[Closed] I am not middle class

Well my only one is a Dyson (about 20 years old), and I'm definitely middle class. I presume those I have no idea what they are I probably don't own.

What that list really is is a list of things aspirational Londoners think they should own, and TBH Mr Hanson is talking a load of bollocks when he suggests that middle class people love their possessions and keeping up with neighbours. Well I do love my possessions, but I own things most people don't.

Nah I'm the same, Mrs reminded me we own a few vinyl records, but they belonged to her Mum and I've never seen them.

Nope, no 'middles' for me:

Middle of the Road
Middle Aged
Middle Class
Middle England

No thanks, as far I'm concerned they're all a state of mind and not one I fancy having myself.

I used to think SMEG fridges were cool until I saw the size of them, they are tiny! And then I saw the price, why would you spend so much on so little?

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As someone once remarked

flashy, tj and fred 😆

I am unashamedly middle class though that survey suggested otherwise.

I do own a spiralizer though.

But a [s]SEX POND[/s] hot tub?

What class of people read the telegraph?

[quote=lunge ]I do own a spiralizer though.

On the list of things I didn't know what they were - clearly you're rather more MC than me.

[quote=fasthaggis ]What class of people read the telegraph?

Aspirational, keeping up with the neighbours, possession loving Londoners mainly

i only own one of those things, but i do consider myself middle class. LMC perhaps, but still.

it's a funny old thing. IME most of the people who loudly deny that they are middle class, are definitely middle class.

2 for me, I don't even know what a spiralizer is.
Not going to google it either, I don't want to know 😆

I loathe these 'Class Lists'!

My family is Middle/Upper class on my dad's side, all doctors, solicitors, academics etc whereas my mum's side is Jeremy Kyle fodder so me and my sister are a right mix of the two. We were brought up in a middle class way but on a working class budget so we have grounded values and no real desire for 'Keeping up with the Jones'' as it were. My mum still finds it strange how, on the xmas runaround the family, I can flick from conversing with a Doctor one minute to arsing about with a factory bod the next. This is why I find the best way to judge someone is as who they are, not what class they are.

3/16. But I thought of myself as middle-class, based on using STW and having a bike.

Now I know that I'm a pleb, all is clear.

I've got 6 of those things. Good score at the weekend. Couldn't get the aga in the transit though.

Solidly Middle Class apparently, although I think most of the thing on there are proper tacky.

I mean a a spiralizer? My mom had a Rap2 in the late 80s she's definitely not middle class.

2/16 and one of those is because I have my vinyl records from when I was a teenager.

Clickbait.

What class of people read the telegraph?

I can't think of anything on this list that I feel I should have in my life. And I can't see the attraction of wanting to be middle class.

sounds as if you are sorted then c'pn

(avoid MTB: they are horribly middle class)

7 here - no way a hot tub should be on the list. Very low rent, in my opinion.

I own a Barbecue, but couldn't give a toss whether I am or anyone else is working, middle or upper class. Bunch of Arse!!

I have to admit I love spiralized veg as opposed to pasta

I can't think of anything on this list that I feel I should have in my life.

Article based on comments by William Hanson - that explains everything - Mr Smug, I know everything and will ensure everyone knows it; pompous and pretentious.
Other than that I'm sure he's a lovely bloke and his mother probably loves him.....................

flashy, tj and fred

Its very much an American definition of class, based on income and possessions.

I own a Barbecue, but couldn't give a toss whether I am or anyone else is working, middle or upper class. Bunch of Arse!!

You know it's a joke, don't you?

The class system? Yes!!

4/16 - blimey not middle class who would have thought it. Maybe that's because I read the Guardian not the Telegraph!

clickbait clearly got clicked for a fair few then.

I thought a hot tub was the very definition of chav dun good.

I don't even know what a spiralizer is.
Not going to google it either, I don't want to know

I'm with you but know at some point soon I will weaken and google - can't bear having know unknowns.

Theres only one thing on that list that I own. And I don't really understand how this, along with the accompanying crate of Stella has somehow raised my social standing...

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Its very much an American definition of class, based on income and possessions.

Ah, that would explain it - is that where Mr Hanson is from that he doesn't understand British class? I'm almost tempted to think there's actually an inverse relationship between keeping up with the neighbours and real class.

@convert - it's the unknown unknowns you need to really worry about.

You're fine binners, even Mr Hanson doesn't think you can buy class in a petrol station

I got a 3. Which is odd as I am the epitome of white middle class!

True aracer. Mrs Binners said exactly that about the birthday flowers I picked up on the way back home after the pubs had shut.

True aracer. Mrs Binners said exactly that about the birthday flowers I picked up on the way back home after the pubs had shut.

Buying class or ass? Petrol station flowers are not great for the latter. It won't be class ass at any rate.

I did offer to share my kebab.

One item owned......wood burner technically a multi fuel burner so may be none,.......

I blame Cameron for chaving up the middle classes

Arse I scored 8 and yet i could not care less about keeping up with the neighbours and the bike is worth far more than my car.

