Common
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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Giving your children ridiculous names
Yes, I know celebrities do it. But the difference is, celebrities can afford to send their kids to schools where they won't be stabbed in the face for being called Tiger Moth Weewee Unicorn Muffintop.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:38, 9 replies)
Yes, I know celebrities do it. But the difference is, celebrities can afford to send their kids to schools where they won't be stabbed in the face for being called Tiger Moth Weewee Unicorn Muffintop.
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:38, 9 replies)
I may mention
this to the parent of Cosmo who I had the pleasure of teaching today.
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this to the parent of Cosmo who I had the pleasure of teaching today.
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^ Mrs L
Not necessarily pikey. Depends if it's short for Cosmopolitan, or a classical reference, to order/beauty, as in cosmos. Innit.
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Not necessarily pikey. Depends if it's short for Cosmopolitan, or a classical reference, to order/beauty, as in cosmos. Innit.
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Ah, but celebrities can be common.
Lots of them are. Beckham & wifey, Paris Hilton (ironically) etc. come to mind.
Although there seem to be two groups who do the stupid names thing, chav scum and pretentious middle-class-trying-to-be-posh families...
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Lots of them are. Beckham & wifey, Paris Hilton (ironically) etc. come to mind.
Although there seem to be two groups who do the stupid names thing, chav scum and pretentious middle-class-trying-to-be-posh families...
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Rufus is a fucking excellent name
Makes me think of George Carlin in the Bill and Ted films, god rest his soul.
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Makes me think of George Carlin in the Bill and Ted films, god rest his soul.
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haha thanks
I like it now, school was a bit of a bastard though...
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I like it now, school was a bit of a bastard though...
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probably apocryphal
But I love the story I heard of some hippies who used to do so much acid that they called their first child wardrobe.
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:30, closed)
But I love the story I heard of some hippies who used to do so much acid that they called their first child wardrobe.
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