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 findmost coppers to be as common as muck.
Once we had the misfortune of having one come up our drive, I politely asked them to leave.
For some reason, she asked what I did for a living. I told her I was a solicitor.
She took offence to this and started going on about 'assulting a police officer' for some inexplicable reason, and I told her that was a criminal offence and that I specialise in civil law.
"It's all the same to me love, the law's the law"
You'd think that the people "upholding" these laws might take pride in say, oh I don't know, having at least a rudimentary understanding of what it is they are supposedly 'upholding'.
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