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

This thread was shit to start off with,
Now it's inevitably got and getting nastier.

The lower class one pootling along on here is much more fun. Apart from the coke (the drink not the Colombian marching powder) being akin to child abuse howler.

This thread is fucking awful. Awful.

I am so embarrassed for you all.

My ndn, who often sits in the back garden eating pot noodles and drinking blue WKD in her dressing gown, announced that she's planning on having an orangery built. Make of that what you will.

Agree. Awful.

I'd be ashamed of any child who looked down on others for staying in a 3 * hotel or referred to waiters as servants. And I'd be ashamed of myself for bringing them up to behave like that. It's not amusingly middle class, whatever that is.

FFS, cheers to all the humourless twats who have ruined this thread for the rest of us.

I'm not humourless or a twat, thank you very much, but the post I was referring to was horrible and plenty of others agree

You can go back to your desperate self congratulatory ego wanking now

I also think referring to Pontins as "a concentration camp" is particularly low, also.

Will do Trinity 😘

Have fun. Glad I live in my nice northern bubble with normal people who aren't climbing over themselves to prove how middle clarse they are. We don't have a waitrose here so you and your precious offspring would probably wither and die.

All right, prepared to hear the challenge. Why is it amusing to hear a child referring to waiters as servants? Why is it amusing to hear children looking down their noses at less expensive hotels? Genuinely can't see the apparently classic humour here.

I live in Ireland actually and there is no Waitrose here either but do feel free to enjoy that northern bubble. I hope you manage to find a sense of humour in there.....

Hahahah !!! Amazing. Someone doesn't find what you find funny also - funny = humourless . Christ. You are all falling over yourselves to feed your kids organic and take them to Tuscany and after school flute lessons but all you appear to be doing is teaching them how to be little classist snobs. You can't even see it.

I do agree that the fake "humour" used to brag about your wonderful parenting and taste is cringing. It makes an entertaining read though

I do love the Highgate Mums twitter though, although I only realised recently that it was actually real.

Tarquin asked for swan on sourdough at the local artisan vegan collective we unicycled to on St Swithens and I was absolutely mortified because everyone knows swan is only served on spelt cottage loaf. In Tuscany.

I'm here all night. Try the quail in a top hat.

I Cannot think of any.

The one I really don't get is how some people seem to think shopping at Waitrose is a way of thinking they're a cut above. I have never had anything from there and thought "wow this is what the hype is about" (in fact, some Waitrose stuff has been downright horrid) and the main brands are the exact same as what you get in Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Tesco etc. It just really seems Emperors New Clothes.

Now if anyone shops at Fortnum & Masons, that's another story.

Today 13:33 LassWiTheDelicateAir

This entire thread is cringworthy

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

I am enjoying those too.

Today 14:35 TrinityTaylor

I also think referring to Pontins as "a concentration camp" is particularly low, also.

I wonder if the poster is a fan of Nazi "jokes" a la Bernard Manning? Hmmmm

To be honest I am guessing some of them are making it all up. One particular contributor has a penchant for such offerings.

This thread has taken quite a turn since I last posted. Honestly thought people were being sarcastic when talking about the food they eat being middle class. Now they're just being very mean and snobbish. I'm embarrassed I defended anyone.

FWIW my son only talks about gluten free food all the time as his gran is a coeliac. I was completely joking about it being hipster.

@tessiebear4 food doesn't belong to one social class but it is stereotypical of certain classes to have certain food and therefore the connotations of julienning are middle class.
I'm a real juxtaposition ... last night I made polenta with poached eggs and read my book with a fancy mango cocktail .....but right now I'm sat in my car, in a staff only car park, devouring a greggs sausage roll and a coffee before I drive to Aldi.

Hipsters are comedy gold so any little "jokes" about them, and their utterly daft behaviour, would be most welcome!

A person cannot be a juxtaposition!

Today 13:50 MaQueen

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

Oh, the irony...

That's a bit of a cliché, Ma.

God I love a greggs

I also love polenta