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I spend idle time at work scoffing at models in stock image libraries who clearly have no clue about the scenario they’re supposed to be enacting or the objects they’re posing with.
@tj - are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
my children take the piss out of me as when we eat out they don't have left-handed pastry forks like I have in the house...
I'm struggling to get harrisa seasoning.
Today's middle class problem is that my new massive TV has been damaged in transit and now I have the faff of getting it all back in the box, and the courier has to collect a 2m X 1m 50 kilo box and carry it back down 2 flights of stairs. I was really looking forward to watching the new Avatar movie on it this weekend 😕
are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
When its second hand and mismatched?
I’m struggling to get harrisa seasoning.
Just the opposite here, we bought way too much when visiting Carthage for some winter sun.
are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
When its second hand and mismatched?
It was popular as wedding gifts when my parents got married - late 60s - so we grew up in a working class house, with that sort of cutlery, including fish knives and all sorts of pointlessness.
are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
Depends if the set also has fish knives ....
Oh the shame
Today’s middle class problem is that my new massive TV....
Errr 🤔🤫🤐
Anyone have any solid definitions of what is Working or Middle Class? I did an assessment at work (civil service) for social mobility and it turns out my dad is working class, i was raised lower middle class but I am now middle class (in my 50s). The criteria weighting / algorithms were hidden so i have no idea whats driving all this. Can you swap classes???
Oh i have fish knives as well including a serving set.
No cake forks tho.
Not only do you not own pizza oven, you but frozen pizza from a chain.
Get out!
But he bisected it.
Get back in!
No cake forks tho.
Peasant.
When its second hand and mismatched?
I think you mean "vintage" "collectable" "antique" or "retro-chic"
Oh i have fish knives as well
Peasant!
Anyone have any solid definitions of what is Working or Middle Class?
How many types of pasta are in your cupboard? Do you know how to make a decent couscous? Is your recycling bag full of Carling tins, or worse, dark fruit cider? Is your lunch a Greggs, or worse, a McDonalds?
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tj - when you buy the cake forks, don't forget the accompanying cake slice.
Sterling silver is preferred to plated; stainless steel is just infra dig.
I do have a silver gravy boat as well
Now then, sugar tongs..... obviously made for sugar cubes, so maybe not a middle class item of cutlery....discuss.... anyway mine are epns and the plating is shot. Bummer.
Also, a real middle class problem of mine is my sourdough starter becoming uncontrollable in the warmer weather......
We had the dilemma a couple of Christmases ago when mrsmidlife was gifted a new monogrammed cranberry ladle and we couldn't decide whether to store it with the "club" or "factory" cutlery sets. The former being a gift to an expired relative from their friends at the country club and the latter from adoring workers of their factory to a different ancient relative.
Club:
Factory:
And don't talk to me about sodding fish forks, every downstairs cupboard seems to have a different set.
I do have a silver gravy boat as well
My wife tends to grumble about my not using a gravy boat occasionally, especially for Xmas dinner. ( I do pretty much all of the cooking at home.) It's because I like a plate swimming in gravy, with maybe enough for some bread and gravy at the end. This betrays my roots. Posh people seem to like a pointlessly small dribble of gravy, and also call it something different, like jus or reduction. 😀
The only "echt" silver cutlery I have is a spoon and fork which were gifts from Germany when I was born (it was a tradition to send "grown-up" cutlery for when it's needed). It doesn't get used, just gets the occasional wipe with the silver polishing cloth when I'm doing the keywork on my oboe.
Booths ≠ Waitrose
Correct. Booths is superior and I would use it in preference to my local Waitrose if it was a bit nearer.
Oh and yes, the crux of the biscuit IS the apostrophe.
Thanks @Scapegoat for the explanation of the genitive. I now understand the use of slightly odd tune and song titles in Elizabethan times, e.g. "My Lord Chamberlain, His Galliard".
My wife tells me off for waking her up in the morning. All I do is get out of bed as quiet as I can. She basically had a go at me for being alive.
you should ask her to sleep in the guest suit.
as for middle-class problems; why don’t we get a tax break on school fees?
why don’t we get a tax break on school fees?
because the school hoovers up all the available subsidy due to its charitable status ?
