To wonder why there's so many threads taking the mick out of the middles classes, yet one look on the baby name thread makes me vomit

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Bertram
Felix
Florence

No.
No.
No.

My grandad was called Bertie - he was middle class.
I met a Felix once - he was a criminal - is that underclass?
I've never met a Florence but it's a really lovely name and I wish I'd thought of it for my dd.

So what are the "normal people's" baby names OP?

what a peculiar thread

PMSL I have a friend who has a sister with a baby called Felix, everytime someone asks what he is called I have to restrain myself from the words: "Oh like the cat" popping out my mouth.

I know of a Bartholemew (sp?)

Names fall through the classes and then go out of fashion for about 2 generations until revived by the "upper class" or celebrities and so the cycle continues. So you can't really tell that the people posting in baby names are middle class.

Just laughed out loud and snorted drink out of nose at Diablo

breatheslowly - I disagree with that!

Are you saying the middle and working classes have no say at all in which names get revived?

Celebrities just give their children ludicrous names, and you can't tell me the upper classes are responsible for the likes of Ruby, Archie and Alfie hitting the top spots.

Op Is saying that many threads are sniffy about aspiring middle class types and yet her perusal of the baby names section indicates a lot of names which would not seem out of place in the family of aspiring middle class types.

Agree or disagree but I think her point is understandable.
Well it is to me

@loopyloopsbettyboops

Florence is a lovely name.

And my lovely brother Hugo isn't pretentious at all and carries his usual name very well, though he did used to get bullied terribly by ignorant feckwits the other children in school for it.

@the OP - wow, yeah, I know, the middle classes! Bastards, the lot of them :l

Agree Pagwatch - that is her point. But it just seems to me like yet another dullsville crack at the MC. I mean, vomiting over a name? Come on!

Florence a "middle class" name??? My grandmother was a Florence and was SO NOT middle class!!!

? WTF

You think reading the daily mail is middle class? The Guardian and The Independent are middle class.

Middle class people loathe 4x4's. They can't afford them.

I'll give you the chicken keeping.

I've a chicken called Bertie :)

hehe i'm obviously just jealous because I live in a flat and can't keep chickens and therefore don't qualify to have a Florence!

Don't snort your wine sharkskinthing, it's not good for you!

I really dont think you should call a child 'courtney fat fingers' Gordys

Hyperbole makes me vomit.

I am the proud owner of a bugaboo and a pretentiously named baby.

I am most certainly not middle class and have no money, Bugaboos are a very good investment I'll get most of the money I paid for it. Your primark special will end up on freecycle.

My pretentiously named baby will also have better a chance when people read her CV compared to little Shiraz.

'Joined mn in the hope of finding some normal people'

hahahhahahhaahhahahhahhahahhahahahahhahahahahhaaaaaaaaaaaaa

My friend's son is called Jago

Oh I am soooooo bored with all the class stuff on here. Really, who cares?

Some working class people are wankers, most probably aren't.
Some middle class people are wankers, most probably aren't.
Some upper class people are wankers, most probably aren't.

IMHO. Not that I am humble.

Bertram is the only howler on that list. Felix is normal. I know a Felix who must be about 13 by now. Florence was the name of a relative.

You're right BelleDameSansMerci...

Eh???? My GGM was Florence and was born into a 1 up 1 down in South Yorks in 1880 something. I wasn't aware that having a Florence had qualifying conditions! Might be posh/trendy now but it wasn't back then.

@LolaRennt nah my Shiraz will be a sleb on X Factor and your preshuss baby will be scooting around organising her press releases :o