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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The pointwas more about adopting a "look" that's completely inappropriate.
For a black person of either gender who lets their hair grow out, dreadlocks make sense- it keeps the hair in some sort of order, isn't as hot to wear that way, and is the result of having extremely curly hair.
For a white kid with straight hair, it makes them a poseur.
I mean, imagine a black girl in a kimono with white face powder...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:37,
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