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Freddy 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?

(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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Didn't think I was that bad...........
Recent events and reading through these posts has changed my opinion:-

Explaining this QOTW to my other half we started bickering because she thought “lounge” was the posh word for front room, I couldn't remember and had to double check.

I cooked my parents a Sunday roast yesterday to say thanks for lending us some money, they bought round a bottle of Lambrusco as they know its our favourite.

My Lounge/Sitting room is magnolia and sports a Dado rail (Put up by myself).

I once owned a Nova ffs.

I also brought my fiancée's engagement ring from Elizabeth Duke.
/hangs head in shame.

Please don't click I like this or my self esteem will be shattered forever.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:09, 6 replies)
'Bought'
gah!
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:11, closed)
lolz
it's a "common" mistake!
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:13, closed)
See I told you.
I was raised in a respectable household by loving parents, my Gran was presented with a telegram from the queen when she got married.
I am a let down to my respectable family name and fast degenerating into a chav....
That tracksuit looks nice, it will go luverly wiv me gowld chain and crap cap, innit
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:19, closed)
Oh noes! Is magnolia common?
My entire house is magnolia. Although being male, I cant tell the difference between magnolia, cream, off-white or any other variation on the same colour.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:51, closed)
Girlfriend assures me that it is soft ivory
I only see in windows 16bit colour, looks magnolia to me.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:54, closed)
We're mostly magnolia...
...but we've only just moved in.

Like you, I can't tell the difference between the cream, the white, the off-white, the ivory or the beige.
(, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 11:56, closed)

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