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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The aristocracyhave their own rules about this sort of thing.
They are just a little more obscure.
Only red wine with red meat = common.
Talking about money = common. (Do goldfish talk about water?)
Minimalism (in interior decorating) = common.
The exact status of various public and boarding schools is incredibly complex. Being in the wrong house from a good school can make you common.
Caring about being common = common.
Old money beats new money.
Overt wealth = common, although treating expensive items carelessly will redeem you.
Ignorance of the ways of the lower classes is fine. Reveling in that ignorance is terribly gauche.
Unnecessary rudeness to people below your station = common.
I'm sure there are many more, but it's much more subtle than the aspirational comparisons of the middle class.
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.Billy Connolly talks about this. The fact that the working class and the aristocracy get on well (or used to when the class divide was more distinct) and understand one another, but that it was the "ones in the middle" who don't get it.
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