Don’t use Gorilla Glue to style your hair

DaveH said:
That is what I thought. Being a tiktokker is a thing now and something you can do for a living? I still dont really know what it is, but get the impression it is lots of people miming to songs, is that right?
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It's basically just a Soma-Slab (ironically named Smartphone) version of YouTube for those with short attention spans, time limited to initialy 15s, but now 60s (or more if uploaded from elsewhere, I just looked it up, never used it)

The wife (no) of one of my wife's (no) members of staff has just become a pro-tiktokker with videos of her mixing, melting & messing about with th coloured wax balls (that are used for hair removal etc., ) Japs & others SE Asians seem to love this sort of thing, it's a kind of visual ASMR.

PTR said:
While we're slagging the yanks, does it grate on anyone else that they refer to everything by a brand name? Its super glue man.

Also the term "off brand" to mean generic versions.
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This is true, they barely call anything by the generic name, Tylenol = Paracetamol , Advil = Ibuprofen (4 syllables too hard to say) and Seran wrap = clingfilm. They're good little (well massive) consumers in the USA, but 51st State UK is turning that way.

OohBaldyBally said:
Do you not call the vacuum cleaner, a hoover ?
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If it's a Hoover, but not if Dyson, Shark etc. Might use verb "hoover" but that's basically an onomatopoeic thing. There are a few more examples in UK but nothing like the USA (yet)

Tessica FFS!
 


Vinyl Score said:
It's basically just a Soma-Slab (ironically named Smartphone) version of YouTube for those with short attention spans, time limited to initialy 15s, but now 60s (or more if uploaded from elsewhere, I just looked it up, never used it)

The wife (no) of one of my wife's (no) members of staff has just become a pro-tiktokker with videos of her mixing, melting & messing about with th coloured wax balls (that are used for hair removal etc., ) Japs & others SE Asians seem to love this sort of thing, it's a kind of visual ASMR.


This is true, they barely call anything by the generic name, Tylenol = Paracetamol , Advil = Ibuprofen (4 syllables too hard to say) and Seran wrap = clingfilm. They're good little (well massive) consumers in the USA, but 51st State UK is turning that way.


If it's a Hoover, but not if Dyson, Shark etc. Might use verb "hoover" but that's basically an onomatopoeic thing. There are a few more examples in UK but nothing like the USA (yet)

Tessica FFS!
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So 60 minute videos of mostly stupid stuff?
 
Vinyl Score said:
This is true, they barely call anything by the generic name, Tylenol = Paracetamol , Advil = Ibuprofen (4 syllables too hard to say) and Seran wrap = clingfilm. They're good little (well massive) consumers in the USA, but 51st State UK is turning that way.
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Oddly we both use a different generic name for paracetamol too. Off the top of my head, they call it acetamophin, or something like that
 
PTR said:
Oddly we both use a different generic name for paracetamol too. Off the top of my head, they call it acetamophin, or something like that
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There's is the old nomenclature "chemical name", the prefix acet is now etha. Like acetic acid is now ethanoic acid (pure vinegar), which is oxidised ethanol, commonly known as alcohol or booze. Other alcohols, with different length carbon chains, like methanol, butanol, propanol etc get called all kinds of things like Meths(alayted Spirts, rubbing alcohol, IPA etc. All drugs (& of course all organic chemicals) have a long chemical name but usually get given shorter generic names and/or brand names e.g. Nylon. Some substances are named after their "function" e.g. bleach or other properties like plasticity - Plastic (Poly Vinyl Chloride - PVC) which later becomes Vinyl or the plural Vinyl when made into a pressed disc shaped music medium.

Hence my username isn't Poly Vinyl Chloride Purchase.
 
Vinyl Score said:
There's is the old nomenclature "chemical name", the prefix acet is now etha. Like acetic acid is now ethanoic acid (pure vinegar), which is oxidised ethanol, commonly known as alcohol or booze. Other alcohols, with different length carbon chains, like methanol, butanol, propanol etc get called all kinds of things like Meths(alayted Spirts, rubbing alcohol, IPA etc. All drugs (& of course all organic chemicals) have a long chemical name but usually get given shorter generic names and/or brand names e.g. Nylon. Some substances are named after their "function" e.g. bleach or other properties like plasticity - Plastic (Poly Vinyl Chloride - PVC) which later becomes Vinyl or the plural Vinyl when made into a pressed disc shaped music medium.

Hence my username isn't Poly Vinyl Chloride Purchase.
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Wasn’t there a punk lass called Poly Styrene ?
 
I followed the trail through that article and finally ended up on TikTok. I am a 62-year old white man (probably a gammon!) but that was an absolutely toe-curling experience. Young people posing, prancing around and miming to vocoder modified Rn'B shite. Botox lips and two-inch eyelashes aplenty. An absolutely vacuous webspace.
 
Scimmy said:
I followed the trail through that article and finally ended up on TikTok. I am a 62-year old white man (probably a gammon!) but that was an absolutely toe-curling experience. Young people posing, prancing around and miming to vocoder modified Rn'B shite. Botox lips and two-inch eyelashes aplenty. An absolutely vacuous webspace.
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All begging to be famous, a thing that ruins people's lives.
Wonder how these fame-hungry characters realize it will not make them happy?.
 
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Waskerly Mackem said:
If any Yank reads that it's not going to end well. :)
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I'm happy to supply instructions.... They might me on the Web.... I'm sure I found it on reddit. I would do an hour session in the local pool swimming the lengths must have picked it up there... Tried all off the shelf and GP Treatments Inc cryogenic to no avail. Superglue did the trick in a couple of weeks..... As it stops the virus getting oxygen from the site
 
Pnematic said:
That’s her - I didn’t like punk , it was noisy and people did spitty things and used rude words.

Meanwhile at Wigan Casino .........
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I love em both.
humbug said:
i had a hernia operation a few years back and instead of stitches i was glued back together. the surgeon told me one of it's first uses was during wartime to close wounds up.
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First time I used that miracle spray on plaster/stitches stuff was on myself at work when I smacked my head on the corner of a unit I’d fitted. It was amazing stuff and I’d nivver even heard of it before. The lass in the chemists opposite the site had me kneeling down on the floor and guided my hand to the blood source. Great stuff.
Problem was I’d already pointed out to the site agent, architect, our foreman and our factory that it was a hazard and someone would smash their head on it. Everyone agreed and said fit it as our firm wadnt get paid for it if I didn’t, even though we all knew it was coming down and gonna be remade. I was tidying up my tools to go home when I did it ferchrissakes.
@Wilfy will appreciate this one.
 
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humbug said:
i had a hernia operation a few years back and instead of stitches i was glued back together. the surgeon told me one of it's first uses was during wartime to close wounds up.
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I've heard of that in limited surgical situations
raindog said:
I'm happy to supply instructions.... They might me on the Web.... I'm sure I found it on reddit. I would do an hour session in the local pool swimming the lengths must have picked it up there... Tried all off the shelf and GP Treatments Inc cryogenic to no avail. Superglue did the trick in a couple of weeks..... As it stops the virus getting oxygen from the site
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Fair enough and I see your reasoning.

But some redneck from deep south Alabama trying that? 🤔
 
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