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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I thinkit has something to do with drawing Far Side cartoons on the sides of buildings.
Either that or it's setting things on fire in a particularly Gallic way, perhaps while wearing a striped shirt and beret with a disdainful sniff at the baseness of it all. "Zut alors! I haff been reduced to l'arson for ze entertainment!"
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:13,
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a definiteMFOTFABL moment.
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I love those momentsbest of all the acronym moments.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:27,
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I was thinking ofwriting a song to go with that.
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I can just see it nowRemember the chef in The Little Mermaid? Singing about "Le Poisson"? You could do it as "Le Arson"...
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:50,
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