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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Apologies for harping on but I must, oh i simply must..When in that godforsaken shop I took note of the fact that ALL of the male employees were wearing flipflops (WHY?.. this was last week in edinburgh by the way)
And the majority of the girls chose to wear pj bottoms teemed with a posh shirt (!?)
(, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 17:52, 1 reply)
flip flopsThankfully I'm a music tech student so manage to avoid them most of the time (I doubt any of them know where the music department is, never mind make it down into the murky depths of the studios in the basement)- the library however is like hell on earth...
I got the door slammed in my face yesterday by a guy wearing tracksuit trousers, a cricket jumper, sunglasses, pashmina and flip flops. In Edinburgh, in October. I guess it's 'like, soo ironic, yah?'
I did get a gleam of smug satisfaction when he nearly tripped down the ridiculously steep death trap that's the new stairs outside the library though. And even more so when it started pissing it down...
This was probably more apt for last weeks question, but a girl I lived with in first year was such a rah she suffered from gout. Is there a posher ailment? I can't think of one...
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