• Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 months ago

    Geico is another one of those us company names that just baffles my Anglo brain.

    Is it just the result of 8 billion corporate mergers and Geico is the soulless name that just happened to be spat out the end?

      • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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        5 months ago

        which is baffling in the usual yankee way of something sounding like it’s a government program when it is in fact an absurdly conceived private entity. auto insurance for government employees based on the frankly insane hunch that a government employee is magically less likely to wreck a car.

        • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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          5 months ago

          The moment i found out that “right to work” has nothing to do with guaranteed employment. Even wikipedia had to include a disclaimer that the American version has nothing to do with the internationally understood definition.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      But they have a cute gecko mascot!

      I avoid ads like the plague so the first time I learned about it was in a Reddit thread. I’m American but I never felt less American my whole life. I had no idea what Geico was and why it/they had a mascot. Somebody called it the “Geico lizard” which outraged some Redditors who corrected the OP by telling them repeatedly it was a gecko. When I googled - I had a good laugh. My guess was that it was anime related or maybe something related to a band maybe? I’ll never understand how passionate Americans can be about a marketing tool.

    • Mindfury [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      What if he had insurance but it was for the fellas?

      Oh shit we’ve excluded half the population, change the letters slightly