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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Rice pudding the way its meant to be eatenI get peeved to see people put sugar on their porridge. It tastes great with salt and milk - the trick is to give the milk a savoury taste, not make it briny.
I was once cooped up in an upmarket hotel in Chicago for 4 weeks. As it was expenses paid I'd order breakfast in the hotel. Menu was impressive with handmade flapjacks, pancakes, donuts etc. except that every sweet item was coated in cinnamon. Once in a while cinnamon is great but after a while it makes you want to put a gun to your head. In desperation I order porridge so what do they do? Put sugar and cinnamon on it. After that I just ordered cornflakes every day.
But what do I know. I eat cold rice pudding straight from the tin. This is somehow objectionable to my wife.
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