Three generations in one house excludes you from the middle classes.
If the house has more than one wing then you're upper class. If it doesn't then you're working class.

Them's the rules.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:30, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

What about when we squeezed in a fourth generation at Christmas
How does that affect things?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:34, Reply)

Still the same
rules is rules.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:35, Reply)

Frankly it is a relief - being a middle-class cliche is such hard work...
*cancels son's piano lessons*
*disposes of bread-maker*
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:39, Reply)

Bread makers aren't middle class any more. You can buy them from Argos.
The real middle classes are building wood-fired ovens.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:42, Reply)

by "the real middle classes"
you mean "you", right?

is it finished yet?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:44, Reply)

It's precisely that view of me from down his nose which defines "the real middle class"
Or as they prefer to be known, upper-middle class.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:46, Reply)

The reason I look down my nose at most people is because most people are short.
I'm not sure you can be upper middle class unless you were born into the middle classes. You need a private education and some tenuous link to aristocracy.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:50, Reply)

I think Monty has some tenuous link to aristocracy

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:53, Reply)

Didn't his dad trip up the Queen mother once?

( girlinthehole, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Stamp collecting?

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:58, Reply)

It's under wraps for the winter.
And while I do an unnecessary amount of research into insulation.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:47, Reply)

I was going to add some working class activities to that
But then I realised I wouldn't really know what to do.
Something about smoking some fags and playing some pool?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:42, Reply)

even pool is middle class.
Well, unless you play in the pool club I'm a member of, to be fair.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:45, Reply)

Where do you play Mr Badge?

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 9:49, Reply)

Diane's in Haymarket.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 10:07, Reply)

Never been in there, but it looks a bit of a dive
But handily-placed for the rub-a-tug shop next door.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 24 Jan 2012, 10:18, Reply)

it is a fucking shithole
but it's 20p a game and the beer is cheap. and the near-constant risk of a "doing" does increase the pulse rate rather.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 24 Jan 2012, 10:33, Reply)