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 thought
we established that he had problems hearing people talking sometimes?
This whole set of replies is sounding like lets bash the deaf bloke, but I think we should make it clear that we are actually playing "lets taunt the tetchy person" before some well meaningchickenlady person comes in and tells us off for being naughty.
( , Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:35, Reply)
we established that he had problems hearing people talking sometimes?
This whole set of replies is sounding like lets bash the deaf bloke, but I think we should make it clear that we are actually playing "lets taunt the tetchy person" before some well meaning
( , Wed 22 Oct 2008, 12:35, Reply)
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