[Closed] Right you tools lets have a Middle Class-off!!!!!!

I'm often extremely put out when my local (Harrogate) waitrose has run out of the salmon sushi that I'm quite fond of. They only had a (cooked) tuna equivalent.

I've spoken with the staff (of waitrose, not my own) about this, but things have yet to improve.

I'm going yachting in Greece next week, yaaaah!

The choice of wine in airport lounges shows that such places are no longer the preserve of the middle class.

I have two kinds of capers and both are organic

The choice of wine in airport lounges shows that such places are no longer the preserve of the middle class.

That, and that they allow people who aren't old enough to drink it in, especially the ones who are too young to understand the 'seen and not heard' rule (even when it is explained to them) is a particular gripe of mine

I was shocked when I saw they let people wearing onsies into the lounge.
Thankfully today when I went to my local very middle class grocer they still had the bread I like, sometimes you have to settle for something in a packet.

You lost middle class status at "warantee".

We have just returned from our very middle class annual week in Cornwall. Among the usual activities, I paid a young man to give my children private surfing lessons while I sat in a cafe overlooking the beach drinking flat white coffees and occasionally peering at them through my monocular. I was disappointed when the car park attendant said he would have to put my T5 in the upper car park, because no one would see it there, would they?

Just back from buying wine in the Piedmont. Didnt make it to Tuscany though.

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Pah, amateurs you lot. We have guests this weekend so I had to ask the cleaner to prepare the guest room. A car will be sent to Heathrow to pick up said guest then we are off to hawksmoor for a slap up meal.

I shuddered at the use of the raucous phrase 'Right you tools' and subsequent mis-spelling of 'warranty'.

I take issue with my colleagues for their constant missuse of the word "literally" in normal speech.I have also put croutons and sun dried tomato and olive faccacia out on my bird table (but that was only because the household staff we're not there that day to do it)

"lets have a Middle Class-off"

I'd rather not if its the same to you.

I got very very excited when I discovered the carre foure in Moutier has a freshly made sushi counter with people of Japanese origin actually making the sushi. How come they get yummy fresh sushi in the mountains miles from the sea but on the south coast of England our supermarkets offering is confined to cooked tuna or smoked salmon. I'm properly upset by this injustice.

Yes, but is it organic sushi?

Far too many exclamation marks in the thread title too. Any more than one is definitely the preserve of the working class.

sometimes you have to settle for something in a packet

The thread title is also lacking an apostrophe.

I'm a bit upset that the cage in my asparagus steamer is going rusty.

I had a lovely evening out last night with a couple (a lawyer and an accountant), we had, amoungst other things, dessert wine. whilst with them we organised the next night it, it'll be a Port and cheese night, there will be a minimum of 4 different Ports.

I live in Godalming.

Middle Class?

You're all coming across a [s]touch[/s] soupçon "nouveau riche" for my liking.

@ twisty, it's called juxtaposition, we covered in a creative writing retreat in Tuscany.*

*this may not be true.

The thread title is also lacking an apostrophe.

I paid twice as much for recycled vintage floorboards as the equivalent new ones were.

I have to cycle to my artisan bakers and the local greengrocers for my weekly organic produce.

you need a "little man" to do that for you so you can have some me time at pet yoga

Off to the opera tonight and tomorrow night with accompanying garden party. Dj ready to go. Yacht racing tomorrow morning..

There are people who actually buy that chilled sushi?

Thursday morning for me was organic muesli and single estate coffee breakfast, then off to my morning yoga class which was followed by a pot of loose leaf Earl Grey tea before I nipped off to the theatre to collect tickets for the ballet.

Yesterday I had to go to work because there was a problem with this week's trust fund payment.

It's this kind of nonsense threads that help me keep the petty and repetitive arguments on here in their proper perspective. 😀

(Just back from a week in a gite in Normandy, as my token effort)

My recent rapha delivery was so large I simply don't have the time to try it all on.

I have 2 dog walkers

This is all rather distasteful, very arriviste. But I guess that's the lower classes for you!

I hate it when the port is passed the wrong way after dinner

I've just bought a Gabbeh rug; they're made by nomads, which is nice.

I can't repress my hate for scum who [url= http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=HKLP ]HKLP[/url].

I'm wearing a woollen jumper in Salcombe.

You can tell which class you are by where you keep the Tomato Ketchup.

Keep it in the cupboard next to the teabags? - working class

Keep it in the fridge as per the instructions on the bottle? - middle class

No idea where Cook keeps the pickles, chutneys and preserves? - upper class

Had to ask the nanny to come into work this morning (her day off) as my wife and I were so hungover as to be fit for nothing. At some point last night, I believe the conversation turned to increases in school fees this year.

@perchy - it's tomato sauce, not ketchup!

@perchy - it's tomato sauce, not ketchup!

Tommy K innit!

No matter what you call it, it's still the definitive condiment of the lower classes.

Just back from Umbria after sorting the purchase of a house and 5 acres, then france next week to buy another two.
Stick that in your Ser Jacobo Gem and smoke it (Samuel Gawith obviously)

I was a tad concerned that my online-ordered specialist after-shave balm had not yet arrived as I was down to my last dab...

