Not to know what is middle class

[Goldchilled7up]

Inspired by another thread in chat, what does middle class mean to you?

I seriously don't know. Aibu?

It means nothing to me because I don't recognise 'class'

People are people...some good, some bad and some fucking morons.

So called 'classes' can and never will change that.

I was wondering the same thing.

Good post worra, I agree. But I'm curious about other people's perception.

Depends it what sense? Literal?

Asking about class shows you care about class. Which makes you classless.

HTH

I dunno either but I kinda ain't got the heidspace to bother about it

(I do find some folk common but that ain't necc class IYSWIM)

I don't think there's such a thing as class in this country tbh.

Cat

Saying you don't believe in it doesn't really answer the op!

I know I am MC - my mum was a teacher, my dad an NHS dentist and I'm a teacher. I think it's about your job - being in a profession or in a managerial position. Will read other posts with interest as I don't really know either.

Exactly worra. Well said.

I don't believe there is a middle class it's just a term used by people who feel although they still have to work for a living they aren't working class.

You tube Billy Connolly's rant about the middle classes, hilarious and sums it up nicely!

*think they aren't working class

I don't give a shiny shite.. Who cares really!?

Wasn't it John Major who claimed we live in a "classless society", before shafting the poor to ensure the rich maintained or increased their income? Mind you, he was small fry compared to our current leader. Now, is he upper class or just stupidly rich middle class?

No, it's a radio station.

Happy to self define as middle class. I think mn itself is a mc construct

There is a book called Watching the English written by an anthropologist who had observed English behaviours and came up with lots of descriptors of working, middle and upper class eg whether you call it a sofa or a settee, lunch/dinner and tea/supper, toilet/lavatory, napkin/serviette. Can't remember much of it but I thought it was very interesting at the time.

my school history teacher defined mc for us as 'owning ones own home', but that could well be outdated.
another of her bonmots was 'never get your Baltics mixed up with your Balkans' which has stuck with me for some reason.

Saying you don't believe in it doesn't really answer the op!

The op asked "what does middle class mean to you?"

So I answered by telling her it means nothing to me because I don't believe in it

recent definition that got a mention as one of the best jokes in the fringe - You know you are working class if your telly is bigger than your bookcase. That puts me squarely in the middle class bracket!

Oh lark FFS

so if my dad was a brain surgeon, my mum a high court judge, and me a carpet fitter??

Would I be mc by association? Or wc class, despite having mc siblings. What rot you speak.

Class is an ghastly outdated form of prejudice.

claiming you don't believe in class is quite a middle class thing to do.

mc in this country is anyone not landed gentry who doesn't define as working class tbh.

I recommend "Watching the English" by Kate Fox. First book I read when I came to the UK - very enlightening!