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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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Eating.
Not the general act of eating, but that of chewing with your mouth open, loudly.

This is perfectly acceptable if you are a caveman or my dog, but I don't want to see it from fellow members of society.

I just don't understand why people have to eat loudly with their jaws flapping about in the wind so we can all view the contents of their gobs.

I was brung up proper and told from an early age that your mouth always stays closed when you are chewing. To do any different would be quite disgusting.

Don't even get me started on chewing gum....that's even worse. The amount of people I see every day chewing gum loudly, mouths open....argh! I want to hit them in the face with a spade, then they'll appreciate the days when they used to have fully functioning jaws.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:15, 6 replies)
hehehe
'brung'
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:21, closed)
mouthbreathers
those slack jawed types and their nasty habits drive me up the wall, too.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:24, closed)
But what I've found is that it's not always a "working class"
thing. I know well off, well educated people from good families who are perfectly capable of eating a meal at home properly but put a piece of chewing gum in their mouth and their jaw completely fails to work.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:28, closed)
Yup.
A chap who sits near me at work is a public-school-light-aircraft-pilot-type who still can't help masticating loudly.
Plus you can hear him wanking in the toilets.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:13, closed)
Sandwich man
I used to work with a guy who seemed determined to get his mouth open as wide as possible when he was chewing.

The weird thing was he always held his sandwich down at desk level and lowered his entire upper body down to take a bite. Fully functioning arms etc, just a muppet.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:56, closed)
i hate it too
my wife eats crisps loudly, usually when i'm driving. to counteract, make weird loud noises when you eat to make them stop.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:16, closed)

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