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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i think i may be commona while ago when i worked in abike shop, we had a director shooting a video segment about trading standards and the rights of the consumer etc in our shop, won't bore you with details but we had to do a few takes..
so to say thanks he bought us all a bottle of wine each. he obviously put great thought into this, because the owner got a nice red italian- he was a bit of a schmoozy ladies man, it fitted well. the asst manager got a nice light family friendly white wine- he has a wife and kids and isn' a drinker per se.
the other mechanic got a nice fairtrade colombian white as he was about to go on missionary work in the jungle of brazil.
i got a bottle of cheap storng white wine with a screw top.
i think this sums me up well.
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My old boss did this to methere were two fo us in the office and she bought us in a bottle shaped present, James opened his and it was a nice bottle round about the 8 quid mark. I presumed she bought us the same said thank you so much commenting on how much I liked that particular wine but left mine wrapped and took it home. I opened it with dinner that night and discovered a bottle of wine flavoured antifreeze infused £1.50 a bottle tramps piss.
We drank it anyway.
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Peej, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:22,
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