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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My friend......who is a lurking B3tan (Hello Andrew!) has a rather novel solution for people of this ilk. I personally don't agree with it but I will share it here.
He thinks that all drugs (classes A/B/C) should be made legal and cheaply and freely available from shops rather like tobacco. This would have the rather obvious effect that all of the people who usually take drugs would gorge on them, and OD. The people who don't takes drugs *probably* wouldn't take them.
The government would make shedloads of money, and the drug dealers would be out of business.
However, I think the monstrously heinous social implications rather outweigh the fringe benefits though.
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Your friendcould be onto a winner.
The one thing that is certain about drugs: prohibition doesn't work.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:17,
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One observation...we already have the monstrously heinous social implications. More if you consider the impact on society of the criminal element (suppliers and end users both).
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argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 23:00,
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