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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I worked with an ex-Navy manwho drank tea and had a white cup that was dark chocolate brown on the inside. He claimed that he had never washed it in five years, only rinsing it with hot water, because it was now "seasoned". As he drank his tea black, there was never really a worry about anything growing in it- the brown was simply tea. He told me that it was finally to the point where he could just pour in boiling water and no tea, and it would be tea in ten minutes anyway.
One day his wife got hold of that mug and spent two hours scrubbing and bleaching it until it was clean.
He taught me some new words the next day as he was telling me about this.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:01,
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