What determines something as common and tacky

Something that's common is the village green or the recreational space, often referred to as: The Common.

Tacky is the state of a liquid paste that will bond two surfaces, when the paste is tacky, that's the right time to apply it.

I do hope that's cleared up any ambiguity.

Just for the record, Dolly Parton says "It is very expensive to look this cheap." Tawdry, tacky, cheap, flashy, showy, worthless, vulgar, low, crude... all these are words we use to inform others that we are better than the people we are describing.

On a really hot day my headmistress caught me eating an ice cream while waiting for my bus home. She drove me back to school (with it dripping down my arm!) to put in the bin.

She then drove me home because I had missed the bus, it was about 3 miles, and told my Mum how naughty I had been!

When my first grandchild expected my jokey next-door neighbour commented "the Duchess will not approve of being called Granny". To which I quipped "what's good enough for the Queen is good enough for me". So Granny all the way since and now 19 and 17. My friend known by her four as Baba because the eldest unable to say Nana.

Both my grannies were granny. So I wanted to be granny. Grandson had different ideas. I'm Gaga. He knows me well.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

i left school in 1979 and for the first time i had wages to buy my own clothes, i loved pencil skirts and split skirts, i visited my gran wearing a white blouse, split skirt (did have buttons i removed) showing a bit of leg, forgot i had stockings and suspenders on with black sling backs, my gran looked me up and down and said i was so common looking....lol

When my eldest son and his wife were expecting GC1, his MiL got into an enormous tizzy about what she and I should be called. I had several lengthy emails from her wanting to discuss it in detail, and she couldn’t get her head around the idea that I really don’t care what the grandchildren call me.

My MiL was Nain-Nain, but FiL refused to be called Taid - said it sounded like washing powder.

I had to wait till I was 70 to become a grandmother - quite honestly I really don't care what I am called.

I am intrigued as to what MN think is suitable for grandmothers to be called?

I’m thinking of getting the sprogs to call me Grandmamma.

A colleague of my mother’s once described someone’s over-abundant cleavage as, ‘Her dumplings are boiling over.’* ?

The things you remember after God knows how many years!

*and yes, such a display was seen as common, not that I ever recall my mother using that word. ‘Dreadful’ would be more like it.

That’s beyond The Pale Maggie ....you should at least have the decency to walk around the corner before you scoff it
( preferably in a dark alley )?

Maggiemaybe

One of the first things described as common on the MN thread was grandmothers being called Nanna. I was outraged.

We had the “no eating in the street” rule at school too. I’m so glad I’ve risen above it. I do enjoy an occasional pasty sitting on the bench outside Gregg’s.

Personally, I don’t like ‘nanna’ or ‘nan’, but don’t think it’s common.

I am intrigued as to what MN think is suitable for grandmothers to be called?

PipandFinn

chrissyh

I went to a Secondary Modern School and we were told, in no uncertain terms, that we should not be seen eating in the street whilst in our school uniform. I'm still uncomfortable about doing it 60 years later.

Does your school uniform still fit you then.....? Hahaha

Very good Pip ?

One of the first things described as common on the MN thread was grandmothers being called Nanna. I was outraged.

We had the “no eating in the street” rule at school too. I’m so glad I’ve risen above it. I do enjoy an occasional pasty sitting on the bench outside Gregg’s.

C &T:

Too much money and taste all in the mouth!!

"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap" - I love it!

Perceived tacky and common in the fifties: wearing a headscarf rather than a hat; bare legs; dyed hair. I remember a member of office staff being sent home to change for being inappropriately dressed - wearing a see through blouse revealing her underwear.

Oh, happy days!!

It's like porn. I can't describe it but I know it when I see it.

I finally had my ears pierced when I was 30 when I decided I was old enough to defy my Mum who always thought they looked common. I’m 66 now!

Crikey! What an entertaining thread today!

I do remember my dad saying you are not wearing one of those it was a ankle chain, was never allowed big hooped earrings as he said they reminded him of the things his friends parrot swung on, goodness knows what he would think of the thick false eyelashes two pairs that some girls wear, and trout lips,

My husband, upon learning I had purchased a new car, said "oh that's quite a common car these days" - I simply replied "popular"!

chrissyh

I went to a Secondary Modern School and we were told, in no uncertain terms, that we should not be seen eating in the street whilst in our school uniform. I'm still uncomfortable about doing it 60 years later.

Does your school uniform still fit you then.....? Hahaha

Grannybags

When I had my ears pierced aged about 13 my teacher said I looked like a tart and a gypsy - I assume that's common!

Hahahahahaha I don't know why but I find that sooooooooo funny.....

chrissyh Wed 05-Aug-20 13:10:24
"I went to a Secondary Modern School and we were told, in no uncertain terms, that we should not be seen eating in the street whilst in our school uniform. I'm still uncomfortable about doing it 60 years later".

I'd never be able to get into my school uniform now!