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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[–] 82 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I mean microslop is pretty dang good

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  • [–] 49 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    There's a gas station chain called Kum & Go but it's also referred to as Jizz and Jet or Ejaculate and Evacuate.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Skeet & Yeet

    Bust & Bounce

    Nut & Bolt

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 3 months ago*

    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"

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I believe they just rebranded as Mavericks. At least the ones around me did.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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"

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Whole Foods -> Whole Paycheck

    Walmart is its own insult.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Found On Road Dead

    Just Empty Every Pocket

    Fix It Again Tony

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    The American embassy for McDonalds

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    "Home Despot" is one of my favs from Joey Santore of crime pays but botany doesn't.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Always remember that Microsoft literally means small and limp.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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.)

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Sega started that. “Sega does what Nintendon’t.” Going back to the 80s. Maybe 90s.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Electronic Farts

    Cockstar Games

    Ubibad (pronounced You Be Bad)

    Micro$haft (pre-MicroSlop era)

    Nintendon't (thank you, SEGA)

    Jizzard-Gotnovision

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ford = Found On Road Dead

    Dodge (n.) - To avoid

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Samsung --> Samsucks

    PlayStation --> PayStation (Not a company name, but relevant enough)

    Edit: more names I came up with (I don't use all of these but they are reserved in case I have to):

    Roblox --> Blowblox

    Discord --> Disscord

    Apple --> Crapple

    McDonald's --> FakeDonald's

    Dunkin --> Bunkin

    Sam's Club --> Scam's Club

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Food court near me named Choices gets called "Chances".

    Pontiac stands for Poor Old Neanderthal Thinks It's A Cadillac.

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    Fiat: Fix It Again Tomorrow, Lotus: Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious

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    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.

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    McDoogles and Brogger Krog for mcds and burger king. Not sure why..

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Comcrap Slaveway Krueger Home Despot

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Walmart = Wally world Target = tarj mahal

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    Idiots Become Managers

    Broadcum

    But I've also just seen IBM and broadcom be used a verb for price hikes or rug pulls.

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    Delta

    Don’t Expect Luggage To Arrive

    -or-

    Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    I still call it reddit. It is already the name of a joke of a corporation.

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    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Everybody in Canada knows, "Crappy Tire".

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    Microslop, microcrap, goo-gle

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    McDeath

    Burger Death

    Needless Markups

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Cock-a-Cola

    Pisspi

    Dr. Pecker

    Shitzza Hut

    Little Weiners

    Mountain DooDoo

    Ball-Mart

    Worst Buy

    Shams Club

    Panda Sex Press

    Sub-standard Way

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    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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    Microslop, crApple, Scroogle (i know its from that lame MS commercial)

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    • Home Derpo - because you'd have to be brain damaged to be there
    • Taco Hell - sat in line for two hours because there was no escape, still got my order wrong
    • Dairy Tween - every shift nothing but little kids working. still better than taco hell.
    • seXBox - it's a box, for self pleasure 🤷
    • cornhub - corn goes in, corn goes out
    • Micky Deez nuts (where you can order a mcderble quatah poundah)
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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Not a corporation, but my late uncle used to call the show "Big Brother" the big bother

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    How Not To Build

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    BMW: Bring Moms Wallet

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    My family calls Au Bon Pain "House of Pain". We also say Pantera Bread and Dimmu Burger (for Burger King).

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    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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.

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    Blows hardware store.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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

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    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

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