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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My motheris ashamed of where she lives.
Her house is in beautiful countryside at the foot of the North Yorkshire Moors.
One pitfall in the glory stakes is the small matter of Middlesbrough's position a pitiful 10 miles to the north of our leafy village.
Therefore on a trip to Florida when I was younger, she struck up a conversation with a well-to-do lady in the queue.
When asked where she lived, I saw a single bead of sweat form and she enunciated in Received Pronunciation:
"We are nestled somewhere between Harrogate Spa and Alnwick Castle."
Great Broughton, Googlemap it.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 20:47, 3 replies)
Less of thatMy mother lives in Bro...
tis a shithole
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I love Great Broughton and all those lovely surrounding villages...But I do hate teh Boro though...
It is a very strange contrast indeed. Like when you climb Roseberry Toppin only to find chavs on top.
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Hahahave a click
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