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

Live in a posh world heritage city
Shop local or Waitrose
Only ever make my own bread (by hand)
Drive one the vehicles mentioned above
Both kids at uni
Enough quinoa/bulgur wheat/freekeh in my cupboard to stuff a beanbag
Go to Glastonbury festival and think the price is reasonable
Really should get the dog onto raw food

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 [s]confused[/s]divorced.

I drink coffee at work, but I bring my own in, in a Harrods tin,

My Earl Grey Tea Bags live in a Harrods tin at work (the tea was a bit mediocre, so binned it and replaced with Taylors of Harrogate).

Yes, bread-maker

Chav.

My neighbour runs a micro bakery and delivers her loaves by bicycle. https://breadonabike.wordpress.com/about/

I'm going to offer up this point about being, or aspiring to be, Middle Class.

If you don't have a little blue P in front of your Username on this ere' website, by definition and no matter how much you argue to the contrary, you are Not Middle Class.

😛

I'm going to offer up this point about being, or aspiring to be, Middle Class.

If you don't have a little blue P in front of your Username on this ere' website, by definition and no matter how much you argue to the contrary, you are Not Middle Class.

.....unless you read the hard copy of the magazine whilst at your club.

We got burgled while we were on holiday in the Lake District back in November, but the burglars didn't find anything worth stealing.

[i]I'm more middle class than you are[/i]

What? You ride a Pashley?

I put my recycling through the dishwasher before putting it out.

I own a Blur album that isn't Parklife.

we buy wine that doesn't get drunk on the day of purchase.

we had hummus and avacado for dinner last night.

we have a pheasant in the freezer.

thisisnotaspoon - Member

Middle class fails:
I drive an old ford petrol.

old shabby cars are [u]very[/u] established-middle class, rather than [i]aspiring[/i]-middle class.

perchypanther - Member

.....unless you read the hard copy of the magazine whilst at your club.

Erm, yes but that copy is copy 89 and has coffee/beer stains on it and your club is the local Working Mans Club.

😆

If you don't have a little blue P in front of your Username on this ere' website, by definition and no matter how much you argue to the contrary, you are Not Middle Class.

I'd see them more as the White Range Rover Evoque of the forum...

I'm a Scouser, I could have all the Spelt flour, Quinoa, Audis and Range Rovers in the world, I'm still not going to convince anyone I'm middle class.

(pronounced class, not clarse)

I have a TV in my living room but not in my lounge.
The TV is smaller than the bookcase.

I also have two dining rooms, an everyday one and a Sunday / Christmas / Birthday one.

My wife and I have matching personal number plates on our beige people carriers.

Does one win £5?

old shabby cars are very established-middle class

What's the best thing about Sainbury's?
It keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose.

That's about as middle class as I get.

I get out of the shower to pee.

Got up, walked across my under floor heating for fresh coffee with Raw milk. Home made yogurt and granola for breakfast after leaving my ironing for the ironing lady. Checked the cellar for a good Malbec this evening, and selected a 4K film for streaming in the home cinema. Ocado delivered at 8:00am. Fillet steak for dinner on the Range induction and new griddle.

Leave house via french doors, pat my border terrier goodbye and go to my bike garage - deactivate my CCTV and alarm - study Turner fleet and enve wheel bag 😉 and then decide against it and head off to work (film production company) in my ahem Fabia. Rumbled. 😉

95% of that is true - but I did ride to work.

I call dinner Tea and live in a semi, and I am not married. So working class big spender.

selected a 4K film for streaming in the home cinema

Fail. It's a media room.

I have a TV in my living room but not in my lounge.
The TV is smaller than the bookcase.

Oh, you have a TV? How terribly uncouth.

Oh, you have a TV? How terribly uncouth.

Of course, it really makes the recipes in Nigella's books come to life when we can see them being prepared on TV

I've got a pair of Loakes. Does that count?

Oh how quaint having a 'Televisual device'. I suppose not being able to have a grand piano in ones dwelling (due to it's tiny size) one has to be able to entertain ones self somehow.

