Middle class tribe - ever get on your nerves - light hearted rant 😄

[ginorwine]

I live in a middle class area which is dominated by lecturers , gp s , social workers etc -my Dh fits into that catagory and I am an x that catagory .
It's a really pretty area and the kids roam between houses etc
Recently - I seem to be a little irritated by its predictability and 'niceness '- tho am aware it's a good area I really am .
I'm
Grumpy menopausal creature at present !
The paint work is mainly Farrell and ball, same kitchen appliances , similar dress code .etc . Whilst I too have Farrell n ball in one room and may therefore fit into the cliche myself (!) I'm becoming quite amused by it all in a way but don't know why .Part of me loves it part of me wants to say rude words and act up and be a Harridan !
Why do we follow these 'tribal 'things ? .the estate agent once reffered to the area as all lentil s and lintels . 😃

i think we don't really celebrate individualism here in the UK maybe it's down to our obsession with class we unconsciously slot ourselves into a group

I notice this when I have been abroad how uniformed we are

Well Vanilla I try my best to speak french in Fr. (with the correct pronunciation) because I respect the French in their country, I'm British but that doesn't mean I should shout loudly at them in English

The area I live in is a wanna be middle class area as we now have transport links into London, house prices have shot up. As a proud daughter of working class parents, it gets my back right.up that even my local Greggs now sell Lattés and Espressos instead of black or milky coffee! We have a lot of independent stores which is lovely for independent trade but I'm not paying £2 for a loaf of bread when I can get one from Tesco for 40p! I love avoiding the coffee shops with their outside tables (so you can inhale car fumes while enjoying your organic free trade skinny latté coffee) and head to the local greasy spoon for a mug of builders tea!

Oh, and I was asked one weekend at work if we sell ready chilled champagne. I nearly ran screaming from the store!

I care about my health so wouldn't eat stuff from Greggs. Why is it considered MC to not want to have cancer or a heart attack the age of 46?

An occasional sausage roll won't give you a heart attack at 46! LOL

Haven't read all of it but I TOTALLY get the sentiment. It's the reason I baulk at the idea of buying anything in Joules. Our walls are dulux, I think...

Sorry- should be balk. Spelling not middle-class enough.

Hmm and the overpriced, flavoured syrup spoilt latte will drive you to an earlier grave than a humble instant coffee down the greasy spoon!

Re Jack Vettriano - I suppose those bashing him haven't seen his BDSM work.

I wasn't referring to the lattes or coffees. Neither are much good IMO I was referring to things like the buns upthread. There are a lot of people who die younger than the age of 46 and depending on your general diet the odd sausage roll won't kill you, but eating shit every day won't be good for you.

Forty, no you were right first time. The word is baulk.

Distance, "yeah but" he did not go to art college so he is self-taught. Ergo he cannot be part of the art establishment. Fwiw, I hate his stuff.

So maybe just maybe proper academic training is kinda important.

I don't care I LIKE Vettriano.

Sounds like the town I work in (more small village size really) but also like one I used to work in (Wendover)
Where I work now… a tattoo parlour opened and the locals campaigned to get it closed.. which is what happened. There is only a Waitrose..no other supermarket/ corner shop etc.
I also lived in Surbiton for a few years and that was similar. I did not fit in.

Town where I work now is all full of homemade arts/ crafts and 'mummy businesses' yet there's nothing you actually NEED e.g. no Boots, no Barclays, no chemist with full opening hours...

I quite like the variety of middle class tribes. So where I live, the tattoo parlour/cafe would be frequented by plenty of middle class customers, who would spend their leisure time getting their sleeve coloured before heading out to a site-specific production of an Ibsen play followed by drinks and street food in a pop-up cocktail bar (or else work up a sweat at Crossfit or capoeira class) before heading back to their home which would be decorated with Abigail Ahearn dark coloured paint and cross-stitched cushions with the words "cunt" or "fuck" on them.

Farrow and Ball is crap, too runny and totally overpriced. Pretentious names like elephants breath!

I remember a quote from Quentin Crisp, " Don't keep up with the neighbours, drag them down to your level"! 😉

As I said before, one painter I use calls it 'Farrow & Sh**e'

Oh I know it's a nightmare to paint with. Our decorator moaned the whole time as every room needed 3-4 coats...but he admitted it was the best paint to use if your walls are 200 years old, as they need to breathe.

What's the obsession with Farrow and Ball? We only have Fired Earth paint in our house.

...still waiting to hear if anyone has tried Benjamin Moore paint yet.

Cannot stand the stealth bragging about obscure music, obscure food, obscure wine etc. IT DRIVES ME CRACKERS (and I am personally familiar with these things), but I just don't ever see the need to advertise it for admiration like some people I know. It makes me cringe.

Also the liking things because they are (apparently) the "in" thing to like. Urgh. Can see right through that.

PS My post above was not a stealth brag itself, just realised it could look like that! but I am also aware that people can sometime put down what they aren't familiar with.