Relieved that my local bakery service had kept up a decent stock of stone-baked baguette for my Yeo Valley butter and St. Dalfour "Rhapsodie de Fruit"-spread munch with Columbian "Quincha" ground coffee.

No, really...

Looks down at the middle classes with amusement.

it's tomato sauce, not ketchup!

Went to private school, Yup.
Owns a small property in France, (20 rooms), yup
Drives out to lunch on Ile de Re, in our battered Renault 4 leaving the good car hiding in the barn.

One is trying.

I live in Godalming.

Which hill?

PePPeR - Member
Went to private school, Yup.
Owns a small property in France, (20 rooms), yup
Drives out to lunch on Ile de Re, in our battered Renault 4 leaving the good car hiding in the barn.

One is trying.

You can't quote the pigsty's as rooms.

I got very very excited when I discovered the carre foure in Moutier has a freshly made sushi counter

Do you mean Carrefour in Moûtiers?

Tsk, standards are slipping on here.

I'm having hot dogs and chips for tea. What do I win?

Oh, that reminds me, I'm out of ketchup.

Heinz though, I'm not an animal.

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I'm off glamping next week. Proper beds and a nespresso machine awaits us.

We did'nt go to the place at the beach this weekend, stayed at home. Luckily the maid is cleaning up the house, the nanny is entertaining the kids and the gardener is working away at making the place look half presentable.

Booked a table at a michelin starred restaurant for our glamping trip in a couple of weeks.

I prefer Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons to La Gavroche.

No, really...

Woppit, we have seen the inside of your flat, i wouldn’t call that middle class 😀

unless its just a rental property disposal then i do apologise 😳

Does anyone get out of the bath for a wee?

That's proper middle class.

No, but I do insist Wilkins fishes out my Mersey Trouts before the water changes colour.

The Hop shop in Oxted had run out of Gluten free stout!,

I nearly went " falling down"

The croquet lawn in our Puglian villa was overgrown and had not been weeded. The owners were informed.

I can't repress my hate for scum who HKLP.

I've genuinely been silently seething at the chap I'm on holiday with who does that. Hold it properly!!! And breathe...

return ticket to middle-classville:

a week ago I ordered small a pot of Farrow & Ball paint. Posh, me.

it arrived and the sticker on the front was grey. The wrong colour!

Went to the shop today to exchange it, and they politely explained that the sticker is not representative the colour of the paint. All their paint tins have a grey sticker. Sigh...

i raise your hot dogs cougar and suggest that i may actually be having cat......

im in angola - and the cats from the base have steadily been dissapearing -and the stew is chewy.

I've just got back from my daily waitrose shop, wearing my hunters as I had just walked my two labs back from the stable.

tom200 - Member
I had just walked my two lads back from the stable.

You're supposed to use them as a toast rack not slippers.

MrSmith - Member
No, really...
Woppit, we have seen the inside of your flat, i wouldn’t call that middle class

I can aspire, damnit.

Does anyone get out of the bath for a wee?

That's proper middle class.

Of course not.

The loo's not far, I can just about reach if I'm careful with my aim.

i raise your hot dogs cougar and suggest that i may actually be having cat......

im in angola - and the cats from the base have steadily been dissapearing -and the stew is chewy.

Reminds me the last time we went out for a Curry in Nairobi; on seeing the menu with "Rogan Josh (or whatever derivative it was) listed with Chicken, Beef or Lamb" I commented to the waiter that I hadn't seen many Cows, to which he replied 'Goat', I then mentioned that I hadn't seen many sheep, to which he also replied 'Goat'. So basically it was Goat curry, no matter what you ordered.

Hunter wellies are normally worn by chavs driving white Range Rovers on finance

Having had to endure two cold hours dodging raindrops this morning watching eldest son attempt to play soccer, I was heard to comment that it was a shame our nanny didn't work weekends.

This is a dreadful thread with regretful grammar. Therefore I shall have not part of it. (Returns to my bottle of 2007 Clos des Menuts for comfort).

we are off to hawksmoor for a slap up meal.

Had a lovely lunch there 3 weeks ago before going to watch Muford and Sons.
Also had cocktails at the Harvey Nichols gin bar as well. Then Bought Sonos from Harrods and had it parcelled home.
Spent today at the Wild Beer Company 'festival' where I drank more craft ale then should be possible.

Oh, and came home (in the new SUV) to see how the builders were doing with my extension. Tomorrow morning I'm off for breakfast at Babbington Hiuse.

I'm not sure if I'm middle class or simply a prick.

I'm trying to put my working class roots behind me and become middle class.

We don't keep coal in the bath anymore. We now keep it in the jacuzzi.
The whippet sleeps in a dog bed made by Vivienne Westwood.
We're having tripe for tea, but it comes from a small family farm in Tuscanny.
We were going to call our daughter 'Chardonnay' but we decided that 'Pouilly-Fuisse' sounded classier.
My flat cap is made by a little man in Jermyn Street.

I find all this faux-modest oneupmanship awfully gauche.

There's a simple test: the [i]toilettes[/i]:[i]derrieres[/i] ratio.

We have two water closets with flushing lavatories, and there are three arseholes resident. We are barely clinging on to our middle class status.