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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You missed outIn the philipines to an Expat:
"You don't want to stay here too long, you'll go all slitty-eyed"
and the corker in New Zealand when meeting some Maori's:
"So, still chucking spears, eh?"
Also the perennial:
"That looks like it was put up by an Indian"
He's like the offensive grandad you always wished you'd had
(ah, I see you already had the "slitty eyed" cracker)
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