...trying to decide what cryptocurrency to buy.
My wife tends to grumble about my not using a gravy boat occasionally, especially for Xmas dinner. ( I do pretty much all of the cooking at home.) It’s because I like a plate swimming in gravy, with maybe enough for some bread and gravy at the end. This betrays my roots. Posh people seem to like a pointlessly small dribble of gravy, and also call it something different, like jus or reduction. 😀
We've two gravy boats in the best china, both hold at least a pint - just how much gravy do you need? 😉
mrsmidlife was gifted a new monogrammed cranberry ladle
What?
Once of my colleagues is currently on slack bemoaning the fact he can only cook 2 burgers at once in his crepe pan 🤷♂️
Mine is the reverse snobbery from people of lower socio-economic backgrounds.
why don’t we get a tax break on school fees?
Eh.... "you" do. As above post
I won't have enough freezer space for my geese until my oak framed barn is complete, and I'm struggling to complete that because getting 20 tonnes of concrete mix down my single track road is apparently too challenging.
But on the other hand (and looking at the above), despite being childless I'm paying for everyone's kids to get educated, so there's that 😉
my new massive TV
Massive TVs are not middle class.
Q. What's that box under the satellite dish called?
A. A council house
Why is it always TVs?
Aside from a few outliers who are likely the same ones who boast about how they "don't do social media" on social media, every house has a television these days. It's not the 1950s anymore.
For many, a nice telly might be the only luxury they have.
I do love a gravy boat. There’s something reassuring about them
I’ve been using ours again since the pub at the bottom of the road added to their usual truffle oil and Parmesan chips with a peppercorn chips option. It’s chips just covered in peppercorn sauce and they are absolutely bloody lovely, so we’ve been recreating them at home
I’m now confused as to whether this menu change represents a downward departure from their/our very middle class menu
It’s a culinary minefield, I tell you!
Mind you… I do take solace in the fact that the Guardian food supplement absolutely baffles me, as I’ve never heard of half the ingredients and they’ve yet to print a single recipe I’d ever actually want to eat
We’ve two gravy boats in the best china, both hold at least a pint – just how much gravy do you need? 😉
There are 5 of us eating adult sized portions - or at least teenaged sized portions, which are significantly larger than the moon, of course - so by my maths we need 5 gravy boats. At least.
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once the revolution comes 🙂
It's not coming, otherwise it would be here already.
Now then, sugar tongs
Read that as Jiminy Seville while thinking its TJs new nick name.
Massive TVs are not middle class.
isn’t it relative to the size of the room and the function of room itself?
i wouldn’t put one in a reception room. in my opinion they are fine in the family room, but only if the room is large enough.
i wouldn’t put one in a reception room.
Is this a room to hold receptions, or a room for receiving visitors? I need to know so that I can change the decor of my drawing room. Presumably, the former might need a decent sound system whereas the latter may need a hat and umbrella stand and a tray to leave cards on.
Is this a room to hold receptions, or a room for receiving visitors?
a room for receiving visitors. dining room, drawing room, that sort of thing.
isn’t it relative to the size of the room and the function of room itself?
Doesn’t it come down to what you watch on it? Newsnight or Soccer AM?
And whether you’re watching while sipping a nice Pinot noir or a can of Carling and 20 B&H?
Had a g/f whose parents had a small TV partially hidden by a piano - that was posh.
My wife keeps buying Ninja air fryers - 4 bought in the last year.
It’s not coming, otherwise it would be here already.
We're biding our time....just you wait until we hack the Ooni website and get a list of owners.......🙂
My wife keeps buying Ninja air fryers – 4 bought in the last year.
are they unreliable?
Doesn’t it come down to what you watch on it? Newsnight or Soccer AM?
And whether you’re watching while sipping a nice Pinot noir or a can of Carling and 20 B&H?
surely you aren’t suggesting that i’d drink red wine before noon?
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are you sure that silver cutlery with bone handles is just middle class?
The "middle class" goes quite high up. My dad's family seem to have been proper upper middle class until about 3-4 generations ago. They seem to have been landed gentry but as they weren't part of the nobility they were still not actually upper class.
