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Original poster

AIBU to wonder what activities/attributes/attitudes/acquisitions/attir e mark a person out as definitely middle class?

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PhylisStein · 06/09/2011 22:04

I have just returned home from a Boden clothes party where I drank Prosecco and talked about house prices!

Am I middle class? How can I be sure? What else would mark me out as middle class?

Do I need more than one sort of houmous in my fridge at all times?

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colditz · 06/09/2011 22:05

YANBU

magicmelons · 06/09/2011 22:07

Did you measure the distance between your best local school and your house before your dc started? Did you move to be closest to the best school?

Dragonwoman · 06/09/2011 22:07

Yep you're middle class! There's no way back from a Boden clothes party!

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PhylisStein · 06/09/2011 22:08

OMG - NO I didn't!

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fourkids · 06/09/2011 22:09

you mustn't have those earrings which you can jump a chihuahua through - as one MNer once said and I've been dying to repeat ever since! :)

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PhylisStein · 06/09/2011 22:09

The Boden was 20 percent off though!

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RedOnion · 06/09/2011 22:10

What "class" does one fall into if one attends an ann summers party and whilst playing the name a rude word from a to z shouts out JIZZUM for J??? Is one lower class? Should one flog ones whippet and hope t'child is back from t'mill with 3 and 6 soon?

magicmelons · 06/09/2011 22:11

When I saw the boden party thing i thought who the hell would do that? I got a 20% discount code today, no presseco though Sad

Original poster
PhylisStein · 06/09/2011 22:11

I have some discreet pearl earings - are they better?

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RedOnion · 06/09/2011 22:11

Those earrings are well spensive hun. Innit. Lol xx

RedOnion · 06/09/2011 22:11

Phylis - do you have the matching pearl necklace?

yellowsubmarine41 · 06/09/2011 22:11

Just knowing that the phrase 'The Boden was 20 percent off' demands an exclamation mark has a definitely air of middle-classness.

magicmelons · 06/09/2011 22:12

prosecco even.

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PhylisStein · 06/09/2011 22:12

Red - one is definitely of the lower orders!

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2cats2many · 06/09/2011 22:13

Since when did large hoop earrings become middle class? Surely wearing Birkenstocks and being on first name terms with the staff at Waitrose is more of a giveaway?

fourkids · 06/09/2011 22:13

RedOnion - LOL

RedOnion · 06/09/2011 22:13

One is offended. One hopes there is a dribble more Hock left in the bottle that I stole from Aldi.

cottonreels · 06/09/2011 22:14

You'll need to stick your little finger out when you hold anything in your hands.

magicmelons · 06/09/2011 22:14

May i ask about the host? Who the hell were they and why would you offer to throw a party for randoms? Apart from automatically catapulting yourself to Queen of the middle class mummies ( and free clothes)

RedOnion · 06/09/2011 22:14

Sorry - in the bottle that I made my 17 month old steal from Aldi. She doesn't get asked for ID as she has got big earrings and a tattoo. Erm, innit.

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PhylisStein · 06/09/2011 22:14

I do know all the staff at my local Waitrose - it is so reassuring to have one's fevered brow soothed by the John Lewis Partnership!

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fourkids · 06/09/2011 22:14

2cats2many - since never...one must have the pearl variety. necklace is optional...

nothingoldcanstay · 06/09/2011 22:15

If you are in any way thinking about being middle class then I expect you are. I'd aim higher.

RedOnion · 06/09/2011 22:16

John Lewis himself soothes my brow....yeah biatches Grin

Teachermumof3 · 06/09/2011 22:16

Oooh-20% off, that's borderline!

Did you take a Cath Kidston bag with you to said party?