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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whydo these types of QOTWs bring out the sanctimonious hippy types? Beautiful sentiments, sure, but that's not how the world works, nor does anyone* care. Go back to recycling your bio-yoghurt. Cohesion, my ring.
(*based on a sample size of me)
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 17:02,
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^Okay I really need to learn to be more articulate, and not illicit scathing comments. I am far from a sanctimonious hippy type but personally I think there is a distinction on what is perceived to be common, and what is just pure snobbery from what some of the other posts have proved.
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