to ask, can you all just make it clear whether you are WC or MC?

[bejeezusWC]

so I know whether I value your opinion on any given topic, or whether I will just humour you

I am working class, just so you know. Although 'I pass' for MC, so I may be moving amongst you undetected. be afraid

WC in disguise ... and working in totally MC corporate world where i now see it as an asset/shamelessly use my WC'ness to my own advantage if necessary/in the doo dah: while playing on the fact that i 'pass' for MC!

Have you nothing more important to worry about?
No idea what class I am.... went to private school, joined army as a squaddie at 18, became a single mum on benefits at 24, now a registered nurse (professional) living in owned ex-council house.
What does that make me? Seriously, I'm intrigued

i dont worry about it

i am proud of being WC. It is very much part of my identity

I cant tell you what you are. What do you id as? it doesnt sound like its important to your identity

Neither, I disagree that people should be sterotyped into brackets of class.

i am a classy

that is all you need to know

Went to a slightly rough state school with low exam results, council house background, but somehow came out middle class. Even the teachers at school used to joke about it, my schoolmates didn't bully me but gave up trying to convert me as I was "too posh". It was unsurmountable. Couldn't help it.

I have no class at all.

I was brought up in council house by working single mum. Grandparents paid for private school. Uni, moved abroad, good job, nice house, kids in private school, vote socialist, shop in lidl, clothes from gap.
The French don't talk about class as such anyway but in the posh town near my village, all the people look the same -RL polos for the men, bobbed hair and chanel dresses for the women and little boys in knickerbockers (yes really!)

UMC

No, totally confused. Half our living room is taken up by books and the other half by a whacking big fish tank, which I was informed on another thread is the ultimate in chaviness.

slipper

lou i agree people shouldnt be stereotyped
but people can choose what ever criteria they like to form their identity

Is it only on MN that class is important? In RL where does the matter come up and how does it affect our decision making?

Working Class and wishing I could win the damn lottery

cory really? about the fishtanks?

cant abide the word chav

sugarice it doesnt really come up in RL IME

But I do notice a difference often between my MC friends and me/my WC friends...in terms of 'approach' to life/problems etc I think

I'm a foreigner! We are in a class of our own.

I have no idea.

I too am WC but could be mistaken for MC

I may well be both, I have a whacking great fish tank, but an untidy house, apparently WC houses are always clean?!?
MC DCS wear odd sock, which mine do

Dunno, I grew up on a council estate in Liverpool and watch Jeremy Kyle but I went to private school and am married to a professor.

I am middle class.

For some reason, this seem to be something I should be ashamed of on MN.

I know we don't like tickers and stuff on here (too reminiscent of that other website) but so that you can tell instantly whether or not to agree with a poster, there is obviously a need for something underneath each and every post to make a few of the following things clear: working v middle class; type of school DCs attend; working or non-working mother; supermarket preference; number of items of Boden in wardrobe; and of course, most vitally, favourite biscuit.

I'm sure MNHQ tech bods could rustle up something suitably informative and sparkly by this afternoon?

I think we need definitive MN criteria so we are quite clear on what makes us MC or WC...

1. Size of televisual equipment

WC, but now send children to private school and wander around the middle classes undetected (so far)

I'm WC and proud. I don't want to have all these MC worries now do I? As WC have none of there own of course

Ooh, a thread about a thread. How very lower class.