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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There also seems to bean unspoken rule whereby letting rip a loud and foetid fart whilst stood next to someone - specifically in pubs, from experience - is perfectly OK.
I couldn't disagree more. This is more to do with 'common courtesy' rather than 'common', though, I'd say.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 12:33,
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In Wales.I was using the facilities when a local fella came in and started using a urinal along the way from me.
He burped a bit and muttered a polite "excuse me". He then unleashed an almighty bout of bum gas, giggled to himself and said "Sorry. Better out than in though. Well, better out y'ere than in there isn't it."
I have to say, he wasn't entirely wrong.
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Moey, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 12:45,
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^^^Last Christmas in Bristol on a work outing a colleague and I having just arrived at this pub after a few elsewhere dived for the gents. Whilst using the urinal another fella, well dressed, turns up and does likewise.
He then proceeded to expell noisy farts so terrible I thought his very guts would come out too. It was the kind of audible nasty that you would think could only appear in slapstick comedy.
Everyone stopped pissing to stare at the guy in utter disbelief.
He finished his wee, and walked out like nothing was wrong (without washing his hands, yuck!).
Saw him back in the bar reading a copy of the Sun.
Now that's pretty low on the human decency scale.
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