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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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[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 81 points 1 week ago

I mean microslop is pretty dang good

[-] NewDark@lemmy.today 15 points 1 week ago
[-] Skyline969@piefed.ca 16 points 1 week ago
[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

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

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I usually call them Microshaft

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[-] spiderhamster@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

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 35 points 1 week ago

Skeet & Yeet

Bust & Bounce

Nut & Bolt

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Nut and Bolt is fucking great!

[-] khepri@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

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[-] khepri@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[-] khepri@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

And their premier vehicle, the CyberStuck

[-] Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

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"

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

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

[-] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago

Whole Foods -> Whole Paycheck

Walmart is its own insult.

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[-] Badabinski@kbin.earth 21 points 1 week ago

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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[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago

Found On Road Dead

Just Empty Every Pocket

Fix It Again Tony

[-] Fidgetting@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I prefer "Find Immediate Alternative Transportation"

And wanted to add "Acutely Unreliable Despite Investment"

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago

I prefer "Find Immediate Alternative Transportation"

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

[-] TVA@thebrainbin.org 8 points 1 week ago

Drips Oil Dirt & Grime Everwhere (or everyday)

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Fehler In Allen Teilen (failure in all parts).

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[-] Bahnd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Ive heard Fix Or Repair Daily

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[-] dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The American embassy for McDonalds

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

Stevie Wonder Institute For Trucking is my personal favorite

[-] volore@scribe.disroot.org 8 points 1 week ago

See What I Fucked-up Today is another good one

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[-] sibannac@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

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

[-] LORDSMEGMA@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I've heard "Home Desparate" before

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago

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 13 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] Curious_Canid@piefed.ca 14 points 1 week ago

Always remember that Microsoft literally means small and limp.

[-] Dookieman12@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

Ford = Found On Road Dead

Dodge (n.) - To avoid

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

And, Fix It Again, Tony.

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[-] defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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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[-] brap@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

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

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

When I grew up it wasn't neanderthal 🫤

[-] Dookieman12@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cock-a-Cola

Pisspi

Dr. Pecker

Shitzza Hut

Little Weiners

Mountain DooDoo

Ball-Mart

Worst Buy

Shams Club

Panda Sex Press

Sub-standard Way

[-] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Pizza Slut for Pizza Hut

[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 week ago

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

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago
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[-] 315am@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Delta

Don’t Expect Luggage To Arrive

-or-

Doesn’t Ever Leave The Airport

[-] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

Accidenture.

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Idiots Become Managers

Broadcum

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

[-] Widdershins@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

I sometimes call McDonalds „The Gilded Seagull Inn“

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