Common
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Part 3
Cufflinks worn with single cuff shirts, clip on bow ties, caravans, beaded car seat covers, wineboxes, plastic Christmas trees, call centre operatives, anything from Primark, St George flags hung from bedroom windows during football tournaments, people who add salt to their plate before tasting the food, instant coffee, trousers worn without a belt or braces, anything Burberry (particularly the god-awful aftershave), chipped nail varnish, beer guts, white socks, conifers, black bra’s worn with a white blouse and worst of all – Big Brother contestants.
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:32, 5 replies)
Cufflinks worn with single cuff shirts, clip on bow ties, caravans, beaded car seat covers, wineboxes, plastic Christmas trees, call centre operatives, anything from Primark, St George flags hung from bedroom windows during football tournaments, people who add salt to their plate before tasting the food, instant coffee, trousers worn without a belt or braces, anything Burberry (particularly the god-awful aftershave), chipped nail varnish, beer guts, white socks, conifers, black bra’s worn with a white blouse and worst of all – Big Brother contestants.
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:32, 5 replies)
Yes, yes and, er, yes...
Thank God it is not only me who finds the whole 'trousers without a belt' thing common... It also grips my sh*t to distraction when people season their food without tasting it.... especially when they cover it in home brand tomato ketchup... raaaaaaaaaaaaah!
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:52, closed)
Thank God it is not only me who finds the whole 'trousers without a belt' thing common... It also grips my sh*t to distraction when people season their food without tasting it.... especially when they cover it in home brand tomato ketchup... raaaaaaaaaaaaah!
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:52, closed)
I invented a term for people who season their food without tasting
it's called Autocondimentia
I will always put salt on potatoes and some other veg though (not mash, because that should be seasoned correctly already)
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:03, closed)
it's called Autocondimentia
I will always put salt on potatoes and some other veg though (not mash, because that should be seasoned correctly already)
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:03, closed)
You invented it late
It's already been used in the Discworld series, except Pratchett calls it Autocondimenting.
( , Sat 18 Oct 2008, 17:07, closed)
It's already been used in the Discworld series, except Pratchett calls it Autocondimenting.
( , Sat 18 Oct 2008, 17:07, closed)
Yes, yes, yes
Clip-on bow ties at formal occasions infuriate the fuck out of me beyond belief. Why not just wear a T-shirt with a dinner jacket design while you're at it?
White socks should come with a qualifier though. Playing cricket or tennis - good. Worn with jeans and black shoes - bad.
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:12, closed)
Clip-on bow ties at formal occasions infuriate the fuck out of me beyond belief. Why not just wear a T-shirt with a dinner jacket design while you're at it?
White socks should come with a qualifier though. Playing cricket or tennis - good. Worn with jeans and black shoes - bad.
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:12, closed)
well generally
anytime white socks/black shoes appears is bad (course, maybe I'm just not understanding your post properly).
Plastic Christmas trees? Come on man - saves you more money, and the environment. FFS
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:20, closed)
anytime white socks/black shoes appears is bad (course, maybe I'm just not understanding your post properly).
Plastic Christmas trees? Come on man - saves you more money, and the environment. FFS
( , Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:20, closed)
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