[Closed] I'm more middle class than you because...

The University of Durham, I think you'll find.

Quite so, but I wanted to be all down with the red brick and ex-poly types....

In 2005, the University unveiled a re-branded logotype and introduced the trading name of Durham University. However, the official name of the institution remains the University of Durham and the official coat of arms is unchanged.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durham_University

Mind you even discussing this is terribly middleclass 😉

Ah, the japes we used to have with the old PCAS form, eh? 'I only need two Ds to get into Oxford', and so on. Small boys, jumpers for goalposts, education from a place that used to be a squash club.

Too young (just) for PCAS and UCCA.

UCCA/PCAS - I did both IIRC - applied two years running. Didn't get into Cambridge first time, got good grades was suggested I reapply. Still didn't get in 🙂 Went to Bristol with all the other Oxbridge rejects 😀

ourmaninthenorth - Member

Let's see:

Reads Rouler - check
Sniffs at the Paul Smith Jeans line as being a bit plebby - check
Prep + Public school - check
Durham University - check
Ex-Hockey player (for Alderley Edge in Cheshire) - check
Lawyer - check
Waitrose shopper - check
Off to buy new Hunters at the w/e - check

Oh, and daughter is called Beatrice - check!

Bingo!

OMITN is a slightly lesser version of me 🙂

Reads The Ride - check
Prep + Public school - check
University of Cambridge - check
Ex-Hockey player (for West Hampstead Hockey Club, North London) - check
Chartered Surveyor - check
Waitrose shopper - check
Bought Dubarrys for mrs S last birthday - check

So lots of self confessed middle class here it seems. But it's a wide group these days. Are you on the way up or down? How are your table manners? Do you cut your bread roll with a knife? Do you use a toilet or a loo? Eat pudding or dessert?

Edit - typo noticed

..and many other questions, such as do you know whether it's 'roll' or 'role' for the bread thing?

[i]Do you cut your bread role with a knife?[/i]

*knows the difference between role and roll and is prepared to point it out on stw, being both a pedant and middle class*

😉

Off to buy new Hunters at the w/e - check

The truly middle class get the au pair to collect them in the XC-90,[i]dahling[/i]... 😉

EDIT: And for the record, if they're not Le Chameau's, they cannot be regarded as truly utilitarian footwear..

Sorry, Hunters are Chav now. An ex security guard turned up at work with a pair on earlier in the year, he left the tags on 'so everyone knows they ain't fake'

I went to a better university than Stoner. 😈

This is the Noteeth family crest.

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Finally (and poshest of all), I am living in destitution. You can't buy that - indeed, it would be vulgar to do so. 8)

[i]the Noteeth family crest[/i]

'nobodyorlegs', surely?

[i]I went to a better university than Stoner. [/i]
Not difficult 😉

Aren't we pushing on upper class now? Anyone in Burke's Peerage?

not being able to spell is not the same as a typo.....

The Duchess of Kent is an old family friend

The only time I wear Howies is for slobbing around at home (Well the only Howies item I have is a big thick cardigan)

Aren't we pushing on upper class now? Anyone in Burke's Peerage?

I get the impression that what we're seeing now is the same as middle class folk saying they're working class.

Anyone have to warm the toilet seat for callmeDave at Eton?

'nobodyorlegs', surely?

Ha! I want to incorporate dentures into it. But, you know, tradition and stuff.

It mightuv bin wind, mind.

Good to know that some things don't change.

not being able to spell is not the same as a typo.....

It only happens when I type. You might want to correct your ellipsis though.

It's lavatory isn't it not toilet. Sitting room not lounge and pudding not dessert.

Anyway Jocasta and Flavia are coming round for some organically grown hot lava java. Jocasta is bringing her energist and were going to have a sage burning and decide which crystals will help us walk perpetually in 'love and light'.

Humphrey and pongo are popping over tonight and we might raid the fridge for tuck. If the maid has finished cleaning the aga.....

