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 curious thing about common folk ...is that they are as haughty as duchesses in their own way.
I am the posh one of my family. I went to university, got a great job as a programmer and was married for 5 years before the kids turned up.
My beloved pasty eating extended family are quite content in their council housing estates with their extended bastard brood of so many lovely colours occasionally earning extra beer money in minimum wage jobs. And I am happy for them.
I have, supposedly, been elevated above my working class roots by education and hard work. But are they proud of me? Are they fuck.
Apparently, I am a class traitor. A concept I really don't get.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 7:49, 2 replies)
Say what?If, as you describe, you are living a better quality of life than your family enjoys, then I think the phrase "you're a class traitor" can be read as "we're jealous of you".
Que? wins.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:37, closed)
Will you ...marry me?
(, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 5:32, closed)
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