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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I think this counts...
When I worked in Martin's The Newsagent in Laindon Town Centre I served a lady who was buying five copies of 'Fiesta' magazine...
...that she was the cover star of.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:22, 8 replies)
When I worked in Martin's The Newsagent in Laindon Town Centre I served a lady who was buying five copies of 'Fiesta' magazine...
...that she was the cover star of.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:22, 8 replies)
I hope she took them home to show her mum
Who framed them on the wall
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:38, closed)
Who framed them on the wall
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 11:38, closed)
...
I was tempted to suggest other ways in which it could have been personalised. But that'd've been below me.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:02, closed)
I was tempted to suggest other ways in which it could have been personalised. But that'd've been below me.
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:02, closed)
Um...
something about my story didn't read right, and then I realised what I had done.
I may have mislead you as to the general level of attractivenes of said woman by saying 'club' when I meant 'Fiesta'...
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:53, closed)
something about my story didn't read right, and then I realised what I had done.
I may have mislead you as to the general level of attractivenes of said woman by saying 'club' when I meant 'Fiesta'...
( , Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:53, closed)
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