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  • robatwork
    robatwork Posts: 7,347 Forumite
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    Never? It took me all of 10 seconds to show otherwise.


    Surely you meant "vacuum up the balance"
    http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=4456521&postcount=28
    The point of my post was simply to advise the OP that most people see nothing at all wrong with using the term Hoover to describe a vacuum cleaner.

    Bravo Hermione. theonlywayisup was coming across as an awful boorish pedant, and you seem to have shut him up rather deliciously. I would probably get banned if I appended the three words to his username that I am considering, but I am sure you can use your imagination.

    Can't stay though, need to Miele up the floor.
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