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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I used to work in an opticians in Essex.I think the most common thing I ever was the woman who, when booking her children in for eye tests, checked her tattoos for their dates of birth.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:08,
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*clicks*...goes off to get wife's DOB tattooed on arm
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Brilliant!And practical.
*gets shopping list tattooed on thigh*
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you've been watchingMy Name is Earl, haven't you?
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 20:45,
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