To think this is not working class at all?

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Hugest of apologies to the poster I've stolen this statement from taken inspiration from over this thread but I'm sure everyone will agree it's an important matter that needs to be openly discussed and settled.

There are a couple of working/middle class threads flying around AIBU today and I don't want to add fuel to the fire by starting another.

But. I was astonished to hear a poster asserting that the Octonauts on CBeebies were working class.

AIBU to say they are definitely middle class?

Come to think of it, Professor Inkling may even be further up the social class scale than that.

Haha I've just posted basically they same on that thread. No way are they working class.

I will concede defeat and admit that Kwazi probably is. But I think he's the only one.

I think the idea is that wearing "Character clothing" is a working class habit.

So the hat could have been Peppa Pig or anything...

Mrs that's true, but if we're talking about the actual Octonauts themselves - as in the characters - different story

Any sort of overt class statement, I find toe-curling, TBH.

You see where I am from, we have a more complex but more accurate class system. We have, for example, the 'intellectual' class - with scientists, professors, doctors, journalists, teachers, writers etc. We also use the terms white collar (admin, computer, cubical based work) and blue collar (manual labour) and pink collar (customer service, retail, etc) more than in the UK. So for me, Kwazii is def a working class, blue collar worker, dr Shellington is of the intellectual class, others are more of the white collar category, except the turnips, who are working class pink collar workers. Good question, op.

If the Octonauts are working class, what does that make the vegimals? Serfs?

It's the wearing of character clothing that is being disparaged. You could have knocked me down with a feather when I was told.

I am definitely middle class and I didn't know it but apparently it is very looked down upon.

Intellectual class = teachers...really LittleMissCrappy?

Oh, I quite like being part of the intellectual class! In the UK I'm a working class northerner.

@LittleMissCrappy, Where do I need to move to, to experience such class mobility?

What's with the obsession with social class?. The sooner we get rid of that ridiculous system the better

Do middle class children not like peppa and paw patrol or are they just denied the opportunity to wear clothes bearing their favourite characters?

Middle class here and son has paw patrol and lightening McQueen clothes. Oh well, they'll be trying to take away my national trust membership...

Yes, actually, teachers are part of the intellectual class. Where I am from, teaching is a well paid profession and respected by the community

Test - I taught at a grammar school. Lots of Oxbridge degrees and a few phds. People highly educated and interested in th Sq ir subjects. I tend to think of most of my colleagues as intellectual.

Littlemiss... So it should be. Can I move there?!

glitter raised an important point there.

What are the Vegimals?

I teach in a comp and was rather liking the idea of being intellectual

In my experience people tend to label people as intellectual if they are the English lit types rather than people who understand calculus, so as a maths teacher I usually don't count.

I'm an English lit type, I feel rather high and mighty now

Also forgot to say, absolutely love your comment @LittleMissCrappy

The Vegimals are an obvious piece of propaganda for genetic engineering.

In the future you'll never have to make your own fish biscuits.

nobel

You count in my book, love.
I'm a huge fan of yours and you helped to make me see the grammar school angst, forever in your debt.
Luffs you

I love you too Nobel! Was just illustrating where I worked.

For my kids I truly wished we didn't live in a grammar area and had proper comprehensives. (Not the topic I know!)

Fish biscuits sound utterly vile.