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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You know when...people who aren't used to dressing up smart often don't seem to quite get it right? Last year on Melbourne Cup day (it's a bit like Grand National Day only in Aussie) I was waiting for a bus and nearby stood a girl who was obvioulsy off to a cup day party. She was kind of smart but not... quite there. It's hard to explain.
Anyway, bus arrives, she's the first on and she pauses to put her ticket away. A huge fat woman who'd been the next on bundles past her in a rush for a seat and crushes the poor girl against the metal frame of one of the seat, I mean she got hit quite hard. So... What to do? Well, she produces one of the most nasal, screeching Aussine voIces I've ever heard and SCREAMS,
"Y'SPOSED T'SAY 'SCEUSE ME! Y'STUPID BITCH!!!"
I love the idea of telling someone off about their manners and ending with the words 'stupid bitch'....
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The Togaboy The world will end on, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 0:53,
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