Nah! Aristocrats grow beards.I went to Lidl and bought some of their Shark 5 razor blades. Aristocratic or what??

Nah! Aristocrats grow beards.I went to Lidl and bought some of their Shark 5 razor blades. Aristocratic or what??
Your "class" (and I really hate the idea of shoehorning individuals into these stereotypes) is a function of your upbringing. It's your upbringing that defines your values and its your values that define your class. By the time you leave school it's set in stone
You can be poor as a church mouse, but if your parents were quite well off and you lived in a nice house and had a "good" education, you cannot be working class because your values are not those of the working class. The opposite is also true. My Dad was a plumber and I was one of the poorest kids in my class at school. I've done alright for myself, but I could never define myself as middle class by dint of my upbringing
I went to Lidl and bought some of their Shark 5 razor blades. Aristocratic or what??
Nah! Aristocrats grow beards.![]()
Hmm, that’s just a rejection of class or worse it’s saying class is a function of your parents and you can’t change it.
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Your "class" (and I really hate the idea of shoehorning individuals into these stereotypes) is a function of your upbringing. It's your upbringing that defines your values and its your values that define your class. By the time you leave school it's set in stone
You can be poor as a church mouse, but if your parents were quite well off and you lived in a nice house and had a "good" education, you cannot be working class because your values are not those of the working class. The opposite is also true. My Dad was a plumber and I was one of the poorest kids in my class at school. I've done alright for myself, but I could never define myself as middle class by dint of my upbringing
Ditto. Parents were (in modern parlance) minimum wage people. Cars, telephones, holidays, meals in restaurants were unattainable things as I was growing up. From the day I went to Uni on full grant, I had more money in my pocket for discretionary spending on "me" than either of my parents ever had.
By income, wealth and lifestyle no one would see me as anything other than Middle Class.
The concepts of Class (Upper/Middle/Working) are, and have been for a long time, pretty irrelevant. They had relevance when mobility between the lifestyles ergo Classes, was very limited. Now, they are essentially meaningless - the Blue collar (working class) White collar (middle class0 distinction long since ceased to mean anything as many traditional Blue Collar/Working class jobs (plumber) pay more than traditional White collar/Middle class jobs (Teacher)
Class is meaningless.
The fridge swung it for me, you're a toffI have both black and green olives in the fridge, sun dried tomatoes and make my own bread, astra and soup.
You tell me![]()
Unless you measure it by economic, cultural and social measures. Which they do. Hence the new scheme. And it’s relevance.
Are your kids middle class?
But that is not Class, it is Socioeconomic classification ie a descriptor of Education/work/lifestyle not an indicator of group membership and loyalties
Alas , one had to let the staff go when one moved into a compact flat in the West wing......Definitely not, I would have thought. Surely, Aristocrats have people to do such things for them?