To ask what makes you working class? (Lighthearted)

[MissAlabamaWhitman]

So, the whole 'what makes you middle class' has been done to death hasn't it?

We're all pretty au fair with avocados, elephants sodding breath, the ubiquity of joules et cetera.
And lovely as it is to have such knowledge of the middle classes, none of it applies to me.

I'm working class and I'll explIn to you that which denotes this in just a minute.

Incidentally I heard that there's a few of us about so perhaps we can make our own list of our very own class signifiers.

Who's in?

I shall go first.....

Love of charity shops, this week I picked up a leather Hobbs bag for 3.99 and a couple of Abercrombie & Fitch tops for DD1 1.49 each!

Love of Iceland/Heron foods/Home bargains/B&M. Yes I know I could get everything I need in Sainsbury's but I actually prefer scrabbling around for bargains and topping up at Lidl.

Chardonnay. I love it, tastes fab. I can't be arsed to pretend that I prefer a Beaujolais or Cab Sav. I don't.

One bathroom/toilet in a five bed house.

Regional accent which I take pleasure in.

Children who play football and wear replica kits whilst doing so

Girls who wear pinkI draw the line at bloody Jojo bows though

Getting drunk at barbecues and performing impromptu Karaoke.

Allowing my children to 'play out' in the cul de sac from age seven.

Cleaning my own house.

Holidays at Center Parcs rather than overseas.

Owning a Huskita

Letting my children watch TV and eat crisps in full view of other parents.

Having a 'pop man'

Listening to LBC rather than R4

Not really giving a fuck about trans, one way or the other.

I'm sure there's lots more besides which I'll try to remember.
How about you?
What makes you sit back at the end of a hard day and think 'yep I'm a fully paid up member of the old working classes?'

Some of those sound very middle class to me OP.

I think your the sort of middle class who pretends to be working class

Really though, all this class marker stuff is a pile of shit and we need to let it go.

My parents still have a chip pan, as do I ( though I'm firmly in the ranks of the MC now with a massive Aga, nothing like straddling the divide) Your WC radar needs serious adjustment if you think Centre Parcs are working class. Caravan parks if you please.

Hairstyles on children are another indicator.

Working class people tend to give their sons shorter hairstyles. Middle class boys tend to have longer, more foppish hairstyles!

Ethel I heard that, working class is just that - you have to work for a living. Makes me laugh that a few of my WORK colleagues class themselves as MC

Please don't insult me Scooby I'd really rather be dead than anything even appropriating MC

What the fucks a shatobriand!?!

Not so former my eldest has long hair which he ties up in a man bun a la Gareth Bale when playing football

OP has a five bedroom house, a new company car, goes on holidays to Centre Parcs and eats chateaubriand (via freezer or not) and says she's working class

Tenderloin steak scooby

You can get it in Iceland.

Im a kiwi and live in the Uk. I find the class stuff intriguing and weird. Why should I be judged and categorized because of wherevi shop and like?
My SIL is very consciously MC and would happily pay over the odds for things because the brands signify MC.

I happily shop at aldi, ocado, kfc, h&m, john lewis, Poundland...not sure where that puts me in the class ranks?

Is level of education a class determinator?

Are you WC yourself, Stumbly?

Second hand clothes are not working class.

My list for evidence:

Heron
Spending shit loads on birthdays and Xmas
Spending all day (and £££ s) getting ready for a night out
Nights out where you have one drink in each place, dance and drink jaegerbombs
Increasingly, not being a homeowner
Getting the bus including for the weekly shop
Primark and not calling it Primarni
Cakes with photos on them

Since when haven't doctors lawyers and ceos not had to use an alarm clock

Good point well made that is what I heard as a definition. The definition I came up with is my own so don't necessarily agree with the alarm clock thing.
I know loads of people who class themselves as MC and like to remind everyone of that fact... even going as far as telling us what they earn
Me and DH think it's funny because it's less than what we earn (not that it matters at all) and we have a much more modest lifestyle! And don't go telling people what we earn! And we are WC!!

And yes I do all of those things!

God I wish I still had a pop man. Bonus working class points if your pop man also sells duty free cigs and spirits.

I have pink vinyl glitter wallpaper in my vestibule, hall stairs and landing.

It's wipe clean and really sets off the Chinese oak flooring.

Nobody MC would ever countenance such blatant vulgarity

Working class: Dress your child in expensive, branded clothing.

Middle class:. Dress your child in hand me downs.

Have to say you do sound a posh WC person OP ;)

I picked up one of those Chateaubriand things the other week and put it back when I saw the price!

I see having a 5 bed house and going to centre parcs as very middle class.
Not having a cleaner or gardener.
Having a big TV
Christmas being a very big thing
Private schools being a thing only posh people do
Having a clean house - only middle class people and underclass people have dirty houses. Solid working class people have the cleanest houses.
Enjoying a karaoke

Talking about salaries and incomes is vulgar.

Solid working class people have the cleanest houses

So true.

I have some rellies who have been to jail!

As someone mentioned above what is the deal with people spending shit loads at Christmas when they cant afford it? And saving via shit Christmas clubs.

My observation is that MC people seem to give less of a toss what people think... unless they are status conscious lower middle class?

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