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Post by mids on May 15, 2019 15:11:32 GMT
The exceptions no doubt...
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 15:16:00 GMT
Me and my entire family are working class. Always have been, always will be. "Me and my entire family is working class." Surely? |
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Post by wetkingcanute on May 15, 2019 15:27:59 GMT
Going back to Coffee for a mo.
When I'm out I just ask for an Americano with a drop or two of cold milk.
but when I'm at home I drink Nescafe Alta Rica - which is great or Aldi's Colombian.
am I still allowed to post on this board?
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 15:40:30 GMT
You went OTT with the Aldi reference, posho!
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Post by flatandy on May 15, 2019 15:46:25 GMT
An Aldi has opened just down the road from me - it's literally the closest shop to home. Ameri-Aldi isn't middle class yet - at least the clientele isn't. But they've started getting some German-style food in there, and one or two interesting products. It's only a matter of time before the hipsters descend on it.
I made the unsurprising discovery that Aldi does good pretzels and sausages but bad Korean-style BBQ.
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Post by flatandy on May 15, 2019 15:48:41 GMT
What's weird is the middle classes aspiring to be working class. Nobody middle class aspires to be working class. This is just the biggest lie ever. It's not just Van who does it, either. I've had friends who claimed to be working class who parents who were academics. They did so because those parents claimed to be working class because they grew up in northern mining towns. |
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Post by wetkingcanute on May 15, 2019 15:52:04 GMT
Did they 'av trouble ert mill?
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Post by voice on May 15, 2019 16:26:09 GMT
I grew up working class, my dad worked for the gas board as a fitter and my mum worked in a textile mill, I still feel working class tbh, but have to admit my job, wage and lifestyle most certainly is not.
Though this whole thread has reinforced one of the reasons I left the UK in the first place, the overwhelming obsession over class. Its just not much of a thing here, no one cares what accent you have, where you were born then makes assumptions about your class, education and intelligence based on how you sound like they do in the UK.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 16:34:16 GMT
Nobody middle class aspires to be working class. This is just the biggest lie ever. It's not just Van who does it, either. I've had friends who claimed to be working class who parents who were academics. They did so because those parents claimed to be working class because they grew up in northern mining towns. Interestingly, I was reading an article/puff piece about a well-known jockey/racing commentator yesterday, where he described his humble background including free school meals. Funny that. I was at (private) school and uni with his younger brother. Lying tosser (actually, he's great fun.) I don't know why they do it. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 17:32:05 GMT
We lived in shoe-box in middle of t'road. etc
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 17:37:32 GMT
Aye. Us only had t'two dairy farms in Devon.
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Post by mids on May 15, 2019 17:41:35 GMT
Ate bark and counted ourselves lucky...
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 17:48:40 GMT
Bark! Bloody luxury.
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Post by voice on May 15, 2019 17:50:46 GMT
Its funny, only middle class people make those kind of jokes, no one who grew up like that ever tried to out do the poverty of those around them, usually they tried to make out they were much better off than they actually were.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 17:55:21 GMT
Having no sense of humour's a sure sign of being upwardly mobile.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 17:55:39 GMT
Its funny, only middle class people make those kind of jokes, no one who grew up like that ever tried to out do the poverty of those around them, usually they tried to make out they were much better off than they actually were. Bollocks. I offer both my parents and my MIL in evidence. None of them has ever scrimped on the detail of their grindingly poor upbringing. Granted, it's not a source of boasting but they don't pretend it was anything other than what it was. |
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Post by voice on May 15, 2019 18:01:44 GMT
so its not bollox, no one was competing the show how much more poor they were, just describing how it was for them and being glad they got out. As I say its only posh people, who think the working class or poor people like being poor and such, do this. The whole monty python thing was just posh kids sneering while having no idea.
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Post by perrykneeham on May 15, 2019 18:12:13 GMT
Fair play. I misread it TBH.
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Post by mids on May 15, 2019 18:18:52 GMT
My parents never boasted about how poor they were but they would use it as a contrast to show how spoiled and lucky we were.
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Post by Repat Van on May 15, 2019 22:55:11 GMT
Me and my entire family are working class. Always have been, always will be. "Me and my entire family is working class." Surely? Working class people do also know basic grammar. Classist. |
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