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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Where I livenot having your numbers on the house is against the law. Not that anyone obeys it anyhow.
Nor are you allowed to have a mail box next to your house. Nooooo, it has to be out by the street where the passing yobs can play whack-the-mailbox-with-a-sledgehammer going about 60000 per hour in their Chevy. grrrr.
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mailboxesWhy can't the mailman just push the mail through a hole in the door like they do here?
That guy gets paid to deliver the letters, yet you're the one that has to walk from your door to the street to get the damn things. In the rain. In your slippers and dressing-gown first thing in the morning.
Unless he's like our postman who I think rolls a die to see if he's going to deliver any letters during the next 30 mins.
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sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 2:24,
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