It's lavatory isn't it not toilet. Sitting room not lounge and pudding not dessert.

A point to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English

Elfinsafety - Member

It mightuv bin wind, mind.

Still is, mostly 😆

Indeedy. Those who say dessert probably also use 'myself' when they mean 'me'. Note - if it's the sort of thing a footballer would say in an interview, it's probably wrong.

Bully, XC90s are pretty passe - they've not been updated for years and the inside's a bit rubbish now. I know, I sold ours. X5 is where it's at, if you want some big 4x4 action. Or buy a real car from Solihull, obviously.

And Hunter wellies - please? Aigle are the [i]only[/i] boot for the discerning dog-walker.

And Hunter wellies - please? Aigle are the only boot for the discerning dog-walker.

Living, as I now do, "out of town", I may well adopt the farmer's favourite.

Anyway, they're just for washing the CX bike post race.... 😀

Reads Singletrack - check
Wears selvedge jeans - check
State school - check
Durham University - check (at a better college than OMITN)
Teacher - check
Aldi/Asda/Morrisons shopper - check
Wife wears Hunters to walk the - check

...you post on STW asking for advice on investing £10k.

Because I eat my kebab with a metal fork.

I went to a [s]better[/s] second rate university [s]than Stoner[/s]

Bully, XC90s are pretty passe - they've not been updated for years and the inside's a bit rubbish now. I know, I sold ours. X5 is where it's at, if you want some big 4x4 action. Or buy a real car from Solihull, obviously.

[b]It's for the au pair Nick; not the family[/b]. You wouldn't give her [i]something good[/i] to run around in would you?

😕

It's for the au pair Nick; not the family. You wouldn't give her something good to run around in would you?

Actually, we had a male au pair.......he preferred something a little sportier.

Actually, we had a male au pair.......he preferred something a little sportier.

Mater, what [i]are[/i] you doing?

Well between us:

Detached house - check
Land Rover - check
BMW - check
Horses - check
Spaniel - check
Children all have three first names - check
In IT - check
Director (of own company) - check
Parents' Managers/Professionals - check
Buy clothes for fit, not names - check
Children at public school - check
China for everyday use - check
Napkins on the table - check
Happy with our lifestyle - check
Didn't buy the largest TV possible - check

How many more bases need covering?

I'm [s]more middle class[/s] [b]smugger and more self-satisfied[/b] than you because...

I knew there was something slightly wrong with the title. Fixed it! 😀

I'm smugger and more self-satisfied than you because...

and people were saying yorkshire folk couldn't be middle class???

Semi-detached house - check
Second hand Renault Scenic - check
Chickens - check
Rescue centre dogs (lab and greyhound) - check
Both children have one first name - check
Teach IT - check
Parents' Managers/Professionals - check
Buy clothes for fit, not names - check
Children at state school - check
Eat at a table - check
Happy with our lifestyle - check
Didn't buy the largest TV possible - check

I find the middle class thing fascinating. We're clearly middle class, but don't really match many of the lists posted up.

I find the middle class thing fascinating. We're clearly middle class, but don't really match many of the lists posted up.

Ah, that's because those lists (including mine) are stereotypes.

Surely, we're [i]all[/i] middle class these days, daaaaahling!

miketually - I think there is probably a 'blue' list and a list for people that care about others, not just what others think.

My list was for the middle class below Bristol and south of the Wash, because anyone north of that is well you know just an oik.

This thread keeps on giving, dunno if any of this is true or now becoming just a boastfest.. But it's more enlightening on some sort of social economic demograph than any other I have seen on here.

BTW I have 5 types of hair gel in my bathroom...

"smug"

Ex Laura Ashley Saturday girl - check
Loo - check
Awful education at an all gals school - check
Pudding - check
Grow my own - check
Did voluntary work - check
small telly - check
Read Ride,STmag - check
Have made curtains for OMITN for his country home 😉