How do you define someone as common?

At school it was eating anything at all in the street and DH and I still cant do it (DH and I went to the same school but he was before my time).

For my father it was ankle bracelets!!! and tattoos.

How about examples of common relating to men, why is it most examples so far relate only to women.
Havnt checked the dictionary but Common is what is usual. Often seen, many of.....so not disparaging in any way.

I don't like to define anyone as 'common' these days. Gone are the times when there was such a class divide thank goodness - well for most of the population. There are still those around who think living in a gold plated mansion is classy!!! Ooops! Am I showing snobbery????

Anything worn that is imitation: fur, leather, nails.
Silk flower wedding bouquets. Ugh!

When I was a child “common” was a woman with bleached blonde hair who wore quite a bit of makeup and jewellery and horror of horrors went to the pub without her husband (it was my friends mum)

White stilettos with black tights/stockings, dyed blonde hair (which I now have!).

My ideas of what is common (though I have never used the word) are very much the same as those of people’s mothers on here. I suppose I am old enough to be the mother of some of you.

Another convent girl here but somehow I managed not to get caught hatless in town!
I remember a fourth year girl in trouble for being seen kissing a boy in a phone box! I think we were all rather jealous.

Wiping your nose on your sleeve.
Saying 'ain't'
Lots of tattoos
Men wearing a vest outdoors
Drunken women
Broken down cars in the front garden

It's a horrible word really, isn't it. I don't like to think of anyone as being common. It belongs firmly in the past.
Thank goodness we don't hear it much these days.

We don't hear people saying it, but threads about tattoos and cold shoulder tops soon bring out peoples prejudices, I think.

Vampire Scouse brows are eye brows drawn on thickly mostly done in black they are very prominent and unsightly
tbh.They first became popular in Essex if truth be known all the people who star in "Towie" have them some are even tattooed on for goodness sake.

glammanana
We might have started the awful look, but Liverpool girls took it to another level

vampirequeen scouse brows is the fashion for really heavy brows

I don't really think of things as 'common'. I might not like something or think it's naff, but it's just my personal opinion or preference.

We are judgemental, but each in our own way.

I have always thought its common to take your kids to the pub so you can spend the evening drinking. When I was a barmaid (also common!) I would see children falling asleep on the seats, having eaten their crisps and tried to get their parents attention all evening.

People who speak and guffaw loudly. Tut tut.

marydoll my mother would have said they had got on a wee bit and forgot where they came from ,I've come across a lot of those over the years .I dont remember people ever mentioning "class" when I was young its an import in recent years .We just accepted some people had more money or better jobs ..its didn't make them any better than us .As far as I'm concerned anyone who depends on a wage to live is working class ...regardless of what the job is .Nowadays folk have delusions of grandeur

I was always taught that class is a matter of education, not wealth. Make what you like of that one!

My mother said singing in the street was common, as was eating in the street (a definite no-no, that one). Other things were sling-backed shoes (why?) and sitting with your ankles crossed and your knees apart if you were a girl. She also pursed her lips at drinking from bottles. She was lovely, my mum, but a rather strictly brought up Wesleyan.

I think Tony Benn said "If you are paid for the job you do, you are working class"

That's always been my definition of working class. If you work for a living you're working class. Not everyone will agree.

All of the above mentioned. A few additional ones for men - wearing a vest with no shirt, or even no top at all especially where other people could see, not opening a door for a lady or giving up his seat on the bus plus all of the other stuff already mentioned including shouting or swearing in public, belching (or worse still, farting). My Nan said that a woman who whistled was common too. She had a really long list.

Middle class works for a living too - but never doing anything to dirty ones hands. Common people often don’t work at all!

Tattooes!
My theory (which may not be that of others) is that tattooes all over, combined with a vest/strappy top and possibly a fat belly is common.

Those famous people who think it's trendy to 'get down wiv da kids' and have a discreet little tattoo which is barely visible are, imo, posh.
Think David Dimbleby, Sam Cameron, Lady Steel.

It doesn't mean that one lot is nicer than the other lot btw as the heavily tattooed young woman who served me yesterday could not have been kinder and more helpful when we had a query.

Aren’t we all commoners?

Unless we have a secret royal grandmother posting. Sorry ma'am

or even a step-grandmama