Good and bad things about packing for a move

[Scarlette]

Oh it's awful and, actually, neverending. I think if you don't stand up and boldly say 'I don't give a fuck about the rest of this stuff' you can spend the next seven years of your life finding cassettes under chest of drawers and packing them.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Duct tape = generic name.

Duck tape = brand name thought up by someone who realised how similar it sounded to duct tape. Now used as by most people as if it were a generic name, rather like Sellotape and Hoover.

This is a point of etymological argument. Some claim that actually self-adhesive tape was termed "duck tape" by soldiers in WW2 because of its waterproof qualities, and who then took the term back home with them after the war, at which point the tape was used more on ducts than to tape up boxes or boats or whatever it was they did with it.

 

[Voley]

I don't believe you, Fridgemagnet. I've always thought you were a bit dodge and this confirms my suspicions.

 

[story]

But it's GAFFER tape.

 

[scifisam]

This is a point of etymological argument. Some claim that actually self-adhesive tape was termed "duck tape" by soldiers in WW2 because of its waterproof qualities, and who then took the term back home with them after the war, at which point the tape was used more on ducts than to tape up boxes or boats or whatever it was they did with it.

It is, but believing that origin requires believing that squaddies are that imaginative.

 

[DotCommunist]

But it's GAFFER tape.

^^^^ Gaffer tape it is. Anything else is sheer heresy

 

[story]

THANK you DotCommunist. Some sense at last!

 

[DotCommunist]

It is, but believing that origin requires believing that squaddies are that imaginative.

And mil slang leads me to believe that they are. As squaddies provide a rich source of mil slang and you just slandered them as thickies. For shame Sam, for shame.

 

[Voley]

Nonsense.

'Gaffer' is a term that should only be used by footballers when referring to their manager. Preferably accompanied by 'at the end of the day' and/or 'take each game as it comes'.

Obv.

 

[weepiper]

Always gaffer tape to my dad and at gigs to tape down leads.

 

[DotCommunist]

Nonsense.

'Gaffer' is a term that should only be used by footballers when referring to their manager. Preferably accompanied by 'at the end of the day' and/or 'take each game as it comes'.

Obv.

Bollocks, it also refers to the supervising bod when one is engaged in a physical task. 'why are you sat swilling tea lads!'

'Gaffer called a break'

 

[Voley]

A good point, well made.

I withdraw my earlier comments.

 

[scifisam]

And mil slang leads me to believe that they are. As squaddies provide a rich source of mil slang and you just slandered them as thickies. For shame Sam, for shame.

Squaddies are average people. Average people (myself included) are not that imaginative, really. Either way, I call the stuff duck tape because it's much cuter.

 

[Voley]

It's past midnight. It's not Armistice day any more, sam. It's OK to call squaddies thick again.

 

[DotCommunist]

Squaddies are average people. Average people (myself included) are not that imaginative, really. Either way, I call the stuff duck tape because it's much cuter.

In any group there is always one with a quick tongue and an ear for lols (usually me) and his witticisms propagate amongst the greater organisation because they have coined a funny or accurate phrase/word. 'Dropped a bollock' is my personal mil slang favourite, which refers to fucking something up.

 

[Voley]

I quite like the yank SNAFU.

 

[quimcunx]

Duct tape = generic name.

Duck tape = brand name thought up by someone who realised how similar it sounded to duct tape. Now used as by most people as if it were a generic name, rather like Sellotape and Hoover.

This is a point of etymological argument. Some claim that actually self-adhesive tape was termed "duck tape" by soldiers in WW2 because of its waterproof qualities, and who then took the term back home with them after the war, at which point the tape was used more on ducts than to tape up boxes or boats or whatever it was they did with it.

Either way I suspect the real reason so many people call it duck tape now is because when they hear others say it, wether they say duck or duct, what they hear is 'duck' and not because they so happen to be familiar with duck brand tape.

Not because they have taken the most popular brand name and applied it to all types, like with hoover and sellotape.

 

[scifisam]

Either way I suspect the real reason so many people call it duck tape now is because when they hear others say it, wether they say duck or duct, what they hear is 'duck' and not because they so happen to be familiar with duck brand tape.

Not because they have taken the most popular brand name and applied it to all types, like with hoover and sellotape.

Oh yeah - I never meant to imply that anyone realised they were using a brand name instead of a generic.

 

[Intastella]

duct tape? will that work with the gun?

It bleedin' better! It's the same size as parcel tape so it should do. I have a pathological hatred of parcel tape after my last move

I was gonna call it gaffer tape, but thought that i'd get grief for not calling it by it's 'proper' name...but look what i gone and done...

 

[cesare]

So far I've packed 11 boxes ... my parcel tape ran out so I used gaffer tape on the last two, it's not as sticky

 

[trashpony]

Duck tape = American/gaffer tape = English

HTH

 

[cesare]

Is it gaffer or gaffa? I've never been sure. One's an old man

 

[electrogirl]

I can't believe this, my estate agent thread derails into a discussion about where Su Pollard ACTUALLY lives and this one turns into some boring discussion about which is the correct word for that boring brown tape WHICH I DON'T EVEN HAVE.

Well anyway I got really drunk last ngiht instead and I woke up thsi morning and there's piles of stuff everywhere and I'm late for work because I can't find my shoes.

 

[strung out]

did you pack them up in a box?

 

[electrogirl]

I found them they were in the study byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[cesare]

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeee



Right.

Packing tape ...

 

[trashpony]

I can't believe this, my estate agent thread derails into a discussion about where Su Pollard ACTUALLY lives and this one turns into some boring discussion about which is the correct word for that boring brown tape WHICH I DON'T EVEN HAVE.

Well anyway I got really drunk last ngiht instead and I woke up thsi morning and there's piles of stuff everywhere and I'm late for work because I can't find my shoes.

It isn't brown, it's silver.

You might need to know these things - the woman sitting behind the desk at Access self storage reception had a degree in forensic psychology. Now she is a box expert

 

[electrogirl]

Oh that silver stuff! The stretchy one! I like that one! Wha't sthe brown one then?

Oh godwhy do I care?! I've become one of you lot!!

 

[trashpony]

Oh that silver stuff! The stretchy one! I like that one! Wha't sthe brown one then?

Oh godwhy do I care?! I've become one of you lot!!

Brown one is parcel tape. Why do I know this stuff?

 

[cesare]

I now know that brown parcel tape is sold in post offices (If you can still find one that's open).