[Closed] I'm more middle class than you are

I couldn't decide whether to take the Audi A3or the VW T5 this morning.

You go to Tesco?

I've shown this to my butler. He says you're all common

I'm doing my own tax returns.

I know

Yeah? Well I've just been out on my steel singlespeed, had couscous [s]for tea[/s] pour dejeuner* and am going to a sustainability steering group tomorrow. POW!

*Happy now you've smashed all my dreams and aspirations to tiny little shards of shit you heartless monster?

You have an evening meal called tea?

You're not middle class.

Yeah, but I bet you've not been to any Spanish coffee shops recently, eh?

Aldi home delivery booked

I popped into waitrose for my free coffee again on the way home tonight...

And I've missed Booths so I can't even go and get a huge bag of lentil chips to gorge on in self pity.

Tesco 😆

I called in at Marks and Spencer to get tonight's food.

Nobody middle class shops at Tesco or has an Audi (unless it's an immaculate 1980s model)..

We have four ex-racehorses, the OH has lessons with the #2 ranked eventer globally, and both of our dogs are fed exclusively on raw diet. Oh, and our most common evening meal is either something involving sweet potato and quinoa, or something in red wine from the slow cooker. And the cars are a VW diesel estate and a battered high-end 4x4 for horsey duties. So 😛

Am still on 26" wheels though..

In the post today I got my National Trust cards and my John Lewis account bill.
Beat that!

thestabiliser wins it - you're not truly middle class until your grocery shopping comes from Booths.

Which, naturally, mine does.

I tried as I had lentils for supper with a yoghurt and cucumber accompaniment.

However since it was accompanied by scotch egg, pork pie and Mexicana cheese I am clearly a revolting oik.

My excuse working late

I'm middle class; I'd pretty much always get out of the shower to use the toilet

(unless I knew it was going to be runny, obvz)

I hate (more 'scared of') Corbyn & Trump & seriously can't ****ing stand Cameron & his shitty crew.
Where do I stand?

Isn't Booths in the North, though?

Dejeuner is dinner not tea so instant fail

Running low on almond butter and chia seeds so tonight I made only a small batch of protein bars.

CFH - Yeah, it's like fortnums but you can buy racing pigeons and spinning jennies in there

your mum's more middle class than I am

CFH - Yeah, it's like fortnums but you can buy [b]racing pigeons and spinning jennies [/b]in there

😆

Pfft.
Holidays this year:
1. Visited goddaughter working on an organic farm.

2. Rented a cottage in Yorkshire Dales with a teacher and two doctors, (one of whom owns a Barbour AND a wine safe).
They own a breadmaker(Panasonic), a sprocker and a pointer and they both do triathlons.
One of which was in Chorlton.

I know my place, which is to introduce them to things they refer to as 'quaint'.
Such as mudguards and not arguing in public.

I enjoy listening to [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3 ]Late Junction[/url] on R3 whilst drinking malt whisky and chewing on M+S Medjool dates (as i am at the moment) - good selection of tunes t'night so far by Nick Luscombe but i have a preference for Verity Sharps programming.

I've shown this to my butler. He says you're all common

surely your butler pre-reads your daily reading material and would have filtered out such piffle as this?

Good memory aracer!

I used to live in a converted barn in the lakes with an aga, shop at sainsbury only when I couldn't get to booths, choose my wine by more than country or origin only eat in the better local pubs and preferred to cook from scratch.

These days I live in a shared house, have a shared office shop where ever is open but I'm off whisky tasting later in the month with 500 quid bottles, just been to a mad art/music gig in a disused office building and ride my bikes to work. I think I'm mostly just confused.

CFH - Yeah, it's like fortnums but you can buy racing pigeons and spinning jennies in there

Their new season flat caps and whippets are simply to die for, dahhhhhling!

😆

People like you do your own shopping?

I'm not, but I do like to try and pretend. Which might actually be worse

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And just for clarification. The only middle class people in the north are those in their weekend bolt holes!

piemonster - Member
And just for clarification. The only middle class people in the north are those in their weekend bolt holes!

That's where the bolt holes are.

I guess you never got to meet the locals then...

I'll be taking the labrador out for a walk later. Might wear a hat.

it get's much nicer once you get past that into the Dales, Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland and up into the borders

I'm glad you said Durham and not County Durham.

I'm enjoying my meusli and pondering the condition of the paintwork on the timber conservatory.

Sitting in my M&S knickers and typing on a macbook air, while waiting for my nan bread and hummus to reach the ambient room temperature. My cats are eating pan fried steak and my snakes are munching on quails.

😯

Just your M&S knickers!

Piemonster, going anywhere exciting? that is Terminal 5, right?

I would say that I am middle class, but only because I work in an office and have the delights of an hour in traffic to look forward to this morning.

I did just use freshly ground beans for my coffee just now though.

We have 9 types of paprika and none of them were the right one for last night's dinner.

Although we live in Dundee so I assume I'm automatically hard from being middle class?

I'm automatically hard from being middle class

Well if thats what floats your boat...

We live in Cirencester.
All of our shopping comes from Waitrose.
We both work in finance.
Last night we had fish tagine with couscous for dinner.

I think that'll do.

Oh I do have a selection of loose leaf tea for work and home...

Just your M&S knickers!

Boasting about eating couscous and arguing which shops are more middle class is not very middle class...

If you're proud of what you've achieved in life you're probably working class. If you couldn't care less you might be upper class. If you have a certain sense of self loathing and a nagging guilt about the all the advantages you had growing up that colours any successes you achieve in adult life, then you're middle class.

I bought a house because of the catchment area.

I'm actually royalty. My username surely gives it away.

And I might be a tiny bit in love with mrsfry.

