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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Made my day!My Essex accent gets used a lot. Beer enhances it. I also now have a Dorset twang.
Big presentations by suppliers, bored shitless - i like nothing better than saying "But it don't mean nuffing" - " Nah mate, it don't mean nuffing" - "Wot you are telling me mate - it does not ring true. Are you trying to sell me stuff from the back of a van?". Wannabe posh IT software salesmen, big tie knot, Audi. Its great to just dismiss them, and ask them to leave "You should write for BBC3 coz when i read your proposal i haven't laughed so much since i went up west"
They really don't know what to say. And my beat up 94k Ford ka toots as i drive out of the car park.
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bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:51,
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