From a scale of 7 to 10 how middle class is this forum?

[perplexed]

According to the survey I'm an 'elite'!!! According to some, this is practically impossible as I'm northern so by definition there's summat wrong with the way they work it out...

I think I got the classification because I went to the ballet once and know a few people from certain professions...

I certainly didn't feel very 'elite' when the f*&£^*g alarm clock went off at 0415 to get me up to go to bloody work again...

 

[Julia9054]

I had a play with the survey. The thing that seems to determine your class the most appears to be your income, property and savings unlike @nickyboy's view that it is mostly your upbringing.
I come out as established middle class which, I expect, is how others probably see me despite my working class upbringing. If I answer it as my 22 year old son, he comes out as emergent service worker due to his age, low wage and lack of property despite his more middle class upbringing.
It's all very silly.

 

[screenman]

Established middle class here, that surprised me.

 

[derrick]

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Established middle class here,

 

[FishFright]

Peasants dick waving about being merely average , so yeah very middle class.

 

[nickyboy]

I had a play with the survey. The thing that seems to determine your class the most appears to be your income, property and savings unlike @nickyboy's view that it is mostly your upbringing.
I come out as established middle class which, I expect, is how others probably see me despite my working class upbringing. If I answer it as my 22 year old son, he comes out as emergent service worker due to his age, low wage and lack of property despite his more middle class upbringing.
It's all very silly.

Julia, we've met and I suspect you have a fair idea about me. To give you an idea of how utterly ridiculous that survey is, I came out as "Elite" (despite loving pie and chips and a proper sesh night out, and I've never been to the ballet or opera)

 

[Julia9054]

Julia, we've met and I suspect you have a fair idea about me. To give you an idea of how utterly ridiculous that survey is, I came out as "Elite" (despite loving pie and chips and a proper sesh night out, and I've never been to the ballet or opera)

Comedian Jason Manford's term for it is muddle class. This is where you manage to be both working class and middle class at the same time. This is what I suspect we both are!

 

[Julia9054]

Julia, we've met and I suspect you have a fair idea about me. To give you an idea of how utterly ridiculous that survey is, I came out as "Elite" (despite loving pie and chips and a proper sesh night out, and I've never been to the ballet or opera)

I tried the survey with the same relatively well off income and property level but polar opposite friends and pastimes. It did not alter the outcome.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I will have a go at the aforementioned survey, if it does not transpire that I am at least 'landed gentry' I will kick the chaise longue!

 

[Pale Rider]

[QUOTE 5196670, member: 259"]
questions about crack usage![/QUOTE]

Pardon?

Oh, sorry, you mean dwugs, the powder room and all that.

How very 1980s middle class (aspiring) of you.

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 5196670, member: 259"]I'm established middle class. Thank goodness there were no questions about crack usage![/QUOTE]
If you did heroin, you would be the crème de la crème.

 

[Dec66]

I think that somebody who's clever with surveys and stuff should put something similar together in order to establish who is the most working class person on this site.

(Actually, I'll save you the bother, it's me )

 

[theclaud]

[QUOTE 5195153, member: 259"]For proper middle-class points it should have been a guinea fowl. [/QUOTE]
I used to get whole guinea-fowl for a quid from Gateway in Aberystwyth. Do I get points?

 

[Oxo]

If you did heroin, you would be the crème de la crème.

I thought you had to be a Scottish schoolgirl to qualify.

 

[raleighnut]

[QUOTE 5196670, member: 259"]I'm established middle class. Thank goodness there were no questions about crack usage![/QUOTE]
You've gotta park yer bike somewhere.