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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There's a lot of anger in this threadOne of my friends did the MA Fine Arts and Art History there. Brilliant lass, very clever, thought she would fit right in. It turned out that pretty much everyone there was a pretentious arsehole. You know things are bad when the person you identify the most with is the crack addict from London who occasionally has her gang up to deal drugs with.
People aren't as insufferable as the stereotype you're parading. I mean, a few are, but most aren't. Fuck, I knew a few people in Chancellors and they were alright folk, if a bit dull. I'm hardly rich or well-off but the trenchant classism is just as bad from both sides.
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HoneypotsSome course just attract the rich and pretentious hoorays. Specifically: Fine Art at Edinburgh, Art History at St Andrews, Land Economy (a.k.a. running the estate) at Cambridge, English at Exeter, anything at Durham. Normal intelligent people who find themselves there can have a hell of a time - your friend has my sympathy.
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