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Lighthearted - What’s the most (stereotypically) middle class thing you’ve done/said recently?

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CatteryCatss · 13/02/2025 13:57

I’ve just re-waxed my Barbour jacket…

What about you?

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Snowmanscarf · 07/03/2025 18:04

@bellocchild wrong thread ?

SiobhanSharpe · 07/03/2025 18:06

Mumofmarauders · 13/02/2025 14:12

My sister overheard a mum saying to a toddler in Cambridge "I think you'll find that I've been more than accommodating, Barnaby" and though it was years ago, it still makes me laugh every time I think about it.

That is so very, very Cambridge. I live there.
Today I was tasting and comparing my 2025 jars of home made marmalade with the 2024 batch, which was rather better.

bellocchild · 07/03/2025 18:11

Snowmanscarf · 07/03/2025 18:04

@bellocchild wrong thread ?

Yes! Sorry.

SiobhanSharpe · 07/03/2025 18:42

JustMeAndTheFish · 16/02/2025 08:49

You are not alone; I always take my Abu Dhabi Carrefour and LuLu bags 🤪

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I'm rather fond of my Spanish El Corte Inglés and Hipercor plastic bags. Great quality.

CrystalSingerFan · 07/03/2025 18:45

HectorPlasm · 13/02/2025 15:37

I can tick 4 of those 5 if you substitute a small ginger cockerpoo and a clapped out Volvo ...

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You made tortellini stuffed with cockerpoo rather than pheasant?!

CrystalSingerFan · 07/03/2025 18:49

HangingOver · 16/02/2025 08:55

Fuck me. The last person who had wine in my house drank it out a jam jar 😁

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Drinking out of the bottle is fine. Or just buy some straws if you're feeling proper posh.

SiobhanSharpe · 07/03/2025 18:49

On the phone talking to DS who was at uni, telling him we were calling in at an Italian deli on the way to his and asked if he wanted anything.
'Oh yes please, some thick sliced pancetta and a packet of dried porcini. '
(with all the 'ch' pronunciations. )
We could hear his flatmates pissing themselves with laughter on the other end of the phone.

LillyPJ · 07/03/2025 18:51

Sweetpea1532 · 07/03/2025 03:25

American here..(so no NHS) ,By the time our 3rd DC came along, we were quite poor, and we couldnt afford medical insurance. My Dsis found a bargain basement deal for me. I was able to deliver him at a teaching hospital that only charged an all inclusive small fee for being a guinea pig for the medical students. As I was being wheeled into the delivery room, I loudly called out to my DH to remind the staff that I had paid extra for a private room.I cringed when I realized how spoiled I sounded, but didnt care one bit! it was the best $30 I've ever spent.

Thank God for the NHS! But a private room sounds great so you made a wise choice.

Gettingbysomehow · 07/03/2025 18:51

I shrieked "That's frightful", very loudly. I realised I sounded just like my grandmother who was an aristocrat 😲I'm not like her side of the family at all. I live an alternative life in Glastonbury.

CrystalSingerFan · 07/03/2025 19:09

I'm sitting here eating Waitrose freshly made sushi, watching the World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys on TV and correcting Bill Nighy's grammar. Also, every morning I get my news by reading articles on the BBC News website and frothing over the inadequate proofreading and unnecessary Americanisms. (Although maybe that's just an age thing rather than a MC thing?)

Ineffable23 · 07/03/2025 19:57

Someone told me yesterday that I had a "perfect RP accent", which was not the most MC thing I have ever said but clearly I sounded absurdly middle class to elicit that response.

And today I made a comté and wild garlic souffle for dinner, which felt outrageously middle class but was totally delicious.

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