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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The Royle FamilyAbsolute class, sorry but it was a shining light of comedy compared to the black hole sucking value of X Factor, big brother and the like. I suppose unless you have been poor you just won't get it but when younger a lot of people's houses were like this.
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it may have been like many people's housesbut not like those of me and my friends, but that doesn't excuse the fact that it wasn't fucking funny!
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:38,
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we may have been poorbut my mother would have died rather than let us live in a house like that.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 20:32,
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