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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Gin PalaceI'd forgotten about this.
When I worked on a bar, we didn't have a recycling policy. That meant that empties just got slung in the bin. The majority of the bar and kitchen staff being lefty types, we felt bad about this.
One of the cooks decided that she'd do her bit by taking a few bottles home each week to put in her recycling box.
She was picky about which she chose, though. She had no problem with the neighbours seeing 20 empty spirits bottles outside her door every week - but she did have a problem with the possibility that they'd be cheap crap like Bell's. So she'd only take home the expensive-looking ones.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 9:20,
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thisis excellent
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Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 10:00,
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