My dad
has pretenses of being middle-class.

Words and phrases that are banned in our house include:

- "Coffee Table". It's a "Low Table", daaaahling.
- "A grand". No, it's "a thousand pounds".
- "Wacky Backy", "Weed" and "Ganja". It's "Dope" instead. (Why one would get on their high horse about the naming of what's in the joint that's coming their way escapes me).
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 14:31, 5 replies)

to be fair
there are few things more middle class that smoking weed, regardless of what you call it
( Finite "Aardvark sorted out my shit!" on, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 15:03, closed)

Really?
Where do you come from? Where I come from pretty much everyone smokes it. Class only really enters into it when it comes to the setting, i.e. bedroom, private beach or 'round the back of Argos etc...
(idle insomniac enjoys listening to Sigur Rós at stupid hours, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 19:19, closed)

^this
Non-smokers are very quick to categorise stoners, assuming "middle class" was meant as a perjorative. I've met college lecturers, local government officials, dustmen, drop-outs, Tories, BNP scum, anarchists, council estate smackheads, computer scientists on £100k, convent school girls, gypsies, pensioners, cricket umpires, prostitutes, psychologists, madmen.. all of whom smoke pot.

However, insisting it is called anything is definitely pretencious, with an added dose of weirdness if it's your dad.. WTF?
(lost, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 19:55, closed)

he has pretenses
Does he dress up?
( rofl harris, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 16:49, closed)

Did he have a thousand pounds' worth of dope sitting on his low table?
(Musuko, Tue 25 Nov 2008, 17:19, closed)