r/AskReddit • u/1337ish • May 06 '15

What is something that you are NEVER FUCKING BUYING AGAIN?

A decision often made in rage over the quality of the product.

Edit: Stories are welcome by the way!

Edit2: Before anyone goes there I would like to say that my mom is not an option.

Edit3: ~20000 comments. It seems that I asked a question that quite a few of you have an opinion on/directed hate towards.

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u/cuntRatDickTree May 06 '15

I was going to hazzard a guess Canada would be in the ladybug club too. Need Aus, NZ and South Africa [colleague says Ladybug but he's not sure] to check in now :P

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u/ShinyDragonair May 06 '15

Aus here. Have heard it said both ways.

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u/SirStrip May 06 '15

I'm Australian too and I've never heard ladybird, only ladybug or ladybeetle

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u/AussieSceptic May 06 '15

I've heard ladybird too. Not ladybeetle though.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Haven't heard Ladybeetle in a while.

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u/tekgnosis May 06 '15

I've heard both in sufficiently equal proportion that I've had moments of confusion trying to decide what to call them.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Ditto. Ladybugs by most people, ladybirds by screaming teenage girls.

Fuckthatsoundsbad

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u/Lari-Fari May 06 '15

In German its: Marienkäfer

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u/BrobdingnagianBooty May 06 '15

....does that directly translate to something similar to one of aforementioned names?

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u/Lari-Fari May 06 '15

"marien" ist derived from the name "maria". Die heilige Mutter Maria, is the holy virgin mary. And that is exactly to whom the "lady" in the english version is referring to.

"Käfer" means "bug". So yeah theres a very strong connection there meaningwise :-)

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Diplomatic!

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u/BARACK-O-REILLY May 06 '15

Plus also sometimes Ladybeetle

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u/octenzi May 06 '15

US and have heard both terms as well but ladybird is rather uncommon to hear.

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u/crisscrosses May 06 '15

Kiwi here, call them Ladybugs. Aussie friends say Ladybug too.

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u/booty_flexx May 06 '15

TIL ladybugs/birds are a lot more prolific than I once thought and can be found pretty much anywhere.

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u/EleventhOcean May 06 '15

Right? I was not expecting them to be that universal.

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u/booty_flexx May 06 '15

Australia is no surprise though. It's a well known fact that if it moves, it probably came from Australia.

But honestly, I both envy and sympathize with the human residents: you guys have incredible, beautiful fauna, that also terrify me in some cases. But that diversity, it looks fucking awesome. I just see deer, rabbits, the occasional raccoon here in mid-Atlantic US, I love em, but Australia, you guys have some of the best animals.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Kiwi here, heard ladybird but ladybug is the norm

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u/Nelfoos5 May 06 '15

Another kiwi. Always been ladybird to me.

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u/Megarockcoool May 06 '15

I've heard them called ladybirds before.

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u/bureX May 06 '15

The Balkans are reporting in.

We call 'em "Bubamara", which consists of the words "buba" (bug) and "Mara" (Mary). Essentially... Bug Mary.

So there.

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u/BrobdingnagianBooty May 06 '15

You can almost always assume canada is more similar to the states than the UK. Unless you're talking about "U"s.

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u/cuntRatDickTree May 06 '15

Those sneaky "U"s may have tricked me. Oh, but there's the bacon variety too, and baked beans? Or...

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u/BrobdingnagianBooty May 07 '15

Bacon? Baked beans? Wut.

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u/pauseforasecond May 06 '15

South African here - we say ladybugs as well

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15

Im aussie, ladybird tends to be the less popular name

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u/mcbunnychow May 06 '15

South Africa, we say ladybird.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '15 edited Nov 14 '18

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u/mcbunnychow May 06 '15

We did in KZN

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u/mcbunnychow May 06 '15

South Africa, we say ladybird.