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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I say costas, old chapYou're a bit common aren't you? Watching the news on the telly!! I only listen to the BBC World Service News on short wave. Surely I'm not alone?
I have to say, I HATE the way they use graphics on the news: a chalk effect on a blank blackboard for an education story; 'Sale' notice- effect on a shop front for a retail story. FFS, all it does is distract me so much that I miss the damned story.
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Hell yesMy pet peeve is the bizarre notion that us thickies can't possibly hope to understand a story unless a reporter is standing outside, at a location somehow connected to it. New development on a stabbing that happened three weeks ago? Best send Huw Edwards to stand by the bus-shelter where it happened so he can read out the police statement, a copy of which was also sent to every newsroom in the country. Story about a BSE scare in France? Send Matthew Amroliwala to stand in a Butcher's in Pontefract to say "There's no doubt about the safety of the meat in this butcher's, but over in France it's a different story..." Regardless of the story, someone has to be sent halfway across the country to read out something they could just as easily have read whilst sitting next to George Alagiah.
...who will then say "Now back to our main story; British businesses aren't doing enough to reduce their carbon footprints"
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Yes...... and yes again! This boils my piss on a regular basis.
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ChiefWiggum typing random stuff, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 12:50,
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