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?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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YesThere's been a constant display of flowers on the junction of Hyde Road and Pottery Lane in Manchester for well over a year now.
Dad - not mine, but whomever the flowers are supposed to commemorate - isn't any less dead for it.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:23,
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Surelyif people are still being killed there, despite the permanent flower display, it's a sign that the gene pool is being thoroughly cleaned?
Or are they long dead flowers that should have been cleared away by now?
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Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:27,
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I think...... it's a sort of rolling display.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:29,
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In Greecethey put up permanent religious icons.
There's hundreds of the feckers by the roadsides in Kos. Which is hardly any wonder, when you see the way the Greeks drive...
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:41,
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