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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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Aqua and Parfum
on bottles of shampoo/shower gel/other cleaning products. Foodstuffs get away with water, why the use of aqua?
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 9:24, 6 replies)
Bugs me, too.
Here's a translation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nomenclature_of_Cosmetic_Ingredients
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 9:33, closed)
It's for cost reasons.
It means they can print the same list of 'ingredients' on every bottle and ship to anywhere in the world. It's presumably also the reason for including product information in eclectic selections of languages like Gujarati, Turkish and Chinese on the same bottle.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 10:25, closed)
I like the fact that my Gillette shaving gel
is also known as 'Barberscum' in parts of Scandinavia. That is crying out for a space in the middle somewhere, either before or after the 's'.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 10:35, closed)
And an apostrophe.
But before or after the "s"? I'm undecided.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:02, closed)
I scream, you scream, we all scream
for bukake.
(, Mon 12 Apr 2010, 11:16, closed)
the best a man can get

(, Tue 13 Apr 2010, 0:38, closed)

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