Products with badly chosen names

[newfhouse]

The name has changed now but there was a block of retirement apartments just up the road called Purley Gate.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/nov/12/longtermcare.uknews

 

[12boy]

When Chevrolet tried to sell the Nova small sedan in S America, no one bought it until they called it a Caribe. No va in Spanish means it doesn't go.

 

[FrankCrank]

A common one at the supermarket here

 

[raleighnut]

Ah, the Surtees TS19 of 1976...

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And no, it wasn't James Hunt's car... Alan Jones and Patrick Tambay were the team's drivers.

Likewise Motorcycles

Much nicer race number too

 

[raleighnut]

If memory serves right it's Jamie Withams bike.

 

[Drago]

There's thr famous Wayne Kerr, a manufacturer of electronic test gear.

Even worse, its a made up name, comprised of the founders parents surnames, or somesuch. So bad enough to be a w*****, but to go put of your way to choose to be one seems mad.

 

[Mike Ayling]

In the 70's, Jasper Carrot used to go on about an Aussie brand of sticky tape called Durex...could be amusing going into a UK stationery shop asking for a roll. Any Aussies can confirm this?. And apparently, Durex did sponsor a race car but it ended up in the pit stop....with a puncture.

Correct

 

[TheDoctor]

I don't have a photo, but Aldi used to sell 'Disco Biscuits'.
They're called something else now...

 

[Drago]

Eerrrmmmm...

I think, unsurprisingly, that they are Australian.

 

[rikki]

Eerrrmmmm...

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I think, unsurprisingly, that they are Australian.

Never seen them, but I shall look out for some.

 

[rikki]

In the 70's, Jasper Carrot used to go on about an Aussie brand of sticky tape called Durex...could be amusing going into a UK stationery shop asking for a roll. Any Aussies can confirm this?. And apparently, Durex did sponsor a race car but it ended up in the pit stop....with a puncture.

Durex is sticky tape (and sometimes a brand of condoms).

I was mocked in an office in London when I said that I had durex and a rubber in my desk drawer.

Rubbers and durex are in the stationery aisle at the supermarket.

 

[Fnaar]

This used to be on my cycling commute to work ... a friend asked if they have a gynaecologisits there. in Wideopen, near Newcastle.

 

[captain nemo1701]

In Glastonbury, there's a bakery called Burns the Bread. In Bristol, there are two motorcycle firms called Piston Broke & Wheel Torque...say them quickly if you missed the joke.

 

[Juan Kog]

In the 70's, Jasper Carrot used to go on about an Aussie brand of sticky tape called Durex...could be amusing going into a UK stationery shop asking for a roll. Any Aussies can confirm this?. And apparently, Durex did sponsor a race car but it ended up in the pit stop....with a puncture.

My now retired BiL was working as coach driver in the early 80’s . Once when he had a party of Australians on board , a young lady approached him and asked did he have any Durex , he told me he was surprised until he realised she only wanted sellotape.

 

[swee'pea99]

Eerrrmmmm...

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I think, unsurprisingly, that they are Australian.

Aussies love playing up their Aussieness. Bless them.