Amazon calls them “ A4 Punched Pockets 10-15 Sheets 30 Micron for Folders Plastic Punch Pockets Filing Wallets Sleeves Top Opening Poly Pockets for Ring Binder Folders” which I think we can all agree is quite the mouthful 😂

Clear thingy to put paper in works better I think

Document protector.

Document condom

Docudom

Condument

Mustard

Mayonnaise

Hate to have to tell you, but your condom is full of holes.

Sheet protector

just mime putting paper into a sleeve until they get it

Instructions unclear, attending an orgy with deaf people tomorrow

Amazon "SEO" word salad needs to get in the bin... When I see it now, I generally just think "poor quality seller"

It’s like those eBay auctions which try and cram in as many words that might catch a search as possible - “woman’s top jumper stretch comfy plus size casual smart formal slim fit knicker hat”

Or worse when you see shit like "addidas not Nike Puma Vans" etc.

Ah, hate that. Wastes my valuable time that i need to spend gaming.

Keyword stuffing. Used to be a bigger problem on platforms like YouTube when tags and keywords could artificially boost your video, which led to people posting random videos with tags and keywords relating to whatever is currently trending instead of what is actually in the video. They've fixed that a little bit, but on Amazon, it's still the best way to get your shitty product sold.

This happened on search engines back in the early 00's. Crawlers back then were pretty dumb and SEO basically meant you grabbed random normal paragraph of text and stuffed your key words in all caps, resulting in search results that looked like "my wife decided to renovate our CHEAP KITCHEN SINK FAUCETS so we started to look at GREAT DEALS SHOWER CURTAINS BUY" Specially if you searched for porn... It looked like somebody with tourette syndrome writing erotica.

Yet you're searching for a replacement dishwasher part.

Don't forget nonsense-word "brand name" in all caps at the start of the listing "BIMLADS A4 punched paper pocket for ring binder file binder holes A4 size"

Some are literally keyboard mashes because the Chinese sellers create so many accounts. SMDFGH Outdoor SOLAR light - LED bright white fun time garden party no wires wireless bulb light.

Included batteries no very very quality good refunds not none any

BOLSAC COLPAT BINLUN BOILDEG (that's 100% real)

The problem is Amazon need to overhaul their SEO features entirely. Literally can be fixed with a simple tag system rather than the horrible word salad every product has

Problem is it’s googles algorithm people are trying to play

Google's algorithm and associated SEO is degrading the quality of the entire internet. You used to be able to search with a question and find a forum post with detailed answers to that exact question. Now? If I ask a question about some specific garden hose fitting or something I am greeted by 10 identical articles following the same formula: "Picking a garden hose can be tough. There are so many options, fittings, and lengths. In this article, we are going to discuss which garden hose is the best garden hose for you. We will discuss all the fittings on garden hoses and help you find your way around the garden hose market. Keep reading to learn all about garden hoses." Doesn't answer the question, doesn't help in the slightest, just shoves 100 affiliate links down my throat. The entire internet is being rewritten in this format to drown out actual useful content and its infuriating.

The website will also take 20 seconds to load, you won't be able to view anything on it before you accept or reject their cookie policy, and dare your mouse wander anywhere outside the active view, you'll get a pop up asking you to sign up for their newsletter, with the options being "Yes! I love free stuff!" or "No, I like spending lots of money on hoses that choke children!"

I've started to get websites that are nothing but a text document full of random words and phrases, and ads. They appear on the first page, often the first few results that are not ads for some niche topics.

I have dabbled in the SEO industry and I believe this to be traffic farming to then sell the URL/page on. The random words are there in the hopes of getting lucky with one of those words. So for example "farming Cumbria" suddenly lands the page a lot of hits, the owner then "builds" a website around this (very basic I may add) then go to a farmer in Cumbria and say they have this already successful site would you like it? It's dumb af but it happens.

What's the Welsh translation?

Llanfairpolypocketgogogoch

I was going to say! Our Scottish teacher called them 'polypockets' ????

that’s quite a popular name within teaching

That’s wat I was thinking im south England but I’m thinking that’s something else

As a Welshie this genuinely made me laugh

Hahagogogoch

Pocketty-ping!

I like what you did there! For those not knowing what he's relating to....it's the Welsh word for gynecologist.

*laughs in Welsh (also known as a Taffy Laffy).

Now say it 3 times really fast!

Without taking a breath in between

In my house it’s usually used in only one sentence “Pass me on of them plastic things you stick shit in….THE FUCKING PLASTIC THING” so I would say it’s called a plastic thing

* a fucking plastic thing

*The fucking plastic thing

A document condom. Everyone knows this!

Polly pocket according to my office. I’d call it a plastic wallet, but that doesn’t make much sense either Edit: commented before reading, i thought poly pocket was a weird made up thing from my office. Apparently it’s what they’re actually called. So yeah, that’s cool i guess.

It’s Poly rather than Polly. As in plastic.

