What makes a person 'common'?

[Karlwho]

In your opinion. Just interested.

Shit I am so common.
I have a tattoo
I have sky TV
My roots are showing
I have been known to eat my lunch whilst walking (on duty at school)
I'm fat
I swear

I am not called Gary though

Smoking in the street (I'm an ex-smoker but would never smoke in the street)

Eating whilst walking.

Little children with pierced ears and giant bows in their hair.

Swearing in the street (I swear in my house but not in front of my little children)

Purplesky shut up Gary.

As someone else said earlier, it's a combination of factors, not just one. For me, those things can include:
Sharing fake news and those 'Share this post to support autism' (when it's just a meme-type thing, not actual information) posts on Facebook.
Reading The S*n.
Bad gold. Sovereign rings and rag doll pendants.
Fluffy sliders, in fact any type of open shoe with unwashed feet.
The term 'red sauce'.
Walking round town with a chippie meal.
Asdas, Tescos, Lidls, Aldis (the singular is fine)
Referring to any child over about 18 months as 'the baby'. Extra points for those who actually call their child 'baby' - as in 'No baby, stop running off'.
Islamophobia. Extra points if directed towards Sikhs and Hindus. Also see referring to people from India as the 'p' word.
Using words like 'backwards' and 'simple' to describe the non-neurotypical.
To me it's more about behaviour and beliefs than anything else.

Worst thread ever. Fuck y'all assholes.

Not keen on these threads but seeing as I've had gossip about me from the other angle and I'd never say this IRL:
Hot tub in garden (yes even if it is a log fired one)
Spitting in the street
Eating or smoking whilst walking - I smoke but care for small children's eyes / people's clothes / want to enjoy it
Thinking having a 4x4 entitles you to park across a road / over a driveway
Banging on about how much you have is vulgar, which includes stealth boasts on social media
Fashion-wise (and I'm no fashionista so these are just inner judgements) even up to the 80's leopard print with red bra / nails / lips / shoes just meant you were a prostitute - I know that sounds outdated but can't help the judgement
Jumping from one relationship to the other within days or overlapping and telling people as if it makes you 'special'
Having a red lightbulb in your bedroom - the street can see it and will assume the worst!

I’m common and praaaaad huns!

Having ‘live laugh love’ stuff in the house

Reading some of these, I appear to be very common. Salad cream is awesome. So is Sky TV. And I’d love a hot tub in the back garden, but it’s a pipe dream..!

I always thought I was common until I moved to a council estate where it wasn't unusual to see other residents coming back from the local shop carrying a 24 can pack of lager or cider drinking a can at 9.00am & 200 cigarettes, in nice weather sitting in their front garden or on the front steps with said pack of lager, music blasting out from 9.00am to midnight.

Newspapers as curtains????

Y'all sure do seem to have alot of shouting and spitting and cursing in the streets!!!!!

Having bad manners and being inconsiderate (including doing crass things in public like spitting, dropping litter, smoking where you aren't supposed to, swearing loudly in front of young children etc).

As others have said it's naff all to do with money or accent.

Oh also if you eat salad cream you are desperately common and belong on Jeremy Kyle. Absolutely disgusting.

'Oh also if you eat salad cream you are desperately common and belong on Jeremy Kyle. Absolutely disgusting.'

Waitrose puts salad cream in some of their sandwiches now.

How many ancestors portraits you have at your grandmothers house. Which university you went to. Oxford or Cambridge? Which bishop pops round for tea. Being an actual peer/lord. Mansions. Jaguars.

I'm terribly sorry I thought you were asking the opposite

People who are loud, rude, sweary in public, push in queues, make obnoxious comments; those who rant at the simplest request such as 'Excuse me'; those who burp and belch intentionally for the effect on others; spitting' walking along the street in a little gang and not moving for anyone to pass.

Generally people who behave like this are uneducated and extremely thick and this is how they feel they can make their presence known to the world.

Oh, and re: the salad cream. I once went for dinner with a frightfully posh couple, best china, good silver, linen napkins... the works. First course (of many!) was pate and salad. Imagine the surprise when the wife plonked a bottle of Heinz finest on the table! Complete with greasy drips on the side

Looking back I wonder if it was some sort of joke.

FYI there are plenty of ‘posh’ people who think they have the right to shove in queues...

Talking too loudly in public and drawing attention to themselves; spitting; bad manners; poor vocabulary (including deliberately saying words they know aren’t correct like ‘was’ in place of ‘were’ then saying ‘I’ll say it how I like(s)’ even though they know it’s wrong; children under 13 with pierced ears; stencilled ‘motivational’ slogans on walls; wearing pajamas out in public; giant gold hoop earrings or sovereign rings; the ‘council estate facelift’, as it was called in our city, where they pull their hair back so tightly it looks painful; racing around in souped-up Corsas and Novas with blue lights and so much bass the music must sound terrible in the car; and athletic wear when you aren’t going to the gym.

Tinned vegetables
Billy Bear Ham
Smoking cigarettes
Reading The Sun newspaper
Holidaying in Benidorm
Binge drinking

Anyone with a trampoline in their back garden.

I reckon literally it's having a name combo that you share with about a million other people. Steve Jones and Sarah Smith are both as common as muck 😁

Oh, but I love a fab on a sunny day. Would a magnum be less common

😂

Frying bacon in an old car tire in the back garden while 3 generations of you all under 40 and wearing shell suits are all standing by (as per the movie :)