Quote Originally Posted by Sapphire
Also, on the topic of energy drinks, I used to love them. Now I hate them since they taste so syrupy and sugary. I'll drink one occasionally (people come on campus and hand them out to advertise) but nowadays stuff that's too sugary just makes me tired.
That's why I drink the sugar-free variants. I don't mind the taste however.

On another note sometimes people call a tissue a kleenex when they really don't care what brand it is. And when people say they need a tylenol/aspirin I usually assume they don't care what the actual brand is.
In pharmacy here, we get taught everything using the official chemical name instead of the brand names, since brand names vary from regions/countries, but drug names don't.

"Adrenaline" and "aspirin" have been used here as the official name for as long as I remember. I have never seen the brand name Aspirin here.