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Brillo pads are steel wool full of soap, not those green scrubby cloths.
It's a horrific story, but I've been reading too much Oglaf recently and camo-cock is giving me all sorts of ideas. He could put a little army hat on it and do recreations. Very niche audience for that sort of thing I suspect, but he should work with what he's got.
That feels significantly worse
Yeah. Significantly.
Idk how oop mixed up those green scrubby cloths with brillo pads, either. Brillo is a well known brand name here to the point of steel wool pads being known as Brillo pads more often than not, like Hoover is for vacuums.
To be fair, Brillo do make that kind of scrubbing cloth and they do call it a scouring pad. It's entirely possible that he did have an actual Brillo product that had "pad" printed on the packaging
https://www.brillo.com/cleaning-products/heavy-duty-scouring-pad
I think those might be USA only products?
You know how in the USA you guys call tissues kleenex, this would be like you saying kleenex but meaning kitchen towel or loo roll or something.
Oh good point, I didn't think to check where they were sold. I'm also in the UK and would, when hearing "brillo pad", assume the same one you did. It's possible I heard my American ex refer to the green cloths as brillo pads at some point though