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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Marmite vs BovrilA good friend of mine, with whom I shared a flat as an undergrad. Her parents were worth quite a bit of money (though she would never have qualified for the previous qotw)
Anyhoo, she was quite excited when I first bought a jar of marmite.
"Have you not tried the stuff before?" I asked
"No, my mother always insisted on buying Bovril, because she thought marmite was common."
I know what you're all thinking...
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Bovril? BOVRIL?'TIS THE DRINK OF...
I think you know where I'm going with this.
Anyway, if that's who I think it is, I'm amused by the image of her being quite excited at the prospect of marmite. There's just something quintessentially British about getting excited about slightly mediocre things.
(Though I can't see how Bovril is high-class anyway.)
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I wantsome borvil on toast right now.
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they're bothcompletely different products? Marmite is yeast extract, Bovril is beef.
It's like her saying that her mother always insisted on buying marmalade because jam was common.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 21:58,
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Jam is commonMarmalade on the other hand has a long pedigree - "ma mère est malade..........." etc
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 22:47,
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