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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As someone else posted earlierIt'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.
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Bazongaloid, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 22:27,
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Did they?That'll teach me to post before reading other posts.
Meh, I think it tastes different, but maybe that's just me.
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