When is a hoover not a hoover

I really get, shall we say frustrated, when people refer to a vacuum cleaner as a hoover. Or they are doing the hoovering. Ive just seen an offer on Freecycle for an Electrolux hoover. It’s not a hoover you pillock, it’s and Electrolux vacuum cleaner. God give me strength

 

How do you feel about Biro’s ?

Stirlingmoz

 

Or Sellotape ?

 

When it’s a dam ?

 

Is it nice your hoover? Perhaps you could take a picture and xerox it to me.

 

...while wearing a Durex...

 

Was Victor Meldrew in Peaky Blinders?

 

What about a gtec air ram ?

 

Because common usage has led to ‘hoovering’ being used in relation to the act of vacuuming - or vacuum cleaning, since cleaning is the correct adjective as we’re not specifically and intentionally creating a vacuum, it’s just part of the process of creating suction required to clean - irrespective of the brand of device used due to the brand’s market share when the choice was much more limited.
And vacuum cleaning is just too much of a mouthful. And it’s too much effort for me now the wife’s left and I can’t afford a cleaner (she hired the cleaner) except for hoovering up the odd mess that can’t be kicked to one side.



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Ps. I’ve got a Miele.


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Hasn't everyone

 

And anyway, isn’t ‘Henrying’ a reference to some kind of self abuse or a deviant act or other? Or maybe some slang for Toff-bothering’?
I can imagine saying
“I spent the best part of an afternoon siemensing the carpet at the weekend” though.



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Lol. I'll admit calling "I'm having a quick Siemens!" up the stairs doesn't sound too good...

 

You could always ‘have a quick Bosch in the shed’ instead


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Hoover, it's a Hoover what is your problem
I'm going to hoover the lounge, see simples en it.

 

What really gets my goat about this thread is the idlers who can't be bothered to go into settings on Tapatalk and disable the subversive advertising of their particular mobile!!! If you want to know I'm using Mrs P's phone.

 

All vacuum cleaners are just hoovers to me.
I'll just Dyson the floor just isn't right.

 

We used to have a Dyson Hoover and now have a Vax Hoover - by the way the fridge is also a Hoover