Scotch Tape - Ben the over - Literal dermestid beetle weighs in

Oh, no, it's the stupid WOOT.COM podcast again. HE'S BEN THE OVER-LITERAL DERMESTID BEETLE AND HE'S GOT A BONE TO PICK! I've got a bone to pick with white-collar workers and holiday gift wrappers everywhere. People, the transparent adhesive tape you buy and use on its own handy disposable dispenser is actually "Scotch tape" if and only if said tape is manufactured by 3M AND sold under the brand name Scotch Tape, which, while overwhelmingly likely is certainly not guaranteed. To use the name "Scotch Tape" as a general term for all such adhesive tapes is not only incorrect, it is an insult to the good people toiling at adhesive converting plants across America and elsewhere in the service of 3M competitors like Office Depot. I'm also not completely convinced it isn't an ethnic slur against the Scottish. Look, how would you like it if your hard work got lumped in with that of a competitor just because your competitor happened to manufacture the most ubiquitous transparent adhesive tapes for home and office use? These are real people we're talking about, OK, and they need THAT kind of grief like I need serrations on my elytra! Likewise, and while I'm on the subject, not all adhesive bandages are "Band Aids," not all industrial-sized trash bins are "Dumpsters," and not all facial tissues are "Kleenex." To those who seem to think otherwise, I offer the following counterexample: Is it not extremely well documented to be PUFFS which are known to soften the blow?! Now, alright -- if you were actually IN Scotland looking for locally-produced tape OR knew for a fact that your office tape supplier, whatever the brand, was located there, you could refer to your adhesive tape as "Scotch tape" and be technically correct. HOWEVER, unless you can be sure that your adhesive tape is from Scotland, and/or currently in Scotland, and/or manufactured and distributed by 3M under the Scotch Tape brand, don't call it "Scotch tape." My desk is fully stocked with other brands of transparent adhesive tape, and when people ask me whether I have any Scotch tape, I quite truthfully just tell them NO, the dimwits. But OK. I've gotten that off my thorax and that's all I have to say about it. BUT YOU KNOW IT WON'T BE 'CAUSE HE'S BEN THE OVER-LITERAL DERMESTID BEETLE AND HE'S GOT A BONE TO PICK!