to say "no we dont have any aspirin but we do have paracetamol"?

[Bogeyface]

Because apparantly they are the same thing and I should know what he meant.

I say that as the two are completely different drugs, and as aspirin in particular must be avoided if you have certain illnesses (chicken pox if memory serves, is one) then IWNBU to be specific about what we have in?

I asked DH about this last night, and he said that growing up they always used "aspirin" as the generic term for pain killer, probably because that was what they normally had. So he has just carried on using the word that way: I know what he means when he says it, so no problems here

They are not the same, and we licenced for different things, not to mention the issues with using aspirin if you are on other drugs, such as blood thinners! You just need to look at the packets the active ingredient are totally different!!

Sorry Lweji - I know I'm nitpicking at your posts here - but you specifically said "no such worries with paracetamol" when there ARE such worries with paracetamol. Even in your quote, acetaminophen is listed (which is paracetamol).

I wasn't picking on your comment re the other painkillers, but the fact that you seemed to suggest, due to juxtaposition, that paracetamol had no worries with liver damage.

Ok, fair enough. :)

Well, OP, in future if he asks something like this, just say "no" and let him have the hassle of having to go to the shops to buy his own aspirin/cornflakes.