The cycle chat guide to being middle class

[Sara_H]

We've just joined the National Trust. OH nearly spat his peppermint tea out when I declared that I liked a day out at The National Trust as there was never any riff raff around. He pointed out that since I grew up on one of Sheffield's notorious council estates this was most funny and had I considered the fact that I was the riff raff?

 

[FishFright]

Knowing the differnce between U and non U.

And knowing however much you earn and yearn you'll only ever be non U

 

[FishFright]

I'm afraid my teapot would look rather nasty if I didn't wash the inside:

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That's an affectation not a teapot, so in context - yeah very lower middle class

 

[Speicher]

I hate to disappoint you @User259 but Birkenstocks are soooooo yesterday. These days the aspiring middle classes are comparing Mahabis...

Did you purchase a Djellaba when you were in Morocco?

 

[FishFright]

Using one instead of I and not understanding the look you're given .

I've notice that the king in waiting and waiting and waiting and ..... has started to use I instead of one more often during public appearances . Social descender or attempted populism ?

Answers on a postcard and entries will not be returned or read.

 

[Speicher]

Mr R wouldn't let me...


I used to have one.

Oh dear! When Michael Portillo did his railway journey in Morocco, he purchased one, in a lovely shade of dark red, I think. It looked rather more elegant than pyjamas for relaxing in.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I used to yearn to be middle class. But it was never to be. These days the only thing I yearn for is retirement.

 

[Dave 123]

[QUOTE 4721622, member: 259"]Thread resurrection time - I've just bought a pair of Birkenstocks!

Now the only dilemma is what colour socks to wear with them...[/QUOTE]


Birkenstocks are where it's at @User259 . I have sober brown. A male mate of mine has white... WHITE! What a tit!

 

[Ian H]

The size of the middle class depends on how it is defined, whether by education, wealth, environment of upbringing, social network, manners or values, etc.
I recall a man who still (rather affectedly) referred to the 'middling sort'.

 

[ufkacbln]

These days, I actually get out of the bath to have a poo.

That marks me down as a social climber, evidently. One, for getting out of the bath, and two, for being able to get in it in the first place, as by rights it should be full of coal.

What a class traitor I am.

For those who have nursed


Poo in the bath was known as Curry positive

 

[threebikesmcginty]

[QUOTE 4721622, member: 259"]Thread resurrection time - I've just bought a pair of Birkenstocks!

Now the only dilemma is what colour socks to wear with them...[/QUOTE]


Birkies are great, those things reg linked to are weird hideous slippers for really old people.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Harris tweed suits for the whole family, including horse covers

 

[Dave 123]

I refer the Honorable Member to post #120.

I know. I saw it. I'm more right than you. And I'm not honourable, neither is my member.

 

[postman]

Wearing Dr Martens shoes and joining English Heritage.

 

[Ian H]

If that is the case, the person pictured is probably upper class and the suit was inherited from his Great Uncle Tobias...

Only the lower orders have to buy their own suits.*

*Points for getting the reference