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

matthewjb .

"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?

Depends what he stole -but so far you appear to be on to a winner

I was busy having a fine laugh at this thread when my wife ran in and said "I just have to phone Virginie dear as I forgot to pick up the amaryllis". I may need to kill myself now

And welcome back Sue from your flouncette

Welcome back Sue. 🙂

Depends what he stole

the goods of Viscount Andover

Splendid work.

Just disqualified yourself for a middleclass theft. Now it had been a loaf of bread.........

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.

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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!

The bleedin' serfs you bally fool.

I am considerably richer than yow

"I'm still potto scum off a council estate! "

No! You're just a bit of a ****er really!

Welcome back SueW 🙂

Well I have a 1st degree and have a good, technical job to which I'm quite committed, but completely lack personal ambition, and am a bit of a spendthrift, don't own a home etc.

I'm in the jumped-up working class class.

No! You're just a bit of a **** really!

That as well, my friend; for I am many things, to many people...

Ate in Rick Steins seafood restaurant in Padstow. Thought it was babber. The wife nicked a fanny rag bag out of the toilets though, but it hardly made up for the ridiculous bill.

and have slept with aristocracy

Elf, you know that song 'Common People' by Pulp.. that's about you isn't it?

How many middle class points do I earn for owning a Prius?

It cooduv bin, Mol, it cooduv bin..

I was at a proper middle-class uni when that song came out, and it was so true. Most of the kids there were seeing the seedy, grotty underbelly of a big city for the first time, and just had no idea of how life was for so many people here. Same in all big city unis I spose.

Twas fun...

because my biggest problem is CRC not delivering next day.

And where did you first see the grotty seedy underbelly, Elf?

...and I get all my opinions from the Guardian

Work for the council, live in chorlton, ride a bike, read the guardian/socialist worker, vegetarian, eat haloumi cheese, real ale, travel rather than holiday.

My credit card has Dr on it.

I don't get over-excited about claiming the 100th post on a thread.

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

That's 'cos his flounce was AWESOME

[i]* but no flounce can be as good as SurfMat's [/i]

Has he flounced from here too? His BikeRadar flouncing was a thing of beauty as well.

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

First time I ever had Balsamic stuff on chips was in your kitchen, always have it now. 😛

I own an electric toothbrush and have a copy of ProCycling as reading material in the loo.

Comparing a pathetic one week flounce with SurfMats, disgraceful.

Yours outraged,

From the South

I actually missed Surfmats flounce. Though I note it is talked about in hushed reverential tones, due to its awesomeness. Is there a link to it?

And on the middle class front... I got my breakfast from Greggs. Does this make me underclass? Or below that even?

[i]And on the middle class front... I got my breakfast from Greggs. Does this make me underclass? Or below that even? [/i]
Scum. Subhuman scum.

[i]ProCycling as reading material in the loo[/i]

Rouleur, surely for the Rapha wearing classes?

Rouleur for the coffee table dontchaknow.

And on the middle class front... I got my breakfast from Greggs. Does this make me underclass? Or below that even?

No - makes you ultra middle class if you are doing it ironically. I hear their coffee is actually rather good.

If you have your food delivered by Occado you're a middle-class t*ss*r.

... because I'm a terrible social climber. I used to drink just coffee and in the 80s it had to be Gold Blend. But that's just so last century or millennium even. I'm nothing without my frappuccino, skinny latte or iced caramel macchiato. And young Anselm is off to Gordonstoun next year. And I never use the word you, when one can use the word one.

[i]If you have your food delivered by Occado you're a middle-class t*ss*r.[/i]

Quite right. We've switched to Waitrose now.

i'm just eating my lunch that i bought from Betty's.

Who's Betty?

Betty's Tea Room in Ilkley, Alan Bennett shops there when he's in town.

I also recognise Alan Bennett when i see him, extra point i think.

Ilkley, as in Yorkshire?
'middle class' and 'Yorkshire' are surely mutually exclusive.

I hear their coffee is actually rather good.

Lol.. I suspect if you went in there and asked for a 'long black' your response would be a s**** and they'd ask 'a long black what?'

'middle class' and 'Yorkshire' are surely mutually exclusive

AndyP - been to Harrogate? It's where STW's own king of the middle class dilemma lives - MF.

Hora famously, despite being from Yorkshire, didn't know who Alan Bennett was. Alan was gutted apparently

What you having for lunch then chutney?

And regarding Greggs, there was no irony involved. And the coffee was good. As is Macdonalds coffee. Apparently. So I've heard anyway

Been through it. Eew.

I thought Harrogate was lovely in a middle class way.

It's lovely in a 'it's still Yorkshire, so lock the car doors and get out of there as soon as possible' way 😉

Chicken and bacon club sandwich on a yorkshire cobble, a sausage roll, and a fruit flan.

Ilkley, as in Yorkshire?
'middle class' and 'Yorkshire' are surely mutually exclusive.

Exactly,

I was discussing this at ones Polo club a week last friday, I think we need to put a cap on the lower "middle class" and god forbid the the "working class" moving into North Yorkshire.

I already employ a few to clean ones stables, what else can they do??

It's lovely in a 'it's still Yorkshire, so lock the car doors and get out of there as soon as possible' way

Darling, Please don't mix up South and West Yorkshire with North Yorkshire.

Sorry. Is it a 'number of extra toes' thing?

I had a colonic irrigation in Harrogate.

And where did you first see the grotty seedy underbelly, Elf?

Probbly the first time my mum took me out in my pram when I was a [i]tiny baby[/i].

My first act of agression was again in my pram, when I apparently scowled and clenched my little fist at someone looking into the pram and gurgling at me. Never had any time for idiots. 😆

It mightuv bin wind, mind. There's always that possibility...

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!

MrsBouys familiy own a farm in Harrogate. I goes there regularlylike, it's excellent for bikeridin..chillin, eating.. So do I have a "place in the country" that I can claim too, considering I have a place on the coast and a place in That London.. What does that make me now, tosser excepted.
I've seen more "non" offroad 4x4 bores there than in Than London, so too them there masser sportscars and, really, Audi's so common you'd think there was a discount store selling them.
Met a decent set of walker types in the Bell t'other week, on a bit of a get together they were, nicest bunch of lads one could ever meet.. FWiW

Don't go to Bettys though, go out to Harlow Carr Gardens where the crowds are far more gentele and not so pushy.

I hear their coffee is actually rather good.
Lol.. I suspect if you went in there and asked for a 'long black' your response would be a s**** and they'd ask 'a long black what?'

No its just coffee, in a 'coffee top trumps is so last year' kind of way.

[i]Durham University - check[/i]
The University of Durham, I think you'll find.

Pretty sure their rowing team was DUBC

Yes, DU http://www.dur.ac.uk/

How times change. Sad to see one's alma mater downgrading.

Currently wearing brogues and a knitted tie - check
Ridiculous floppy haircut - check
In a choir - check
Works in the media AND for a charity - check

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