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

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?

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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 😉

have a subscription to the Saturday Guardian and the Observer - check

but we all devour the mother-in-law's Daily Mirror when she comes round on a Thursday to help out - check 😳

ourmaninthenorth - Member

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

Go to a cattle market and tell me the % of hunter wellies you see.

christ were any of you at a party my gf's dad threw a few months back by any chance? The normally closed garage door was open, and of course, he 'just happened' to be washing his Aston Martin. 😆

emsz your gf is the female version of Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Funny how things change over the years. When I was younger, I always thought that middle class was:-

Flying with British Airways, even economy class
Holidaying in France, especially in the Dordogne
Listening to the shipping forecast and understanding it
Speaking French
Having more than 1 car on the drive, even having a house with a drive
Living in Cheshire.

Ah well, I am what I am, 2 and a half out of 5 ain't bad

[i]emsz your gf is the female version of Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.[/i]

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Because his Dad owns a flash car..? 🙂

didn't get the reference molly, what are you talking about?

A film called Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Something of a cult 80s film, worth watching if you find it 🙂

@bunny hop - Cromer, I owe you an email about those other curtains!

@the brick - ref was to agile being preferred by farmers (tho actually they just wear cheap wellies). Hunters are for people like me. Grew up near Banbury, which used to have Europe's largest cattle market. They all wore leather shoes, shirts and ties.

Has anyone had this one yet?

I have a Jamie Oliver app on my iPad. 😳

this thread makes me feel quite out of place on STW 😳

oh well, still young 🙂

molgrips - Member
emsz your gf is the female version of Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

emsz - Member
didn't get the reference molly, what are you talking about?

roflcopters -think thats called a generation gap Molly, try substituting the phrase "Something of a cult 80s film" for "before you were born". 😆

During the war we had to make our own entertainment didn't we Molly, especially as they switched the internet off at 9pm every night and we'd have to stand while they played an 8-bit monophonic national anthem.

I am amazed at some of the dinkle-waving going on in this thread. Quite unpleasant actually - some really materialistic grabbers if their posts are to be believed. Being a materialistic grabber is not excused because you 'came from working class stock' - it is still nasty and rather tawdry.

I think it's your horse that's tootall, tootall.

I de-iced my drive last year with sea salt from the cupboard rather than that tosh you get out the gravel bins. Only the best for my driveway..

It's funny how many people fall within the definition of middle class, I don't even like the idea of classes. There is those that work hard, there is those that don't. There is those that got lucky, there is those that have nothing but bad luck. Classes mean absolutely nothing when defining a person.

The thought of 'keeping up with the jones' or 'dinner parties' fills me with hate. Sooner be out on the bike, or enjoying some quality time with my girlfriend.

Being a [s]materialistic grabber[/s]chippy working class warrior while you're sitting in front of your shiny new £2k laptop, with your £4k bike in your shed is not excused because you '[s]came from working class stock[/s]are trying to disguise the fact that you're really rather middle class' - it is still nasty and rather tawdry.

FTFY.

🙂

Never bought a lottery ticket
Never watched a single episode of a soap
Radio 4 to wake up and go to sleep, Radio 2 in the Volvo
Black Lab
Several expensive suits I'm too fat for
Wife is a teacher
Orange 5 pro with extras
Winter road bike
Summer road bike
Wood shed and bike shed
'run-around' yellow fiat
Small TV
Boys' school but hated it

I am amazed at some of the dinkle-waving going on in this thread. Quite unpleasant actually

Ah, the old class struggle rears its neighing head once more.

Or, in other words: I don't think you're getting the joke.

i've used "rather tawdry" in a conversation, that definitely counts as middle class with aspirations.

I'm beginning to think that Marx chap was on to something 🙄