Common
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
Freddy 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?
( , Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Karaoke Pilot
On my first day of university some years ago in Middlesbrough (the center of the universe), I went to a local pub with my friends. A was in a good mood and smiled to the man stood next to me at the bar. He laughed a sort of James-Bond-villain-laugh and told me I was lucky to still be alive. He had a shaved head...
Went to a pub the other day and karaoke was on. We thought "great! karaoke[1]", then realised it was a 40th birthday party - a function room[2] full of people who looked happy, but with a hostile undertone. We stayed for a bit anyway. We decided no one would notice if we helped ourselves to the buffet[3] so we got stuck in. My girlfriend got up to sing karaoke, to my delight. We were sat watching her, laughing away gleefully, when all of a sudden a big fat woman stood right in my line of sight and starting doing what I can only describe as Sexy Dancing[4]. I turned to my friend, shocked, and we both burst into laughter. There was sort of a shared understanding that we were laughing at the fact that she'd not only blocked the view, but had blocked the view by Sexy Dancing in a floral dress. Anyway, she vaulted across the room and flying kicked me on the arm. I stopped laughing instantly and said "what did you do that for?" She said "you were laughing at me!" I panicked and said "No I wasn't!"
To my surprise she completely changed tone and said (100% genuinely) "oh, I'm sorry...oh I'm really sorry, that's awfully rude of me". I said "whatever" and turned back to my pint of Carling[5]. Then I thought 'wait a f**king minute!' - no, knowingly sitting in someone's seat would be rude, I don't think there's a classification for fat ladies in floral dresses flying kicking people.
So anyway, my girlfriend came back and I relayed the story. She said "who the f**k was it? Point to her!". I said "no, darling, that's common".
I did once drop my phone in a urinal then wash it and make a phonecall - that's pretty common.
valoukh.
[1] Karaoke is common.
[2] Function rooms are common.
[3] Surely it's common eating someone else's buffet?
[4] She even ran her fingers through her hair, like Britney Spears or something. Sexy Dancing is common, especially if you're not a dancer, and absolutely when you're massive.
[5] Cheap.
( , Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:10, 1 reply)
On my first day of university some years ago in Middlesbrough (the center of the universe), I went to a local pub with my friends. A was in a good mood and smiled to the man stood next to me at the bar. He laughed a sort of James-Bond-villain-laugh and told me I was lucky to still be alive. He had a shaved head...
Went to a pub the other day and karaoke was on. We thought "great! karaoke[1]", then realised it was a 40th birthday party - a function room[2] full of people who looked happy, but with a hostile undertone. We stayed for a bit anyway. We decided no one would notice if we helped ourselves to the buffet[3] so we got stuck in. My girlfriend got up to sing karaoke, to my delight. We were sat watching her, laughing away gleefully, when all of a sudden a big fat woman stood right in my line of sight and starting doing what I can only describe as Sexy Dancing[4]. I turned to my friend, shocked, and we both burst into laughter. There was sort of a shared understanding that we were laughing at the fact that she'd not only blocked the view, but had blocked the view by Sexy Dancing in a floral dress. Anyway, she vaulted across the room and flying kicked me on the arm. I stopped laughing instantly and said "what did you do that for?" She said "you were laughing at me!" I panicked and said "No I wasn't!"
To my surprise she completely changed tone and said (100% genuinely) "oh, I'm sorry...oh I'm really sorry, that's awfully rude of me". I said "whatever" and turned back to my pint of Carling[5]. Then I thought 'wait a f**king minute!' - no, knowingly sitting in someone's seat would be rude, I don't think there's a classification for fat ladies in floral dresses flying kicking people.
So anyway, my girlfriend came back and I relayed the story. She said "who the f**k was it? Point to her!". I said "no, darling, that's common".
I did once drop my phone in a urinal then wash it and make a phonecall - that's pretty common.
valoukh.
[1] Karaoke is common.
[2] Function rooms are common.
[3] Surely it's common eating someone else's buffet?
[4] She even ran her fingers through her hair, like Britney Spears or something. Sexy Dancing is common, especially if you're not a dancer, and absolutely when you're massive.
[5] Cheap.
( , Mon 20 Oct 2008, 14:10, 1 reply)
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