Being middle class based on what you own?

[BlancheBlue]

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/

Well, I scored 2 on the MC quiz, but I just did the Telegraph poshness quiz and apparently I'm an "out-and-out U" despite the Estuary accent.

If you grew up on a council estate or spent any time living there, you cannot be middle class.

I scored 0, I'm clearly a working class peasant

poppy both my parents are middle class from St. Albans and I now live in a council flat. What does that make me?

I have none of these things yet I consider myself solidly middle class.

Some of those items fall into the 'more money than sense' catagory which means the owners have no class at all!

I've just done the posh test and I'm common as muck

Well, based on what William Whatsit says elsewhere about the irredeemable awfulness of coasters, I assume that in this quiz you lose middle-class points if you admit to owning some...?

If you grew up on a council estate or spent any time living there, you cannot be middle class

Why not?

Class is not the same as money.

Council estates used to be much more aimed at low income working families rather than a centre of deprivation.

Many manual workers would earn similar or higher wages than nurses and teachers, so you could equally all sorts of people to live there.

Does it make a difference if the person buys an ex council house rather than rents it?

Barbara I agree. Council housing has nothing to do with it. I grew up in a rich part of town, now live in a council flat. Fuck knows what 'class' I am, Lord knows I don't really care... I think Poppy was being goady. The type that drives round to avoid the council estates

Smart tv and bbq? Doesn't everyone?
Not sure what the criteria for middle class actually IS, according tot he telegraph!?

I have never owned a barbeque! I do not see the point of them??

oblomov probably reading the telegraph

I built my own BBQ out of bricks.

My TV is massively heavy and big- but it's got a box attached that makes it quite smart.

We go camping in France for our holidays.

I think the point is - if you are doing a quiz about class, you must be middle class :D

Oh look Poppy is on yet another thread telling everyone they are common. From finger nails to log burners eh?

Kit I think we're all working class shit houses in the eyes of Poppy

Oh. Do I have my very own stalker?

olivia please can you do a mn version?

Definitely country use with the Landrover and my wood burner is the real deal. So why don't I count as MC??

So, I'm not MC according to Poppy, as I live on a council estate. The Telegraph agrees, on the basis of my rejection of spiralisers and hot tubs

I am MC according to Olivia as I did the quiz

I'm very much U according to the next Telegraph poshness quiz.

It's all bollocks/meant to be a bit of fun. Bit worrying that some of us get so het up about it.

No pops, bullshit just has a very potent smell that's all.

We use our Land Rover to pull our caravan, what does that say about us?

Ooh Babs, that IS a conundrum!

Well their tests could at least be consistent - the posh test tells me I am middle class and the middle class do you have a dyson one tells me I am not .

Well I think that concludes matters. I am truely classless.