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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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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago
  • 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)
[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Always remember that Microsoft literally means small and limp.

[–] bonesawmcl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

It's Microslop now

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Walmart = Wally world Target = tarj mahal

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

Throwing Tar'je in the ring.

[–] BladeFederation@piefed.social 8 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I always called BestBuy Worst Purchase

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 74 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I mean microslop is pretty dang good

[–] NewDark@lemmy.today 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Skyline969@piefed.ca 16 points 1 day ago
[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I usually call them Microshaft

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 1 day ago

I bet they wish people had stuck with "Micro$oft"

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

Comcrap Slaveway Krueger Home Despot

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Electronic Farts

Cockstar Games

Ubibad (pronounced You Be Bad)

Micro$haft (pre-MicroSlop era)

Nintendon't (thank you, SEGA)

Jizzard-Gotnovision

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] khepri@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

And their premier vehicle, the CyberStuck

[–] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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"

That is both awesome and the best acronym for GMC I’ve heard. The best one I’d previously hears was Get My Chequebook.

[–] spiderhamster@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (7 children)

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

[–] Dookieman12@piefed.social 30 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Skeet & Yeet

Bust & Bounce

Nut & Bolt

[–] EtnaAtsume@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Blow Your Load and Hit the Road

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Nut and Bolt is fucking great!

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nut & Bolt is getting added to the repertoire. Something about how the double meaning relies on changing them from two nouns to two verbs tickles something.

[–] khepri@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 18 points 1 day ago (1 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.

[–] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 hours ago

Some ppl say "Mc D" or "Micky D" so ive taken to calling it "Mickeys D" or "Mickeys Dicky"

[–] dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The American embassy for McDonalds

[–] defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip 7 points 21 hours ago

Samsung --> Samsucks

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

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whole Foods -> Whole Paycheck

Walmart is its own insult.

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[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Found On Road Dead

Just Empty Every Pocket

Fix It Again Tony

Ford: Fix It Again Tony

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago

Fehler In Allen Teilen (failure in all parts).

[–] TVA@thebrainbin.org 5 points 19 hours ago

Drips Oil Dirt & Grime Everwhere (or everyday)

[–] Fidgetting@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I prefer "Find Immediate Alternative Transportation"

And wanted to add "Acutely Unreliable Despite Investment"

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 3 points 20 hours ago

I prefer "Find Immediate Alternative Transportation"

I haven't heard that one before! That's good!

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[–] sibannac@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (3 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.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago

Sure Wish I Finished Training.

[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 18 hours ago

See What I Fucked-up Today is another good one

[–] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking is my personal favorite

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago
[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (1 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.)

[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] Donnywholovedbowling@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago

When I grew up it wasn't neanderthal 🫤

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I sometimes call McDonalds „The Gilded Seagull Inn“

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Fucking amazing. Some DnD game master is absolutely going to steal that and see how long it takes one of the players to break character.

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