People who think Booths is posh - you mean you don't buy your food from local artisan producers on the market or from independent shops? Oh dear.

Let's see: I live in Hebden Bridge, have a wood burner and a Gransfors Bruks axe, just got home from a biking trip to a charming little Andalusian hill town - on my way home I had to cross Manchester so stopped for a pint of hoppy craft pale ale at a bar in the Northern Quarter where I'm planning to hold an exhibition of my photography.

I met up with my wife on the train home then went to a restaurant where I ate home made bread with extra-virgin olive oil, hummus, olives and a balsamic reduction - followed by mixed game suet pudding along with a nice Tempranillo.

I went to a dinner party last Saturday where they ran out of Cornichons. How we did laugh when Pippa and Jeremy (upper management at a well known bank) admitted to leaving them on the roof of the Landy at the local Waitrose.

An anecdote with endless mileage!

Tomato Sauce lives in the cupboard?........ You're working class.

Tomato Ketchup is stored in the fridge as per the instructions on the label?......You're middle class

No idea where Cook keeps pickles and preserves?.... You're upper class.

I keep a bag in the freezer for the sole purpose of storing reserved parmesan rinds.

I use my mind not my hands to work, exploitated by the bourgeoisie as I'm paid less than I'm worth and I don't own the means of production so I am middle class.

jekkyl - Member
I use my mind not my hands to work, exploited by the bourgeoisie as I'm paid less than I'm worth and I don't own the means of production so I am middle class

Wins thread.

Take note you lot, if you don't understand it you clearly aren't MC.

I think we all know mrsfry is more C&A

That label is just so you know which way round to wear them, like "L&R" on shoes.

Just your M&S knickers!

I think we all know mrsfry is more C&A

That label is just so you know which way round to wear them, like "L&R" on shoes.

*Looks at F&F label on underpants....scratches head

Front and Farts?

They own a sprocker and a pointer and they both do triathlons.

Gamekeepers' dogs? They sleep in the boot room, I hope?

Do you use the shower gel and shampoo in hotels? Then you are middle class. If you wouldn't dream of it then you are upper class, and if you don't stay in hotels you are working class.

There is "considerable" fail in the title of this thread.

a certain sense of self loathing and a nagging guilt about the all the advantages you had growing up that colours any successes you achieve in adult life, then you're middle class.

Welcome to my world.

Plus my parents have a holiday flat 😳

And I lived in it rent free for 6 years but try to hide the fact 😳 😳

And as for shopping, we get a delivery from sainsburies, but are sensible enough to pop to home bargains for the cleaning products etc., and then negate that by making time on the weekend to go to the local butchers for meat.

Do I win?

You are the 1% if you have assets/savings inc pension of £500k (Oxfam report) so the UK North is packed with the rich never mind middle class.

We are about to leave on a backpacking tour of Laos and Cambodia, you can't get more middle class than that

ferrals - Member
Do I win?

I found three bottles of Champagne the other day in the back of one of our Mercedes, that I guess I had bought and forgotten about.

I found three bottles of Champagne the other day in the back of one of our Mercedes, that I guess I had bought and forgotten about.

If you forgot about buying the Champagne you might be middle class, if you forgot about buying the Mercedes you might be upper class.

That label is just so you know which way round to wear them, like "L&R" on shoes.

A subtle joke is trampled...

captainsasquatch - Member
ferrals - Member
Do I win?

Absolutely not, in spite of all the supposed trappings of being middle class you clearly didn't go to a grammar school. The middle classes would know how to use prepositions correctly.
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Apologies old bean, clearly I should have said 'have I won?' I was simply trying to keep up with the cool kids

Gamekeepers' dogs? They sleep in the boot room, I hope?

Quite - none of this dogs upstairs nonsense. Cue, Edward Fox in The Shooting Pary re patting his favourite lab

"Don't fawn on her, it insults her intelligence"

Not quite MC admittedly.

Some great humour above, pls keep it up. A golden thread emerging...

Our nanny complained the seat heating in our Mini Cooper isn't working. She drives an Audi A3...

I don't eat in the cinema

That label is just so you know which way round to wear them

Took the raw-fed sprocker for a run in the park this morning with his new running harness then got home to have toast (home-made bread) with peanut butter (100% nuts). Now sitting at my desk, at home, preparing to do some drawing and typing for other middle-class people.

I have three wood burners and i constantly whinge and whine about other folks petty misdemeanors.
I do a good impression, but i'm working class through and through.

I drink coffee at work, but I bring my own in, in a Harrods tin, and make it in a stainless steel vacuum insulated french press.

The MG is awaiting on the last few suspension parts for the summer.

I'm wearing M&S trousers (not sure of pants).

Middle class fails:
I drive an old ford petrol.
My Shoes are Ted Baker (not some obscure northampton based shoemaker's handmade brogues).
My Jacket was from River Island, which I guess is Middle Class Yoof at least?
I'm not wearing a watch.

got home to have toast (home-made bread)

When you say home made bread, do you mean in a bread maker? It's just that I have some bread downstairs that was handmade, using a pottery kiln shelf as a baking stone, consisting of 2/3rds organic spelt flour, which is coated in a variety of seeds including pumpkin and caraway. 🙂

We have 9 types of paprika and none of them were the right one for last night's dinner.

I guess this disqualifies me from middle class club, I only have three types of Paprika and was delighted that the latest addition complimented my stew [i]perfectly[/i] 8)

When you say home made bread, do you mean in a bread maker? It's just that I have some bread downstairs that was handmade, using a pottery kiln shelf as a baking stone, consisting of 2/3rds organic spelt flour, which is coated in a variety of seeds including pumpkin and caraway

Nice try...