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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by BackOnMyBS@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

Image: 4 panels organized in a rectangle following a sequential order like a comic strip. The first panel is of a man with a very serious face stating, "Hey man, got any diphenhydramine?" The second panel is a grainy picture of the actor Robert Downey Jr. with a slightly inquisitive face and saying, "What's that?" The third panel is an identical copy of the first image and saying, "Benadryl the allergy medicine." The fourth and final panel is a grainy picture of Bobby rolling his eyes and taking a deep breath.

Edit: Tony Start -> Robert Downey Jr. I didn't know that Tony Stark was a character Robert Downey Jr. played 🤦‍♂️

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[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Medicine schools in anywhere except USA. Farmacists, medics, nurses, life rescuers, hospitals, social workers. They're all encouraged to use the active components of medicines and not commercial brand names. Specially because there are differences in regulations and sometimes the commercial names don't carry the same formulation in other markets, or are US specific. Tylenol for example doesn't exist in Latin America. But you can find many other brands and presentations of paracetamol as acetaminophen.

[-] uzay@infosec.pub 9 points 7 months ago

TIL that Tylenol is just how americans call paracetamol

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

I mean, Americans call facial tissue "Kleenex" we're pretty bad at accepting corporate brands as a stand-in for "the standard."

[-] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

I mean even nos capsules are called whippets and ZIP and stick is velcro

[-] Gabu@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Nah, velcro is called velcro - the inventor of "loop and hook fasteners" called them velcro strips. The fact that the brand wanted full control of the name after the fact is irrelevant.

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I think genericide should be more common in today's world. And everyone can work together to achieve it

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