What things are considered trashy if you’re poor but not if you’re wealthy?

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As someone who has been both, I am intrigued to hear what people think!

I thought today that going to the races, like Royal Ascot, is entirely acceptable if you're rich and aristocratic. If I go or are really into it, as first generation immigrant, I know my colleagues will say it's ridiculous.

I was going to say - drinking too much!

Also, bleach blond hair and huge boobs

Dirty kids is a great one

As a hobby.
But often it’s just part of life if you live and work in the countryside. If you have a shotgun license anyway , clay shoots are a fun social activity. It’s usually a mix of posh folk and very average earning rural folk.

I think the races is a perfect storm though. Royals traditionally support it. Yet it’s so Chevy in many respects. Literally as the Romany/gypsy community are fans if racing and betting.
I think it’s great when worlds collide. I dislike the lazy sterotypes

Indeed. Especially when it’s often the same huge sum of money being passed on without being taxed (or minimally) generation after generation after generation. The current generation benefit hugely without any effort or hard work themselves, from the labours of people they often didn’t even know.

Any other family would not have had the millions that has been spent on this case.

I don't blame them for the cost, I'm sure every parent would move heaven and earth if their child was missing, but how many other families have a lost child?

Back to the poor / posh.

Mending things, darning socks that type of thing.

Not all wealthy people have earned their money through their own hard work and sacrifice. Very, very few have come from a poor working class background and made exceptionally good. It’s not fair to say anyone could make it if they worked hard enough as that is patently not true. I don’t agree with the benefits culture we have atm but if business and billionaires don’t want to invest in the workforce of the uk then I’m not sure how that can be solved.

As an average person if I owe HMRC £1000 then they will come after me with all sorts of threats and powers. If I inherit over the limit then I will have to pay inheritance tax - no special trusts or accountants to get me out of that. And to a pp you do pay tax on savings, we wouldn’t need Isas so you don’t otherwise. And last I heard the gov wanted to reduce the isa limit as too many regular people are trying to save their money and not using it in the economy. But yeah, poor millionaires if they were expected to pay what they should, like I have to as I’m PAYE.

I suppose a similarity is that people who don’t consider themselves to be poor or rich will argue the case that the poor or the rich deserve more money to themselves but probably no individual would argue for both rich and poor equally in this respect.

Breeding your female dog.

Prince William - good job.
Average person - irresponsible owner.

Those parents were both from staunchly working-class backgrounds. They are doctors because they worked for that privilege.

And if you're trying to suggest they were given a free pass for this, then I recommend reading back through any contemporary articles or the perfect storm of hideous comments written about them on social media. They were absolutely excoriated.

To my knowledge I'm not an immigrant (meaning my family are not recent ones). And I share your nonplussed response to this. I cannot bear the irrational British hang-up about social class. Having lived temporarily in ME, US, attitudes there were completely different - true to say snobbery did exist, but it was not of the variety of 'know your place and stay in it, and if you don't you're somehow a "traitor"'.

I've been a republican since my teens - back when we really were in the minority. That tide has gradually turned and there are now a great many more of us.

The fact that the loopholes even exist tells us exactly who has the privilege.

Otherwise, they'd have closed them. This wouldn't be difficult. If this hasn't happened, it's because there isn't the will to do so.

Hahaha! Absolutely!

Speaking two languages

Leaving children to their own devices.

If you’re poor, it’s neglect.
If you’re rich, it’s Montessori parenting 🫠🫠😂

There was a great meme about this when Princess Charlotte was a toddler 😂

”Princess Charlotte already speaks two languages at 3 years old”…….👀👀👀👀👀 “So do most children of immigrants but I guess it’s less impressive when you’re poor” 🫠🫠

Being judgemental enough to make a post like this!!!!

Agree.

I was on a tour that included a stay at a classy Swiss hotel and the breakfast buffet had stylish, chic Continental European couples drinking glasses of Prosecco at breakfast, obviously on a weekend away. I was impressed.

Where do gangland shootings fit into this scale? (Asking for a friend.)

Voting Tory

Yellow teeth.

My mother always said…money shouts, wealth whispers. If you have money, you don’t need everyone to know because it’s enough that you yourself know it! Some of the richest folk I know wore no label clothes, one even used string to tie around her waist so his gardening trousers didn’t fall down yet had more money than those chavtastic folk bedecked in Burberry and Gucci loudly branded items 😆

Loads of kids.

Leaving your children unattended at night to go and eat dinner and drink with your friends who are also doing the same…..
Posh people probably think this is so liberal and relaxed and are so pleased with themselves.
In poorer communities it’s called neglect.
One set of people would be criminalised.
The other would not, even if one of the children goes missing…..🤔