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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Maybe I've just got a short fuseI don’t know if this is a common trait or just an example of the uneducated neglecting to acknowledge the reason why some people have different tastes/lifestyles, because actually, they are ‘different’ to them.
A couple of examples.
Being in conversation and mentioning that I’m going on holiday, Asked by ‘common’ where I’d be heading (or to use the Bristolian vernacular, ‘Where you going too?’) I mention the destination and get told…
‘Oh wow, you are so lucky, I’ve always wanted to go there!!’
Me: ‘Hmm, it was £179.00 from Lunn Polly it wasn’t a very expensive jaunt’
‘I don’t think I’d be able to go anyway, I only speak English’
Me: ‘You’ll find that most holiday destinations are able to cope with people who aren’t able to speak anything other than English’
‘Yeah, but I’ve heard it’s dead expensive when you get there!’
Me: ‘The average bar is probably not much different to London prices’
‘What? You’ve been to London as well?!?!’
Or, my personal favourite.
‘That your car?’
Me: Yes it is
‘How can you afford that?’
Me: It’s a hire car
‘But still, that must cost you a fortune’
Me: I’ve only got it for a couple of days to go to meetings, and it’s my employer, not me who is paying for it
‘Why don’t you have a company car of your own’
Me: There is no business need for me to have one
‘So if there was, your company would give you a car ‘just like that’?’ I don’t think they would’
Me: If projections showed it would be cheaper for the company to do that, then that’s what they’d do, as it I don’t need a company car as I rarely go anywhere’
‘GUTTED!’
Me: ‘Eh?’
‘I’ll be you is well gutted about that’
Me: Not really, a company car can really effect your tax bill
‘What? You pay tax?’
It wouldn't be so bad, but the person in question is actually a tax-paying colleague.
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JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:01,
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You mean "affect", right?Or does the company car cause you to have a tax bill?
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uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 14:31,
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MoreTo and Too?
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