Forgot to charge the EV before a long journey the other day so had to take our other car which only has normal cruise control not adaptive cruise.
That fish & chip shop above is probably own by Dave Chip and Brenda Fishe.
Maybe
... trying to decide where to compromise when spending a million on the next house
a room for receiving visitors. dining room, drawing room, that sort of thing.
One does not receive visitors in a drawing room. A drawing room is where one withdraws into once visitors have been received.
Now that people are no longer taught to dance, I wonder if one could perhaps put a large television in the ballroom?
One does not receive visitors in a drawing room. A drawing room is where one withdraws into once visitors have been received.
quite, but compromise is a reality for a lot of us these days.
The wife's cast-iron blini pan is tarnished and frankly unsightly.
One does not receive visitors in a drawing room. A drawing room is where one withdraws into once visitors have been received
If one withdraws into one’s drawing room then where does one do one’s drawing?
In one’s studio, one presumes?
I'm getting the strong suspicion that several posters here played truant when they really ought to have been attending finishing school.
- My wife keeps buying Ninja air fryers – 4 bought in the last year.
are they unreliable?
Wives or the air fryers? She changes her mind on what one she wants - so not that reliable really.
If one withdraws into one’s drawing room then where does one do one’s drawing?
parisian garret.
i’m beginning to wonder if the people on here are actually
middle class!
Wives or the air fryers?
sorry for the confusion. air fryers. but thanks for the answer.
– My wife keeps buying Ninja air fryers – 4 bought in the last year.
What do you expect? They're ninjas.
A 'drawing room isn't for receiving visitors, it's for taking them to after the meal hence the name
Edit: soz, replied to page 3 😔
What’s my library for then?
Taking liberties
I'm beginning to suspect many of you are not really middleclass after all
A ‘drawing room isn’t for receiving visitors, it’s for taking them to after the meal hence the name
receive, whilst meaning “meet” has the additional meaning of “being visited by”.
a drawing room is the modern version of the 16th Century withdrawing chamber.
I’m beginning to suspect many of you are not really middleclass after all
lumpenproletariat?
lumpenproletariat?
snobbery is unbecoming.
Not being able to choose the best credit card to give me free lounge access at airports...
I actually wanted to ask that on here but thought I'd get slaughtered.
The middleclass in our road hate the fact only us builders can afford to buy the houses now up for sale. "There's a VW on the path next door and it's not a full camper conversion, it's a builders van 😱"
The only houses with bollards on our street are the three with VW vans on them...
We had the parquet floor in our house resanded and treated recently. It's come up absolutely beautiful but now we have to put yoga mats everywhere if someone visits with their dog 😞
Ride on mower needs a new carb, and the ornamental ducks keep escaping and eating my pak choi.
The stream is overgrown so the view from our veranda is obscured.
also think I should have got the larger Ooni.
Actually my son is probably the most middle class in the house, he just told me we should have got an Etron GT, because 'everyone' has an Etron now.
We have run out of money to develop the Airbnb in the east wing, so it looks like we'll only be able to afford to holiday on the yacht this year.
The mechanic who I’ve dropped my bike into to replace the rear hub bearings can’t do it because he’s broken his vice trying to remove the lock ring.
both hold at least a pint – just how much gravy do you need?
That would be just enough for my daughter alone.
That the poor don't recycle. Heathens.
My vicar was just moaning....
That the poor don’t recycle Heathens.
you should ask her to sleep in the guest suit.
Now that’s proper posh. When you have a special suit just for the guests to wear!
I just replced the lenses in one of my sets of oakley sunnies for polarised ones, and now I have to have my phone in portrait rather than landscape in the window holder in my #vanlife family bus*
Not middle class enough, you need a phone with an OLED screen. Then polarised lenses work just fine.
And @nickewen this is why pilots wear regular lenses and not polarised.
When we moved into our 2 reception roomed house, my mother said 'is this the morning room?'.
Hubby always said I was posh as I won't eat 'in the street (not even a pie)'. A throwback from my prim and proper upbringing.
I also refuse to have a telly in the bedroom.