To think I'm not common and working class

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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

laughing at bitch please!

changing my suggested response to ''bitch, please! what a lower middle class remark''

Did you mean to be so rude? insert tinkly laugh

I'm not working class but I hate the tedious virtue signalling that goes on ''I've no interest in the monarchy'' blah blah blah. So boring and self-conscious. Give me the authenticity of being genuinely interested in something anyday over the self-conscious repeated insistence that you're NOT INTERESTED

I'd be tempted to post ''what a lower middle class observation on your part''.

Brilliant! 😂

What's wrong with taking a bit of an interest in national events?
Better than a dull boring negative Nelly who's not enthusiastic about anything.

I think it says more about the person who said it than the OP.

People are so full of themselves sometimes. Trying to scramble to the top of the social dung pile,,so laughable.

So called class seems to be inextricably linked to money in so many ways.

Its just BS. We were born with nothing and will die with nothing.

I have had the luxury of working in a role which has allowed me exposure the whole range of UK society though i haven't met any Royalty yet !

The idea of class is totally foreign to me. I neither subscribe to it,recognise nor accept it.

The story seems to be i have a detached house/in nice area/i a "professional"(wear a suit to work)/ i have x/y/z therefore im middle class. All those who have less are therefore by default, working class or the underclass.

In reality most of the above just have lots of debt and are not afraid of it,which is no bad thing.

I’m working class, so common by default. Can’t say I have any particular interest in either topic.
I would ask them what they mean by common - a popular activity enjoyed by lots of people? or uncouth. Ask for further clarification every time they respond and make them squirm.

‘How very non U.’

If she’s proper posh she will know her Nancy Mitford and feel very small.

In future do make sure you use all the words designed to make people like her cringe such as serviette, couch, toilet, pardon...there’s an awful lot I’m afraid.

Why couldnt you just reply "Bitch, please!"

^ please do this, OP!

@PianoThirty
“Other than that, has she ever lived abroad? People who’ve lived elsewhere tend to view the UK differently when they come back.”

I don’t think it’s this. As someone who lives abroad I find these threads baffling and hilarious. To my mind only someone who’s rarely left England would talk like that.

People really do baffle me sometimes. What makes someone think that's an appropriate thing to say, unless of course they're either very drunk or have been injected with a truth serum.
Think what you like but don't say it out loud ffs.

Anyway I'll chat to you about the monarchy because I quite like them, football no chance, I have no interest.

In my opinion I think it's the social climbers (as has been said repeatedly above), the Hyacinths of this world, that are obsessed with class and status.

Roedean/Eaton (as appropriate) incorporate bitchyness into their curriculum now do they?

If you respond by accusing the person of being lower middle class, is that not being rude and casting aspersions, also?

A simple 'Bitch, please' really does sort out a good 1/3 of my issues

@pigsDOfly working class doesn’t mean anyone who has a job!

Sounds like some little upstart trying to redefine themself pretending the football or royal wedding aren’t really happening is the way to go by distancing themself from the supposed lower classes. Sounds very much like George Wallergen of Poldark actually.

ThankYouVeryMuch I know that. I didn't mean it to be taken that seriously.

I wrote that because it was clear the person was trying to distance herself from the 'common herd' and was being a tad pretentious.

I just chuckled remembering being in the opposite situation... in March, when the snows came, popped to the co-op and bumped into a friend, who asked, "have you run out of bread, too?" When I replied, "No, hummus", she responded, "How middle class are you?!" If she had seen my five year old rejecting olives in the store because they weren't kalamata, she'd have passed out!!

Reply with this meme.

As someone with working class parents who got their middle class 'trappings' by Grammar school scholarship that led to middle management jobs & a move to a wealthy, old money rural town, I'd retort she's hopelessly lower middle: as Middle, Upper Middle & above where I grew up would consider it poor social etiquette to make a sneery comment on such stuff.

I agree with MatildaTheCat, she’s being very non-U and you should point this out to her. If she has no idea what it means then all the better.

Well yes, an interest in football is common. So is interest in Royal weddings (unless you are invited). Does it matter if you are a bit common?

Oh, obviously your friend is also common (it's one thing to make jokes about British class in a general sense but actually talking about class in relation to someone you know is very lower middle class, as is the desperation to show how much you despise the working class).

Tell her you are proud to be called working class and the working class is the backbone of this country.

How rude

It’s lovely to see how these events can help to bring people together and feel some unity in this horribly divided times

I’m not interested in the royals but I love the football and hope it helps boost morale for the nation. She sounds like a misery who enjoys pissing on other people’s chips

No matter your ‘class’ can’t we be happy for each other finding enjoyment in life!