To think the people who call people common

[ThisIsNotHoneyDragon]

Without their tongue in their cheek, and instead as a judgement of a persons appearance, behaviour or character, and genuinely mean it, are probably not very pleasant people themselves?

Absolutely. Can we add in women who judge other women for not being feminine too please?

That's such a common thing to say honey

I love it when people try to use 'common' as an insult, it is just so Hyacinth. I enjoy a little snurk and pretty much write that person off as an idiot.

I agree OP. It is so my DM reading mother. She loves the word common.

It is common to describe someone else as common.

don't you play syntax games with me Beardy, I have quite a substantial arse on today about this.

Tea in bokkles, fruit shoots aren't common on MN?

I find that in order for one to use it in a non-ironic way one must also do a very small sneer.

Lovely twisted approach - people who do X are probably not very nice.

I shall do Y in describing these people.

X and Y are both labelling judgements made on incomplete knowledge of the person.

Presumably people who do either also, for example, also tell their children that they are horrid, rather than that their behaviour is horrid.

Labels are self-reinforcing. Generally a bad idea.

So why the bee in your bonnet then honey? Have you been accused of being common? Did you go to aldi again?

Sole not really as the vast majority of Mnetters admit to doing the things they are mock sneery about.

And putting Coca Cola, Tea, Gin in a babies bottle is just fucking daft. I wouldn't get the arse with someone having an opinion on that.

But calling people commen is twat weaselish in the extreme.

It is also very twat weaselish to spell words wrong for no good reason

People who spit in the street are common

So there.

Yes, Edith, but I am speculating on what they must be like not trying to correct their behaviour.

Shall I change the title to

AIBU to think calling people common is not nice behaviour?

Then people won't have to speculate on how other people might or might not parent?

woukd you rather we call them chavs common is a much nicer word.

oooohhh my ears are burning morloth

YANBU.

I am npt common to some and common to middle class people. I think it is lifestyle and what kind of reality we have been used to. Also about what is acceptable and not in outlr respective lives and confidence level.

Don't call them anything at all!! Sheesh, is that so hard?
If you must, simply say you think X behaviour/words/whatever is in bad taste. Doesn't need a label beyond that.

Sole. Good point and that is where Edith is spot on, in terms of perceived behaviours.

But I am fed up of seeing used more and more, in a nasty sneery way, by people from all walks of life.

I suspect people are so worried about being labelled an 'ist, of some sort. So they use common as a catch all derogatory term.

Does that also apply to people who call people posh? It's just two sides of the same coin.

I always thought if someone had "class" and had been "brought up properly" (in a stereotypical sense) then they wouldn't do anything as vulgar as pass judgement and be rude about others anyway

YANBU

Yanbu. In my experience it is only the truly classless who call other people "common".

It's common to CALL someone common!

The poshest people I've known would never dream of saying that about someone...and I mean REALLY posh people...titled etc.

KellyElly Does that also apply to people who call people posh? It's just two sides of the same coin.

Agree. And what about calling people snotty? What does that say about the person? Where is this person, calling others snotty, actually placing her/himself?

I also do not describe others as posh. Or say such things as, someone speaks with a posh accent or has a posh voice .