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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Yes...that's true, but as has been pointed out, Paul (or the Disciple Formely Known As Saul) was a tax collector who was romanised (middle-class).
Also, Jesus was basically a new-age traveller with ideas above his station, hence his being nailed to a tree. I think that maybe we should bring that back, as it certainly stopped the next bunch of uppity gypoes breaking into the church and vandalising it. Think about the story of the moneylenders - a legal and legitimate business activity was attacked by a bunch of unwashed hippies because they were against the system and we're supposed to take this as a good/i thing?
If you want a good idea of what Jesus was really like, try reading the Simon Scarrow book "The Eagle In The Sand" - it tells the tale from the Roman perspective...
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