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What makes a person 'common'?

926 replies

Karlwho · 10/07/2019 20:37

In your opinion. Just interested.

OP posts:
DanglyWhoreTassels · 22/07/2019 11:01

Ok is watching 'Escape to The Country' posh or common?

ThighsRelief · 22/07/2019 11:31

Dangly if you watch it whilst playing Escape from Colditz it's posh.

SlocombePooter · 22/07/2019 11:57

If you watch it while trimming your toenails it's not.

DanglyWhoreTassels · 22/07/2019 13:58

Ah ok, common in my case then!

Chloe9 · 26/07/2019 18:08

@DanglyWhoreTassels

I think the truly posh do have fairly dirty houses, or if it is clean somebody else cleans it.

I think cleaning is a pretty good marker of class really.

Like, if you clean your own house because you can't afford an alternative you are at the bottom (and the only time you clean for anybody else is on a litter pick for community service)

Next up is the people who get paid to clean up other peoples mess (cleaners, bin men, rubbish collectors).

Then you have the upper working/ lower middle class who either clean their own houses, or feel the need to justify getting a cleaner otherwise because it's a big chunk of their salary (but who don't clean at work).

Then there's the upper middle class and upper classes who don't clean because it's beneath them and therefore either live with the Dustiness or employ a regular cleaner, or have somebody else clean such as the Au pair, Nanny, a housekeeper

Then there are the true elite who don't even think about cleaning at all because they have outsourced even the hiring of cleaning staff to somebody else (a personal assistant or similar).

DanglyWhoreTassels · 26/07/2019 19:39

Well I couldn't agree with you more Chloe

I think just because my cleaner charges me more per hour than my own working hourly rate does not in fact make her 'better' than me!

I've only cried about it twice! I'm a big girl, you know stiff upper lip and all of that! After all we are all English Gentry and should know better than to show emotions at such trifles!!

nakedscientist · 27/07/2019 08:30

know better than to show emotions at such trifles!!

DT have you actually spoken to the trifle? They can be very sympathetic if you give them a chance!

DanglyWhoreTassels · 27/07/2019 11:01

naked Oops I've eaten the trifle!

I didn't speak to it at all! I wonder if it would have had sympathy for me if I'd told it about my piles?

NoTheresa · 27/07/2019 11:12

Talking about money.

Mentioning how many bathrooms you have.

Wearing designer labels ostentatiously.

Grey rooms or, worse still, entirely grey houses.

Lots of pieces of jewellery worn at one time.

Leather sofas.

Bifold doors and ubiquitous kitchen extensions - so dull.

Family photographs in groups on walls.

Buying decorative objects to “match” usually grey decor.

Agonising over Farrow & Ball paint. It’s only a company not an oracle.

Leggings under little dresses a la White Stuff.

Liking musicals.

Not having masses of books. Kindle etc are not an equivalent because books are real and there in reality.

Jeans with fake holes etc. Very Emperor’s New Clothes.

Buying trashy magazines like Hello and the smaller versions.

Watching any reality tv.

Not being permitted to or wearing shoes indoors. Embarrassing.

Using a knife like a pen.

Leaving cutlery awry on a plate.

Putting a paper napkin onto your dirty plate after you have finished eating.

Saying “excetera” or writing ect.

Washing your car weekly.

And so much more...!

fortheloveofPete · 27/07/2019 11:37

For me, it's following trends/fads.

It just seems to appear that you have no original thought of your own. Sheeple.

That and

Keeping up with the Jones's/everything has to look like everyone else and it's all on credit to pay for it. Smacks of insecurity.

roisinagusniamh · 28/07/2019 15:18

NoTheresa Grin

Notthebradybunch · 28/07/2019 15:27

Bad manners, poor vocabulary and grammar.

SlocombePooter · 28/07/2019 15:34

So, between them all, the entire Mumsnet community!

DanglyWhoreTassels · 28/07/2019 15:46

Yes Poots all of us!

And all of the wider community!

And all of the world!

Fancy that, we're all common! Grin

SlocombePooter · 28/07/2019 15:54

God bless us, one and all!

gamerwidow · 28/07/2019 16:04

Most of the things people call common are just working class. I do loads of stuff that might be considered common ie caravan holidays, Iceland for party food, mass produced home decorations instead of art etc. I know they’re not ‘tasteful’, I don’t care.

MsJRMEsq · 28/07/2019 22:09

winning millions and talking about spending it all on takeaway food.

NoTheresa · 28/07/2019 22:42

🤣

nanbread · 28/07/2019 22:47

Has anyone said snacking yet? I've never met a posh person who snacked.

SlocombePooter · 29/07/2019 08:09

Nothing to add, just wish to compliment MsJRMEsq on her perfectly correct username!

Daffodildainty · 29/07/2019 15:08

Hot tubs
Poor table manners
Overly long acrylic nails
Bad grammar ( eg I done/ I seen/we was)

looondonn · 29/07/2019 15:21

Honestly - England is the only country in the world I have encountered with such an obsession about class

This thread is crazy and a huge eye opener

Wtaf

NaturalBornWoman · 29/07/2019 18:58

If you are PLU, then you feel comfortable when you find your social classmates. You know the rules and what to guffaw about, what to raise an eyebrow at and what is acceptable for the gardener to put in.

Gosh yes, can you imagine how frightful it would be to be a nouveau and inadvertently have one's gardener line the drive with summer bedding like a public park?

Or one's decorator choose a Parisienne hotel theme for the master bedroom.

I mean you'd just die of shame wouldn't you?

CherryPavlova · 29/07/2019 19:07

loondonn - Really? Other countries have far more rigid class systems. India has its castes that can truly determine your future. In the USA your birth determines whether you get healthcare and how you are educated. Have you considered university fees in USA and who can afford ivy leagues?

CherryPavlova · 29/07/2019 19:11

NaturalBornWoman Nobody would want their borders to look like a suburban park with neat rows of summer bedding, surely?

Shame no, probably not, just gentle amusement for others around you.