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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Confused liberalMy Mum, God rest her, had two diametrically opposed views.
1. We are all God's creatures.
2. There's no excuse for some behaviour.
The very best example came when we were watching the story of the Essex gay couple who had surrogate twins. In theory, it had all the ingredients to drive a devout Yorkshire Catholic up the wall: artificial insemination, buggery, southerners.
The only thing she could find to say was this:
"They were very nice boys, but did they really have to call the poor little things Aspen and Saffron? Children should be named after saints, not vegetation."
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Yorkshire... Catholics?I take it she's from the East Riding.
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The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 3:23,
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*click*for "Children should be named after saints, not vegetation."
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 18 Oct 2008, 9:42,
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