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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Sweet suffering mother of christ -it's only Monday morning. Do we really have to suffer another three and a half days of bigoted, inane lists about poor people? Isn't there some emergency question-change clause we can invoke?
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 9:23,
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ActuallyI think the mods will let this run longer than usual, just to annoy us.
It's an interesting little experiment in social attitudes though, the way the last two QsotW have been juxtaposed!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 9:27,
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No.It is what the unwashed masses desire - and I'll suffer good and long if it means the commoners are kept in their place!
More brandy?
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yes pleasejust pass the whole bottle
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 9:33,
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That soundslike the rantings of a poor person to me. I shall just ignore it and continue kicking puppys stuffed with foie gras.
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