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

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...

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.