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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He seems to only have a dozen or so ..."jokes" that he repeatedly trundles out to the horror of his poor minders.
He also did the "Do you still kill each other with those (spear) things?" line whilst in an Aboriginal settlement in Australia.
To which the quick thinking blackfella smiled and replied "Nah, just whitefellas."
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