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Freddy 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?

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Ha Ha!
I spent the first ten years of my life in Hounslow. Its fucking shit isn't. I thought it looked bad from all angles, which one are you talking about?
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:01, 1 reply)
It's the approach
from Nelson Road onto Hanworth Road. I'm sure Hounslow starts sooner, but as I drive over the railway bridge and turn onto Hanworth Road it always suddenly seems so much more, Hounslow.
(I helped save b3ta! Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:04, closed)
Ahh
not far from where I once lived down an alley next to the Cross Lances pub. I agree, once over the railway bridge something seems to disappear.
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:09, closed)
Ah, the Cross Lances.
They have a fine selection of Ska on their juke box and they don't allow karaoke... it is a bastion of decency in an otherwise hideous hole.

EDIT: Now I think about it, I think I was thinking about the Windmill. The Cross Lances is as bad as the rest... I think.
(I helped save b3ta! Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:12, closed)
Yeah
I seem to remember it did have a good juke box. Not sure how I know this as I was prob about ten the last time I was in there. Does it still always still smell of gas outside?
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:15, closed)
Outside
the pub, or just outside in general?

After working here for well over 6 years I think I'm immune to it.
(I helped save b3ta! Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:18, closed)
Just outside the pub.
Weird the things you remember when you're young. I also remember a plane came over so low once the house shook.
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:24, closed)
Planes:
the most common sight in all of Hounslow.

My office shakes frequently from those fuckers.
(I helped save b3ta! Moey, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:29, closed)
I think my mum was barred
from the Cross Lances for making an official complaint to the brewery about how racist the landlords were. Nice.
(Errorist, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:29, closed)

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