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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Oh hell yeah.I've forbidden my family to place *anything* at the roadside if, heaven forfend, I shuffle off this mortal ignition pack in an RTA.
The one that always stuck on my mind was the Celtic shirt on a wee wooden cross beside the A80 just south of Scumbernauld, on the southbound carriageway. Other betans from around the area may well remember it, a few years ago. It was there for quite a while, getting gradually mankier and tattier as salt spray and diesel fumes took their toll, until eventually it was cleared away. Yeah, that's a great way to remember your mate, peg a cheap football shirt up and then leave it to get more and more ragged. Yeah, just lovely.
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A poignant metaphor i feel!The degradation of the symbol of his friend mirroring the inevitable decomposition of the empty shell mouldering in the ground.
Unless he was cremated, then it's just inappropriate.
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:43,
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