CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
(
chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
« Go Back
ooh, there's a long list...but I think i can whittle it down to:
1) using profanity to fill space in a sentence
2) confusing "I would like" with "I have a right to"
3) not taking into account other people's sensibilities/feelings
4) not appreciating the fact that someone had to work to make/clean/buy something before they destroy/tarnish/break/denegrate it.
5) Ugg boots
6) The word"innit"
7) Playing music on a mobile phone - a) it sounds shit, b) we don't like NeYo as much as you do and, c) it's pig ignorant - use earphones.
8) Chewing with the mouth open - if you can't close it, you shovelled too much in, you fat fuck.
9) Putting exhausts the size of drainpipes on crappy little cars - it doesn't make it go faster, it doesn't fool us into thinking it does and it jus tpisses off your neighbours when you rev it at 7am on a sunday, you twat.
10) Never admitting they might be wrong - the most simple way to spot a chav/scumbag/comm-as-muck person is to point out a mistake they made. A normal person will say "Oh. Whoops, sorry about that" or words to that effect. Your common oik/thug/pondlife will snort, tut, sigh and then try and make out it's you fault they didn't do their job properly, before they throw a huge screaming tantrum if you don't agree with them.
There are more, but these are simple to spot.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:23, 2 replies)
Profanity to fill a space in a sentence.Otherwise known as the Braintree Comma.
"Yeah it's like fucking you know innit? Fucking yeah like he said fucking innit?"
For some reason round here they always tend to make it "Fuckin-er", with a slight extension to the "n" sound.
Thing that gets me is people say those who swear a lot have limited vocabularies, but Stephen Fry, in an interview noted that some of the people with the largest vocabularies he knows are extremely foul-mouthed.
As I understand it, the point is not just using obscenity, but knowing when to use it for maximum effect.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 1:04, closed)
thick and mouthythere's nothing worse...
*click*
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:47, closed)
« Go Back