What makes a person 'common'?

[Karlwho]

In your opinion. Just interested.

This is fab!
My son (25) says chavvy is wearing sports clothing with no intention of playing sport.
So even the Yoot of the day can be judgy.

Someone else’s judgement.

I don’t know, but I would love to live with them

Swearing is actually very upper class. Fact.

And sleep with them

I think poor morals makes someone common

So many definitions lol.

I smoke and eat in the street. I'm also a qualified senior manager earning just under £50k and own my own home outright.

If I'm considered common for that I really don't care. Common to me means being so ill educated that you can barely string a sensible sentence together on social media - I'm on a few local FB groups and I'm baffled as to how some people cope when their mastery of the English language is so poor - swearing and fighting in the street, posing for sad photos in the DM because Demi-Mae was given detention for wearing black designer jeans rather than school approved trousers you can buy from Asda for £6.00.

Using the word "chav" however is VERY common.

And a lack of integrity...I've met 'poor' people with brilliant morals and 'rich people' with awful morals

Telling everybody everything, laughing like a drain, chewing gum, swearing loudly, smoking, smokers cough, visible tatoos, cheap pvc bag, too tight clothes, touching people too much as you talk...

Obviously you can get away with one at a time! If you are classy otherwise. __

Sportswear worn as casual wear

Vaping

rosegoldwatcher I meet middle class women every day at nursery in their gym gear who have no intention of going to the gym 😂

It's the loud ones, gagging for confrontation before midday the minute you come within a 5 mile radius of them. You could be walking your dog a mile away and they'll try and start somefink over nuffink wiv you.

According to my Mum:
Spitting
Tattoos
Men in football shirts on a non match occasion (supermarket, beach etc)
Men without shirts at the dinner table (eg on holiday)
Bare legs (women) - going out without tights was a major offence
Sauce or milk bottle on the table
Tv on whilst having a meal
Tv on whilst visitors are present (unless watching something special eg royal wedding)
Smoking in the street
Eating in the street
Eating on public transport
Net curtains

Owning a caravan

@AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet from your list I tick almost every box 😂 I drive a white suv, have obvious hair extensions, loads of fake tan, huge TVs and tight clothes I am common as muck 😂 I might have to make a few changes x

Having silver ‘Live laugh love’ stickers adorning your poorly painted magenta pink wall...
shudder

Oh dear I'm common

I have tattoos
I wear big earrings
I sometimes feed the kids frozen ready meals ( I cook them in the microwave not give them frozen food)
We have a trampoline.
We have a big TV.
I wear vest tops.
I have shouted at my kids in public.
I leave my washing out overnight.

Teenage daughters live in fluffy sliders
Dd1 is a lover of the high scraped back ponytail
Both dds love fake tan and spend hours pouting into their cameras

Clearly no hope for us - we had better move out of my nice town in Hertfordshire so somewhere more fitting with our commonness.

Makes me think of the Pulp song... they thought (from memory):
Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Pretend you never went to school
Watch cockroaches climb the wall
Go to the supermarket
Have no money
Dance, drink, screw, smoke a fag and play some pool
Fail
Watch your life slide out of view
Live your life without meaning or control
And something about chip grease....

Pronunciation, ie three for free

KittenSnuggler

Divulging how much you earn is very common

God yes don't talk about money!

Eating white sliced bread, watching ITV, and wearing ankle bracelets (in the 1970s). At least that’s what my mum thought.
Now? Erm.... I think it’s mostly about manners.

According to my parents, I don't agree with them.

eating in the streets
brushing/combing hair in public
tattoos
revealing clothes
swearing
shouting
not having a tidy front garden
smoking
shopping anywhere other than Booths/Waitrose
bad manners
being overweight
having a lot of children with different fathers
not speaking the Queen's English (vocab not accent)
living on a council estate
dipping bread into mint sauce
watching commercial television
going to football matches
watching any tv during the day
owning the wrong sort of dog
ankle chains
piercings other than one in the earlobe
Sky tv