How do you define being Common !!!

I think granbunny isnt really on GN but something put there to get us at it. If you are for real granbunny sorry but you now live in the 21st century.

The same idea has occurred to me, ff.

I must admit that I thought that also but I must admit I was a wee bit tetchy yesterday after helping DS2s girlfriend to move into their new flat and had spent hours on the phone to get the services up and running so maybe when I responded it came over a bit abrupt.

I must say I was bring up with all of grannybunnys aphorisms!
But being plumb hignorant, and decrepit:-
I think I am sufficiently decayed (G&S) to get away with it

How about reading the Sun ?
or the Daily Mail ?

I must be common . We had sterilised milk for years because we did not have a fridge and it kept longer. I also ring people I know well in the evening ( sometimes after 9pm!) this is often the first opportunity I have to speak to friends/ family as I sometimes work until 8pm. I think swearing in general conversation is common, women drinking pints and people with no table manners. Also when I used to smoke ( some years ago ) I would never smoke in the street as I thought it looked very common

Americans crack me up. They pretend they have no class system and that we have a Class System (i.e. nobility - I usually point out that I have never even been in the same room as one). But get 'em started on "trailer park trash" and they tell you all about "common" . They invented "trailer park names" like Dar-leen and exported them to us...

Just about all the characters in 'Benidorm' are common (I'm a big fan).

Having more than one plasma tv!

petallus The actress who plays the mum to young Michael plays a good part in Downton Abbey though doesn't she ? can't think of her name and the bloke who plays her DH has some amazing parts on TV over the past few months. My memory must be suspect as I can't think of their names.

glammanana I am a particular admirer of the mother of the two you mention who goes around in a buggy. She doesn't have any problem saying no (different thread). I am thinking of making her my role model, especially re. her grandparenting skills

When the kids comment on my (teacher) daughter's clothes/hairstyle, whether complimentary or otherwise , I think that is beyond the pale.

exactly the circumstance i had in mind.

as for the social rank, it would have to be quite clearly defined... but just in case, don't ask questions.

Now, I like a heart or a kiss used as a dot over an i or j.

Agree about the large earrings.

I don't like the hearts or kisses over an i or j - not even an 'o'.
But I have been known to wear big earrings (in my heyday!!)

ah, anagram. sad to say, so did i!

Oh No I'm Common - quite partial to a pint of real ale and read the Daily Mail and Sun!

You read both of them, ninnynanny?! You spendthrift, you!

Real ale - now you're talking. Nothing common about that!

nothing wrong with drinking beer it is just women drinking from pint glasses that I think looks common plus the associated beer belly hanging over tracksuit bottoms is not a good look on a young girl!

Blimey I never thought you could be called common for reading the Sun or Daily Mail, at least you can read. Why are people so snobbish about which paper a person reads?. If you are, surely that implies the world has to run according to your line of thought or else!. I bet you give the stupid "air kiss" as well,probably the most telling act a human being does to show lack of empathy and snobbery. I prefer a good hug myself but then I am common as muck as I read the Daily Mail. Having said that the Daily Mail has suddenly become a red top, oh dear now I am arguing with myself. HELP!

I think smoking in the street is not very ladylike, tatoos and swearing outside of your own group. Then again my mum would have thought long hair on men, mini skirts and going to the pub were common. She must have been ashamed of me!

But the same person can think that certain papers are common, AND that air kisses are pretentiously Sloanish. It doesn't have to be either/or. There are thousands of layers of attitudes to common vs posh. Individuals are mostly a mixture, thank goodness.

About 25 years' ago I had a colleague who used to read The Daily Star and took it in her stride when she was gently ribbed for doing so .... she had the last laugh when she won £20,000 on their bingo game.

But is it common to think of anything as common? I mean would someone who really isn't common take such things into consideration at all?

Another thing: If you do something that you know is considered common by some people, is that the same as if you do the same thing but are not in on the cultural game of spot the common? i.e. don't know you are being common (as perceived by not-common people - or common people who know they are perceived as common)

Its also conceivable that someone could deliberately do something common in an ironic way !!!!! What would that be?

Oh isn't it great to be British and know your place.

The only thing I think is common is 'gobbing' (sorry!!!) on the pavement.

Carbon

Though I think you've got a very good point - somewhere in there.