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

[ADarkDraconis]

Leave me out of this argument

[Tim Curry voice] Rocky...

 

[Mr Celine]

No, you're saved (from insinuating God-botherers).

I got the error message ' unknown host' rather than anything to do with a heavenly host.

 

[ianrauk]

I am still astounded by this because Aldi here in the States is generally a poorer grocery store, a discount shop with dented tins and discontinued goods amd somewhat questionable produce.

Aldi in the UK is one of the fastest growing supermarkets in the UK.
I only recently started shopping at Aldi and was pleasantly surprised at how good the selection of food was, the competitive and cheaper prices and how fresh the fruit and veg is. I am a total convert. But then again, I don't expect anything less then that from a well run German company.

 

[Julia9054]

[QUOTE 5198770, member: 45"]I've been in Aldi from the UK to Romania, and it's the same reflection across Europe.

Our Lidl is the other side of a car park from Waitrose (a posh supermarket, for those outside of the UK), and those with nicer cars aren't ashamed of using both.[/QUOTE]
Quote from my son aged about 8. "Can we go to Waitrose, Mum? The cars in the car park are better."

 

[PK99]

Or it means that it described you as established middle class with a definition of criteria and you do not meet one or more of those, so by its very definition it eliminates you from being it. It said I was the very same, and that it is the second richest class. By that defining point I am definitely out as we are a one-income family on a modest budget and are considered lower income here; we spend wisely while living within our means. I may have an education, manners, and 'classy' hobbies or acquaintances so it tossed me in there but money-wise I certainly do not fit that bill.

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No - it gives general descriptors not rigid definitions - missing one of the descriptors does not invalidate the allocation to that category - I don't tick the three at the bottom, but my lifestyle is undoubtedly bang on the category.


Established middle class
Percentage of population 25%

Average age 46

This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups:

• People in this group enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
• They socialise with a broad range of people
• Many work in management or the traditional professions
• Most come from middle class backgrounds
• They often live outside urban areas

 

[User6179]

People in this group enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities

 

[ADarkDraconis]

No - it gives general descriptors not rigid definitions - missing one of the descriptors does not invalidate the allocation to that category - I don't tick the three at the bottom, but my lifestyle is undoubtedly bang on the category.


Established middle class
Percentage of population 25%

Average age 46

This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups:

• People in this group enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
• They socialise with a broad range of people
• Many work in management or the traditional professions
• Most come from middle class backgrounds
• They often live outside urban areas

I certainly do not fit the part I highlighted in bold, which is before the generalizations. I only fit the top two points as well, but I feel that economical nature of it is also very definitive. It would be akin to someone not born into wealth and working at McDonalds scraping by being ranked as in the Elite, not that they don't have class and taste but they also do have have the income that defines that category.

 

[Julia9054]

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I play in a brass band. From a "cool" perspective, these are the only people we get to look down on!

 

[swee'pea99]

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It said di-verse, not de-ranged.

 

[Oxo]

It said di-verse, not de-ranged.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with people I don't know Morris dancing in a village far, far away.

 

[smutchin]

I certainly do not fit the part I highlighted in bold,

Really?

Two things: first, wealth in this context is relative. By your own description of yourself, you’re not among the poorest or richest members of society, ergo you must be somewhere in the middle. Hence “middle” class.

Second, this group accounts for 25% of society, so that’s something like 17 million people. That’s a pretty broad category and there is going to be huge variety between individuals within that group. Like, duh.

 

[MikeG]

Quote from my son aged about 8. "Can we go to Waitrose, Mum? The cars in the car park are better."

We go to Waitrose because when someone bumps into your trolley they apologise and smile.

 

[Julia9054]

@ADarkDraconis , isn't class in the US more about wealth unlike the many subtle cues that the British use to come over all Judgy McJudgeface about each other?

 

[swee'pea99]

@ADarkDraconis , isn't class in the US more about wealth unlike the many subtle cues that the British use to come over all Judgy McJudgeface about each other?

Or to put it another way, they don't have class in America, only money.

 

[smutchin]

Or to put it another way, they don't have class in America, only money.

The US is a classic plutocracy.