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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?

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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I'll tell you what ISN'T Common
Pouring the milk before you pour the tea. Pouring the milk first makes the milk mix with the hot water less, meaning your tea doesn't taste like scalded milk. So there.

What's really common is checking the contents of your hankerchief after a big blow. What do you really expect to see in there, eh?
(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:23, 12 replies)
As someone else posted earlier
It's actually because high quality porcelain would be less likely to crack if you poured the milk first to take the heat out of the tea.

Nothing to do with the taste, you can't scald milk with tea since it can't possibly be over 100 degress.
(I helped save b3ta! Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:27, closed)
Did they?
That'll teach me to post before reading other posts.
Meh, I think it tastes different, but maybe that's just me.
(TheWonderfulWombat It came to me in a dream., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:41, closed)
Adding the milk
afterwards means you don't overmilk your tea! I hate tea that's too milky.

Also, I check my hankie for Nazi gold.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:56, closed)
We don't
Own a teapot...

So I pore the milk last as the tea mixes quicker, my mum however, adds the milk first as she hates the taste of tea and is it weak anyway so why she even bothers having tea? ...I KNOW! how can we not own such a necessity as a teapot?!
(suicidalducky has too much time on his hands, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 1:16, closed)
I expect to see
Nasal polyps, but I never do.
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 1:19, closed)
hmmmm
'makes the milk mix with the hot water less' sorry bud but that makes no sense at all. If you pour the water onto the milk it would actually mix more. Not sure where you were going with that one...
(el perro grande, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 1:25, closed)
a turner seascape, perhaps?
the face of the madonna?
an undiscovered shakespearean sonnet?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 1:46, closed)
don't get tetchy
;)
(I helped save b3ta! Deadpool, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 13:32, closed)
it's just as well i can't hear you.
it's just as well i can't hear you calling me tetchy. you know what happens when you call me tetchy.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 15:38, closed)
gets board from wall-- writes 'TETCHY' on it
/coat
(mickeyblue, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:08, closed)
oh, no
didn't i tell you? didn't i warm you what would happen if you called me tetchy?
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 3:21, closed)
a
toffee crisp
(Mr G to you , Fathead, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 9:05, closed)

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