How do you define being Common !!!

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?'!

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

Flash a discrete, voluptuous bosom perhaps?

How I wish!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

It is always interesting to see other peoples views of things! If we were all the same, life would be soooo boring!

jeni thats the wonderful thing about human beings,that we are all so different,and thanks be for that. I detest snobbery in all its forms. Im a go with the flow type of person,whatever makes people happy is fine by me. That is the downside to forums, people make judgements even though they dont know you from Eve.

Or Adam? Or even Lillith!

Hmm.. perhaps, then, those of a sensitive disposition should avoid threads with an inflammatory (to them) title? Otherwise, we're going down the censorship route, which would be a pity, in my view.

My gran who was a seamstress and not at all rich or posh lived by the rule that you never judged a person by thier looks but by the way they treated you, my mum lived by that and passed it on to me... .... BUT in my book anyone who drops litter is common!

anagram I totally agree with you. Why go on a thread you don't agree with, unless you want a logical an informative discussion on the subject? It is interesting to do this, as this way you can get better informed and see points of view you might not of thought of!

Oh dear is that me supposed to have a sensitive disposition,afraid not. I can debate with the best of them, but I presume Im entitled to an opinion on things I dont agree with. Or am I meant to be a sheep.It doesnt inflame me,just makes me wonder about people who readily judge others thats all.

Of course you are entitled. I think the largest problem is with people who have closed minds and are not prepared to at least consider other people point of view,

Well, you were rather pronouncing judgement on this thread, grannygrace, as no doubt you would on the 'Snob' thread. If you don't wish to contribute, that's fine, but just to criticise....