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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ChampagneCommon people who think that they aren’t are probably the worst.
Many moons ago, when I was working a dead end job in a hotel bar, this couple came in. they were probably in their late forties but the woman looked twice that. Orange, leathery skin, obviously one of Tantastic’s many casualties, and dripping in cheap jewellery. She asked what Champagne we had so I rolled off a list. Thinking for a while she ignored the many names and opted for ... Asti Spumanti.
She then insisted that I put it in an ice bucket and serve in flutes. For the rest of the night I had to listen to her try and ‘casually’ impress the rest of the bar guests with her travels around the world, or, more precisely, Benidorm.
(, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:08, 1 reply)
Perhaps she lived in Italy for a long timeAsti Spumanti is quite the thing out there, don't even think they sell champagne, it's far too common.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:14,
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