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Middle class life

342 replies

Blueandsilver · 11/08/2022 20:29

Not one of those goady or provocative titles. I suppose I see Mumsnet in this bracket although perhaps less so than maybe ten years ago.

I’m just thinking things like Downton Abbey, John Lewis, national trust memberships, NCT classes, Volvos, Labradors.

What else?

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Cam22 · 12/08/2022 19:28

SleepingStandingUp · 12/08/2022 19:12

The Rooney's seen to have taken a very different approach to the Beckham's re the kids. I know they're still young but there seems to be no thrusting of them into the public eye. I don't get the impression they live the same "glitz and glamour" lifestyle that the Beckham's aspire to. The Beckham kids have an over abundance of opportunities and Brooklyn at least seems unable to settle. Hopefully he'll do better at marriage. But you know what, all three Beckham lads work and modelling is no less reasonable a job for them as it is for anyone else. Not everything is measurable by the letters after your name

The Beckham sons are “models” only because of who their parents are. It’s not the usual route into modelling, that’s for sure. None of them is model material in the real sense. Everyone must be aware of that.

faffadoodledo · 12/08/2022 19:45

@Cam22 you know how everyone is different? Well it's quite likely the Rooneys are different from the Beckhams. Just because both blokes have played a bit of football does not mean they hold identical family values. You seem hell bent on lumping groups of people together according to your own narrow views.
You might sneer at someone for only getting GCSEs (like my plumber and builder and electrician and vast numbers of other useful members of society)) but you seem to be demonstrating a distinct lack of critical thinking skills. What makes you so superior?
Me and my family have degrees of different levels coming out of our ears but honestly some of the brightest people I know left school at 16 - through choice but also for a variety of other reasons.

Janedoe82 · 12/08/2022 20:12

It’s all about codes and who knows the code and who doesn’t.
You learn the code from your parents and if they don’t know it you won’t.

Janedoe82 · 12/08/2022 20:13

And there is a vast difference between lower middle class with a bit of money and upper.

daisychain01 · 12/08/2022 20:20

Blueandsilver · 11/08/2022 20:29

Not one of those goady or provocative titles. I suppose I see Mumsnet in this bracket although perhaps less so than maybe ten years ago.

I’m just thinking things like Downton Abbey, John Lewis, national trust memberships, NCT classes, Volvos, Labradors.

What else?

Just the mere fact you lump "Mumsnet" into one homogeneous blob shows your ignorance.

UWhatNow · 12/08/2022 20:46

Class markers of any kind - money, RP speech, titles, private education etc don’t demarcate integrity or authenticity. What is scary is the amount of middle class people who just assume all WC people are thick criminal scum. Or a class of people to be patronised and pitied politically when virtue signalling their narrow world view.

RenegadeMatron · 12/08/2022 20:57

Mumsnet - middle class… Grin

It’s full of posters married to toyboys with 4 DC by 3 different men whatsapping pool boys - and others shagging their ex while their 9YO DC arrives home at 2am, letting themselves in with their own key and discovering them in bed.

Not that these things are real - but this is what constitutes MN these days.

Even putting aside these ludicrous scenarios, Mumsnet is an utter eye-opener in a, let’s just say, very non-middle class way. Grin

Janedoe82 · 12/08/2022 21:03

The woman with the pool boy definitely not middle class 🙈

Cam22 · 12/08/2022 21:17

Do people come in an amount? Number, surely.

Cam22 · 12/08/2022 21:18

RenegadeMatron · 12/08/2022 20:57

Mumsnet - middle class… Grin

It’s full of posters married to toyboys with 4 DC by 3 different men whatsapping pool boys - and others shagging their ex while their 9YO DC arrives home at 2am, letting themselves in with their own key and discovering them in bed.

Not that these things are real - but this is what constitutes MN these days.

Even putting aside these ludicrous scenarios, Mumsnet is an utter eye-opener in a, let’s just say, very non-middle class way. Grin

How bitter.

Cam22 · 12/08/2022 21:20

faffadoodledo · 12/08/2022 19:45

@Cam22 you know how everyone is different? Well it's quite likely the Rooneys are different from the Beckhams. Just because both blokes have played a bit of football does not mean they hold identical family values. You seem hell bent on lumping groups of people together according to your own narrow views.
You might sneer at someone for only getting GCSEs (like my plumber and builder and electrician and vast numbers of other useful members of society)) but you seem to be demonstrating a distinct lack of critical thinking skills. What makes you so superior?
Me and my family have degrees of different levels coming out of our ears but honestly some of the brightest people I know left school at 16 - through choice but also for a variety of other reasons.

Me and my family? Middle class people would say “My family and I…”.

RenegadeMatron · 12/08/2022 21:23

Cam22 · 12/08/2022 21:18

How bitter.

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You got me Wink

faffadoodledo · 12/08/2022 22:03

Oh @Cam22 you've cut me to the quick. I'm not sure I shall recover from that low blow.

kimchifox · 12/08/2022 22:18

Surely this is already done to death?!!

CuriousCatfish · 12/08/2022 22:29

The MC are all shagging the gardener.

alotoftutus · 12/08/2022 22:51

Where I live it would be boden dresses and saltwater sandals 😂

Janedoe82 · 12/08/2022 22:52

Yuck. How very aspirational. The upper middle class mums I know wouldn’t be caught dead in a Boden dress.

alotoftutus · 12/08/2022 23:40

@Janedoe82 awww upper middles are an entire different class though so the same standards don't apply lol

palygold · 12/08/2022 23:56

I think the last long running class markers thread (we filled the first) ended with the importance of sleep!

Janedoe82 · 12/08/2022 23:58

They wouldn’t be in joules either. Unless it was horsey stuff they got at a game fair.

Naturelover5 · 13/08/2022 00:25

Lykia · 12/08/2022 14:59

I love these threads as I always wonder where you place the Rooneys ( Wayne and Colleen).

Are they still working class despite living a multi millionaire lifestyle? Does their money mean they live a middle class lifestyle but are not middle class due to their working class background.

Colleen shops at Waitrose, their children are privately educated, multiple holidays a year surely they're not still working class are they?

I have seen the Rooney's at the airport, the boys are impeccably behaved, they were actually on our flight. Upper class judging ó the boys manners & behaviour.. And there's four of them! Gorgeous boys & well done to the parents... The flight in question was delayed, my lot did not cope quite as well as the Rooney boys but we loved to tell the tale😬

SleepingStandingUp · 13/08/2022 00:42

Cam22 · 12/08/2022 19:28

The Beckham sons are “models” only because of who their parents are. It’s not the usual route into modelling, that’s for sure. None of them is model material in the real sense. Everyone must be aware of that.

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They are hardly the first family in the world where a bit of nepotism has helped. Lets not pretend that's the preserve of celebrities only. I think Romeo is probably the right aesthetic to be picked up even without the fame but we'll never know

SleepingStandingUp · 13/08/2022 00:43

But kids the the Rooney kids will learn the code from people their parents can pay for them to be around.

tiger2691 · 13/08/2022 05:57

Not sure, people who talk about/ meet up for brunch?

autienotnaughty · 13/08/2022 06:57

BlueKaftan · 11/08/2022 20:33

But it is goady. What’s wrong with being middle class? I’m not from the U.K. originally but this class marker crap is tiresome.

Nothings wrong with it . That's the point , it's better because you don't have the barriers that the working class/ lower class do. As long as you recognise your privileged and don't judge those below you., it's not really a problem. But I would be in a minority.