Jacuzzi, hot tub, whirlpool

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Anyone know the difference between the following three spa items: jacuzzi, hot tub, and whirlpool?
I think Jacuzzi is a brand name that came to be used generically, even though the trademark might still exist. Just like Kleenex for tissue, Xerox for plain-paper copy/copier, or (in grandma's time) Frigidaire for refrigerator, etc.
I seem to think of a whirlpool (also called "whirlpool bath") as something therapeutic and utilitarian, like you might find at a health club, whereas a hot tub comes across as something more recreational. But is there any functional difference between the two, other than "hot tub" sounding more trendy? Whole thing reminds me of a joke I used to hear:
Q. "What's the difference between a barber and a hairstylist?"

A. "About twelve bucks!"

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[nq:1]Anyone know the difference between the following three spa items: jacuzzi, hot tub, and whirlpool? I think Jacuzzi is a ... might still exist. Just like Kleenex for tissue, Xerox for plain-paper copy/copier, or (in grandma's time) Frigidaire for refrigerator, etc.[/nq]
By the way, when I was in Manhattan last month, I walked by a printing-type store in Midtown that said "ZEROXING" on the storefront.
[nq:1]I seem to think of a whirlpool (also called "whirlpool bath") as something therapeutic and utilitarian, like you might find ... a joke I used to hear: Q. "What's the difference between a barber and a hairstylist?" A. "About twelve bucks!"[/nq]
Not true, of course. I would never get my hair cut by a "hairstylist" even if the price situation were reversed. There's an implied cultural gap between a haircut by a barber and a haircut by a "hair stylist", and some of this dates back to the cultural wars of the 1970s. In BrE this distinction seems to have been lost, and all you have now are "hair dressers", if AUE (or at least Doc Robin Bignall) is any guide.

If they don't have the things of "herbicide" or whatever it's called, beware.

Steny '08!

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[nq:1]Anyone know the difference between the following three spa items: jacuzzi, hot tub, and whirlpool?[/nq]
Jacuzzi is a brand name (and was 20 years ago
the first or the commonest manufacturer). A hot
tub is simply a tub of hot water big enough for
several bathers: but when this became a serious
home improvement commodity it was improved
by the addition of underwater jets (current generators, as used in athletes' therapeutic baths) thus became the whirlpool hot tub.

Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

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[nq:1]Anyone know the difference between the following three spa items: jacuzzi, hot tub, and whirlpool? I think Jacuzzi is a ... as something more recreational. But is there any functional difference between the two, other than "hot tub" sounding more trendy?[/nq]
I think that a hot tub or spa has a heater to maintain the temperature, whereas a whirlpool bath may not. A hot tub may not have a pump and jets of water, whereas a whirlpool always does.
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} Not true, of course. I would never get my hair cut by a "hairstylist" } even if the price situation were reversed. There's an implied cultural } gap between a haircut by a barber and a haircut by a "hair stylist", and } some of this dates back to the cultural wars of the 1970s. In } BrE this distinction seems to have been lost, and all you have now are } "hair dressers", if AUE (or at least Doc Robin Bignall) is any guide. }
} If they don't have the things of "herbicide" or whatever it's called, } beware.
I hold in my hand a glass container highlighted by something purporting to be a barber pole "behind" the stylishly arched word "MARVY" (all in white) with explanatory material at the bottom as follows:

****CIDE ^(R)
DISINFECTANT
AND GERMICIDE
and on the back as follows:
Reorder No. 3
William Marvy Co., Inc.

1540 St. Clair Ave.St. Paul, Minn. 55105(with minor liberties taken here to make it look approximately as neat as on the container). The container itself reminds me of the votive-light holders to be found in the Mexican-food section of our supermarket, rather than the smaller Yahrzeit-candle glasses in the Jewish-food section. It is evidently designed for the large, professional-quality combs used in barber shops and has something vaguely reminiscent of a percolator's innards inside, with a lipped strainer plate at the bottom and a rod connecting that to the **** on the lid, so that the solid contents of the container can be lifted for use, leaving behind most of the working liquid.

I use mine dry for holding wooden pencils. The jar I use for pens is ostensibly for Dundee Orange Marmelade, but is actually clean and dry. It is apparently a misuse of both containers, but it works out well in practice. You (= BrE "one) should use the right tool for the job.

I don't know if Marvy is googlable, but it wouldn't surprise me. There are probably other manufacturers of equipment relating to barbershop disinfectant and germicide (and certainly other purveyors of orange marmalade) and this does not constitute an endorsement of these particular products, but I would accept no substitutes, myself.

But they're not cheap.

R. J. Valentine

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[nq:1]Not true, of course. I would never get my hair cut by a "hairstylist" even if the price situation were ... least Doc Robin Bignall) is any guide. If they don't have the things of "herbicide" or whatever it's called, beware.[/nq]
Barbicide a product of Brooklyn! So named, allegedly, because the inventor loathed barbers.

SML

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Sara Lorimer filted:
[nq:1]Barbicide a product of Brooklyn! So named, allegedly, because the inventor loathed barbers.[/nq]
And it doesn't kill implausibly-proportioned blonde action figures either...lord knows I've tried..r

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[nq:1]I don't know if Marvy is googlable, but it wouldn't surprise me.[/nq]
Using my newly installed MSN Search over 158,900 instances were found. I did not look, but, as a Brit, I might (if I were soppy enough to follow modern Brit lingo) say MARVY!

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