...and there's more
Having the loo roll hanging backwards
Toilet mat sets from the market
A chip pan containing solidified lard
Leaving the dustmins out or having them on display at the front of the property
Still got a VCR
Drinking before you go out
Thinking it's acceptible to loud, rude & abusive when pissed
Openly blowing snot from each nostril
Playing Sunday league football
You think Chubby Brown is really funny
Gossip about soap operas
Slouching in general
Drinking your duty free before you've got to the destination
Thinking the state owes you a living?
Wearing casual clothing in court
Using black American street slang
Watching reality TV
Meeting in Weatherspoons
Carrying drinks between pubs
Ordering chips with everything
Asking for extra gravy
Stashing uneaten food in serviettes
Eating at the bar
Paying rent
Vandalising the council estate where you live
Urinating in phone boxes
Eating breakfast cereals at work
Fly tipping
Browsing in Cash-Converters
Borrowing money to go out
Eating at motorway services
Going to Butlins or Pontins
Having a caravan holiday
Buying yesterday's English newspapers when abroad
Having a tattoo or piercing
Hosting or going to an Anne Summers party
Only being able to eat using just a fork or spoon
Drinking out of bottles
Standing outside pubs smoking looking like total lepers
Openly admitting you don't vote, but still complain regardless
Don't bother attending parents evenings
Expect the school to administer discipline
Your idea of food heaven is a 24/7 full English
Refer to any alternative cuisine as foreign muck
Look down your nose at ethnic minorities, despite the fact that they are probably in work or own their own businesses and look after their elders better than the indigenous population

...I need a lie down in a darkened room now!
(minky, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:34, 28 replies)

I was going to comment that you seem to be getting confused between "common" and "poor"
However since you've included "eating at motorway service stations" here you can't be... only the very rich can before to do that!
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:38, closed)

indeed...
You can still be common whether or not you can afford something...?
(minky, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 11:47, closed)

You seem to be split
half and half between being right and being a cunt.
( greedyostrich Cheese is evil! Cheddar is VOODOO!, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:08, closed)

Otherwise known
as the Clarkson dichotomy.
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 12:41, closed)

The Clarkson Dichotomy..
Top class!
(AndyC4m Eject Eject [><], Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:31, closed)

Genius!

( M3Essential and The Essentials. LIVE!, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 4:35, closed)

since when is it common
to own a VCR? Cuntish and unfair thing to say. Did you just throw away all your old videos?

Does that make you even more common if you still use a record player?
(Roopy all is not what it seams, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:18, closed)

"Asking for extra gravy"
Sorry, what?
(oneltrchardonnay, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:06, closed)

Paying
rent. I'm sorry, but what?
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:20, closed)

As far as I know, even those who are thoroughly looked after,
by their rich mummy and daddy, who decided to take up a career in one of the highly paid professions, eg, doctor, lawyer, etc, probably most definitely went to university to get their qualifications. As far as I know, universities do not offer free accommodation to their students, therefore you can be wise in the knowledge that the extremely successful lawyer driving down the road in that Bugatti Veyron is a bit of a commoner because he/she once had to pay rent for the student accommodation while he/she studied Law. And I guarantee that he/she is better than minky.
( turb0t, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 21:53, closed)

Good point...
Also, I rent my home, because I could get a 15th century coaching in on a private estate (i.e part of the manor house's land) with four bedrooms for what a mortgage on a two-bedroom semi was. Having said that, we're only still renting at the moment as we can get the landlord to fix the wiring, etc, at their cost. We're aiming to buy the place in the next year or so.
(Chad, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 12:27, closed)

Well thankyou
I've paid rent all my life, or my parents have. I've also never lived anywhere outside of a council estate, I've borrowed cash and had to pawn stuff every now and then to get by. (oh, and I also do happen to think that the state owes people a living, given that its the reason we have taxes and such - and after all, if the goverment has cash to bail out an apparently free market capitalist system I think it can spare a few quid for someone who can't find work or is too ill to work)

But thankyou! You see, I used to think that I was just poor, disadvantaged in some ways and would have to continue to work bloody hard to get anywhere. Now I know that I'm just common. Lucky me. I'd better go do whatever us commoners do now, and eat with my elbows on the table without using the correct fork for the fish dish.
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:23, closed)

State owing people a living
In a way, yes, but if the OP meant the kind of people who sit on their arse with no intention of even trying to make their own living and expect to be spoon fed, then no, let them starve for a while.
( SteamedCleaner, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 15:01, closed)

