Ha! I didn't know you didn't have biros in Canuckville. It's just a ball point pen (Biro is the man who invented them). Similar to vacuum cleaner and Hoover. Hmm, now I don't know if you say Hoover in Canada.
Ah, thanks for the clarification, but I still can't get the image of a loaf of bread out of my head.
We have Bics (ink ballpoint pens), although I'm not sure it's a popular name any more and it can also refer to men's disposable razors.
Hoover is a vacuum cleaner here too, but we don't normally refer to all vacuums as Hoovers, it's just a vacuum. Typically, we use Hoover as a replacement word for sucked, as in "you really Hoovered your food tonight, you must have been hungry." That was the PG version of the example, mostly it's used in the R-rated way.
Is it normal that it feels good to draw on my skin?
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Ha! I didn't know you didn't have biros in Canuckville. It's just a ball point pen (Biro is the man who invented them). Similar to vacuum cleaner and Hoover. Hmm, now I don't know if you say Hoover in Canada.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification, but I still can't get the image of a loaf of bread out of my head.
We have Bics (ink ballpoint pens), although I'm not sure it's a popular name any more and it can also refer to men's disposable razors.
Hoover is a vacuum cleaner here too, but we don't normally refer to all vacuums as Hoovers, it's just a vacuum. Typically, we use Hoover as a replacement word for sucked, as in "you really Hoovered your food tonight, you must have been hungry." That was the PG version of the example, mostly it's used in the R-rated way.
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We have Bics too, only here we'd say that Bics are a brand of Biro.