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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A few years agoI used to live on a council estate, now I know what you're all thinking - that this is going to be me slagging off council estates, but its not, this was quite a pleasent place, so bear with me.
Basicaly, back in the 1960's a lot of housing estates where constructed on the outskirts of towns experiancing a large population boom as the result of new industries opening up, coal mining, manufacture and such, with new towns literaly springing up in a matter of years.
The area of the estate I lived on was basicaly three rows of houses surrounding a green. Now I did some research into the area as a school project and I found that our estate was built over an older village. Here is where me and my teacher got into an argument. He thought the green must have been a medow, I was certain that it (was a) Common.
(I'm so sorry)
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 16:45, 3 replies)
The law doth punish man and womanwho steal the goose from off the common,
and lets the greater felon loose
who steals the common off the goose.
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YouKnow your land reform protests and such! Have a shiny medal :)
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 18:36, closed)
Pfffft*spangs*
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Esme Weatherwax I swear on my tash it's daycent hash, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 22:46,
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