Being middle class based on what you own?

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Anyone seen this "quiz" in the telegraph - aside from the fact that it is probably just to flog certain items, anyone agree with this list or come out with all of them.

Hot tubs ffs? "vulgar" no?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/23/how-middle-class-are-you-it-depends-how-many-of-these-items-you/

I am not middle class. I only got three. Despite being privately educated, owning a horse and living in a naice village in the country. I need to rethink my life choices. And find out what a smart TV is

Couldn't care less about middle class supposed status symbols but I would LOVE a hot tub - the lovely, lovely relaxation of a bath and fresh air and maybe a glass of wine - my idea of bliss (guess I am vulgar, but not sorry in this case!)

Oh well if it's in the Mail it must be true...

We've only got one on this list - the barbecue. Just going off to google what a smart TV actually is now...

Does anyone actually care what class they are?

Based on Mn, where a huge number of threads deal with social class markers (Do you use your knife and fork 'correctly'? Is 'pardon' a worse word than 'fuck'? What do you call your evening meal/the room where you might relax and watch TV/the piece of furniture you might sit on to do so? Is this baby name/ floral headband 'chavvy'? How do I acquire the soft markers that will allow me, a WC new graduate in a traditionally 'old money' city job, to 'pass'?) yes, people do care what class they are.

Based on how operational social class still is in this country - and how much difference it makes to your educational attainments and expectations, and to your health and life expectancy, particularly when allied to income - people should care, if only as a way of understanding an anachronistic and damaging system in order to dismantle it.

Is 'pardon' a worse word than 'fuck'?

No, i would say about on a par with pissflaps.

More from William Hanson...

"Champagne, cheeseboards and a Surrey accent: Etiquette expert reveals the things Britons think make them posh (and why they're WRONG)"

"A FEW THINGS THAT REALLY ARE POSH

· Gravel driveways

· Drinking dry sherry

· Towing a horse box

· A solid silver salver in the hallway for post

· Bar soap

· Inherited silver cutlery

· Battered teddy bear on the bed

· Shredded marmalade

· Silver salt and pepper pots"

By William Hanson for MailOnline
09:11 27 Oct 2016, updated 09:16 27 Oct 2016

William Hanson is a ghastly young peddler in social minutiae with one of the most frighteningly pinched little faces I've ever seen above a young fogey-ish suit. As he makes a living (judging by his unintentionally funny website) from teaching 'oiks' and 'arrivistes' to ape 'old money' (but rebranded as 'acquiring good manners'), it's in his interest to occasionally blast upon the world some startling insight about horseboxes and marmalade.

Anyway, there are marmalades and marmalades - the darker and the thicker-cut the smarter. Revolting stuff, either way.

I hope he will emerge in years to come as a sort of Borat/Ali G figure who played the long game and was in fact underneath a Che-style revolutionary working to overthrow the bourgeoisie from within. Or something.

I love William Hanson. I mean obviously he's an awful little man who has his nose pressed longingly against the window of aristocracy but some of the things he comes out with really make me snigger into my coarse peasant hands.

'I have written before that there are few worse accusations one can level against someone than that they own, or aspire to own, a hot tub. Why anyone in sound mind would want to spend an evening mutually soaking with a group of flabby friends whilst microscopic chunks of epidermis float past is a continual conundrum.'

'It's always the least photogenic families who decide to mince on down to a photographic studio and spend a good portion of their Saturday rolling on a white papered floor with each other, pretending they have never shared a cross word.'

Oh William, you simply ghastly man.

According to my husband we are middle class. I'm sure his mother likes to think of herself as upper middle . Quite frankly, England can keep it's class system. I will take being rich over that nonsense anyday! Fancy telling your kids, there will always be people better than what they are( upperclass)and you will never be able to join their small closed circle. Or we can only shop at Waitrose darling! I was raised ( obviously outside the UK) to believe no one is above or beneath you. I think this obsession with class is very sad.