have i reached the height of middle class pretension ?

[Gowgirl]

I've just realised I'm julienning carrots and cucumber for the moppets to dip in organic bloody hummus while admiring my shiny new bottle of craft gin.

Then I realised that they probally wont eat their fish fingers and chips now, and I spent all day mumsnetting so the house is a shit tip!

Feel free to add your own

A weekend at pontins camber sands would cure them, really not the bargain we were expecting.....

When I asked DS what he wanted for his 11th birthday, he requested a 'teach yourself ancient greek' book, and when Amazon didn't come up with anything, settled for a teach yourself Latin book. I blame the Percy Jackson books, and have now been forced to greet him in latin.

No Hairy...not an attempt at humour.Actively trying to get into one of these lovely parks .

My child can tell the difference between whole earth peanut butter and meridian. (And won't eat meridian).

I love Tiny Homes myself not sure how you can be offended by that. There's plenty more on this thread to get worked up about.

Latin isn't that MC it was offered at our Comp and for years after I left.

Gowgirl, we went to Havens once when kids were small - never again, had to take out a second mortgage almost just for a few days - it poured down all weekend and, despite taking our own food, it still seemed to cost an arm and a leg. This was with a deal out of the newspaper too -
i dread to think what it would cost now in high season for a week!

Not exactly the same thing but... We went pram shopping at the weekend, me and DH who was raised in the Soviet Union and wants every outward marker of respectability he can afford. After an hour discussing front/rear-facing, number of wheels, foldability etc he looked around with a genuinely stricken expression and asked, "But what do middle-class people buy?" As though there should have been a large beige arrow above the Bugaboos .

Haven looked exactly that through the 8 foot fence seperating it from pontins! Filthy, run down with a checkin not dissimilar to a pow camp 😁 cheap break made expensive as they charged top prices for really manky food.
The beach was nice though...
When it finally stopped raining!

DH and I...

I love those little park homes, too.

There's a little estate of them near us, and they're in a New England, Cap Cod style with white weather-boarding and grey trim. They are soooooo cute, I would love one.

I love anything small and quirky, and am currently trying to persuade DH to buy a Dutch barge to live on, once the DDs have gone to university.

Today I got annoyed as Waitrose don't stock Kefir.

Latin isn't that MC...

How Cicero would have laughed.

Our children reflect back to us what we say to them. It is often the case I don't realise quite how pretentious I have become until dc parrots something. Out of the mouths of babes and all that.

I'm most definitely aspirational middle-middle class. 4th generation of such on one side so we aren't exactly a socially mobile family.

I find it amusing when I hear myself or dc saying something that is stereotypical of my class. Primarily because (bring aspirational and all) I usually think I'm above all that silliness. And then whoops out it comes.

I've been reading most of these posts in the same light. Isn't that where so much humour comes from? Similar to the pfb type posts where you find yourself doing something manifestly ridiculous as if it were the most normal thing in the world.

Of course it is stealth boasting. That's part of the humour recognising that. Hence the number of references to waitrose and naice things.

I'm amused by you all. Please continue

Nina sorry you'll have to explain I'm a bit thick.

When DD was small she asked MIL if she and FIL were very poor because they only had one car between them.

"I get the humour in a lot of the posts, but agree some of them are just about staggering rudeness. If a child of mine looked down on people who could "only" afford 3 star hotels, they would be getting a short sharp reality check. i wouldn't find it "hilarious"."
I agree

And thinking having 2 cars is actually very lower middle class.

thinking having 2 cars means one is rich.

This entire thread is cringworthy.

I'm not sure what's worse. The parents who think it's hilarious that their kids are so entitled/precious or the fact that the parents have brought them up that way.

pops off to Asda.

This entire thread is cringworthy

The grammatical errors by posters parading how middle class they and their children are are quite funny.

Correct grammar is probably lower, lower middle class so to be avoided and looked down upon, probably. It may even be worse than owning two cars or buying your own furniture or not spending all your disposable income on education and improving activities.

"The grammatical errors by posters parading how middle class they and their children are are quite funny."

Oh, the irony...

I imagine my mother probably felt the same way, we were looking at my baby books recently and on the weaning pages there was a section on my favorite foods at the time (born early 1992) apparently as a toddler my some of my favorite foods were tapenade, earl grey tea and sundried tomato grissini! I must have been such a pretentious brat!

"The grammatical errors by posters parading how middle class they and their children are are quite funny."

Oh, the irony...

I'm not boasting about how middle class I am. There are some howlers in several posts on here which are funnier than these "amusing" anecdotes.

shinny I don't think that's something to brag about, tbh you're making your kids sound like arseholes