Odd Family Members
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wafflycat
New Member
- Location
- middle of Norfolk
Rigid Raider said:
Husband, self & son are cyclists... we're obviously the local crazies: not NFN
NickM
Veteran
- Location
- Darwin's birthplace
mr_hippo said:
I can't decide whether he was unlucky or lucky!
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Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
redcogs said:
Apparently so. Never met him though and he probably has no idea who I am and wouldn't care if he did.
Incidentally my brother also has the idea that we should be a 'better family'... which tends to be when he's drunk.
Like many here my parents are also from working and lower middle-class backgrounds which they've worked very hard to erase. They are now fully-paid-up members of the Telegraph reading home counties country village set... However thanks to my wife I get on better with them than ever, they have been fantastic over all the trouble that we've had getting to where we are now.
Cycling Naturalist
Guru
- Location
- Llangollen
It's taken my family a whole generation to move from lower middle class to middle class.
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
Gawd, faaaahhhmbly......
I avoid mine as much as possible. I'm very fond of my parents, provided I can keep them at arms length, but the rest are just people that I happen to be related to. This does not please my parents, who would love me to play happy faaaaahhhmblies, but I'm useless at going through the motions.
As for education and class etc. Well, my lot are stolidly working class and very, very dull. Father and his siblings have all done the 'hardworking, dragged myself up to middle management/small business proprietor by my bootstraps' thang. As a double drop out and possibly the only member of the entire family to have tattoos and facial piercings I am definitely the black sheep.
My grandparents were all in service or in unskilled manual jobs. My parents and their siblings have all worked hard to get on and do well. My generation are the first to have the luxury of going to uni. We are also the one who have had the luxury of dropping out, screwing up and generally taking our time to settle.
I avoid mine as much as possible. I'm very fond of my parents, provided I can keep them at arms length, but the rest are just people that I happen to be related to. This does not please my parents, who would love me to play happy faaaaahhhmblies, but I'm useless at going through the motions.
As for education and class etc. Well, my lot are stolidly working class and very, very dull. Father and his siblings have all done the 'hardworking, dragged myself up to middle management/small business proprietor by my bootstraps' thang. As a double drop out and possibly the only member of the entire family to have tattoos and facial piercings I am definitely the black sheep.
My grandparents were all in service or in unskilled manual jobs. My parents and their siblings have all worked hard to get on and do well. My generation are the first to have the luxury of going to uni. We are also the one who have had the luxury of dropping out, screwing up and generally taking our time to settle.
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
You own a Porsche. You have no class...Patrick Stevens said:
Cycling Naturalist
Guru
- Location
- Llangollen
Chuffy said:You own a Porsche. You have no class...
Wash your mouth out with soap. It's a Mercedes - do you think I would drive a drug dealer's car?
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
Not until you were sure he was inside....Patrick Stevens said:
redcogs
Guru
- Location
- Moray Firth
Patrick Stevens said:
That sounds like a pretty ancient social class definition Patrick. Don't people have income based group numbers and letters these days?
i'd suggest (somewhat presumptiously) that you would look down on me and be categorised within the AB (Managerial Professional),
Whereas i would look up to you from the rather low base DE (unskilled manual and unemployed) sir..
Hover Fly
He, him, his
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
mr_hippo said:
So was one of my uncles, Border Regt., during the glider landings.
Cycling Naturalist
Guru
- Location
- Llangollen
redcogs said:
Dunno, about that - I know that I'm middle middle class and a fair notch off upper middle.
wafflycat
New Member
- Location
- middle of Norfolk
I am reminded of:-
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgA4K-bnwh0&feature=related
1 min 16 secs in..
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgA4K-bnwh0&feature=related
1 min 16 secs in..
redcogs
Guru
- Location
- Moray Firth
Yes Waffleybot i had hoped to evoke that very sketch as a means of prodding Patrick, but he's too busy to bite at the moment (the tea trolley cometh).
Cycling Naturalist
Guru
- Location
- Llangollen
redcogs said:Yes Waffleybot i had hoped to evoke that very sketch as a means of prodding Patrick, but he's too busy to bite at the moment (the tea trolley cometh).
Actually, I've been rather heavily engaged in a nifty little scheme to save some clients a lot of tax.
