What makes a person 'common'?

[Karlwho]

In your opinion. Just interested.

According to my mum:

Wearing tracksuits
Package holidays
Caravans
Processed food

Saying:
Lounge
Settee
Toilet
and infinitum

She is obsessed with u v non-u, and I am trying very very hard to break the prejudices I have absorbed from my upbringing, it is v hard as she has opinions on pretty much everything.

I know someone whose mother is a Lady and whose grandfather was an Earl. She has a trampoline in the back of her stately home for the kids. Admittedly it is hidden by the 200 year old box hedging.

Common is what each section of the middle class call the section below them to distinguish themselves from them. So you can tell where you are by what you particularly hate

This

So I can't stand matchy matchy curtains and three peice suites, also carpets down stairs. Much less twitchy about sofas in front gardens, tatoos and smoking.

Lip fillers
Tattoos
Love Island (and that includes anyone who watches it )
Eating in the street
Chewing gum, especially with mouth open
Eating anything with mouth open
Holding knife like a pen

Oh and sofas from DFS

Netmums......

I've got a really big pair of judgy pants round here somewhere, I better go find them before I dare respond on this thread

Atta girl foxglove clicks foxglove

• Eating meals on the sofa in front of the television
• takeaways and ready meals
• leggings as trousers
• bling
• kids constantly on screens
• large brands and/or characters on clothes
• flashy cars (white Range Rover, etc)
• swearing
• loud, aggressive behavior
• pride in ignorance and/or lack of education
• excessively tight/short clothing on girls and women
• excessive perfume
• fake tan
• caked-on makeup

Sunbeds hottubs, Jacuzzis
Being really houseproud (cleaning everything with bleach and zoflora all the time - going OTT on housework)
Buying paitings / ornaments to match a colour scheme (paintings of green leaves and a green vase and green candles because you have a green sofa... all matching colour schemes in a room.
Beige food.
Statement walls with big flowery/silver wallpapers.
Artifical / dried flowers
Putting sugar in tea
Carpeted bathroom. Most fitted carpets
Gel nails
Hair extensions
Yellow gold jewellery
Those Pandora charms bracelet things
Going to Dubai on holiday
Plastic grass
Drinking wine without a meal
Rosé wine full stop
Throw pillows/Cushions everywhere
BBQs
Garden ornaments
Family matching pyjamas
Those Christmas Eve boxes
Watching Love Island
Pedigree dogs
Those big, shaped eyebrows
Not having books in the house
DVD/TV/Consoles in several rooms of the house
Having a "man cave"
Having a pool table in the house
Wet rooms

Chewing gum in public
Shouting and swearing in the street
Putting non-walking babies in trainers
Wearing fleece dressing gowns for the school run
Televisions in little children’s bedrooms
Disney holidays

Talking with mouth full of food.

Resting face has mouth open.

Juicy Couture emblazoned (across arse) tracky bottoms
Big boobs no bra, trendy flat chested no problem.
Sneezing with no tissue or hanky or consideration of others.
Men who openly adjust tackle (gross)
Not washing hands after the toilet

I see lots of things I dislike on here but I think the notion of being common is one I associate with mum’s generation so back then would have been cold drinks in a mug and animal
Print clothing! I can feel the sniffs at my leopard print items now. She hasn’t read the memo that it’s a neutral

Sarcelle
You are spot on...especially the duck face/trout pout, so many of these around these days and they just look so comical!

@FrenchtoEnglish.....your list is so big and inclusive, I actually don't know a single person who would fit your 'not common' criteria. Sounds like a person who exists within the pages of Harpers or Elle Home! 😁

Driving a fancy BMW or Rangerover even though you live in a teeny house. Driving said vehicle absolutely everywhere, including on the school run even though you live 10 mins walk away. Parking said vehicle on the most convenient dropped curb or double yellow without giving a flying monkey about those who actually walk to school. When confronted by a resident who calls the council because you’re blocking her drive, you take a photo of her and put it on Facebook because apparently she swore at you (so is obvs really common ).

Showing off - Really loud shouty conversations especially about things you want others to know about.

Also gossiping about people you don’t even know so don’t actually KNOW what actually happened.

This thread is hilarious.

Black bra under a white shirt.

Jenniferturkington I was going to say Disney as well but was afraid of being flamed.

Ear piercing under the age of 12
Sky TV
Nail extensions (eyes dds 1&2 with weary acquiescence)
Sharing your life on Instagram or Facebook

A certain type of tattoo, not just a blanket of all tattoos. I have a degree, I teach and I have a full sleeve of tattoos. They’re not tribal, flowers, names of my children etc. They’re very well done and designed by me, I have a couple of indie films, a Frida Kahlo one... Not the sort of thing you’d see on a ‘commoner’ .

Anyway. For me it’s smoking (especially whilst pregnant or with children), swearing a lot, shouting in the street and hitting and pushing children around.

I agree with most of Frenchtoenglish but I’m afraid my labrador is better bred than most of us, so I disagree with you over pedigree dogs.

Calling your children names like Tiamarie and Jackdaniel.

Seen today in what appears to be a non-satirical article.

I also find Range Rover Driver’s tend to be quite common. Not keen on fake tan, lashes, extensions, cakes on make up, fake nails etc either. Usually shouting names like Jayden, Kaiden, Lexi, Lacey...

Pastel coloured loo roll is common. Only white is acceptable.

Once my Gran sent my Dad to the shop for some loo roll and he dared to return with some peached coloured rolls. She literally hit the roof . ‘Who do you think I am? A commoner?! Toilet roll should only be white!’ I found it hilarious as a child and my poor Dad was absolutely baffled, she sent him back to swap it for white!