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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Jesus back-flipping ChristYou're as uptight as some of the old crones who used to send in all those letters to the Council when I worked there.
My suggestion is that you take a long, hard look at how someone with an ounce of exposure to the real world would think of you when they look at your little outpouring there, then maybe re-evaluate the connection between yourself and reality.
And yes, I do have a fucking VCR. Apologies for being behind the technology curve but some of us use technology because it works, not because some style guru told us to.
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I have a VCR tooand a dvd player, but the dvd player doesn't play my Martin-Sheen-signed VHS copy of Apocalypse Now, the vids of my babies or the tapes of me on telly years ago.
And I'm just being scummy by refusing to replace all of Red Dwarf/Father Ted/Fawlty Towers etc with shiny disc things, I suppose, rather than poor and prudent.
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