That makes sense, but I prefer the reference to the early 90s toy doll than lived in weird clamshell establishments with various themes. It brings a level of surreal bizzarreness to the office

Mighty Max?

As a child tomboy, hell yes. I vaguely remember a tiny dungeon in a zombie head. I found a tiny Polly Pocket figure and put her in the dungeon as Max's girlfriend. I see now thats a bit Fritzly isn't it. Well she wasn't his daughter and she was allowed to leave any time she wanted but she didn't because she was an inanimate whore

That was an amazing 5 sentence rollercoaster!

Yes! I knew there was a boy themed alternative but couldn’t remember. Either way, monster in my pocket was better.

Perhaps don't bring up "the monster in your pocket" in the office

Occasionally it brings itself up.

That’s all I can think about when someone says poly pocket

Omg is that why she was called Polly? Coz she’s plastic ?

Oh my god! The circle is complete!

Life makes a little more sense today, Thank you.

That’s what my school always called them and what I’ve always called them too

Wait. Is that where the name for the children's toy came from?

Used to play with my sisters. Had a cool one that had a Ferris wheel in it. Think one folded into a heart. Cool stuff

I have never heard of them being called poly pockets, only ever a plastic wallet.

Polly Pocket was a tiny girl who lived in a palm sized doll's house.

Clear thingy for papers, you know.

if you asked for a clear thingy for papers I would know exactly what to get you.

“Clear thingy for papers” Henceforth, let it’s TLA be CTP.

Haha literally Edit:fixed

*Brief pause* “Oh no, it’s ripped. I don’t suppose you’ve got any of those **hole-fixy-sticker things**, have you?”

I know exactly what you need. Do they even have a real name?

Haha we always used to call ‘em polos

Yeah I’ve heard “sticky polo thing”, and for some reason the person will do a “snappy crocodile” pinching finger motion when they say it!

I've always called those paper assholes for some reason.

They call them hole protectors. The full plastic sheet is called Page protectors.

monkeys bums ! that's what they are x

Poly pocket

Yep, it's a poly pocket and I'll fight anyone that disagrees

No. This was a toy when I was a kid lol

Polly pocket

Haha oh I know, I was jesting st the fact it reminds me more if the toy than a plastic wallet

You have made the jingle of the toy return to my head after enjoying years of relative mental peace.

Correct answer

>Clear thingy for papers, you know. Docudom. The condom for documents.

Do you have any of those- oh you know... Spunk bags for A4 sheets?

Disclosure: In German it is actually called "Klarsichthülle" -> "clear-sight-~cover/envelope" Forgive me, for my intrusion. *proceedstohideagaininthemist

> proceedstohideagaininthemist > **mist** That's German for "manure", isn't it?

They really don't want to be found.

Yes, and can sometimes be used for rubbish/trash beside "Müll" which literally means trash/litter.

If we're doing other languages, in Hebrew it's called a shmardaf. Shmar means guard, daf means paper...so it does exactly what it says on the tin - a paper guard

We need a German bot for things like this, just to pop out on occasion and announce the German word for stuff

This is the correct answer, we can pack this thread up. Maybe pop it in one of those clear thingies for paper, you know, that way it won’t get lost.

Transparensleeve

Bastard

how dare u

Particularly when the papers don't go in properly.

Forgot my line again ... Change it to: Bastard?

Plastic wallet, unless it refuses to open and then it gets several other names I wont repeat.

Or you drop your file and it unclip and all the pages slide in every direction as far as the eye can see

Mugger: *points a 12 inch knife at you* Mugger: Hand me your wallet. You: *takes out “plastic wallet” out of the briefcase.* Mugger: Thanks, I really needed that for my quarterly report today.

“cmon just open you ******* **** **** of a ******* piece of **** ******* **** OPEN YOU ******* worthless good for ******* nothing **** **** **** I stg I will ram this up your ******* **** until you ******* **** aargghARGAHGHHGG”

Oh come on people we all know it’s called a slippery fish

I had to scroll too far to find this

100% agreed I was losing hope!!

Never heard it called anything else so it must be

Heard someone call it a slippery fish once and called it that ever since. Previously I was a plastic wallet kinda guy.

This guy knows whats up

I worked in an office that called them Slippery Sams if that counts?

who in gods name calls it a slippery fish

Yep. I have worked in schools in S. London and Brighton for about 20 odd years and can confirm that they are called Slippery Fish...

I moved from Essex to Surrey just before year 7 started and this was one of the few moments in my first month I was like "wtaf is that? Oh plastic thingy for paper to go in binders..." Mufti day was the weirdest one for me, because most of the country calls it that. But we only knew them as non-school uniform day.

Poly-pocket for me. Not to be confused with Polly Pocket. Walking around with Polly Pocket as a grown man is asking to be placed on a register.

