This is The English We Speak from BBC Learning English, and we're learning about the phrase 'bog-standard', which describes things that are basic, ordinary and unexceptional.
Firdos Square is not the most important location in Baghdad, and the statue was unexceptional: a bronze standing figure, 12 metres high, weighing around a tonne.
He was then living in a nice but unexceptional Tudor-style home in Los Gatos with his girlfriend, Barbara Jasinski, a smart and reserved beauty who worked for Regis McKenna.
The purple Scuppernong is rich and fat and unexceptional, but the white Scuppernong, in the hands of loving and expert care, makes a vintage white wine that can stand with the best Sauterne.
But you know, unlike many of my peers, I grew up in a tiny, tiny town and went to a kind of an unexceptional high school where everyone left at 16 to go home and milk the cows.