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I just peaked at middle class wankerism

913 replies

Buckarooo · 05/04/2025 11:47

At a farm café... naturally. And daughter is on special diet, so she was eating her packed lunch. And she went to eat her apple ...I found my self saying "oh darling, let me wash your apple, it's got brioche crumbs all over it"

What a dick I am 🤣

OP posts:
BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:02

I'm feeling bitchy tonight can I ask did you understand what I meant by hacking.

orangedream · 05/04/2025 19:03

iwentjasonwaterfalls · 05/04/2025 19:02

"Sorry, young child. Unfortunately your dietary needs that are completely out of your control mean you'll just have to sit and watch the rest of us eat. Hard luck".

Fair enough.

SassySusie · 05/04/2025 19:05

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:00

It's terrifying how uneducated people are the world we live in. Class is used by finances professionals and government to make assessing large groups of people quickly. Being a trader is a skilled professional job you are not working class. When you apply for job there is a reason you are asked if you were the first person in your family to go to university. Why do you think this question is asked, it's to profile people quickly. Please don't spread misinformation because your not very well off and can't afford brioche.@

I have never worked with so many working class lads as when I worked on a trading floor so you are wrong there too. There are different types of traders and trading floors. You are the one who are misinformed.

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BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:06

Oh my God traders are from a working class background they themselves are not working class fucksake

SwanOfThoseThings · 05/04/2025 19:07

OP, you were going down the 'Sense of Humour' highway but for some reason most of the people on this thread have chosen to take the bypass.

I thought it was funny 😄

Maitri108 · 05/04/2025 19:07

iwentjasonwaterfalls · 05/04/2025 19:02

"Sorry, young child. Unfortunately your dietary needs that are completely out of your control mean you'll just have to sit and watch the rest of us eat. Hard luck".

Sorry children, there are poshos eating apples covered in brioche crumbs from a lunchbox. You'll have to wait until they've vacated their seats.

iwentjasonwaterfalls · 05/04/2025 19:09

Maitri108 · 05/04/2025 19:07

Sorry children, there are poshos eating apples covered in brioche crumbs from a lunchbox. You'll have to wait until they've vacated their seats.

I mean, from the OP it sounds like only the DD was having a lunch box. Whoever else was there was eating food from the cafe - otherwise, what's the point of going to a cafe?

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:10

I cannot believe I'm bothering to post this. It's not rocket science noone is out to get anyone. The ONS have a standardised explanations. Really really let this go. As my nan would say don't be wrong and strong.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-nation-2023-people-and-places/chapter-1-introduction

SassySusie · 05/04/2025 19:11

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:06

Oh my God traders are from a working class background they themselves are not working class fucksake

I think many of them would beg to differ. Why do you think walking onto a trading floor suddenly makes you middle class?

Titasaducksarse · 05/04/2025 19:11

I thought it was middle class because the apple got washed and not just wiped on my jumper?!

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:11

SassySusie · 05/04/2025 19:11

I think many of them would beg to differ. Why do you think walking onto a trading floor suddenly makes you middle class?

Just use Google please go read.

BarneyRonson · 05/04/2025 19:11

The main point in going to a cafe is to have a bacon sandwich. Life is never going to be the same, I blame the pigs.

Smallmercies · 05/04/2025 19:13

FiveWhatByFiveWhat · 05/04/2025 15:13

No idea if we're MC or not but this thread made me think of ds at age 3 wondering around Lidl with his little trolley calling out "BRIOCHE...Where are yooooou?" 🤣

More fool you for naming his big sis Brioche

quantumbutterfly · 05/04/2025 19:14

BarneyRonson · 05/04/2025 19:11

The main point in going to a cafe is to have a bacon sandwich. Life is never going to be the same, I blame the pigs.

It's always the pigs, George Orwell was right.

quantumbutterfly · 05/04/2025 19:14

Smallmercies · 05/04/2025 19:13

More fool you for naming his big sis Brioche

tbf it is a lovely name.

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:15

SassySusie · 05/04/2025 19:11

I think many of them would beg to differ. Why do you think walking onto a trading floor suddenly makes you middle class?

Because you are working in a skilled role that requires a specific skill set that requires advanced skill sets. Being middle class is just a description. I think you are talking about something else. It's just a fact.

LillyPJ · 05/04/2025 19:16

Definitely wankerism. You're brave to own up to that.

quantumbutterfly · 05/04/2025 19:16

Anyone watched the film 'Made in Dagenham' ? Marvellous film, good actors.

Smallmercies · 05/04/2025 19:18

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:15

Because you are working in a skilled role that requires a specific skill set that requires advanced skill sets. Being middle class is just a description. I think you are talking about something else. It's just a fact.

Plenty of working class roles require advanced skill sets

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:18

Wtf is a working class role

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:20

Because in this country specifically the following roles are classed as working class.

Cleaner
Porter
Babysitter
Shop floor worker.

All it means is the job requires no higher education no professional training and no mandated core competancy that's it nothing else.

threenaancurrywhore · 05/04/2025 19:20

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:18

Wtf is a working class role

It’s actually called a bap

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:21

Bap was for the posh kids we had half a loaf and sardines your privilege is showing.

LillyPJ · 05/04/2025 19:21

BunnyLake · 05/04/2025 17:20

I’m the same. Brought up on a council estate but my kids went to private (senior) school. Used to have 5* holiday lifestyle with ex, now broke and haven't had a holiday for eight years and probably never will again as will never be able to afford one. Son said his uni friends said he sounds posh (but I sound sarf London), it’s a real mix. One thing I do have though is a sense of humour and a self deprecating one. The day I can’t laugh at myself is the day I must have given up on life. The humourless ones on here just make me laugh though, it must be hard being that dry.

I don't know what class I am either. Most of the markers seem to be arbitrary and unimportant. Ex university lecturer, loves Wetherspoons, make all my own bread - by hand! - pronounces 'Bath' with a short 'a', plays classical violin...

SassySusie · 05/04/2025 19:22

BeCleverViewer · 05/04/2025 19:10

I cannot believe I'm bothering to post this. It's not rocket science noone is out to get anyone. The ONS have a standardised explanations. Really really let this go. As my nan would say don't be wrong and strong.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-of-the-nation-2023-people-and-places/chapter-1-introduction

Edited

This is a bit different to what we are discussing here which is more about the “culture”
of being middle class. For example, you having a Nan, immediately tells me that you are most likely working class. You might have an education or a highly skilled job, but I would still guess you are working class. There are so many subtle markers which isn’t just about avocado and shopping in Waitrose.

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