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 sometimes do thispurely for the feeling of
"My life is so very normal. My children are so well brought up. They know who their father is, in fact, they both have the same one! Neither of their parents sleeps around/does drugs/beats up the other parent/has random children scattered around the local Council estates."
*shrugs*
JK proves that as my old granny used to say,
"There's always someone worse off than you."
(, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:47, 3 replies)
I can watchabout 2 minutes of shows like that before getting angry.
then very angry.
then mad enough to kill.
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That's the reason I watch it!I read Take a Break for the same reason.
No matter how bad things are for me, I'm not one of them.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:50,
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Maybe she should have said,"Cheer up, at least you're not that trowel-faced mong Jeremy Kyle".
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