It's superglue
Bloke comes into the art shop I work in and says "Cyanoacrylate."
"Sorry?" I say.
"Cyanoacrylate, or you might know it as Superglue?"
Right, so you want superglue. "Just down there on the left, sir."
"Hmmm, yes this is superglue. Not quite the viscosity I was looking for but beggars can't be choosers."
Behind the counter, I am imagining new uses for cyanoacrylate.
(Mr McKenzie Mr McKenzie, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 22:45, 22 replies)

So somebody who wants a specific type of glue is a twat?
I hope to fuck you never make anything I have to rely upon.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 1:50, closed)

Yeah but this isn't CSI
& you and I and the rest of the world all know it as superglue.
Trying to look smart by using it's scientific name (it'd be a bit like you asking for some battered Melanogrammus aeglefinus and deep fried Solanum tuberosum at your local chippy) and then giving the glue a poor appraisal makes the customer look like a right plonking twat.
EDIT: having had to sift thru quite a few msds's for superglue I can safely say that when you buy a tube of superglue what you get is cyanoacrylate. No particular concentrations or additives so whether you pay $5 for a tube of brand name "SuperGlue" or a buck for a couple of noname tubes you still get the same thing. That said the customer whinging about the viscosity makes him look like a twint who wanted to look clever but actually doesn't know what the fuck he's on about.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 15 Apr 2012, 2:06, closed)

Can make a bit of a difference
Lower viscocity leads to slightly longer drying times and more of a chance to position your work before it sticks. However, if it's that complex, then I wouldn't be buying it from an art shop. Regarding the OP, most people I know refer to it as cyanoacrylate as in some cases inferior adhesives can contain different active ingredients but still be labelled as superglue. However, I work in a fairly specialist field, so your mileage may vary.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 15 Apr 2012, 3:05, closed)

In all the different brands of msds's for superglue I've had to look up recently
(accreditation coming up) they've all had the same concentration and been cyanoacrylate with no bp or additives.
In specialist fields I'm sure there are other products but for glueing your fingers together whilst sticking a clients figurine back together it really makes no difference between the brand name and dodgy chinese made version.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 15 Apr 2012, 3:54, closed)

A debate about glue
This is why I like the 'internet'
(mr-lizard Hell's teeth man!, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 5:40, closed)

Note "debate"
with a low /talk quotient here it hasn't devolved into
"Your mum gave you inferior superglue to wank with whilst bringing you some tea in the back of your Honda Accord just before that mate of your brother's chopped that massive druggies head off with a samurai sword. You fucking nonce."
God I'm missing Shambles... :(
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 15 Apr 2012, 6:05, closed)

Shambolic.
4 eva in r hartz.
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 9:29, closed)

No.
He's just got me on ignore.
Muppet.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 15 Apr 2012, 10:03, closed)

I work in a general DIY shop.
Superglue is superglue is superglue to most people there. I can only imagine OP is in a similar situation.
( Bats, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 7:28, closed)

Actually, I know it as cyanoacrylate.
In the same way I'd ask for ibuprofen and not Neurofen.
I think the OP suffers from an inferiority complex and feels threatened when somebody who knows what they're talking about is around.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 11:50, closed)

^This.
With added, NOT all superglues are the same, you work in an art shop and don't know that? Hell even the Games Workshop spods sell two different viscosities of the stuff.
Your customer is not the twat in your story.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 15 Apr 2012, 13:36, closed)

If the customer spoke to the OP...
... in the manner that the OP says, then the customer is indeed a twat trying to look superior.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 14:10, closed)

Or they might have been striving for accuracy.
Elitism is no bad thing.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 15 Apr 2012, 14:31, closed)

Elitism probably.
The same type of twats probably say to their wives "I'm just popping down to Block & Quayle".
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 15:56, closed)

Don't be so common.
I send my man to deal with merchants
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Sun 15 Apr 2012, 16:07, closed)

For someone who dismisses them as "spods"
you know a suspicious amount about the specifics of the glue sold in Games Workshop.

I reckon this is you secretly.
(StapMyVitals wouldn't mind a bit of that, Sun 15 Apr 2012, 20:30, closed)

Oh shit did I leave my webcam switched on again?

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 16 Apr 2012, 19:22, closed)

A couple of years ago
a woman was had up for cyanoacrylating her philandering man's foreskin to his belly. He had to pee like a dog for a week.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 0:17, closed)

Maybe get a job mopping floors at McDonalds
if you can't handle the concept of a customer being concerned that what he spends his money on, may not adequately do the job he intends.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 8:15, closed)

Everyone who has replied to this thread so far bar Emadex is a twat.
You're right - the customer was being a poncy twat, and ringofyre's analogy is perfick.

Maybe it was Mr Logic from Viz.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 12:28, closed)

I feel your pain.
When I was a barman in a country pub, some twat asked for a 'St. Clements' which I had never heard of. After checking with the other members of staff (who hadn't a clue either), I eventually asked the customer what he was on about. Sneering as if I had just asked if I could fuck his wife, he replied 'A St. Clements!! Orange juice and lemonade!'

TWAT.
(Mr Fudge It shouldn't be illegal to have sex with an eagle, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 12:32, closed)

AFAIK
As far as I know, he was wrong. It's an orange juice and bitter lemon. Quite nice in fact when you've given up the turps!
(jajwhite, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 15:17, closed)