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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Not that common, but I had to write it.Yesterday was a very windy day in Stenungsund (near Gothenburg). I was cycling back to the office and suddenly I saw a small stork "wobbling" in the air.
It was going straight to some telephone cables. It hit one of the middle ones and was thrown back against another, trying desperately to fly free.
Finally, it fell in the floor, wings and head first. Shook its head, got up and stayed there, in the middle of the road, looking each side with a look of completely lost.
I regret now I didn't go and help it. A big truck went down the road a bit after, and I don't know what happened.
Sorry, it has nothing to do with the QOTW, but I was so shocked I had to tell you.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 14:21, 3 replies)
You shouldpost stuff like on the 'Off Topic' board.
We like stuff like this.
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 15:10, closed)
I didn't knowit was an off topic board. I'll copy it there.
Ta
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 15:17, closed)
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