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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This QotW has really opened my eyes...I thought I was quite a nice guy, but reading these lists of what people find common, I see that I am in fact common scum.
(, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 11:56, 3 replies)
Indeedyou are, sir. Facking Southerner.
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hummThis qotw does seem to have brought out the elitist middle class.
Myself, I like to think I surf the line between Snobby/elitist toffs and ignorant/illiterate scum.
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Coventry, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 19:26,
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I love him really.Really really hard. And he loves it.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 1:48, closed)
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