How do you define being Common !!!

Yes, grannygrace, I respect your opinion - I was just wondering what other more long-standing members had to say about our choice of thread subjects.

Anagram debate or whatever you call it,is great.But to judge people as either common or snobbish is not a debate to my thinking,its a judgement.

Why have we got these common/snob threads, then?

oops that should read dont judge anyone.....xx

totally agree grannygrace live and let live,and judge anyone till you have walked a mile in their shoes....

I think most of us would agree with you. But we do enjoy our rows arguments debates

I have one there also,although I dont have a voluptous bosom unfortunately.
I dismiss nothing out of hand, but don't tolerate judgemental people well,Im afraid. Live and let live I say.

grannygrace Ive got two of em,and and an Essex accent,but alas no white stillettos....has any one got any vajazzle....

Flash a discrete, voluptuous bosom perhaps?

How I wish!

Well, it would have to be somewhere obvious, otherwise we'd never spot each other! Forehead?

Perhaps we should all get tattooed, with the GN banner. Then we could recognise fellow members!
On which part of our gorgeous bodies do suggest we do it?

Hi Grannygrace, you aren't the only tattooed commoner on here,I've got one too!

It began as a lighthearted thread. We don't take ourselves too seriously - probably most of us have done/worn some of the things that have been deemed 'common' here.

There are going to be very few threads on GN at all soon if the content has to be PC checked to avoid possible offence/misunderstanding/misinterpretation.

I hope you will stay, grannygrace and get to know us before you dismiss GN out of hand.

Im new on here,joined a while ago,but this is my first post. have scanned this thread and think Butternuts post is in accord to my thinking. What right has anyone to make judgements on another person. Now just to add fuel to the flames Im a Granny of mature years and I have 5 tattoos. I would never judge another person on how they look/speak etc. To call someone common to me smacks of snobbery, and Id hate to be one of those also.

That brought back some memories, feetlebaum! 'Can I do you now sir?' always got a gale of (canned) laughter. Ah, innocent days.

ITMA quote: Naieve asks Tommy Handley what 'common' is - he tells her it's eating peas off someone else's knife, or prodding a Duchess between the shoulderblades with a cricket bat, and saying 'How's that for middle?'!

Strange how our minds work, isn't it? I understood 'beigeous' to mean bland and colourless!

Oh dear, my lounge is all in white with ivory furniture and a pale green carpet. Does that mean I'm beigeous?

Joan I mentioned earlier somewhere else that when we were children my brother and I were sent out collecting dog ends by my grandfather. We quite enjoyed it.

Beigeous I take to mean being very concerned with good taste, hence everything in beige. This probably would mean fading into the background which is one reason why I like a bit of common-ness.

Talking of class, saw this brilliant clip on TV the other day:
A politician was asking some young ladies on a dubious looking council estate what class they thought they were.
"Definitely middle class mate” says one sniffing and wiping her nose on her sleeve.
“Oh really?” says the snobby politician “I would have said you are all working class”
“Oh no” says the young girl “I can’t be”
“Why not?” says the politician
“I ain’t got a job mate” replied the girl!!!

This thread has brought up so many memories.

Shovelling up the manure from the delivery horses was something my Mum always did, for Dad's veggie garden.

About being ashamed of your Mum for no real reason at all - this puts you in good company - Alan Bennett - who is deeply ashamed now because he was ashamed of his parents as a kid, because they were not posh (Dad was a butcher)

My husband remembers being sent out to collect dog ends for his truly evil step father.(There were much worse things happening and the grandparents soon rescued him and brought him up)

Mum would have been devastated it I'd acted common in any way, but one thing she could not do anything about was my accent: I've always been 'broad Yorkshire' and not even going to grammar school could change this. I never gave a thought to the fact that a working class accent could affect the way you are treated though, until I went au-pairing to Vienna at 19, became fluent in posh German because I lived with a very posh family, and found that people had quite a deferential attitude to me.

Being common seems to be a part of every socioeconomic group nowadays, as you see from tales of the rich and shameless in the papers.

Straying from pedants' corner, I don't think beigeous is a neologism. Words such asstreamline are neologisms. They are awfully useful words for new concepts jeni.

annagram for they shall inherit the?"

annobel
I HATE neologisms!