I have to disagree.
I'm sure you're right in some cases, but I think you're generalising too much.
I grew up in a "deprived area" and a lot of my friends back there are the poorly-educated factory/call centre/supermarket workers you describe, doing crap jobs for crap money. Me too - I don't have a degree and I've never earned more than £14k. However on the whole, they don't tend to get into fights and most of them don't even go out drinking that often - why go out and pay through the nose for drinks and kebabs when you can get ten times as much booze (and some frozen pizzas) from Lidl for the same money? Yes, some of them are violent fuckwits, but it's a minority, and it's rarely the ones who would be considered the most unfortunate members of society.
Happily I've escaped to a nice middle-class area of the country.It's all very white-collar. Living here I've lost count of how many of pillars of the community brag about getting absolutely wasted on a weekly basis and vomiting all over a bar/kebab shop/hotel/whatever that they don't seem to realise some poor underpaid working-class oik will have to clear up. Or if they do, it's okay, because cleaners aren't Real People or something.
To summarise: an arsehole is an arsehole is an arsehole regardless of social class. And often it's those nice white-collars who have the means to be the bigger arseholes.
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Batsgirl, Sat 12 Mar 2011, 16:45,
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