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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Local variantsThe list of common stuff from Dublin is a bit different and includes.
Wearing your pyjamas to the shops.
Addressing people as bud.
Aslan (band).
Keeping horses in council estates.
Celtic Jerseys.
Sovereign rings.
Tattoos.
Saying inanyway for anyway.
Calling the zoo the ehzoo.
Any locals care to add to this list.
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notsosecretagentman, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 10:26,
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Howis any of that stuff different to the other 24 pages of mostly shit that's been posted this week?
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HorsesI've never seen horses on estates over here (England)
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AlrightI'll give you that one.
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adding...Feeding your child monster munch on the bus at 10am
Extra points if it's the 77a
Using the word 'story' (pronounced Staaaaree!)- as a greeting
especially when accompanied by the previously mentioned 'bud'
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Deadly BusIs that the 77a that is often cancelled after dark because the skanger kids keep stoning the drivers?
Extra points for sure.
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notsosecretagentman, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 13:45,
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Up NorthBelfast zoo is called the AhZoo by city councilmen. Us plebs can say the word "zoo" without fancying it up somewhat.
Also, whilst wearing your pajamas to the shops is scummy but common everywhere, women in Belfast have been seen in full make-up, teased hair, high heels and jammies getting onto buses to go into the town.
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ah ha!Is that cos they're going to change and drink lambrini round a mate's before going out? Esp if the weather's crap...
I only asked 'cos on one of the estates round here, the ladies wear slippers when it snows, so's they don't knacker their "going out" shoes, and they've only got the two pairs... not "common" in my book, kinda understandable...
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If you'd been to Belfastyou'd know that the short answer is "no".
People from the West only have friends in the West, same for North and East. People from South Belfast aren't proper common and therefore may travel to friends but never in their sleepwear.
And I believe this fine young example was spotted at 10am.
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