The cycle chat guide to being middle class

[fimm]

I'm so middle class three of my grandparents went to university...

 

[TheDoctor]

And yet you're single...

Sorry to disappoint you

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Are your hands chubby, or is it the lens foreshortening?

I had an old colleague that used to be referred to as "sausage fingers". A favourite trick when we were all checking in to a hotel used to be to chuck his electronic door key on the polished reception floor, and then enjoy watching him try and pick it up. Sausage fingers are not nimble.

 

[slowmotion]

Surely calling tea "supper" is enough?

Or when Sunday breakfast is called brunch and consists of oak smoked rashers of organic free range rare breed bacon, served in a ciabatta with home made ketchup...

Complete fail! They have to be "dry cure" as well.

 

[stephec]

I'm so middle class three of my grandparents went to university...

Nah, you're almost Brideshead Revisited posh.

 

[slowmotion]

Finding your holiday villa in Umbria from an advert in the back pages of the Spectator......and going there with some leather luggage.

 

[TVC]

I'm so middle class, a trip to the seaside means a visit to Aldeburgh.

 

[ayceejay]

Can I get a translation or a clearer explanation, I live in Canada. Is there a middle between Maggie Smith (on the telly )and Russell Brand (on the telly)?

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4480804, member: 259"]Goose fat isn't just for rubbing on your rollocks when you're on earlies at the snuff mill.[/QUOTE]
I bought goose fat for the Christmas roast potatoes when Delia's fad was at its most frenzied. They were awful

 

[slowmotion]

I'm so middle class, a trip to the seaside means a visit to Aldeburgh.

Do you meet other charming families taking their holidays there?

 

[slowmotion]

[QUOTE 4480838, member: 259"]One doesn't meet in aldeburgh, one networks. [/QUOTE]
Oh Dear! Networking is so last week. Almost as embarrassing as proudly flashing your bulging Filofax.

 

[swee'pea99]

[QUOTE 4480060, member: 259"]Sourcing sustainable line-caught pollack for your supper rather than buying a packet of fish fingers for your tea.[/QUOTE]
Dinner, please.

 

[slowmotion]

At Christmas, you get given a stupendously stupid, unnecessarily complicated corkscrew that costs at least £85 by someone. It gets confiscated by airport security at Stansted Airport.
The one Euro replacement that you buy in Greece gets confiscated on the way back.

 

[TVC]

Do you meet other charming families taking their holidays there?

Only those with grown up children, if you are middle class and have small adults you go to Southwold.

 

[mybike]

Red trousers

Shouldn't that be white? Oh, wait ...

I'm upper class, so I'm afraid I can't contribute to this thread.

To claim to be upper class is so middle class.

This is only middle class if you wash the inside of the teapot.

You mean some people don't?

Sorry to disappoint you
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Wearing a ring is so middle class.

[QUOTE 4480816, member: 259"]I'm so middle class, I get crabs in Borough market at least once a month.[/QUOTE]

Yep, Southwark is now middle class, along with a goodly portion of Bermondsey.

Well that should have upset most people on here.