sofa addendem - anyone for springslash?

[tadorna]

I am a sofa-owner!* It was not a cheap sofa. I suppose I can no long deny that I am sort of grown up. Incidentally, I always feel a bit weird saying the word 'sofa' because I grew up with a 'settee'. Somewhere along the line I switched. Like, we never said 'toilet' in our house either, we said 'lavatory'. Just thought you'd like to know.

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In more important news, I'm fully convinced that now Bill Oddie has apparently left Springwatch, it is poised to become the biggest RPF fandom since Lotrips. Come on, people! Chris Packham was the sexy face of children's wildlife programming back in the 80s!

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Apologies to people not in Britain -- there appears to have been little for you in this post.

*well, provisionally.

Comments

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Awesome--I love the red one. I'm sure you will enjoy it. :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I think I will! :D

[msilverstar]

All sofas are ferociously expensive, so glad you got one you like!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

My thinking exactly. :)

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

YAY! for a British post!! Have some tea and biccies!!!

Aren't words funny tho, I was brought up to say lavatory, but soon started to say loo which my mum hated!! My sofa was £20 second hand!! I've never said settee.

I didn't know uncle Bill had left, but I think he was having a breakdown last time so I am not surprised.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would have felt wrong saying 'loo' when I was a child, but now my mum says it herself. Can't imagine my dad saying it though.

I think he was having a breakdown last time

Yes, poor chap, hopefully taking a break will help.

I actually saw a sofa in a charity shop for £50 and it was perfectly fine, but I hate the one in this flat so much I decided to throw caution to the wind for once and get something really nice. :)

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

it's well worth buying really-decent-in-the-sales - mine look good as new, ten years on!

b.x :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Good to know!

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

I agree, we should have nice things. I could have had a whole single bed for £99 but I bought an orthopaedic mattress for £150, still got no frame, but it is just so comfortable, I never regretted it.

Poor uncle Bill, he's always been funny and crazy but I recognised the manic behaviour especially the day he was on The Wright Stuff and almost started hitting people.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

No, it's definitely worth it sometimes. You have to pick and choose the things you're willing to go cheap on and the things you're not. Life's too short to put up with too much discomfort and misery.

[justwolf.livejournal.com]

Man, I wish I owned a sofa! We have a camp bed that we've put loads of pillows and blankets on and we pretend it's a sofa. I hope you enjoy yours! :)

I was always taught to say lavatory, but I was taught that saying "settee" was very non-U. LOL.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Sofas are good! Till it arrives I'll be making do with an airbed and lots of cushions and duvets, which I'm sort of looking forward to too!

I had a weird mixture of influences growing up. I think settee might have come from the Northern side of the family, but I could be wrong.

[qthelights.livejournal.com]

...i always feel weird saying sofa, 'cause we say 'couch'.

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Saying 'couch' feels even more alien to me than 'sofa'!

[suzilee.livejournal.com]

Isn't it funny? I always said settee when growing up, but now have bought a decent one it is the sofa. I love my new sofa so much, I might even make it an icon of its own....

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I think I switched to sofa because it felt like 'what normal people say'. Yeah, I need an icon of my sofa too!

[purple-hazed.livejournal.com]

I think we should start a furniture icon trend!!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Definitely!

[tevere.livejournal.com]

Yay, sofa! All my attempts to own a reasonably-sized sofa have so far failed -- there's a shop here that claims to be able to ship IKEA to East Timor, but I knew it was too good to be true: we ordered a sofa about a year ago, and nothing so far. Perhaps it's coming by ship from Sweden?

I grew up saying 'tea' (as in, "Come in kids, it's time for tea"), but somewhere along the way I switched to 'dinner'. I think teenage me thought it sounded more sophistamacated!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, that's a shame. :( A year is possibly a little too long to wait for a sofa...

I've always said 'dinner' which caused confusion because everyone else I knew said 'tea'. Actually, it still causes occasional confusion.

[coeur_de_noir]

Well done!!

I should have liked it if my parents used the word Lavatory. Alas, being Australian, it was officially The Dunny. Sometimes The Loo if they were feeling fancy!

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

The trouble with lavatory is that it very quickly gets shortened to 'lav' or 'lavvy', which sounds about 500 times less fancy... also, being a child, I was by default ashamed of my parents' weird ways with words, and wanted to be like normal people.

[elouisa.livejournal.com]

Chris Packham was absolutely gorgeous with the peroxide spikes, I'm only slightly less attracted to him now that he's a proper grown up presenter, I still miss the bleach though.

I grew up with my dad who's a bit of a 'cockernee' so it was always the 'bog' for me (although for a little while I was 'going to see a man about a dog' after my dad taught me what that statement meant). Lavatory was just that little bit too posh for oiks like us. ;)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Simon King brought up the hair yesterday... see, it's basically a hotbed of sexual tension. ;)

Ha, I grew up in working class North London, so saying 'lavatory' was just one of the many forms of minor torture imposed on me by middle class parents.

[shirecreature.livejournal.com]

You say sofa, I say couch, you say lavatory, I say bathroom...two countries separated by a common language. :)

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Not just that - even this one country seems to be separated by its common language (somehow)!