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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I'm from Medway too.In Chatham, I am particularly impressed with the sign in the window of the 'cigaretes' [sic] shop at the front of that In Shops/Trafalgar place near the grim end of the High St. I like to buy my 'choclete' there.
And the lovely statue by the station with a traffic cone permanently stuck on his head.
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gypsy turnips, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:53,
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Ah the statue with the cone on his headdoes anyone actually know who he is? The poor bastard. And oh how I miss the Trafalgar centre, and I do believe its pronounced 'chocklit'
Apparently there are twins in Chatham called Thunder and Lightning. Sadly not totally unbelievable...
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Oh my...I'm gonna show just how nerdy I am now...
He is Thomas Waghorn, and I think he came up with a new trade route to India, or something.
I heard that he is pointing to India, but I'm pretty sure thats wrong.
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WeakLemonDrink, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 0:08,
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sittingbourne massiveTheres a healthy medway / swale population on b3ta which cheers me...
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Ah, Chatham... My home town...I believe this is the place you are talking about! :D
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WeakLemonDrink, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:20,
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hah!!!yes! that's the exact one. did you take that photo? i took a pic of it once.
i want a pack of crips now.
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gypsy turnips, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:31,
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Well,I didn't take it sadly, I... er... 'borrowed' it from a friends Facebook account.
It's right up there with photos of the Cone Man, and "Billy the Quid"!
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WeakLemonDrink, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 23:57,
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there's a facebook groupwith lots of those photos and it's dedicated to how shit chatham is :)
there's also a billy the quid group, hehe.
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gypsy turnips, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 0:08,
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Ha haThat photo is the best thing I've seen in a long time. Oh how it makes me pine for Medway. I heard Billy got an ASBO. Its great to find fellow anti-Chatham types
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