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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The fact is......that animals, domesticated or otherwise, are precisely that. Animals.
Granted, some owners at the more dickheady end of the spectrum bring out the worst of an animal's more primal instincts, but even the none-dickhead owners cannot cancel them out completely. I mean, how many times have you heard the story of a dog savaging some poor fucker and the former owners saying 'but he/she was always good as gold'?
For this reason and a good few others, I choose not to share my home or my life with an animal. But if you must do so, and bearing my comments in mind then perhaps choosing one that isn't a) stronger than the average human, b) faster than the average human and c) possessed of great big fucking sharp pointy teeth may be the way forward.
This limits me to either a tortoise or a bonsai tree and frankly if I had to choose, I'd go for the latter just to be on the safe side.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 16:53, 1 reply)
Well putMost, if not all, dogs have SMAR - Small Mammal Attack Response.
These instincts are deep rooted and go all the way back to the wolf - something that will never be bred out of them.
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