wwaswas, warton, I fear I may be the definition of the STW middle class.

does the fact that my wife will be a deputy head from the start of next term make me more or less ‘stw middle class’?

I use “yah” instead of “yes”..
Actually I don’t, when I was at uni in Edinburgh I used to hate the “yahs”!

wwaswas, more, without doubt, a move into upper management is a very middle class goal. My other half is the head of science at a primary, it was a proud moment when that was announced.

I’m also a season ticket holder at a rugby club if that helps reinforce my position.

when I was at uni in Edinburgh

winner!

My darling wife insists we drink pink champagne on Weds….

oh oh oh oh look its Weds

😀

I’m in college studying textiles and material technology, my gf essentially does hard sums at Oxford Uni, she has a c card that’s her dad’s. 😳 BTW she grew up in and they still live in a 6 bedroom house, even though she’s an only child. I’m not the first of my family to go to college.

😆

I can’t stand folk who think they’re posh and aren’t well off…i.e. most of the middle-class! Especially ones who talk about nothing but their career, mortgages or which school their kids go to! I refuse to grow up and don’t concern myself with such boring subjects.

Rewski – I stopped eating pain au chocolat’s when ‘someone’ told me you can buy them in Greggs…the shock, the horror!

get out the bath to take a dump.

…you only get out for a dump? Then I fear that you are not a gentleman sir, for a gentleman doesn’t pee in his own bathing water.

why do people associate class with money and the appreciation of nice things with class?

i’m sending this using a mont blanc stylus on my iPad2

My darling wife insists we drink pink champagne on Weds….

oh oh oh oh look its Weds

that makes you a social climbing chav.

🙄

My name is pronouned L haitch S not aitch!

at glasto a few years back one of our posse turned up with a big tescos multipack of pain aux chocolat( which he insisted on calling choc-o-pans)

he was sharing a teeny tent with another guy and theyd way underestimated just how big this tent was for 2 people

it was very funny listening to them go to bed as theyd innevitably fall over each other wasted, kept us entertained
(edit they were both very blonde and got painfully sunburnt on the first day)

anyway after 4 days of this tempers were frayed, hangovers in full effect , and as a (stale) choc-o-pan was offered my other mate just blew up screaming, “theyre called pain-aux-chocolat you **** retard”and threatening to punch him until we had stopped lauging long enough to seperate them

is that middle class, i did say ‘glasto’

i m considering with holding my labour for a day to show my frutration at my 50k pa pension been reduced so poor people can have a bit more

Heh!

I’m potto scum off a council estate in the East End of That London. 😀

I have been educated at public school and university. I am number lawyers, doctors, teachers, artists, company directors and university professors amongst my friends. I enjoy the arts, classical music, architecture and shop at Waitrose. I have dined with High Court Judges and have slept with aristocracy.

I’m still potto scum off a council estate! 😀

have slept with aristocracy.

I must have been rilly, rilly, rilly, rilly rilly, RILLY DRUNK for that to have happened.. 😕

Mrlebowski, earlier:

When Ive finished this blue cake elf you’re for it..

I now have kashima at both ends

Because I do most of the things in this song

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/clips/p0096fwm/mongrels_middle_class_is_magical_song/

I can spot all other kids that are wearing Boden when I’m in the cafe at a National Trust place.

BTW she grew up in and they still live in a 6 bedroom house, even though she’s an only child

2 kids, 7 bedrooms. 3 other houses.
Drive a Land Rover
Own a Barbour
Degree, professional qualifications, company director
My son’s middle name is Maximilian.
52% tax rate
Ride a steel hardtail singlespeed

BUT

Come from Newcastle, have never voted Tory
From a mining family
Grew up in not-so-genteel poverty
Self and siblings the first of our (very extended) family to go to university
No interest in keeping up with the Jones’
Can’t stand conformism
Would rather stick pins in my arm than go to a dinner party
Loathe opera, experimental theatre and ballet
Would quite happily close down Radio 3 tomorrow, sooner if possible

Middle-class? Depends who’s defining, I suppose

Wife’s a teacher, check.
Have a second house in France, check
Work all over Europe for an American company, check
Have niche single speed, check
Own more than two suits and two watches, check.

Must be middle class, although I never feel like it’s that and fifteen years ago I was a single parent on income support earning nothing, as was my current Mrs Pepper. We work very hard to improve our lives for our family and ourselves.

Is there anything wrong with trying to improve our lot?

Posting on here about how middle class you are is just a bit chavvy and an instant fail.

Elfinsafety=social climber of the WORST kind 🙂

You’ll never be one of us, that’s you on the end

I take my fish and chips home (not cod nat.) and put balsamic vinegar on them.

Not just me then. it is good isn’t it!

The aspect of this that really amuses me is the people who claim to be working class still despite being so obviously not – from their job to their spending habits.

My grandmother was sold into service at 14 every one of her ancestors was an illiterate Shropshire peasant. My dad was so poor that he went hungry many times

Me – I’m as middle class as they come

…my tailor just rang….

Very excited, new lightweight suit is ready! For wearing in the tropics, donchaknow.

That’s it, flash, tj and elfin are all on the thread, next three pages will be all about who’s less middle class or not than the others 😉

My grandmother was sold into service at 14 every one of her ancestors was an illiterate Shropshire peasant. My dad was so poor that he went hungry many times

Thats what everybody’s past is like – because thats what the past was like. We’re a very much richer nation than when our grandparents were young.

…because 90% of my wardrobe is from either Howies or John Lewis.

…because i get my fish and chips delivered.

… because I hang out on mountain bike forums

… and start discussions about wimmin’s rights

… and I flounce with the best of them* 😉

* but no flounce can be as good as SurfMat’s

Ox, if it makes you feel any better I grew upon the east end of Glasgow.. G32. The postcode with the lowest life expectancy in Britain apparently!
One reason why I enjoyed living in Edinburgh so much! Can still remember the look of distain when a posh Edinburger type chap called me a weej!

Then I fear that you are not a gentleman sir, for a gentleman doesn’t pee in his own bathing water.

Who’s bath water should one pee in then? – Hurry up I’m bursting!

i’m posting this on a mobile device whilst having a shwank.

I buy all my fresh food from the local, consumer owned organic co-operative and rarely buy anything grown outside the UK (except bananas – I just have to have bananas).

I go to a coffee shop where I simply say “a [country of origin of beans]” and they know exactly what I want.

I live above a Steiner Kindergarten.

My parents run a second hand bookshop in an attractive Cotswold market town.

…. I’m starting to think it’ time I got run over by an Audi – I hope I’m not really that irritating.

pain aux chocolat( which he insisted on calling choc-o-pans)

Choc-o-pans is a great name. Must use that from now on.

TandemJeremy – Member

My grandmother was sold into service at 14

One of my Great Great Uncles was sent to Australia for stealing. Do I win?

I think the ability to wear corduroy is a reasonably accurate signal of middle classness.

I thought I was quite middle class until I returned to Mountain Biking about 10 years ago and was offered lip balm on my first group ride.

… because I hang out on mountain bike forums

… and start discussions about wimmin’s rights

… and I flounce with the best of them*

Yay! Welcome back Sue! 🙂

Forum’s a better place with you.

Besides, you’re proper classy, innit? 😉 😀