to think that MN is descending into class war?

[Hullygully]

Today I have read a comment that someone's potential home looks like "a council house on a sink estate," seen a debate about "chav fashion," vile comments about "Poor Kids" etc and seen numerous threads over the past few days where people fight to gang up together against the infesting lower orders with their bad grammar, poor articulation, txt spk and poor spelling.

WTF people?

It is snobbery. Nothing else.

Perhaps the answer - we should all speak Bread.

I've always wondered why northerners are fatter and generally not as healthy as southerners - ( Glasgow salad meaning chips for example )

That is very northernist.

Plenty of big ol southern fatties round my way. Not me, of course

you can only get away with that Primal if your are fat and from the north or I'll throw some deep fried mars bars at ya!

Sorry to change the subject but

AAArrrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Another benefits thread!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Bread Thread witty eh

Discuss the North South divide (joke)

all this talk of chips is making me hungry, possibly a stottie chip butty for tea with lashings of oxo gravy

Am scared of carbs so doomed to a life of hatchet faced grumpiness.

Carbs make me want to lie on the sofa and eat toffee popcorn. But then sometimes that is a good way to spend a week.
It is difficult isn't it?

a stottie chip butty...I can feel my fat cells multiplying just at the sound of it.

I did see the benefits in passing - but my blood pressure won't take it. Go forth and spread love.

toffee popcorn

oh yes

I had a whole giant bag all to myself whilst watching POTC 4. Total sensory bliss.

• deep fried mars bars - Did they really exist?

Yes the chip shop i worked in sold them. Never tried one, it just sounds wrong and being cooked in the same fat as fish doesnt help. Yak.

(paints a lovely picture of myself on MN) i am 5ft7 and 9 stone, honestly i am, i know you's dont believe me but its true

You are VAST and greasy. We know. There's deep fried pizza too. Good grief.

I don't think this sea change happened after the election. Rather that it began with the initial banking bailout and the recession.

A fair few MNers and their DHs lost their jobs in the first wave of job losses (2 years ago), and there were lots and lots of threads about austerity, meal-planning, shopping around, saving money left right and centre.

Then it all went a little too far, and people who hadn't suffered hardship were indulging in poverty tourism, and quite understandably sections of MN who have always been on a low income started to feel patronised by those who previously had been happy to gush about their latest holiday, pair of shoes, new car etc. I don't mean all posters, just some, but you know the type of thread I mean (Wow- who knew you could get guacamole at Aldi, and it's almost edible type threads).

Then there was political fever and politrolls in the run-up to the election, and the feeling for many (on both sides of the political spectrum) that this election meant something; it was a watershed, and things afterwards would be different in the UK.

The aftermath has left many deflated. It very much seems as though divide and rule is the agenda at present, and my goodness it's working.

I once tried a battered deep fried mars bar. It was actually quite nice.

I also love pasties. Which way is netmums huns? LOL

But this thread isn't about "bashing" benefit claimants is it? Is is about people who look down on others by calling them "chavs" and sneering at houses that look like ex-council houses.

Most benefit claimants don't buy Burberry as they can't afford it - therefore most benefit claimants aren't "chavs" and by default, people who sneer at so called "chavs" aren't having a go at the welfare state IMO.

Similarly, ex council houses have been purchased - presumably by people who are not on benefits?

I am fairly wealthy, I vote conservative. I do not call people "chavs" and I never have done, you may have seen me on a few threads on here saying how much I hate the term. I was born in a council house and lived in one until I left home at 19. My mother still lives in hers.

I don't know who these people are who sneer and laugh at the less educated, think they are better than those who use terms like "hun" or "LO", criticise the wc who buy designer clothes or live in council houses. All I do know is that I am very glad I am not one of them.

I agree with diabolo and swanker. Excellent posts both.

It's insecurity I'm sure.

I try to reign myself in and remember there is a real person on the other end of the Pc....

Me too, if everyone did it, we wouldn't have this thread, and you don't sound like Whitehouse

Stottie bread is the best, I am a bread bigot, I get more excited about my sarnies the further north I go.

This threas is like bread porn.

thread

I got some of Rankins Irish Soda bread. It was on offer at Tesco. Inspired by the bread thread we have just had some with chicken salad (proper salad, not scottish salad) for tea. Not sure about it. It was brown so maybe i should have bought white.

I've never understood why the word 'hun' is so bad - isn't it short for honey?
It's very American but I wouldn't be offended by it -
Language is a wonderful thing and we should use as many words as possible.

I made one of those sandwich baked loaf thingies last week, where you stick your filling in the dough and the bake it, and its all warm and sandwichy and fresh and .......

And I'm a crispy duck and plum sauce kinda girl