To think I'm not common and working class

[hswarbrick]

Someone in a group chat just called me "the most working class person I know😂, you're really into all this common stuff😗" in response to me being excited about both the football and the royal wedding this year. I hope the emoji's have pasted, they make it woorse imo.

Not sure if I should just ignore or say something

I’d probably type back ‘Gosh, that’s very classist. Doesn’t reflect well on you😗’.

Just reply saying 'wow, how rude'

Is there anything wrong with working class?

I think it's the 'common' the op objects to. May be wrong

"Oh well, at least I don't have terrible manners"

‘Working class’ isn’t an insult, you know. ‘Common’, on the other hand, is an unpleasantly sneery, class-conscious term.

"That comment says far more about you than about me" with a smile

Being classy is about your behaviour, not what you get excited about!

Whoever said that is not classy at all - how rude!

Or "ok then Hyathinch"

I think the tried and tested classic would be appropriate here: "Did you mean to be so rude?" or if you want to be little more light-hearted you could say: "I'm with the other 25 million (I don't know the real numbers) who also watched the wedding and the football?"

It was very rude - as well as being completely ridiculous of course.

Well, traditionally football is a working class game... still rude as fuck though!

"Did you mean to be so rude?" could be deployed!

However, worth wondering about why you find it so insulting?

Being working class isn’t an insult unless the insult giver is a total stuck up knob.

Common on the ofher hand is definitely an insult.

Last week we got caught up in two women screeching "Hi darl'" to each other - that's common.

I'd probably reply that they're mistaking class for populism and that it's not working class to be interested in current events like the rest of society.

I would think it, but not say it.

LOVE @Hideandgo's response!

What a twatty thing to say - who is this person and what's their relationship to you? Sounds like they have form for this kind of thing.

Better to be common and not care than to be a snob!

My parents live in a very affulent middle class area and they've had street parties for the royal wedding and the football. I think the person calling you common has no idea of what is really common.

If you disregard the rudeness for a minute, there is probably a correlation between social class and being the kind of person who camped on a pavement in Windsor wearing a Union Jack hat for the last royal wedding. Football seems to me a bit more cross-class, but as I’m both bored by sport and anti-monarchist AND a working class foreigner living in England, I might be wrong.

The current president of the FA is well common.

How rude! Clearly they have no "class" at all. Be proud of being working class, as the clue is in the name, and forget the 'common' moniker, the person has just just exhibited perfect hypocrisy!!

And what exactly is wrong with being working class?

Its beyond common to describe another person as common. Extremely naff. Dear me.

I would reply Wow I have just realised you are the snobbiest snootiest person I know !

It’s a bloody rude thing to say and I don’t like rude people regardless of their class. How obnoxious.

Awfully common - ugh .

For example, just look at this dreadful working class oik getting excited about the football yesterday:

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