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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Giving your children ridiculous namesYes, I know celebrities do it. But the difference is, celebrities can afford to send their kids to schools where they won't be stabbed in the face for being called Tiger Moth Weewee Unicorn Muffintop.
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I may mentionthis to the parent of Cosmo who I had the pleasure of teaching today.
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Mrs Entity is in hiding., Thu 16 Oct 2008, 18:44,
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....ah....but it's cool of the other child is called Dibs.
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^ Mrs LNot necessarily pikey. Depends if it's short for Cosmopolitan, or a classical reference, to order/beauty, as in cosmos. Innit.
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Ah, but celebrities can be common.Lots of them are. Beckham & wifey, Paris Hilton (ironically) etc. come to mind.
Although there seem to be two groups who do the stupid names thing, chav scum and pretentious middle-class-trying-to-be-posh families...
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I'm called Rufusmy parents weren't common, just hippies...
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Damien's Hearse, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 19:26,
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Rufus is a fucking excellent nameMakes me think of George Carlin in the Bill and Ted films, god rest his soul.
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haha thanksI like it now, school was a bit of a bastard though...
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Damien's Hearse, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 19:29,
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bogus journey ftw(
Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 21:09,
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probably apocryphalBut I love the story I heard of some hippies who used to do so much acid that they called their first child wardrobe.
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rofl harris, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:30,
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