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 head fell off my Child of Praguewhen I accidentally knocked him off the windowsill, where he was making sure the weather was good. Since then I've had incredibly good fortune with money. Were I in any way superstitious I'd knock the heads off religious icons on a very frequent basis.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 17:05,
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Hahahaha!Funny you say that, my Mum has had headless statue of St Anthony for 40 odd years. It was a big joke in our family because she lost it before she could glue it back on.
*For you non Papes out there, St Anthony is the patron saint of lost things.
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