Are you common?

[CarrbridgeSaintee]

9 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Renowned etiquette expert William Hanson has put forward 16 signs that you are 'common'.

In the context of people like Hanson, 'common' means behaviour lacking in sophistication or manners.

Here are the 16 - 

1 - Tie clips

2 - Liquid soap

3 - Eating on the street

4 - Holding a knife like a pen

5 - Mounted televsions

6 - Applying make-up in public

7 - Gin and tonic

8 - Prosecco in lieu of champagne

9  Eating on the Tube

10 - Personalised number plates

11 - Zoopla and Rightmove

12 - Hot tubs

13 - The Great British Bake Off

14 - Trainers, particularly Adidas

15 - Buying portraits

16 - Salted caramel

I personally score a mere three on the common scale - I hit points 2, 11 and 14.  

How do P&Bers score on this highly important scale?  

Who do P&Bers consider common?

4

Surprising, as I see myself as common as muck.

[Fullerene]

8 hours ago, Rizzo said:

How does anyone hold a knife like a pen?

In the same way you would hold a pen like a knife.

[Mark Connolly]

6 hours ago, coprolite said:

I also have an i phone

Common as muck.

Posh people have onePhones

[eez-eh]

 

1 - Tie clips

2 - Liquid soap

3 - Eating on the street

4 - Holding a knife like a pen

5 - Mounted televsions

6 - Applying make-up in public

7 - Gin and tonic

8 - Prosecco in lieu of champagne

9  Eating on the Tube

10 - Personalised number plates

11 - Zoopla and Rightmove

12 - Hot tubs

13 - The Great British Bake Off

14 - Trainers, particularly Adidas

15 - Buying portraits

16 - Salted caramel

 

Bars of soap are messy and not as hygienic. f**k them.

[eez-eh]

I’ve had Android phones before. Currently have an iPhone, find them a bit more user friendly personally.

Im assuming any adult who actually cares that much about another person’s phone choice also partakes in Messi vs. Ronaldo debates in YouTube comment sections.

[Alert Mongoose]

8 hours ago, tongue_tied_danny said:

 

I eat takeaways 2 or 3 times a week

Whit?

[strichener]

7 hours ago, coprolite said:

I have an android but have turned the font size down to almost illegibly tiny, but only on my text messages. I've no idea how and can't turn it back. 

I also have an i phone. Its controls are wrong. 

The only people that need two phones are the following:

Adulterers 

Pimps

Drug dealers

What combination are you?

[Dirty Sanchez]

Peeking into a lot of different houses, while delivering Chinese food during the early days of the big telly, I quickly established that TV size is usually inversely proportional to household income.

[Soapy FFC]

29 minutes ago, strichener said:

The only people that need two phones are the following:

Adulterers 

Pimps

Drug dealers

What combination are you?

Also people who need to send text messages but can't on the phone because the font is too small, so use the second phone only for texts. 

[Fuctifano]

10 hours ago, ICTChris said:

2 - Liquid soap

14 - Trainers, particularly Adidas

 

These are the only two I score on and I'm common as anything. I would argue on the first one- surely liquid soap is more hygenic unless you live alone.

I did look at Zoopla and Rightmove when we were moving house earlier this year but wouldn't do it as a hobby.

Probably my most "common" thing is that post covid / WFH becoming an option for me I now spend 95% of my working days in a hoodie and trackie bottoms (the 5% being days where I'm not WFH obvs), putting a pair of jeans on in the house almost feels like dressing up and only time I've worn a tie since 2020 has been for weddings / funerals / job interviews.

There was a girl at my primary school who held her pen like you would hold a knife if you were going to stab someone like Norman Bates in Psycho, in the middle of a clenched fist, but I've never seen anyone of any social standing hold a knife like a pen.  How the f**k would you get enough purchase to cut your food?

[coprolite]

34 minutes ago, strichener said:

The only people that need two phones are the following:

Adulterers 

Pimps

Drug dealers

What combination are you?

Depends. You want girls or ching? 

[ScotiaNostra]

11 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Here's a photo of William Hanson btw.  He looks like someone tried to make a bust of David Cameron out of marzipan.

he looks cheap as f**k, that tie for starters is an absolute disaster. The face makeup that looks like hes been painted with wallpaper paste. Hes got no style at all.

[Shotgun]

1 - Tie clips
I wore a tie clip in the 1980's, but in my defence, I worked in a jewellers at the time.

2 - Liquid soap
Wait, I thought liquid soap was the way to go these days? Bar soap was considered something only old people used. No?

3 - Eating on the street
A good street food vendor is a treasure to be protected. If we're talking McDonald's and the like, then no.

4 - Holding a knife like a pen
Not sure about this one. I'll need to wait until I eat my dinner, then try writing something.

5 - Mounted televsions
No

6 - Applying make-up in public
Don't apply make-up anywhere.

7 - Gin and tonic
Gin is one of the few alcoholic beverages I don't care for.

8 - Prosecco in lieu of champagne
I doubt I would drink either of those unless someone else was paying.

9  Eating on the Tube
Haven't traveled on the tube for years but no, I wouldn't do that.

10 - Personalised number plates
No

11 - Zoopla and Rightmove
N/A

12 - Hot tubs
No

13 - The Great British Bake Off
Mrs Shotgun used to watch it. Therefore, I used to sort of watch it.

14 - Trainers, particularly Adidas
My footwear of choice is marketed as "Hiking Shoes" but they're really just glorified trainers. 

15 - Buying portraits
I don't get this one. Portraits of who?

16 - Salted caramel
No

 

[Shotgun]

22 minutes ago, ScotiaNostra said:

he looks cheap as f**k, that tie for starters is an absolute disaster. The face makeup that looks like hes been painted with wallpaper paste. Hes got no style at all.

His shirt collar doesn't fit him properly either,

[Loonytoons]

9 hours ago, coprolite said:

I can use it to hack the pentagon's missile guidance satellites, i just can't get my font size above 2.

Blindcon 2 -Deafcon 5

 

[TxRover]

12 hours ago, Boo Khaki said:

This.

Or "EAT" plastered across the wall in your kitchen. 

Do these folk have "DEFECATE!!!" on the wall in the loo?

Suddenly researching how to order a couple of thousand of those from China…probably sell well.

[BFTD]

2 hours ago, strichener said:

The only people that need two phones are the following:

Adulterers 

Pimps

Drug dealers

What combination are you?

Anyone with any sense who's required to carry a phone for work will take up the offer of a second phone from their employer.

After hours/not on call? Phone #2 goes off. No accidentally seeing the ambiguous "report to my office first thing on Monday" texts/emails.

[Swarley]

12 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:

Hot tubs and personalised plates are for folk who think they're better than the common man but fail to realise how tacky those things are. 

Talking about @Div like that will get you banned m8!

[BFTD]

2 minutes ago, Swarley said:

Talking about @Div like that will get you banned m8!

Personalised number plate generator for the big man: https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/buy/make-own-numberplates

[Swarley]

7 minutes ago, BFTD said:

Personalised number plate generator for the big man: https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/buy/make-own-numberplates

At the risk of activating his legal team I'd suggest this is more appropriate