Ooh ooh ooh! I forgot!

I have an Asian friend!

Ooh ooh ooh! I forgot!

I have an Asian friend!

Is it the Sultan of Brunei?

Checked the cellar for a good Malbec this evening, and selected a 4K film for streaming in the home cinema. Ocado delivered at 8:00am. Fillet steak for dinner

Night time home security by status

Upper class gets the game keeper to patrol with the dogs and shotgun

Middle class sits in his conservatory with a rake and a flash light

Lower class falls sleeps with his playstation

mrsfry - Member
Night time home security by status

Upper class gets the game keeper to patrol with the dogs and shotgun

Middle class sits in his conservatory with a rake and a flash light

Lower class falls sleeps with his playstation, in their M&S pants

FIFY

I own three labrador/poodle ish dogs. My wife is well alongside the businesses of horse ownership and maintenance. One of our cars is willfully old and knackered but mechanically very sound and dedicated to the exclusive transportation of dogs and bicycles. We have a desirable postcode (so I'm told). It has been less than one week since I last had an Amuse Bouche and I'm afraid I very much enjoyed it.

I'd still like to think I'm working class because I know deep down I am.

I love Waitrose.

Keeps the riff raff out of Booths.

Cheeky young pup 😆

Himalayan pink table salt.

And I have recently acquired a taste for craft sour ale. (Took a bit of effort this one!)

craft sour ale?

that's not middle class, you're trying to be a hipster.

I'd dig out one of my older Zinfandels.

[b]New[/b] World?

Uergh

that's not middle class, you're trying to be a hipster.

Have you ever seen a working class hipster?

I have a 94cm computer screen (and bigger TV), have an mtb with a silver aluminium frame, shop in Lidl, have too few aspirations to consider going out to work, wear sandals all year round and don't own a watch... underclass.

I spent two hours today on a conference call with our lead business strategist and management consultancy about our approach to preparing the agendas for our quarterly Strategy Team meeting but we didn't get finished because the call degenerated into a discussion about the best place to breakfast in Berlin.

I often have no idea what I do for a living.

I have a 94cm computer screen (and bigger TV), have an mtb with a silver aluminium frame, shop in Lidl, have too few aspirations to consider going out to work, wear sandals all year round and don't own a watch... underclass.

Get a job working in social work, social care or social housing and you'll realise that you're pretty far from the real underclass in this country.

[quote=Edukator ]I have a 94cm computer screen (and bigger TV), have an mtb with a silver aluminium frame, shop in Lidl, have too few aspirations to consider going out to work, wear sandals all year round and don't own a watch... underclass.

You've saved enough money before normal retirement age that you don't have to work - rather than spending as you earn on pointless bling. You have your own renewable power system. Horribly middle class.

this country

I'm sure Edukator mentioned, maybe once or twice, ages ago...he doesn't make a big deal of it...that he doesn't live in this country.

the call degenerated into a discussion about the best place to breakfast in Berlin.

Well?

Cynic-al is mocking the class system so I'm joining in. You can either look at objective criteria such as revenue and wealth, background (which would make me working class) etc. Or superficial signs, aspirations, voting habits, attitudes etc. which is what's making the thread amusing.

Allowing people to be socially mobile was never a strong feature in UK society, and I'm not sure people want to be socially mobile. Noel Gallagher was worth about 25 million years ago and probably more now but I suspect calling him upper class would be met with one of his typically comic put downs - if he didn't really take offence and deck you.

Himalayan pink table salt.

I've got some of that. It was in the sale section of Aldi. Comes in a little plastic grinder.
You're fooling no one.

[quote=Edukator ]Noel Gallagher was worth about 25 million years ago and probably more now but I suspect calling him upper class would be met with one of his typically comic put downs - if he didn't really take offence and deck you.

comic put down = middle class
decking you = working class

I holiday on my boat in the Med.
Plus I've no idea where our vacuum cleaner is (the cleaner knows)

willard - Member
Piemonster, going anywhere exciting? that is Terminal 5, right?

Edinburgh to Les Arcs.

