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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State owing people a livingIn 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.
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SteamedCleaner, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 15:01,
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Well yesBut 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
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