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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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Cutlery
There are some things considered common, simply because they go against what is traditionally accepted as the correct behaviour (even though the word 'common' implies 'most used', and should therefore be considered the norm. Anyway, I digress...)

Apparently I'm common because I eat my food with my knife and fork in the "wrong" hand. Where is it carved in stone that your fork should be held in your left hand, for fuck's sake. What sodding difference does it make.

What does it matter if I eat my pudding with a soup spoon.

Who gives a shit?
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 13:58, 8 replies)
You might not be common,
but you're certainly NOT BRITISH!
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:02, closed)
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(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:07, closed)
Forks.
I eat like cack-handed too, and it delights me when I find someone else who eats the same way. It's not very common at all.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:04, closed)
I don't give a shit either
I eat with just a fork where possible.

But it's good to know what to do so that if you find yourself sat at a table with posh people, they don't all think that you're a common oik. Though I expect they can still tell.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:12, closed)
Weird
I eat my soup with a ladle sticking out of my nose like everyone else in my coven. From the other side of the bowl of course.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:13, closed)
Yeah!
I use them the wrong way round too. I get odd looks when I go out to eat and switch them around. Every. Fucking. Time.

I also play guitar left-handed, but I'm a righty.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:29, closed)
my wife and kids
all eat with cutlery held the left handed way, my wife IS left handed but the kids are not. I feel like the freak at the table, not them.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 16:09, closed)
i hold my fork in my left hand.
i'm left-handed.
or cack-handed, if my mum is to be believed.
(, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 2:17, closed)

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