How do you define being Common !!!

Using the f word indiscriminately in public with a complete disregard for anyone else, particularly children and the elderly. People who say "end of" usually some mouthy person who seems to believe they should have the final word on any subject and therefore you will be challenging them at your peril. The Jeremy Kyle Show, or anything like it. End of!

The game's up then, carbon! We always had sterilised milk in our two up two down working class household (I suspect because it had better keeping qualities than pasteurised and we did not own a 'fridge). However, sterilised milk in tea is the reason that I cannot now take milk of any form in tea. It is truly disgusting. In the early sixties, in our neck of the northern woods, women often wore curlers in their hair, covered by a headscarf. I always thought this looked extremely common, but as my two older sisters often did it, I could not voice an opinion lest I get a clip around the ear! I think that must have been the sixties equivalent of going out in one's pyjamas!

anagram - you reminded me. White high heels with jeans. Actually white high heels with anything. Too much cleavage - especially too much old cleavage.

Sometimes it's the smell, Bagitha. I used to hate sitting near someone on the bus or train who was eating cheese and onion crisps or anything strong-smelling!
I suppose I should have carried smelling-salts around with me.....

As a child I was never allowed black patent shoes with an ankle strap. I now have some and I love them.

Don't think working class is the same as common but we (in the Midlands) always knew people's class by what milk they had delivered. Working class: sterilised.
Middle class pasteurised. We had "one pas one ster". But we never ever put ster in our tea. Sterilised milk in tea was the absolute give away.

On the other hand being posh meant carpet in the bathroom and a special cover for the Radio Times. And we never had either but I suspect being posh was not something to aspire to if you were real middle class.

Also wearing a headscarf was really really common - unless you were the Queeen. Now I never could understand this?

I always found a loud "Oi!" was useful when I wanted the kids to stop. Or a whistle. Which reminds me, I need one for tomorrow for potential emergencies up hills....

I like meat pies. Used to anyway before they started putting MSM in them all. Trying to remember if I ever ate one in the street.....

Litter. Yuck, yuck, yuck! All too common!

I really don't mind people eating in the street if they do it politely. Rudeness at the table is just as bad as rudeness in the street over your fish and chips or pie.

The thing is, what is offensive about people eating? Essentially nothing! We all do it. It's probably much more common to eat at home when you think about it .

Tolerance, ladies (and gents), tolerance!

Seriously, I've always taken 'eating in the street' to mean barging through hordes of shoppers while chewing on a meat pie or shovelling curry from a polystyrene tray - then as often as not throwing the container behind a bush!
I have no quarrel with park bench lunches, as long as there is no littering involved...

It's not the shouting loudly at children in the street, sometimes that is a necessity. It's more the tone of voice. Not to mention the phrasing!

Having the common cold! Sniff, sneeze!

Park bench?

Sandwiches?

Feed the crusts to the ducks?

Dead common but lovely!

bagitha! (But it's OK to eat sitting at a table in the street...)

One of my Cub mums often comes to collect him (at half past eight) in her pjs and dressing-gown, along with her younger child who is similarly dressed in the car. This woman works very hard and I think it's quite sweet. She always looks fine to me though her taste is very different from mine.

Street cafés are getting quite common nowadays .

But fish and chips only taste their best when eaten in the street, on a cold night, out of newspaper.

Eating in the street, which my grandma would never allow - except for an ice cream on the sea front!

When I was young and struggling financially I had a pair of stilettos which I died black in the winter and white in the summer, along with my handbag! I did this for several years.

Oooh, I used to LOVE white stilettos, when I was still able to walk in `em! But then I`m common!

To be honest (I typed gomest!), some day clothes are less like proper clothes than some PJs so what the heck? So long as people are 'decent'. I often see people on the street who are supposedly dressed for the day but who don't look awfully decent to me. Let me re-phrase that! I'm sure they're decent (I'm just saying that to be PC!) but I wouldn't be seen dead (as the saying goes) dressed as they are. Some PJs are really nice.

In short, I don't think you can always tell!

I agree! How about shouting really loud in public. In particular shouting at children in the street.

Jingl! We've got to maintain some standards!

I'm not sure it matters about women going out in their pjs. I would hope they put shoes on though. Slippers need to be kept clean for indoors, and wouldn't be good to drive in.

Yuk!

The mums who drive to the entrance at my DGSs school gate drive up to the no parking signs and deposit their off springs,these mums still in their pyjamas/dressing gowns totally slobbish !!!

I agree, Annobel! That is sheer slobbishness....