I blame Cameron for chaving up the middle classes

3 items for me but I'd like to apply for middle class status on sheer weight of numbers of vinyl records 😛

Is that better or worse that Thatcher giving away council houses to confuse people into thinking they're middle class?

Well it's all about social mobility, and that's a good thing, right?

Do the Mark Thomas Middleclass Test. If someone says "manamana", and you respond "do doo do doo doo", you're middle class.

Do the Mark Thomas Middleclass Test. If someone says "manamana", and you respond "do doo do doo doo", you're middle class.

Well it's all about social mobility, and that's a good thing, right?

Good for some, less good for the pooor saps who have huge debts in their quest of keeping up with the Jones-Smythes.

1 - coasters!!! Rather pleased with that. Only got the coasters as my Mum bought them for me for Christmas!!

I've had a solid white middle class upbringing, I even live in London. But 3/16 says otherwise, so I guess I'll be taking a long hard look at myself in the mirror.

Reminded me to get the spiralizer out - courgette and carrots stir fry with prawns, chillies, and wait for it.....tofu!! Delicious.

Got a Brompton but none of the rest.

Vinyl is just SO last century, along with CD's.

How drab.

I had no idea what a spiralizer was.

Which was nice.

Do the Mark Thomas Middleclass Test. If someone says "manamana", and you respond "do doo do doo doo", you're middle class.

What if you respond with this?

Can you even buy TV's that aren't smart now?

Hmm - scored 7/16

Caqn you even buy TV's that aren't smart now?

I should certainly hope so. Smart TV's belong in the last century too now that you can cast from the inrerwebz with your mobile device...

4/10. Didn't think I was middle class, my wheelie skills are too finely honed for that.

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I've got a Roomba, which is better than a Dyson as I don't have to push it.
Roku rather than Smart TV.
Chromebook and PC rather than a Mac.
Eastpak luggage.
Expensive ice cream maker as a kitchen gadget.
Beko fridge.

A debatable 2/10
We have a BBQ in the garage but haven't used it this year and only once last year.
We have 2 sets of coasters in the same room, so I don't count these as matching but the wife does.
Working class and proud.

I refuse a carrier bag for the 4 pack of Stella from the corner shop even though the shopkeeper insists... Is that a reflection on me or the area I live in ? Oh the shame of walking down our street with wife beater under ones arm.

5, which apparently makes me firmly middle class.
Although according to the "How posh are you?", which was linked from the middle class test I'm proper posh like.

Well, I've got a load of vinyl, none of which has been played since 1987, when I bought a CD player.
But that's it, I think.
But then, I was born and brought up working class, my bedroom wall sparkled with frost patterns on winter mornings, we only had one coal fire, in the living room.

Ah, that would explain it - is that where Mr Hanson is from that he doesn't understand British class? I'm almost tempted to think there's actually an inverse relationship between keeping up with the neighbours and real class.

Inbreeding isn't crass?

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I mean look at it, it looks like something from The Walking Dead.

Would be good to believe William Hanson is american - fails to understand what it is to be british etc - but he's from Brizzle......almost a foreign country 😀

All of the etiquette that daddy's money can buy.....

If his surname was Smithers or Smythe or Farquaharson or Urquhart that would add a veneer of credibility.......

Toodle pip chaps; off to leave the spats outside the bedroom door for the butler chappie to steam clean and press them for tomorrow's croquet.

god help us all

To OP; so disappointed that Hanson did not include table felt, Irish linen tablecloth with matching napkins (aka the napery), fish knives with bone handles, finger bowls - if I had more finger energy I would add more items.

One last one - boot scraper embedded in either the wall or flagstone by the front door.

Right; just off to inspect the kitchen maid's starched nightie - but wait.....is that upper class or rude?
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I thought it was only the yobbos with shiny toys what they show off in teh publicz.

These aspirational working class middle class pretenders are defo the worst thou 😆

I only got 1, a BBQ. Which I use regularly.

I am off to Lidl with the bag a (second hand) Rapha Jersey came in to carry my messages home

I scored 9 out of 16 - pretty much Mr average.

I have all my old records (but no record player). We love to cook & eat outside. TV does everything but make toast. Bought a Dyson when they first came out and still happy with it. No interest in an iMac but have an iPad. Will be installing a wood-burner - too much free wood here not to! Obviously the coasters on the dining room table match each other - this isn't a builders cafe ffs.

I was a bit disappointed when our asparagus steamer didn't get a mention. We don't have a spiralizer but we do have a couple of hand graters that do the same job which we paid about 12p for in Saigon.

Just the records for me. But I've had most of them since I was a small boy with a fake Dansette in my bedroom in the infamous Leigh Park council estate.
(Something tells me I didn't need to do the test)

The records thing is stupid - should be has bought some in the last year as many of us have some hiding in the attic somewhere.

I do score low though but I think it's really a nouveau riche thing more than middle class - but then my Dad's ex upper class who are known for not caring about what others think - scruffy jumpers, bashed cars are pretty normal. My Gran's always had an aga though - I hate it as a pain to cook things with.

Hang on, this is the UK, there is only one answer to this.

If one has inherited it, then one is of class, as the alternative is buying it, and that's just 'entre-nous' a little gauche..,no?