Yay for common!
I was a lad who had a middle-class upbringing on working-class means.

My parent's scrimped and saved and gave us as much as we asked for as they could. I developed a love of literature, theatre and writing.

This continued all the way through to university where I got a taste for good food and wine. In short, I could have been considered a bit of a snob.

How fortunate then that, despite my Mum's middle-class leanings, I also grew up with her family's influence.

Now my Mum's side of the family are all based around Newton Aycliffe in the North-East and are stereotypically working class. I don't mean that they're all chavs, they simply like a good filthy laugh, a drink or twelve, and they have a slight tendency to spawn like frogs.

They aren't intellectual, and would turn their nose up in distaste at something as exotic as a lasagne (Philistines), but they are amazing people and their influence has ensured my love of sick humour, massive piss-ups, footie, fags, creative swearing, and pornography.

In short, I walk a dichotomy between high and low-brow, and art and kitsch that I find very pleasing. After a stimulating evening reading the latest Salman Rushdie, I can fuck off upstairs for an equally stimulating five-knuckle shuffle at Liz Vicious' latest anal opus.

So, I embrace the 'common' side of my personality, and raise a Skol to my Mum's family and their close-knit, working-class ways!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 19:02, 5 replies)

Onya Boss
Me too. Er, except the knuckle shuffle thing.
( warmfuzzies Isn't here, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 2:24, closed)

Actually
sounds similar to me.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:00, closed)

I like who I am.
If things like tattoos, regional accents and hanging out with my hippie friends drinking cider in the park on a sunny day makes me common, bring it on!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:07, closed)

Is it bad
that I know who Liz Vicious is? And she's never done anal. I checked.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:20, closed)

I am going to form a black metal band
and call it Anal Opus.

I'm not sure whether it'll be a gay band (a kind of Pansy Division with corpse paint) or just incredibly puerile. Probably both.
(moglin shall make you writhe in her cage of torment on, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 10:28, closed)