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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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.
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rjmrjm, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 13:57,
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