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Your house doesn't get egged, it gets avocado'd
Or the only time you see or hear the select invitation only rotary club driving the big float down your street with a brand new pick up wanting you to buy a huge bag of tawties and pay well over the odds for them
The empties we find left in our local woods are Pinot Grigio, and craft beer bottles 😀
Your house doesn’t get egged, it gets avocado’d
Was it a drive-by fruiting?
©Robin Williams
We have a small square by the canal that was underused and used to be a hang out for the druggies. The council revamped it a bit, then locals started a local gardening group for public areas in the neighbourhood. They’ve done a great job and even put in a pétanque set up for anyone to use. It’s a popular place to visit and sit down these days and in summer the planting looks fantastic. Hasn’t 100% got rid of the druggies but those still around do occasionally play pétanque 😃
When I lived in a ‘posh’ area (Blakedown for those who know it) my second evening there I got a knock on the door and it was a door to door painting salesperson selling her paintings.
On the flip side this past week I spent a day pushing leaflets through big houses to advertise our vineyard and wines
(* I aye posh, when I lived in Rochdale for a bit there were prostitutes on my street corner)
When knife crime is a neighbour being spotted holding their cutlery like a pen.
Was it a drive-by fruiting?
©Robin Williams
I might have to install a protective dyke
A few years back I was teasing a co-worker about how posh his area was (High Wycombe). On the drive out from a site visit, I passed a pet shop which was advertising a special deal on swan food.
Was it a drive-by fruiting?
©Robin Williams
Is it? Blast, I came up with that gag independently, years ago.
The real question is what is "middle class"?
Is it? Blast, I came up with that gag independently, years ago.
Robin Williams did have a reputation for plagiarism.
for me it was when I went for a fry up at a local cafe. It came all artfully piled up with salad including coriander!
Waitrose is on Deliveroo
When as a town of under 10000 you sustain the second busiest M&S food shop in the UK. And still a neighbour tells you it's so busy today they resorted to driving to Waitrose in Stirling....
@matt_outandabout - that’ll be Dunblane?
our local M&S food shut for a month recently as it was being refurbished. The trauma councillors are working overtime helping people through the experience!
Not sure I'd call High Wycombe posh, town centre is a bit of a shit hole. Need to try Marlow, Beaconsfield or Amersham for posh.
Surrounding areas are quite posh/middle class though.
So you got avocadoed 😁
Either that or walking outside to a real life frogger
huge bag of tawties
A bag of what?
...when there isn't ****ing litter everywhere seems to do it these days,
Not sure I’d call High Wycombe posh, town centre is a bit of a shit hole.<br /><br />
Ooh, hark at James Cleverly!
Surrounding areas are quite posh/middle class though
Middle class and posh are not the same thing. Many people are middle class: about 40-60% in the UK depending on definition. Very few indeed are posh.
You might think Middle class people may shop at Waitrose. But posh people have housekeeping staff to go shopping at Waitrose.
The real question is what is “middle class”?
Exactly! Everyone get's their Waitrose shopping delivered and have been to at least one Jacob Collier gig in another country.
Ooh, hark at James Cleverly!
😂
nickfrog
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The real question is what is “middle class”?
I seem to remember a thread that effectively amounted to people trying to outdo each other on how working class they were!
^^ 😂
Ooh, hark at James Cleverly!
Having lived there for over 20 years I feel pretty qualified to comment.
Lowlights were walking past an abandoned burnt out car down a side street/alley every day for a week or two to find the street was closed one day with loads of police. Turns out there was a body in the boot.
On another occasion, just around the corner, another street was closed as some inter-family issues resulted in a running street battle.
Lots of the surrounding areas are lovely and very middle class, and yeah even posh.
People humble-brag about how good the riding is from their door on STW?
Graffiti on walls, but still on the wall
Bristol, people here will know.
Shirehampton, El Dub
"Cops is ****ers"
Sneyd Park
"It's a fair cop, but society is to blame!"
Wish I took a picture.
Nail bars are for ladies and gentlemen painted on the shop front
Has anyone had theirs manicured? Although manky nails don't look good as you sometimes see in pics on here, get a knife under the nail or wee scrub with a brush you mingers
The kids have names like Flora and Fauna.
‘s all about Tomato Sauce innit?
Keep yer red sauce in the cupboard next to the teabags? ……You’re working class.
Store your Tomato Ketchup in the Fridge as per the instructions on the bottle?….. You’re middle class.
Absolutely no idea where Cook keeps the pickles and preserves?…. You’re upper class.
You have to go out and drop litter the day before the annual village litter pick to make it feel like the volunteers are doing something worthwhile
Instant boiling water from the tap rather than having spent £15 on a plastic kettle
Our Norfolk village is weird, two distinct ends, with the old end being the people who own the land, the other end has council properties, and is mostly bungalows, and it is where you live if you work on the land.
So Range Rovers one end and Isuzu Troopers the other, chicken eggs for sale by roadside one end, duck and quail eggs the other.
But what all made us laugh, was that they came and relaid the road surface, one end has the cr*ppy chip and seal at the poorer end, then a week later, the posh end got proper lovely tarmac...
Saw that someone had littered a can of lager on my street the other day, and the fact that it was left upright on the wall, and was a 330ml camden helles struck me as being a step in the right direction for the area
Your approach to staying away is just as revealing:
Upper Class - Classic trips e.g. skiing in Verbier, Mountaineering the alps, gap-year blogging from Paris
Middle Class - 2 weeks in a French Chataeu or camping with your mates
Working Class - All in, max out everything in sight. Nice one