana once, that was hard to swallow.


My favourite business saying is, nobody ever regrets buying quality.

 

[Katherine]

Interesting word, hoover.

Originally a trade name, it has now acquired its own meaning - a vacuum cleaner.

Another one is biro - originally a BIC trade name, it now means ballpoint pen.

Which leads me to a thorny problem - capitals or not?

My view is the word should be capped when it's used to describe a product of the company, but not when using its new meaning.

Words derived from names are called eponyms. There are a lot of eponymous terms in the medical world.

 

[welsh dragon]

I bought a fake banana once, that was hard to swallow.


My favourite business saying is, nobody ever regrets buying quality.

. Your jokes are hard to swallow.

 

[blackgoff]

Found this sticker inside...

 

[RichardB]

Which leads me to a thorny problem - capitals or not?

My view is the word should be capped when it's used to describe a product of the company, but not when using its new meaning.

Apple autocorrect loves to capitalise. I get fed up of writing tarmac, only to find it has been changed to Tarmac. Once something has been in the language for decades and no-one remembers the original derivation, it's surely time to treat it like a normal noun. And as for Internet ... since when has The Internet been deserving of Capital Letters? You might as well talk about the Radio or reading a Newspaper.

 

[Thomk]

Can't disagree.

I nearly added Thomas Crapper as the origin for the slang toilet/excrement words.

But not so, according to wiki:

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

The most well known and oft quoted is of course a Durgo, used as a generic name for an AAV.

 

[steve50]

All about fake bicycle parts and helmets, interesting reading, http://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/components/catch-counterfeiter-sketchy-world-fake-bike-gear

 

[Profpointy]

We have not heard it on this one yet, but often somebody pops up with only a muppet or idiot etc. would spend more than that etc. Now assuming that the person who would not spend it is cleverer than the idiot would it be correct to think they have more money to spend.

At the risk of being (slightly) serious, if you don't pay too much for a dull item you can spend more where there's value in it. By spending £50 on a Seiko rather than £5k on a rolex, I can buy a Hilleberg (or two), a half-way decent bike and a luxury car (not new).

 

[screenman]

But if a Rolex is your desire and the other things are not is that muppetry.

 

[Profpointy]

But if a Rolex is your desire and the other things are not is that muppetry.

but it isn't so it's not :-)

And anyway, the Rolex is objecively inferior to the Seiko (it's less good at keeping time) , whilst the Hilleberg is objecively superior to most other tents, so the question is then one of value

 

[roadrash]

each to their own, some save and dont spend, some spend and dont save, some cant afford to do either
i dont see why one or the other matters to anyone else but the person in question

 

[Profpointy]

each to their own, some save and dont spend, some spend and dont save, some cant afford to do either
i dont see why one or the other matters to anyone else but the person in question

For all that, I've rarely if ever regretted buying the expensive version, but I can think of a few things where it really would be a waste of money and even a worse product

 

[screenman]

Back to my post, nobody regrets buying quality. Then the problems begin.

 

[blackgoff]

My picture indicating the safety certificate. inside the helmet itself like many I've had over the years.



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