Middle class things

[Archie_tect]

Some days I do wonder why I bother screenman.

 

[Archie_tect]

Pesky commas... you look away for a second and they run off.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

No because I'm self employed, they can't be because they could only work for me for 6 months in any one year as self-employed and to be honest they don't want the hassle.... the more I think about it, neither do I!

What's employment got to do with notions of class?

Traditionally the nature of one's employment and one's employment status was taken as a hugely significant indicator of one's class.

Else, for instance, why did they ask me what my father did for a living when, as a junior, I applied to join the local golf club. (I was granted 'artisan member'status but only because of my low handicap)

 

[rich p]

And I'd not cavil at the middle-class bit, in fact I'd revel in it, but the established part is laughable.

Just means you're old Greg

 

[Archie_tect]

Traditionally the nature of one's employment and one's employment status was taken as a hugely significant indicator of one's class.

Else, for instance, why did they ask me what my father did for a living when, as a junior, I applied to join the local golf club. (I was granted 'artisan member'status but only because of my low handicap)

There is a whole layer of society in rural Northumberland that is invisible to 99% of the population, I only hear about it occasionally- they are the ones we should worry about, because they own everything..

 

[nickyboy]

And I'd not cavil at the middle-class bit, in fact I'd revel in it, but the established part is laughable.

Anybody that uses a word that I have to look up the meaning of is, by definition, middle-class in a "slipped it into the conversation like I use it all the time" kinda way.

"cavil".....I mean, FFS

 

[screenman]

Wasn't she a nurse in World War I?

No that was Cavell.

 

[screenman]

I guess some humour has no price.

Easy to be clever after the event.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

There is a whole layer of society in rural Northumberland that is invisible to 99% of the population, I only hear about it occasionally- they are the ones we should worry about, because they own everything..

I'm not worrying about anyone, as it happens, though I suspect the % is probably nearer 99.9%

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Anybody that uses a word that I have to look up the meaning of is, by definition, middle-class in a "slipped it into the conversation like I use it all the time" kinda way.

"cavil".....I mean, FFS

Well pardon me for having gone to a comprehensive school.

 

[nickyboy]

Well pardon me for having gone to a comprehensive school.

What with "cavil" and earlier today "novate" CC is like reading an article by Will Self

 

[srw]

I realised I had become middle class* when I found myself grinding rock salt onto the ice on our doorstep, when I couldn't find any 'normal' salt in the cupboard.


*wrong side of the tracks upbringing

...and when you started sprinkling wine vinegar on your chips?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

Who's Will Self ?

That must make me working class I suppose.

 

[Drago]

I am beginning to worry I am not middle class any more. I consist mainly of tinned food and oven ready chips.

Of course you're middle class, so long as you have a man to open the tins for you.

 

[srw]

With apologies for taking the thread into a slightly more serious direction, and building on some of the things that have been said - all class distinctions are very artificial. As a species we like classifiying things because it helps us make sense of the world, but all of those classifications say as much about the people who make them as they do about the people being classified.

According to the BBC thing I'm in the Elite. Which is certainly true financially, certainly not true socially or politically, and probably not true in many other ways.