And how do you feel about middle class liberals who are poor?
Or is class purely dependant on wealth?

It always struck me as slightly bizarre that "salt of the earth" people would rail against "poshos" in the same sentence as talking about their latest skiing holiday. I wouldn't know, because despite having home counties accents my parents never could afford to take me on holiday. Not that i minded - i was quite happy.

Classists - truly the stupidest type of bigot there is.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 13:58, 4 replies)

less stupid than racists and homophobes
You can choose/change your social class to some extent, after all.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:00, closed)

Can you?
Remember that fucking evil witch on "The Apprentice" - the one with the cold, dead eyes?

She continuously referred to herself as "working class" whilst also talking about the various horses her dad had bought for her as a child.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:09, closed)

I didn't watch it.
I was too busy wallowing in my middle class comfortable life of working reasonable hours for middling pay in a job I enjoy.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:19, closed)

I love being a scientist.

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:33, closed)

Me too
My job description is basically Batman.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:35, closed)

Best conversation ever.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 15:02, closed)

Yep.
I feel I should modify my above comment to denote thaat it's just the pretentious wanker-type I intensely dislike.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:01, closed)

Fair enough.
It's a tad annoying that people assume that because of your accent and the fact you care about social issues you are just like Viz's "Modern Parents".

It's possible to enunciate clearly, whilst voting Green and sorting my recycling, without also being a pretentious wanker about issues that don't really matter at all.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:07, closed)

I'm not English, I don't really know what class is based on so my categorisation may be misled
but it does appear to be income and employment-related.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:02, closed)

It's very blurry these days and increasingly irrelevant.
I'd say it's more nowadays about money than being born into a class.
( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:04, closed)

I think it's more related to what preoccupies a person.
If you're constantly worried about money, crime and disease you're middle class.

If you're worried about yourself because those things are all around where you live, you're probably poverty stricken.

If you don't give a flying fuck about anything at all and do whatever you want and get away with it without the slightest problems, you're upper class.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:05, closed)

Cor!
I seem to have become upper class without noticing. Go me!
(davywavy, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:06, closed)

I say!
well done. Let's go shoot some proles.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:08, closed)

Quite so, old bean.
What what.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:12, closed)

I say, me too
pip pip!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:15, closed)

Ah, the difference between owning a Banksy,
queuing for 3 hours to see the Banksy exhibtion, or living in Stokes Croft with a Banksy on your gable wall.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:07, closed)

True true...
Although alot of the people who live in Stokes Croft are the worst of this type - This pointless no Tesco fiasco being a perfect example..
(Burt Burt, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 13:38, closed)

What if you're somewhere in the middle ground between garden suburbs and council estates?
I'm from a small mining town; while it was hardly Chelsea, it was quiet and generally crime-free, bar the odd post-pub fight on a Saturday. The gap between rich and poor there is nowhere near as great as it is in a city, so the gaps between social divisions are less clear. Apart from the handful of thieving cunts and vandals, they're scumbags.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:33, closed)

Your values and outlook on life play a significant part too, more so than money.
For instance, I work in a factory, have no real desire to ever get married or own a house, and go to the pub with friends rather than invite them to dinner-parties. I have a noticeable regional accent, swear a fair bit, and I don't adore France and all things French. Yet I have a 1st from a university ranked second only to Cambridge for that particular subject. In society, I sit somewhere in the grey area between these totally dissimilar cultures.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:47, closed)

Not the stupidest,
Just equally stupid to all the others.
( Zuowan, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:05, closed)