Are you middle class

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Woodylubber, Oct 20, 2014.

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  1. snotty

    snotty

    For all you northerners: Laura Ashley are doing a nice line in whippet-wear this season...

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    snotty, Oct 21, 2014
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  2. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    Anyone who has to earn a crust by working, be it a surgeon or a lorry driver is working class. Those that work to pay their way and think they are middle class because they have a nice house and some money in the bank are either pretentious pr..ks, or don't understand the old class system.
     
    Poptop2, Oct 21, 2014
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  3. lost-en-france

    lost-en-france

    As he said wealth is nothing ,you have to talk a certain way and act accordingly...

    I never knew any posh middle class people before I moved to France and it is dam hard to socialize with them when the cleaner you work with is shoving a silver tray of appetizers under your nose ,I feel like I should be in the kitchen washing up or stood at the door announcing guests... :D

    They are nice people ,just different...:thumbsup:
     
    lost-en-france, Oct 21, 2014
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  4. Lord Congi

    Lord Congi


    Really I thought middle class was the well paid working class like managers or doctors or as you state surgeons?
     
    Lord Congi, Oct 21, 2014
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  5. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

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    Terrordales, Oct 21, 2014
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  6. Zed

    Zed Gradually getting grumpier

    Signer on'ers are the new middle class. They don't have to work. Similar to those that lived on family investments in years gone by, the old "monthly allowance".
     
    Zed, Oct 21, 2014
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  7. Woodylubber

    Woodylubber Obsessive compulsive name changer

    Poor middle class doggies :(

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    Woodylubber, Oct 21, 2014
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  8. Woodylubber

    Woodylubber Obsessive compulsive name changer


    What about your mates o_O What class are they ;)

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    Woodylubber, Oct 21, 2014
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  9. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    What on earth was a middle class child doing at a polo match? Who let them in? What is the world coming to? They'll be in Fortnum and Masons next!
     
    Pudelwagen, Oct 21, 2014
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  10. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    i've never claimed owt and always worked for to pay my way, while school friends sit outside the swan drinking beer on dole money i fund,that makes me "stupid class"
     
    rickyrooo1, Oct 21, 2014
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  11. Pudelwagen

    Pudelwagen Supporter

    One of our Poodles used to have a Burberry trouser suit. Oh the shame of it!
     
    Pudelwagen, Oct 21, 2014
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  12. fritt

    fritt

    Probably already are since their parents are appearing in the Ritz on the pretense of taking afternoon tea. One has to smile, to oneself of course, when a fish knife is viewed as an item of mystery to these people.
     
    fritt, Oct 21, 2014
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  13. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    ahhh the idilic life of a traveller, the open road, the wind in your hair, Marmiteting in the woods.
     
    rickyrooo1, Oct 21, 2014
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  14. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    That's travellers? I thought it was a Caravan Club site.
     
    Jack Tatty, Oct 21, 2014
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  15. rickyrooo1

    rickyrooo1 Hanging round like a bad smell

    nope, they have to have a fire bucket and 6 metre gap.
     
    rickyrooo1, Oct 21, 2014
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  16. Jack Tatty

    Jack Tatty Supporter and teachers pet

    And pampas grass too I'd imagine.
     
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  17. Barneyrubble

    Barneyrubble

     
    Barneyrubble, Oct 21, 2014
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  18. philntfc

    philntfc

    Went to Aldi the other day and parked next to a new Porsche Panamera!
    Funniest thing I saw there was a few years ago, a nice middle class wannabe carefully putting her bargain bucket shopping into Waitrose bags in the boot of her BMW:D One doesn't want to give the neighbours the wrong impression of oneself.
     
    philntfc, Oct 21, 2014
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  19. shielsy

    shielsy

    irish harp must be a pikey then not romanian gypsey lol owen nw
     
    shielsy, Oct 21, 2014
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  20. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I remember doing a thing at school on the class system in Victorian Britain. The crux of it was, it was a very rigid system. The aristocracy ( your Dukes and earls and landed gentry) were at the top, The middle classes were deemed people with a lot of money just below the landed gentry ( some were successful industrialists) people who could work and sometimes did, but really didn't have to. Then there were (and still are) the rest of us, people who worked to pay their way 'The working class'

    I think it is confused a lot now by the fact some people who were never deemed ' middle class' Doctors, footballers, lawyers etc, being paid lots ,more, and us to a point. we have cars houses etc.

    It's a good thing really as it breaks down class barriers, The class barrier was a bad thing, a bit like the caste system in India.
     
    Poptop2, Oct 21, 2014
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