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Shall we be in the same gang, mrskoala? It's not much of a gang, but I do recognise the dilemma.

I don't mind white quinoa but not the red so much.

That probably speaks volumes of my soft left politics.

Will no one think of the Peruvians?

Do they read the Guardian?

I think there might have been a leaflet-drop telling them who to vote for

MrsKoala, I don't ever actually go to any Waitrose rl shops, the free delivery and money off the first shop suckered me in.

It's crawling with UKIP supporters here. I have had to seek the solace of my quinoa and dried mixed pulses collection.

I've never eaten quinoa. Do I have to leave the thread? Love Waitrose though.

Evening Comrades. I spent a weekend at Greenham once, back in the day. Good times!

Not MC.

Read everything I can get my eyes on.

Definitely a Leftie/Socialist.

Been accused on here often of being a 'latte sipping, guardian reading, north London dwelling MC yummy mummy' for my views, if only they knew!...

Hate the assumption that my kind are either not interested in politics or are right wing, but that is probably down to my WC chip...stands next to comrade Usualsuspect

I'm in Limitedperiod - how do we do this? Shall we do a Monty Python type competition about how WC we used to be? I'll start, when i was growing up and had a very MC friend round for lunch, she asked what country my dad was from because she didn't recognise the language we spoke at home. I said he was a cockney and and she had no idea what it was

at your lovely posh friend MrsKoala

'I say Koala there's a frightfully foreign gentleman sitting at the table, I wonder where he's jolly well from'

Well at first she said 'a workman has let himself in' and i had to say no, that's my dad. She looked and then he said hello and she had a blank look on her face like she couldn't understand what he was saying but just smiled and nodded like a you would if you were a royal on a tour talking to natives. After me and him had a conversation she asked where he was from when he went out. Afterwards he asked about her and said he thought she 'seemed nice but dim' i didn't have the heart to tell him. He thought we were all the same :(

My dc2 piped up loudly in a pub when we ordering lunch - "mummy do they have quinoa here?". Wasn't sure whether to be or .
Not sure why he brought it up there as I think he's only eaten it once, nicked off my plate.

'a workman has let himself in'

Sounds like she'd escaped from the pages of an Enid Blyton book.

That's bad, but good MrsKoala. Where did she come from? Chiswick is very nice these days.

At 15 I was mocked all week for my gor-blimeyness by a middle class schoolfriend and her family who I accompanied on a hellish holiday to Berwick-on-Tweed.

It was a fucking holiday camp and my parents gave me more spending money than her. (Dreadfully common).

These days they'd think they were a cut above for going to the dreadful Centrecamps. BTW I got better O levels than she did. My native cunning cut them to the quick.

To reference Monty Python: I preferred Spam to ham. There wasn't any naice about it in the '70s.

Centeparcs, I mean

Does the Observer count? Don't have the time for a daily Guardian, so I make the Observer last the week

haha at mummy do they have quinoa.you know your mc when kid quips that
I don't like to be pigenholed or in a tribe,certainly not guardian tribe
I read a range papers Scotsman,herald,observer,times,guardian,Indy

Limited - She was either from Chiswick or Richmond most of my school friends were.

I love the sound of centrecamps, a cross between centreparcs and a Labour camp - like a holiday in the Gulag!

Centercamps.

I joke about being MC, but it's not like it means anything these days. Maybe it never did.

If you have to work, that would mean you are working class?

Reading the Guardian might help you to become a nicer person, but the Daily Mail, not so much.

I agree about being a nicer person, when i used to buy the Guardian and read it on my way to work i felt really positive and always thought the best of people. But when i stopped cheapskate and started reading the Metro and Standard, i remember being really negative and cynical. It was really different - i'm obviously easily influenced - but i decided to stop reading them and then i suddenly felt better and less bitter and scared of innocuous stuff and people.

And Betty, no i don't have to 'work' so does that make me super posh? or a drudgy old shut in? ;)

The Guardian makes you a nicer person

That could be the new advertising slogan.

That is an excellent slogan

I never read the Standard or Metro, because I live in boringville.

Sometimes I go on the Mail's website because I can't believe it's so fucking awful and people actually think like that.

It's so bad, it's good. Some of the comments are hilarious, but some are just disturbing.

Nothing good can come of looking at the Mail, even if it is in jest! It might turn me into a Tory.

Koala, are you one of them ladies wot lunch?

I strongly disapprove of those people who leave the Metro and the Standard littered all over the Tube.

That's nearly all of them.

And they're vacuous Tory rags.