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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Slapping your mouth while eating.I think that this is really common. If I am eating with you, I most certainly do NOT want to hear every chew you make or indeed see the first part of you digesting your dinner at first hand.
If your Mother didn't teach you to eat properly, I will be most happy to help you with table manners.
Oh, and if we are having a cup of tea or coffee, if you start slurping I am likely not to be overly happy.
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Don't go to China......because it's accepted behavior there to smack your lips.
If you ever go to Trier (birthplace of Karl Marx) you'll find it full of Chinese tourists, all busily smacking their lips whilst eating, with a lone pair of British tourists giving them disapproving looks.
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Stevedix http://www.stevedix.de/blog, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 9:43,
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In most ways.......my wifes family is distinctly upper-middle-class. They may deny this, but t'would be a foolish thing for I have many points of evidence for such (what they do for their various livings, where they live, their accents and opinions etc. etc. I shall refrain from detailing them.)
BUT...they ALL DO THIS HORRID LIP-SMACKING THING WHEN THEY EAT... and I want to KILL them for it! I was raised* in the East End, and even -I- know how impolite it is to eat with your mouth open! Good Heavens!
*'Raised' may be a loose concept in my case. See my post from last week for details (if you're bored).
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