MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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bloody middle classes and their ....bloody grubby fingers
That's not dirt. That's patina.
If you didn't go to private school and you buying/bought your home with borrowed money, you are not middle class.
These are not good indicators.
Okay, here's one for you lot...
My next-door neighbour rattled his mower into life last night at 9pm... which was a bit annoying but life carried on.
He's got one of those Green Petrol Haters (sic) things, which is probably over-kill for a suburban garden but still...
I don't have one of those, I'm got a boggo Flymo...
Who's more 'Middle Class' him or me? There's a sting in the tail though... we don't use our Flymo because we've got a chap who comes around once a fortnight to do ours who brings his own - our lawn is more obviously striped than his, or it was before I set up the paddling pool for the kids at the weekend.
What's actually the difference between middle and working class? (I've googled it, and I'm none the wiser)
What makes a difference difficult to define is that the 'Middle Class' is extremely nebulous. We tend to oversimplify it in terms of wealth or earning potential or spending choices but there are some very well paid working class professions (who upset anyone with a degree each time they go on strike and remind them that their degree hasn't earn't them more money than someone who has '.... driver' in their job title and there are some Middle Class career decisions that can pretty much guarantee a life of penury.
If you're genuinely interested then Greyson Perry's series 'In the best possible taste' is very good. He describes what we refer to as 'Classes' as 'Taste-Tribes' - people who recognise common values in each other by their cultural tastes and choices. Whats interesting is that working class and upper class 'tastes' are reasonably easy to define but theres not really a 'Middle Class' in terms of their being a group who share an identity between those two extremes. College lecturers in a shabby old manse with a 12 year old Seat parked outside, middle management professionals in new-build 5 bed estates with the 'right' car (conspicuously unbadged and conspicuously non-age-related plates) parked outside and art school graduates living in a shared flat in a rough street and to all intents and purposes on the dole are all middle class but share pretty much nothing. So if your curiosity extends beyond googling it the series is well worth a watch.
is thread just a (not so) elaborate way of telling everyone you have house in Spain?
not jealous at all.
We already knew about the house in Spain. This was all about the plunge pool.
We already knew about the house in Spain. This was all about the [s]plunge pool[/s] the manhole cover he's lifted
If you pay a premium to have the mud left on your vegetables, you're middle class
I'm working class because, despite having a Guardian subscription, I also have a Sky Sports one (which I watch while drinking Stella and swearing a lot), and I actually [url= http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/guardian-sports-supplement-still-number-one-choice-for-lighting-middle-class-barbecues-201108264242 ]Read the Sport section[/url]
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HOW working class are you? The 15 household items only the working classes own (one point for each):1. Samurai sword, hung above fireplace in case of return to Bushido law
2. Android smart phone with Greggs Rewards app on homepage
3. Dog named after sportsperson or fictional sportsperson
4. Fantastic array of expensive electronic toys that any middle-class child would kill to play with, ignored for football
5. Digital picture frame showing slideshow of kids, other people’s kids, cars, dog as above, Greg’s stag night inc. nudity
6. Books, but not making a big deal about it
7. Televisions in ratio of 1.2 per room
8. Hand-waxed gleaming Toyota Hilux pick-up truck
9. Paved front lawn so Toyota Hilux can be parked and admired directly outside window
10. Oversized Sports Direct mug
11. Both colours of sauce
12. Ashtray
13. Fancy ashtray for guests
14. Dyson kept openly in hall, because there’s no shame in being clean
15. Two adult children, both driving £30,000 cars
And the five things no self-respecting working class family should have (minus one point for each):
Old furniture
Breadmaker
Board game The Settlers of Catan
A record player
Overachieving children desperately trying to earn their parents’ love but never filling the emptiness inside
How did you score?
15-10: You are the workingest working class, with the pride and body type of a bulldog. Truly you are the salt of the earth, to the extent that your mere touch dehydrates things.
10-5: Middle working class, with aspirational tendencies. Your Tony Parsons books and occasional purchase of smoothies could lead you on a dark path to middle England.
5-0: Always sucking up to the bosses and laughing at their golf jokes, you cross picket lines on a weekly basis and nobody will pass you the mic during karaoke.
Forgot to add:
An aversion to recycling
General slovenliness
Don't mind living in squalor
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😀 looks just like barrow! The spot's a ****ing dump these days. This sums it up
Middle class - it's magical
This is from Mumsnet and feels relevant...
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Can someone help - what is ketchup?
Its what people who have to shop for provisions themselves call Catsup. And Catsup is what people call Ketchup if the want to annoy Cougar.
Yeah, do catchup.