A conversation from today...

[dysath]

Girl 1: Hey, which one should I get? Super glue or Krazy glue? Is there a difference?
Girl 2: Yeah, they're different
Girl 1: *looks at me* Is that true? Which should I get?
Me: Either one, it's the same thing. Krazy glue's just a brand name for super glue.
Girl 1: Oh!

Congratulations John Q. Public, another fine addition to the gene pool.

Comments

[hasturcubed]

In their defense, they may have been aware that there's multiple different types of adhesives like that...just not that the two are the same kind.

I came across a handy page one time that I need to find again. It was a cheat sheet of the various adhesives vs the materials they're best and worst on. Very handy, especially when dealing with 'plastics' of uncertain origin.

[dysath]

Believe me when I say that what it would bond best to was the furthest thing from either of these mental giants had going through their head.

Personally, if it's metal-to-metal, I use JB Weld, 2 plastics I use Testors, if it needs to hold forever, 2-part epoxy, and wood or ceramics, Zap-a-gap or Jet-CA (if I can find any). If they'd mentioned it, I might have steered them in a different direction.

You'd have to have been there, but these were two of the furthest things from metal giants I've met lately.

[sm_elmo]

I just loooooooooooooove people.

How was my sarcasm? Did it drip enough?

*grin*