Stupid names for everyday things

[mustang1]

... and then everyone wanted to be a CXO. First it was CEO. And I never figured out what the difference between CTO and CIO was (chief information officer Vs their tecc officer).

Also, everyone these days is a Director or Vice President. The corp world is a messy place.

And wth is an elfanashoogan?

 

[Drago]

Roly's Fudge Pantry at Ilfracombe had a big sign in their window, several years ago, reading..........'Fudge Packers Wanted - Apply Within'.

I know a chap who drives a forklift at a sweetie factory and loads the lorries. That's ^^^ what he says his job is if you ask.

 

[mustang1]

2.0.

Wth is a two dot oh? Web Marketing 2.0. reclaim yourself, 2.0. and that movie Die Hard 4.0.
The stupid plums (2.0).

 

[MichaelW2]

Pretty much everything in a coffee shop had a stupid name.

 

[goo_mason]

Nearly forgot: when did we start referring to dogs as 'doggos' rather than dogs/doggies and pups as "puppers" rather than pups/puppies?

It seems to be a thing on social media these days, but it really needs to stop...

 

[MontyVeda]

Is the phrase 'calling a spade a spade' something to do with the building trade or something to do with how one refers to a person of African origin?

 

[Brains]

I went to a good school, it was "approved"

Mine was ever better!
"Special Needs" !

 

[Brains]

Is the phrase 'calling a spade a spade' something to do with the building trade or something to do with how one refers to a person of African origin?

To "call a spade a spade" is a figurative expression. It is also referred to as "let's call a spade a spade, not a gardening tool" which refers to calling something "as it is",[1] that is, by its right or proper name, without "beating about the bush"—being outspoken about it, truthfully, frankly, and directly, even to the point of being blunt or rude, and even if the subject is considered coarse, impolite, or unpleasant.

The idiom originates in the classical Greek of Plutarch's Apophthegmata Laconica, and was introduced into the English language in 1542 in Nicolas Udall's translation of the Apophthegmes, where Erasmus had seemingly replaced Plutarch's images of "trough" and "fig" with the more familiar "spade."

 

[MichaelW2]

Mine was ever better!
"Special Needs" !

Now SEND

 

[Brains]

Now SEND

I take it 'ESN' is no longer PC ?
(Educationally Sub Normal)

 

[tom73]

Before payments went electronic pension books and the like used to be printed in house by the DWP. The printing machines used to be housed in some old army huts round the back. Each book was stamped by one of two members of staff using a machine called a bonker. Think of the fun when asked at party what do you for job.

 

[Threevok]

I used to work in IT for a company that sold toilet supplies to hotels, pubs and offices etc

The code for sanitary towel dispensers was STDs

We had a lot of fun with that particular abbreviation

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Vision operative = window cleaner...

 

[steveindenmark]

Bicycling. An Americanism for riding a bike. I dont know why, but I dislike it.

 

[Drago]

Optometrist. What was wrong with being an optician?

And dentists now being called 'Doctor', despite not having a doctoral degree. What's that about?