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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A woman in a 4x4 really wound my dad up the other day.She swerved over onto his side of the road, causing him to brake suddenly to avoid a head-on collision. Her reason for doing this? To avoid driving through a puddle. In her 4x4. Stupid cow.
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If she was doing it to avoid splashing a pedestrian(and if there hadn't been any oncoming traffic) fair play to her. Drivers who don't avoid puddles when they could and drench pedestrians in dirty puddle water should be dragged out of their vehicles and shot immediately.
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i only half agree with thisYou say "when they could". In this particular case, if it causes another driver on the road to take drastic action, then I think it would be fair to argue that they actually couldn't, because it was unsafe to do so.
But yes, the general point is a fair one. Just the circumstances seem to suggest that perhaps it wasn't the best manouvre.
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bluemeat has been best of all the animals since, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 10:59,
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