Well yes
But that would require a system for welfare that, actualy functioned instead of allowing benifits and tax releif to compensate for the criminaly low wages paid by some (not all) employers. And thats just way too unpopular and long term to win an election with
(Fredz A graveyard of hopes, a dump of ambition, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 15:53, closed)

OMG!
The loo roll hanging backwards. I thought it was just me that always put it hanging at the front.
( girlinthehole, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:24, closed)

Common People Like Me
"Leaving the dustmins out or having them on display at the front of the property"

Some of us live in terraced housing (probably because we're common) and some of us have alley-gates on our back alleys because we live in crime-ridden areas (probably because we're common). The dustmin men - sorry 'dustbin' (as I call it, probably because i'm common) don't go around the back of the houses because of these gates. They prefer be lazy ('cos they're common) and pick up the bins from the front of the houses - so that's why we leave them there. I don't know about you but I don't like the idea of dragging my rain-soaked wheelie bin through my nice lounge-diner every week, I don't like having wet wheel marks on my carpet (probably because i'm common).

Also, an aged relation (who isn't common but lives in a posh semi) leaves her bins out the front because she finds it too difficult to open the back door on her own.
( rjmrjm, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:57, closed)

Hmmkay
Your'e not fussy in the slightest at all really?
(swampi thought of this, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 14:01, closed)

Presumeably
you don't do any of these things, because you still live with mummy and daddy, and mummy and daddy still pay for everything for you.
( turb0t, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 14:14, closed)

Bins out the front?
Come to Edinburgh, some of the most expensive properties in heritage areas have bins out the front. Bloody great huge communal ones.
( SteamedCleaner, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 14:58, closed)

Hi
Only common people have toilet mats at all. Whether they're from the market or not is irrelevant. As you made the point of syaing "from the market" I Imagine the pissed soaked rags encircling your loo must be going in the washing machine every evening. And do common people care about the environmental impact of this?

However I do strongly agree with some of your other points.

What the hell is a Cash Convertors?
( Roland E O'Dorant R Tape loading error, 0:1, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 15:46, closed)

I'm so glad I have bigger things to worry about than the way my bog roll hangs
And Sunday league football prevents obesity far better than any government initiative.
( KersaI Missive Free Michael Shields! with Monday's Liverpool Echo, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 17:18, closed)

Oh look, another retard.
For fuck's sake.
( Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 18:30, closed)

Jesus back-flipping Christ
You're as uptight as some of the old crones who used to send in all those letters to the Council when I worked there.

My suggestion is that you take a long, hard look at how someone with an ounce of exposure to the real world would think of you when they look at your little outpouring there, then maybe re-evaluate the connection between yourself and reality.

And yes, I do have a fucking VCR. Apologies for being behind the technology curve but some of us use technology because it works, not because some style guru told us to.
(Axeman Jim, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 20:27, closed)

I have a VCR too
and a dvd player, but the dvd player doesn't play my Martin-Sheen-signed VHS copy of Apocalypse Now, the vids of my babies or the tapes of me on telly years ago.

And I'm just being scummy by refusing to replace all of Red Dwarf/Father Ted/Fawlty Towers etc with shiny disc things, I suppose, rather than poor and prudent.
(posthumous mince is tiptoeing through the tulips, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 0:58, closed)

what a twat
have you ever stopped to listen to yourself???

i'm glad i'm common as muck,
(Captain Benzo Panda fighting, live on tuesdays., Sun 19 Oct 2008, 20:36, closed)

Reeling you in by the score...
Obviously I've pricked a few consciences here. Isn't it amazing the number of fools who take this site so seriously? They are simply observations on the topic that I personally find humourous. Get over yourselves, maybe the sense humour threshold is easily breached at pleb level?
Go on, smile, it doesn't hurt...
(minky, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 13:03, closed)

I hear
the sound of frantic backpedalling....

"haha, it was all a joke, ho ho, you're in the wrong by taking my twat-headed outpouring so seriously, hee hee, the joke's on you."

Moron.
(Axeman Jim, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 21:44, closed)

you are an utter
Cunt.

You better log off now, Mummy will have dinner on the table and you need to build your energy levels up for the rodgering Daddy will give you after dinner.

Mind you, its probably your Daily Mail reading, social climbing, civil servant parents who have filled your head with such tripe and loathing.

Run along now twat face.
(zit, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 9:12, closed)