Yeah, I was looking up some list of things to do to work on being more environmentally friendly awhile ago and stop chewing most gum was on there. 🤯 They don’t advertise that one much.
I never had glasses out of actual glass in the 33 years of my life. But you can still easily get them if you want. They don't scratch as easily as the polycarbonate ones, but break more easily and are heavier. If you need very strong correction, glass isn't practical because of the weight.
Might be unlikely due to the eyeglass cartel, but there could be a producer out there making glasses out of sapphire or one of Corning's glass formulations.
Saran wrap is my favorite example. Saran is a polymer (trade name for PVDC), which is widely known for only one thing - saran wrap - except saran wrap is now made of polyethylene. Which is an inferior product (3000x higher oxygen permeability), but it's better for the environment.
Saran Wrap is just Americans using a brand name as a common noun - like band-aid. It’s got a lot of other common names in places that’s not the dominant brand like cling wrap, cling film, plastic wrap.
Saran was the name of the plastic before it was the name of a plastic wrap. Saran is the common/brand name for PVDC, in the same way as teflon is the common/brand name for PTFE, plexiglass is the common/brand name for PMMA, etc.
Saran wrap is named after the plastic, not the other way around.
But it's no longer made from saran. Again, despite saran being an unambigously better polymer for the role. You don't want chlorinated polymers going into incinerators, as they form dioxins, furans, HCl, etc.
Saran is still used in certain specialty applications where the O2 barrier is key.
Irons (he tools used to flatten fabric) have been largely aluminum since like the 50s. Sometimes stainless, which I would argue is still under the umbrella of "iron".
I don't know if I'd argue that stainless steel is iron. Though it does contain iron as an alloy it has its own properties very different from iron. Much of it isn't even ferromagnetic
It's not, or not in any usage I've come across. It'd be quite hard to explain why in an internally consistent way though. Aluminium alloys have similar or higher levels of alloying elements, as well as different properties to pure aluminium, but are generally still referred to as aluminium.
The polymer chains are molecules, the molecules in many solid plastics (such as polycarbonates) are arranged in an amorphous structure, which I think makes them a "glass", but I'm not a materials scientist. Almost no plastics are crystals.
It was Berliner, but if you were being harsh you could have said he was calling himself a doughnut. He was supposed to say “Ich bin Berliner” but apparently everyone got what he meant anyway without mocking his German
I have to be honest. My brain initially inserted "hat" after tin foil on the list... I think I need to spend a little less time trying to educate internet skeptics... 😳
Most “rubber” things are not made of rubber anymore. Rubber is derived from tree sap (if I remembered correctly? Like I think the rubber tree specifically) and it’s rarely used anymore, with people opting for synthetic rubber (still called “rubber” but not actually real rubber)
Nah originally made from duck cloth (a kind of cotton) combined with adhesive during WW II i think. Later came to be called “duct tape” because it was sometimes used on ducts, although nowadays there are much better kinds of tape for that purpose.
nah was originally made I think in WWII out of duck cloth (a kind of cotton cloth) covered in adhesive. People then later changed the name to "duct tape" even though you aren't supposed to use it on ducts.
No. It's called "duct tape", for sealing air ducts. Duck tape is a brand named after a misheard / mispronounced version of the product name. It was never named because it was made of duck.
Duck tape is also the original name for duct tape, appearing over half a century earlier in the Oxford English Dictionary. It was called that because they made it with “cotton duck,” a type of fabric.
Thankfully early detection of “The Wing Trade’s” destruction of an already fragile buffalo population, plus the discovery of an acceptable substitute saved many bison.
The prompt was things that are no longer made of the material they were named for, not things that sound like they could be made of things they never have been.
@xkcd.com I briefly thought you might be hoarding stuff that could be recycled for their rare earth content. But that doesn’t make sense, in multiple ways
You should get one. It's so different from artificial sponges, they are really rough when dry, and then when wet they are super soft - probably why they are used to wash babies. It's pretty cool.
The stuff that goes in mince pies no longer contains any meat. Mince pies used to be a very different thing but have evolved over the years; the filling however is still known as mincemeat.
But tin foil is still tin foil….? Or are you confusing it with aluminum foil which- as the name implies- is made of a different material? Just because people are too stupid to realize they’re two different things and call them both by the same name doesn’t mean tin foil isn’t tin…
Not about stupidity, but what you grew up calling the stuff. I certainly know the difference between Sn and Al, but sometimes slip and call it by its old name. Same with my parent’s generation calling refrigerators ice boxes.
