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 Garden PartyLong time lurker, first post, figured I would wait till I had something to say.
GF at the time's parents cordially invited me to their garden party. I said "what's one of those?"
They kindly informed me that basically they invited friends and neighbours round, got the barbecue out, cooked some food, and ate it.
I said, "so you're having a barbecue then?"
"No, its a garden party" was the response.
I went, and I must say it was probably the most boring barbecue I have ever been to.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:47, 3 replies)
GARDEN PARTY!Not barbecue.
*sigh* You common plebs..
Also, despite being abbriviated 'BBQ', there is no q in barbecue. Not being a spelling nazi, just an interesting fact.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:49, closed)
Eh?Surely a garden party involves tea and cakes. The Queen doesn't serve burgers at her garden party, does she? I think you were right.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 15:50, closed)
Gah!Darn, I been lurking long enough to know about the spelling, and I checked it 3 times. Corrected!!
Yeah they figured they were having a party in the garden so it must be a garden party. They were slightly miffed at my suggestion it was just a common barbeCue!
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:26, closed)
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