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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@ minkyI think you misunderstand.
Anyone who has seen my writing here will know I'm the first to criticise anything that is stupid, aggressive, pointless or antisocial.
But not "common". That muddies the waters between legitimate criticism of idiotic and unacceptable behaviour, and outright snobbery and sneering at those people consider as "inferior". That lets apologists for "chav" culture (I'm thinking Julie Burchill and company) get away with classing all criticism of anything bad that any working-class person does as middle-class snobbery. Chav =/= working class. Even worse, as I said originally, most of what has been written in this qotw is middle-class people sniping at each other in a pathetic and shallow attempt at one-upmanship.
And there is not "a right way and a wrong way to do everything". That's narrow-minded bollocks.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 20:19, 1 reply)
What utter liberally minded tosh...Do please enlighten me as to what constitutes a "middle class" person these days?
So by your reckoning any recognisable standards of acceptable behaviour or indeed the legal system as a whole is "narrow minded bollock" then eh? What!
And as for "chav culture", now there's a blatant misconception.
At least I've got a sense of humour and can remember to laugh when visiting this website. Now who's getting uptight?
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