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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My g/f and her familyrefer to the living room as a drawing room and i cant fucking stand it!
So I constantly call it living room, saying it loudly so all can hear! this annoys them.
am i common, no? and they posh, no?
we're middle class ffs
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Lord_Munkee, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:29,
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Do you have a sitting room?As well as a drawing room?
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BottomReminds me of that line in Bottom: "Quick! Quick! Into the Colouring In Room". Shit, liking the television series Bottom makes me sound common...
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