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Dan Prick tugs our coat and tells us: "I'm enormously middle class, and was once dragged along to a bingo club by a former girlfriend and her mum. It's incredible the fury you can whip up in a room of old biddies winning a fuckton of money and telling them 'This is a load of old shit, really'". Like Pulp's Common People, have you ever tried to act down, or act up?

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'I'm def working class stock. My dad was a copper and my Mum was a nurse.'
You seem to have no idea what working class means.
(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 20 Mar 2014, 19:39, 2 replies)
All the nurses I've met have been as common as muck.
And very free with their biscuits.
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Mar 2014, 19:43, closed)
Yes, that may be the case,
but they are nurses; they have a degree, are salaried and have future financial security, and as such, can't really be described as working class.
(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Thu 20 Mar 2014, 20:16, closed)
Bollocks. They work for a wage or for the profit of others, ipso facto they are working class. Even more so if they are both in state sector jobs.
The lumpenproletariat is a subset of the working class, not it's entirety.
It is arguable that modern policing and nursing with degree level entry may be aspirational middle class, but not of the presumed era of the OP's parents.
(I helped save b3ta! da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Thu 20 Mar 2014, 23:05, closed)
"future financial security"
Are you familiar with the NHS?
(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Mar 2014, 23:40, closed)
Yes, my Mum worked for them for her entire career.
She was never without a job, owns her own house, and is living a more than comfortable retirement. She's spent the best part of the last decade donniing a backpack, and buying a round the world ticket every year.
(I helped save b3ta! The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Fri 21 Mar 2014, 0:37, closed)
Therefore, every single nurse ever must be the same, right?
Your mum sounds hot, though. Was she any good?
(showman, Fri 21 Mar 2014, 1:11, closed)
Old Skool NHS Employee
That the rest of us are still paying for... including those employed by private sector contracted providers who have to contend with year on year zero rises due to private equity investors maximising dividend returns ahead of private sales or public flotation.
(I helped save b3ta! notmyrealname, Sat 22 Mar 2014, 17:35, closed)
She didn't have a degree
she qualified in the 1960s.

But there's a story there. She always regretted not going to university, and she decided a few years ago to do something about it. She's 72 this year, and this summer will graduate with a degree in English literature.
(username failed moderation, Fri 21 Mar 2014, 8:56, closed)
And then she dies, leaving you enough money to buy a 44,000l of saline?

(I helped save b3ta! monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 21 Mar 2014, 9:42, closed)
Well, I was thinking about a Porsche, but
we're heading in the right direction.
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