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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Granddad..
We've always been common as muck and proud of it in the Legless clan but this reminded me of a story about my Granddad.
My Granddad had just won first prize in the local leek show (don't ask. You wouldn't understand. It's a Geordie thing) and would proudly announce his secret to anyone who would listen.
"Manure!" he'd bellow "Every night, cover them in horse manure..."
Now my Aunt, who likes to think she's a bit better than the rest of the clan 'cos her husband has a desk job and isn't a miner like the rest if us, objected to this and asked my Gran if she'd tell Granddad to call it fertilser rather than manure. Gran looked at her wearily and said:
"It's taken me 30 years to get him to call it manure. I'm quitting while I'm ahead...."
Cheers
Thenk you very much etc.....
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 7:52,
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Christ...Is your brain in joke retrieval mode at the minute or something?
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Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:23,
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