It's not NOS people... (moderate rant)

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correc me if im wrong but in the fast and the furious dont all the ricer possie people call it "spray" lol. And to be honest I think NOS sounds much better than "Boost Juice" lol, wtf is that about?
 
In F&F they call it NOS, right at the start Walker says I need NOS talking about his Eclipse. I can't remember much about the film other than it was ****.
 
Jesus christ!

I leave for a few hours and come back to see my thread turned into a hellhole.

Good job people.

You say this is worthless. OK. So if you saw someone on the street saying "My RX-7 has a big NOS tank in the trunk" you wouldn't think that person was incorrect in saying that? NOS is a brand of Holley product. Many people think NOS stands for Nitrous Oxide System...well...it doesn't. NOS stands for Nitrous Oxide Systems.Not a System. A system is NOT plural, systems is. Saying "My RX-7 Has a Nitrous Oxide Systems" is utterly stupid. Saying "My RX-7 has nitrous" is correct. Go ahead and Google "NOS". You'll see the top results are the brand of Nitrous called NOS, founded by Holley.
 
Hey Ferrari, what do you mean I just got your signature? :)

*edit* Nevermind, I just saw. It wasn't showing up in the thread for some reason. Thanks :D
 
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"NOS"

I believe that'll be you pwned then? :)
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Actually, that doesn't prove anything.

In fact, it says right there above it "Nitrous."
And then what type of Nitrous is equiped or not.


That picture doesn't prove a thing.
 
NOS is one syllable. So, when you use it frequently in conversation, you prefer to make it as short as possible. NOS is easier and more efficient to say than N... O... S... Or Ni.. tr... Or N..O..2. etc etc.

p.s. If someone says 'NOS' instead of Nitrous Oxide what is the worst that happens?　　No one comes to harm, no one dies, no one ends up penniless and broken. So, in the big scheme of things, why not just let them say 'NOS'? You still know what they are talking about.
 
While we're at it, we should complain about "ain't". Believe it or not, it's the exact same argument.

People have been doing it for decades, probably centuries. A product name will become the "accepable" name for an item, regardless of brand. The best example I can think of offhand is Kleenex. Do you ever tell someone to hand you a facial tissue? Of course not, you just say "gimme a Kleenex", even if the tissue isn't Kleenex-brand. Or Q-Tips. There are plenty of different brands of cotton swabs out there, yet they're all called "Q-Tips". It's the same thing. Get over it.
 
How often do you need to say nitrous in conversation, and is it really that difficult to say two syllables instead of one? Where do you think the oft-hated term "ya'll" and other colloquialisms came from?

And no, you don't know what they're talking about. When someone says "I've got NOS on my car", does that mean that they actually have (overpriced) NOS, or a cheaper, perhaps lower quality alternative? Or did they just stick some tubes and a bottle in their car? What if someone actually did put NOS (the brand) in their car, and actually meant they put NOS in their car and didn't want people thinking they had another product?

And how can you say other companies don't mind the entire industry being referred to by a competitor's name? That's how monopolies get started, which leave quite a few people broken and penniless.
 
wow, as a new member of gtp, this thread doesn't paint a very good picture of the forum.

I fail to see the big deal either way. I don't say NOS myself, but don't see why it bothers some people. There's some things I call by brand name whether it's that brand or not (Kleenex is one example), but most things I don't. But a 2 page thread arguing this subject really seems more silly to me than hearing someone say NOS. When I was a kid, nobody called it NOS, even if they had the Holley brand, but that was a long time ago. I've never owned any nitrous brand, I don't believe in the stuff myself, but is it really that big of a deal for someone to call it NOS? I actually never realized that was a brand name, I thought it referred to all nitrous oxide systems. While I agree it sounds funny to hear it pronounced as nos. But when writing, it's a simple abbreviation, I've used it before even though I don't pronounce it that way. Just thought I'd throw my 2 cents in. Or wait, am I supposed to say 2 pennies, or is it more correct to say $.02?
 
actually all companies are pissed when thier brand name becomes popular vernacular.
when that happens they loose their trade mark, and have to do stupid things like "band-aid brand"
 
Okaaaaay, I frequent another forum where there's a lot of bickering, and I'd rather not see it here too.
 
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