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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Sweaty pikey boob changeI have no delusions of grandeur having been brought up in a large, single parent family in working-class Belfast but these antics are beneath even me.
My stepfather plays in a band and during his gigs my mother sits a table and sells the band's cds and merchandise.
During a gig last year a crowd of gypsies/travellers/persons of dubious personal hygiene and ethics (or whatever the PC term is these days) came gallivanting in. They were having a great time dancing away (all women, I should add) and one spectactularly obese example in her 40's literally latched onto the drunkest young man in the room and dry humped him in the middle of the dancefloor whilst simultaneously sucking his entire face and neck purple.
Whilst I was doubled up with mirth at the floorshow, another woman came up to my mum, selected a disc and asked her how much the cds were. My eye was slowly drawn to the fact that her hand was rummaging about down her shirt. Ach well, I've been known to shove a £20 in my bra to save me from carrying a handbag too.
"£10 or €15 each"
"Oh, that's great" she said *rummage rummage rummage* and with a great flourish, she pulls out a HUGE handful of tuppences and nuggets from under her thrupenny bits. "Here, count it out!" she said to my totally appalled mother.
I was so repulsed and convulsed with laughter that I had to flee to the safety of the Ladies... only to find three more traveller ladies sitting side by side on the thrones, doors wide open, happily chatting away to each other.
Klassy.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 19:19, 3 replies)
doors wide open, happily chatting away to each other.this happened to me in cheltenham! there's a group of gypsies that go and the men sit at one end of the bar and the women at the other, and i walked into the toilets to experience the same thing, they looked completely unphased that i'd walked in and could see everything. bizarre!
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 20:12, closed)
Perhaps...it's an open invitation to join them? As a bloke, I'm glad I'll never have to witness any such thing.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 21:19, closed)
*clicky*Although now I want to drink bleach, just to get the Sweaty pikey boob change out of my mind...
(, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:01, closed)
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