I am a cliché

[ablutiions]

Standing on the service station forecourt doing a few yogic stretches on our drive to holiday, I realised that I'm a cliché:

Middle aged Londoner, heading for a West Country holiday in my small eco friendly(ish) car, wearing a Boden cardi, and 'trendy' mum trainers with a flowery real cotton face mask dangled from my wrist. having eaten sourdough toast for breakfast. Oh, and carrying a chilly water bottle, natch.

And usually I'd be in France, but you know, Covid and all that.

Anyone else a walking cliché?

I literally don't know anyone like any of you in real life and haven't heard of most of the brand's you're referring to either!

I grow my own Oregano!

i dont know anyone like you in rl either.
or if i did our paths wouldnt cross
i do know someone who wears seasalt, i believe, and very nice it is, but only one person.
if you dont want to be a cliche, show some individualism.
spurn the avocado!

@BigPyjamas - I was just thinking that some of these accounts mask unhappiness (competitive undereating?) when I read your post.
Money, things? No. Male violence affects all women. We all know a woman victim of assault and/or abuse. I hope that you're getting proper help and support. 🌻

Well done

@therocinante

Aha *@jumpalicious* I'm not having children! So I might manage to swerve Joules and go directly into 'refuses to stop dressing like she did when she was 20 even though she's 50 now'.. Well, that's the plan anyway haha!

That was my complete plan too…. Until I was 37. 😎

@allycat4

These threads are excruciating.

False self-deprecation.

Aren't they

I'm certainly not a walking cliche this year. We're currently on an untypical all-inclusive on a Greek island for a fortnight as their covid testing packages were a quarter of the price of private ones.

It's amazing but everyone starts drinking cocktails at 11am...

@SocialAffairsAndWoodlandFolk

A couple of weeks ago, I had a disagreement with another poster on a thread about how relevant the labels working class/middle class were. If that poster happens to be reading, I'm admitting defeat.

It wasn't me, but I'm afraid you are right to concede. In the UK, everything is about class. EVERYTHING.

@allycat4 Yes I did wince at the opening post.

@Thelikelylass
@TheWholeJingbang
I think you both sound great fun!!
Plus genuine

Very, very funny! Love the 'frou frou shepherd's hut"😂😂, made me laugh out loud!

@Camomila

For anyone that hasn't been on their holidays yet - Lidl has kids shortie wetsuits at the moment. I'm off to get one this afternoon.

Oooh how much?

I want to say 6.99? I didn't buy one when I first saw them because I wasn't sure of the size (chest sizes in inches, not ages), hopefully there'll be some left.

yoga this morning after my breakfast of fresh fruit from my veg box delivered by the local greengrocer and yoghurt delivered by my milkman. Lunch of sourdough and charcuterie from the baker and deli. I'm wearing clothes from our independent boutique. My cliche falls down because I have fake Farrow and Ball pain in my sitting room

it's paint not pain - but maybe it is pain because I don't have the real F&B

And this is why I am so glad I don't live in the UK anymore, the smuggery is stultifying

I've enjoyed this thread enormously, even though none of it applies to me whatsoever.

British wankery in all it's many forms! Wonderful.

[quote ablutiions]**@mrs* and @earrings* do feel free to bugger off then ?

We are all having a nice chat thanks. [/quote]
This thread is humble brag.

When called out, OP turned nasty in an instant.

Is that middle class?

The hostility is just hiding under the surface. The Boden lifestyle is a gloss for something unpleasant.

I cannot see why anyone would find this thread amusing at all. Self congratulatory tedious smuggery.

It makes me think of:

@cervixuser

yoga this morning after my breakfast of fresh fruit from my veg box delivered by the local greengrocer and yoghurt delivered by my milkman. Lunch of sourdough and charcuterie from the baker and deli. I'm wearing clothes from our independent boutique. My cliche falls down because I have fake Farrow and Ball pain in my sitting room

die, heretic

@HelenHywater

I cannot see why anyone would find this thread amusing at all. Self congratulatory tedious smuggery.

I think there's a degree of exaggeration for effect!

@peaceanddove

Hell yeah, I'm clichéd up to the hilt and love it.

Privately and university educated. Happily married to a successful company director. Both teenage daughters attended a top performing village primary, followed by a top performing girls' grammar school. Eldest DD off to art school this September to study Fine Art & Photography.

We live in a big Georgian house, in the middle of a naice village. Interiors are all about Farrow & Ball and John Lewis, with Laura Ashley curtains (I paid extra to have the curtains hand finished by someone called Blodwen at their Welsh factory, which is the height of privileged twattery). We have a cleaner and a gardener, obvs.

Groceries come from Waitrose or M&S or Cook, but we eat out a lot at the weekend. I have just started yoga in the village and obviously look a complete cliche in my Boden yoga gear + matching yoga mat (yes, really).

We should have been on holiday in the Italian Lakes last month, but because of Covid we booked a frou frou Shepherd's Hut in Cornwall instead - of course it had an outdoor firepit and a Gaggia coffee machine. Obviously, I packed my Seasalt bretons, my Lotta from Stockholm clogs and my Toast white linen shirts (because, yes, I have an actual Cornwall holiday wardrobe as opposed to my Italian holiday wardrobe which is a tad more glamorous).

Right now, I'm wearing silk mix, paisley PJs which I 'sourced' (not just bought) from Etsy while drinking coffee and chatting with DD2 about her possibly doing a year out in Paris to polish her French as she wants to study French + Economics at university. Luckily, my cousin's DH is French and they keep a bijou apartment in Paris where she can stay. Which is nice.

[implodes in a torrent of her own clichéd cuntiness]

This has got to be someone taking the piss, right? I admit to having had a privileged upbringing and living a comfortable life myself, but I honestly couldn't bring myself to write something like this. Embarrassing and completely tone deaf.

And hasn't heard about Brexit presumably?