Yeah sorry… re-reading my comment I wish I had not used that word.
And yes you can still buy both, although aluminum foil is way cheaper and more common.
It's not that it was seen as a form of lead, but that it shared some of leads qualities. And it wasn't a general word for graphite, but for mineral graphite.
The word plumbago is derived from 'plumbum' (lead) and 'agere' (to resemble) and is also a name of a flower, which definitely isn't lead.
Heart skipped a beat today--a letter from the U.S. Dept of Justice. First thought was they're coming after activists for sedition (am a peacekeeper). What it says is am a potential victim of fictitious fundraising, for the GOP, by a Jason Pallante. No way that happened. Anyone else get this letter?
Root beer.
(from Wikipedia)
"Since safrole, a key component of sassafras, was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960 due to its carcinogenicity, most commercial root beers have been flavored using artificial sassafras flavoring. "
Just like my toolbox at home! Featuring such prized posessions of mine such as an Allen wrench set, Crescent wrench, Millwaukee Sawz-all, Dremel, Skill saw, and a Tupperware container full of Phillips and Torx fasteners 😆
Generic-Corp.™ ground pink slop (meat) topped with a wafer of melted plastic (cheese), presented in a salty puffed-cardboard wrap (bun); served with an optional side-order of starch sticks and a mild carbolic solution to help shift it through the colon. Mmmm... yum!
I worked for a company that made baby shampoo. I would say at meetings that we should add "Made with real babies" to the label. It either got a big laugh or blank stare.
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Medicine ball
Ivories (piano)
Mountain dew
...what do you think cotton balls are made of now?
Saran wrap is named after the plastic, not the other way around.
Saran is still used in certain specialty applications where the O2 barrier is key.
Soap.
Maybe consider SARAN wrap😜
I have soooooooo many questions!!!🤗
Plumbing
Gorilla Glass
Cuckoo Clocks
Water Biscuits
Plumbing is legit though.
Chewing gum
rubber eraser
"Iron and ironing board" is perfectly clear from context.
Golf clubs appear a few lines later, "9 iron and 3 wood".
1. Pot gummies.
2. Can't afford anything else.
Tin Baths
I had no idea there was actually a word for... those words
You think wrong...
Wood furniture
Hamburger meat
Okay, I'm kidding. 😃
But it actually is duct tape, as in tape for ductwork...
I am glad to be corrected! 😃
It was never named after what it was made from.
Adam Savage has a whole rant on his youtube channel Tested about it being a horrible tape for most purposes.
Started as ducK tape, got changed to ducT tape, back to ducK tape.
At least I know about marshmallows
Moo
No gum and no bears.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape
Gorilla glue
Turtles chocolates
When I tell my brides I'm adding back the horsehair trim in their hem I get so many looks.
3075 is 3*5*5*41
Especially for bedding.
And yes you can still buy both, although aluminum foil is way cheaper and more common.
The word plumbago is derived from 'plumbum' (lead) and 'agere' (to resemble) and is also a name of a flower, which definitely isn't lead.
Rubbers
Fishnet stockings
Spanish Fly
rubbers
plasters
I guess tins?
I absolutely still use an ironing board.🤷🏻♂️
If it's a flat surface where ironing happens, it's an ironing board. 😎
So true, «board» does not mean wood.
Sidewalk chalk isn't made of sidewalk anymore? For shame!
(from Wikipedia)
"Since safrole, a key component of sassafras, was banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1960 due to its carcinogenicity, most commercial root beers have been flavored using artificial sassafras flavoring. "
most people forget that marshmallow is a root with medicinal properties and they took it out so now it's just
pig skin candy!
Even if I think I won't like it.
Sidewalk chalk isn't made of sidewalk?!
Generic-Corp.™ ground pink slop (meat) topped with a wafer of melted plastic (cheese), presented in a salty puffed-cardboard wrap (bun); served with an optional side-order of starch sticks and a mild carbolic solution to help shift it through the colon. Mmmm... yum!
Bacon Bits
Brass knuckles
Rubber cement
Corkboard
Woodwind instruments
They give plastic to middle schoolers for obvious reasons.
In Germany - Leberkäse, Kinder-Schokolade!
Cinnamon