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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MeI know that quite a few people have answered this QOTW by saying that they themselves are common, so forgive me for doing the same.
Every week I try to think of a story that would be good for the QOTW, only to find that I get halfway through and can't be arsed to finish. Either that, or I forget to post my answer (having written it offline).
In fact, the most common thing I do which is probably true for most people is to fail to finish all of the things that I sta
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SeasonTicketless is too often the statue, and rarely the pigeon., Mon 20 Oct 2008, 12:21,
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