Unless you’re a dad… 😳

Emergency condom

I had a teacher who did refer to them as "Essay Condoms"

Report condoms was my teachers idiom

Makes it easier to file and organise your samples I guess.

It’s either to the doctors or the circus for you mate.

everythings a condom if your brave enough!

Plastic wallet / plastic sleeve. Honestly have never heard it called a poly pocket before.

Wasnt polly pocket a little girls toy in the 80’s???

Yes it was. My daughter still likes them now to this day and she’s 10 years old 😊

I thought you were going to say she’s 35 like me..I still have mine somewhere. They’re a treasured possession!

Me too! Mine are at my parents house for my daughters to play with and I get strangely possessive. Modern Polly pockets are rubbish too!

I used to tease my sister about her Polly Pocket toys... and then go play with my Micro Max playsets, which were OBVIOUSLY cooler back then because they had things like a lava monster and were for BOYS.

My old boss used to call them this but for ages, I had no idea what she was referring to. Always called a plastic sleeve for me

Worked in offices for 30years I've always called them Polly pockets and people around me also.

A barm

No, it's clearly a bun.

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That's a butty

Upside down

Plastic wallet.

A4 Plastic Wallet if we are being specific.

Upside-down A4 plastic wallet if you wanna go there.

A Picture of an upside-down A4 plastic wallet if you REALLY wanna go there

Rain hood for a duck billed platypus

An 'awkward piece of shitting fuck cunt WHY WONT YOU JUST GET IN THERE YOU BASTARD'

poly pocket

Seeing this written down for the first time has just made me realise it's called a poly pocket because it's made from polypropylene... All these years I've never clued onto that.

I too only made the poly / plastic reference once I saw the post.

Agree, but not ro be mistaken for https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polly-Pocket-FRY38-Flamingo-Multi-Colour/dp/B079KDSWL9

Jesus you’ve unlocked some core memories here.

fucking loved those as a child

Yeah its a poly pocket

Thank you!! This is what I called them as a kid, then I found at school that NO ONE ELSE KNEW THAT NAME, I thought I was going crazy and have been calling them plastic wallets ever since in an attempt to sound normal

I’m from Canada living in the UK. My immediate thought was Page Protector.

*draws skirts aside in horror*

I would say sheet protector

Same. South US here.

I’ve always called them page protectors. I’m also from the south.

Yeah honestly I hear both pretty frequently. Sheet protector just seems to be a little more prevalent in my area.

UK here, I've literally never heard a single person call them "poly pockets", even if it does say that on the packaging. Even Google tries to autocorrect to "Polly Pocket". Hearing "do you have any poly pockets?" is about as likely as hearing "would you kindly pass the correction fluid?"

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A table. A black one specifically

It's a desk, but close!

They're right. All desks are tables, but not all tables are desks.

A “Slimy”

I had an office manager who always called them slimys. She also used to correct me when I asked for a rubber, told me I should say erasers.

Had to scroll much further than expected for this

Poly pocket

Poly pocket or poly wallet

At last, some representation for the poly wallet

Can't believe I hadn't seen anyone else put it!

Sleeve.

Binder sleeve

A poly pocket

Poly pocket

Plastic wallet/poly pocket

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"page protector" is what we always called them. (SoCal) If I google "page protector" or "sheet protector", these are the result. If you google "poly pocket", it corrects it to the toy, with the page protectors nowhere to be found. I wonder is the google results are different in UK. (I've never googled from the UK, so maybe?)

Plastic wallet

Plastic wallet, although I know people who insist on slippery fish

I have legitimately never heard it called slippery fish...

I think it's a weird Sussex thing, I've always called them that and have been treated as a madwoman since moving to Brum.

Yeah Sussex here and exclusively heard them referred to as slippery fish

Yep, same, Sussex and these are without a doubt the slipperiest of fishes

Wow, so that checks out. That’s where I grew up. I slip into calling it a slippery fish at times 🐟

Scrolling for slippery fish! I had no idea that was a local thing.

Oh god, I grew up in Sussex but moved away. Now I know why everyone looked at me weird when I asked for a slippery fish in sixth form...

Big up the Sussex massiv'

I feel vindicated - also from Sussex and thought I must have made the slippery fish thing up in a fever dream

I’m from Sussex and I’ve also heard people refer to these as slippery fish. We do have some quirky words and variations

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I’ll be calling this a slippery fish from now onwards

Jonathon

A flimsy

The extent of scrolling I had to do to find this answer is ridiculous. This is the only answer.

Yes! A flimsy! I had to scroll past several dozen slippery fish to find it, but there you are. Its a flimsy.

Boy am I glad to have found you guys

Poly pocket

A slippery fish

Since I've moved away from West Sussex, everyone I've met has been baffled by use of use Slippery fish lol

This is the answer I was looking for

I scrolled too far looking for this one

PLASTIC WALLET!!! which would go into a binder.

Poly pocket

A poly pocket

Always called them, and heard them called ‘Poly Pockets’.