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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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Having now read most of the answers…
I have come to the unavoidable conclusion that the most common thing in the world is…

… Um...

…me.

I do/have/wear/say so many of the things that people have listed. I guess that’s what happens when your from Basildon.

It’s a bloody good job I’m thick skinned really.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:22, 9 replies)
Ya poor sod.
S'aight mate, I'm from 'Arlow.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:28, closed)
I also
was born in Arla, proper Essex me

been slowly creeping north ever since.

got an ors in aahs in arla

I possess a horse in my house in Harlow
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:11, closed)
basildon bond
my family seems to have been described to a tee.

i am from Braintree, only 45 mins from your good self. And born in Colchester - so have taken a hammering there too!

In Dorset these days, but Essex loud and proud.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:29, closed)
Hmmm...
So, we've got the Essex Boys here then?

Like I said, born in Harlow.
I'm from the farmery part though, all fields, not so many knob-ends.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:33, closed)
Hmm
seem to have proved my own point too.

I meant "you're" not "your"
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:40, closed)
Yeah, but, no, but
Self-awareness is not very common.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:52, closed)
*joins club*
I too am an Essex Boy.

Well, I'm Danish, but I grew up in Felsted and then Braintree.

'ave it!
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:46, closed)
i went out to Sankey Soap in Manchester
i thought the north was supposed to be avin it large.

They were no-where near what i expected. No one was so mullered they had their shirt off (well there was one....) and the really did not know how to ave it.

I managed to get a massive together to go see a good mate from Arlow play Ashton Gate fest in Bristol. He plays live techno and done some vinyl but got the 2.15pm slot. there was 600 people chilling, and about 12 of the Essex massive at the fron running round and giving it the large. They knew they had to up their game when they saw the massive.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:03, closed)
nyyyeeahh!
This is massive. And made my day.


I am a few years out of the Motherland now, but everytime i drive round the M25 and get to the sign that says Essex i toot my horn and shout Nyyeeeah! I am back.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:59, closed)

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