What in your view is common ?

FannyCornforth Best song and lyrics ever!!

Rent a flat above a shop
Cut your hair and get a job
Smoke some fags and play some pool
Pretend you never went to school
But still you'll never get it right
'Cause when you're laid in bed at night
Watching roaches climb the wall
If you called your dad he could stop it all

FannyCornforth

One of my favourite songs from the 90’s is ‘Common People’ by Pulp.
Sheer poetry and a total banger to boot !

Agreed - it's a great song. A lot better than the Wombles, too .

Having been brought up working class and married into a titled class, I found there was very little difference in general behaviour. Both classes were down to earth and pretty much at ease with who they were. The one thing they both despised was pretentiousness.

It was the middle classes who fussed about being “common”.

Fleurpepper Do you really think it needs explaining?

My accent is perceived as very common.
It drives me absolutely potty with fury!

Ah yes Doodledog re Wombles, I used to read it that way too!!

One of my favourite songs from the 90’s is ‘Common People’ by Pulp.
Sheer poetry and a total banger to boot !

My DIL has some tattoos and she’s lovely, classy, pretty, clever and creative and a great mum. A very outdated concept “common”

My TV is on its last legs and I told my sister in law that I now fancy a really big screen
“Oh, how common” she said.
Don’t care, it will be lovely for films on dark winter nights.

I grew up on Dandy and Beano comics. I used to read them sat under the counter of the newsagents my dad owned and then put them back on the top to be sold. Common or what?!!

It's a funny concept this 'common' thing. Something used to judge people, pigeon-hole them and keep them in their place.

Who decides what common is?

Describing something, e.g. a hot tub, as common is just rude isn't it?

I’ve never known what ‘common’ means other than a word used by so called ‘upper class’ to describe ‘lower class’ things as in Margot Leadbetters lines in The Goodlife.

I think that I thought that too Doodledog!

I can’t see this thread going well!
It’s absolutely bound to cause offence.
‘Not in the spirit’, as they say

When I was a child I thought the Wombles were common.

(the Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we)

I couldn't decide if they were plentiful or had no manners - it shows what a misplaced comma can do.

More importantly, what do you mean by 'common'?

Not a word you hear these days. I remember ,as a child, hearing people referred to as ,’common willies,’which is quite funny, really. I think excessive swearing is common