The apartment has leopard print and texture wall panels.

Well?

I stuck to my guns.

I sampled some foreign food today, rather disgusting, but one so hates to upset the natives and they don't know any better.

I think the natives call it 'Faggots and peas'

Here's my attempt to win the thread.
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Just realised I've not put in my own entry:

I can play a musical instrument (one you find in an orchestra)
The kids' bikes are Islabikes (am I really the first to mention that?)
I know how to use apostrophes
We have croissants for breakfast on Sunday

Thanks lemonysam, worth noting for the next time one is over there.

Here's my attempt to win the thread.

The graphics on those BOS forks mean that you lose the thread, however expensive the bike is - simply frightful.

So does my snake (whos big belly is keeping my fingers warm as i type*)
I don't do breakfast (one does brunch)
One does not say 'Kids' unless one is a goat (so middle class)
Croissants (purchased at a store)
Full stops are so last year

Would anyone care for a glass of vitaminwater?

Would anyone care for a glass of vitaminwater?

Working class, 7 figure inheritance, 47 yrs old.

Own business started for something to do.

Where's that leave me?

Lucky bastard class with lottery winners?

I think the most middle class thing I ever did was go on a skiing holiday with Club Mark Warner and going out on the slopes with 3 barristers (not baristas). It's been downhill ever since.

I'm having a pint and a fag while I cook the kids chicken nuggets and mash..

I'll go and sit on the naughty step 😳

Not me but a friend wondering where the maid had put her daughters clean PE kit

[quote=withersea ]Would anyone care for a glass of vitaminwater?

I'll have two, thanks.

[quote=mrsfry ]So does my snake (whos big belly is keeping my fingers warm as i type*)

Plays a musical instrument?

I have an islabike track tandem.
I like buying cheese from the dairy it was made in.
I have a 10 year old Ford Focus with the corners knocked off.
I don't have my shoes made for me.

I have a weekly bus pass and spend more money than i make 🙂

I just had chickpea curry for dinner

[I]aracer - Member
Just realised I've not put in my own entry:
We have croissants for breakfast on Sunday
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Nice try... But, it's what you have in/on your croissants, what you drink at the time, the paper you're reading and the radio station you're listening to while scoffing croissants that's crucial to being [I]real[/I] middle class!

So, I'll out win all of you now.....

Has Library card and attends regularly!
8)

People do something other than taking their early morning ride of choice, then listen to the Archers/D.I.D on a Sunday?

The poor, poor, bastards.

[I]Rusty Spanner - Member
The poor, poor, bastards.
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Nobody said being middle class and out classing your [s]enemies[/s] neighbours was easy.
😉

I just arranged a breakfast get together morning with a couple we are friends with.after i am taking the lexus to pick up my santa cruz that was in for a service and dropping the shan off. Oh and wine man was on the phone trying to arrange a tasting of thier new reds.

The master is certainly not middle class. I - his gentlemens - gentleman, post on the masters behalf.

People do something other than taking their early morning ride of choice, then listen to the Archers/D.I.D on a Sunday?
The poor, poor, bastards.

I can play a musical instrument (one you find in an orchestra)

I live in Harrogate
I shop in waitrose and am constantly frustrated as they always run out of a particular sushi roll that I like, before I get there.
I have 3 Santa Cruz mountain bikes
I have a BtL property
I'm currently agonising over which business class seat to book for my holidays.
I'm an Apple fanboi
When working in Stockport, I lamented the lack of nice delicatessens to get lunch from.

[I]tomhoward - Member
I'm an Apple fanboi
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The need to be middle class is strong with this one.

I smoke pipes does that make me middle class? 😛

You're in a class of one.

Crack or whisky flake?

Crack or whisky flake?

My son's school have just built a short-game golf course...

I'm struggling to fit in a trip to Paris for a weekend to see Mrs Gastro, a trip to Palma to eat steak in one of our favourite little restaurants and a week in New York (including catching up with friends from uni).

1st world problems!

I dont really know (if there is such a thing anymore) what class im in.

My son's school have just built a short-game golf course...