To think working class shows?

[MrsBonnie]

I work in a lovely school where they’ve all had very different upbringings to me. Very much working class here. Sometimes I think it shows with little things I’ve noticed.

Having sugar in tea, using a tumble drier, not having a cleaner, using the wrong glasses for different drinks (I.E using the same one for everything!)… what else am I missing that excludes me from the club 😂 sometimes I will mention something like the above and get “oh I never use a tumble drier” … then I just think oops have I said something weird there?

Sometimes I think they’re judging me with things I say and do but I hope not! I grew up being homeless at a certain point, council houses, single teen (but amazing) mum, a very specific type of circle. I feel like Mum did everything she could to get us out of that way of life, but I can’t help but feel I don’t belong sometimes. Or that I stick out like a sore thumb. Am I being daft? Imposter syndrome a little bit!

I think there is a positive correlation between the people who loudly drop class signifiers into conversation/are sneery about those they perceive to beneath them and how tenuous or new their position is on the social ladder. The people I know who are the most snobbish about food/culture/holidays/loudly making fun of themselves for their ‘middle class’ habits (the ultimate aspirational humble brag) are either the ones who have worked their way up recently or the ones who perhaps grew up there but have experienced a change of fortunes and economically can no longer participate in the current class rituals.

The lady doth bray “I would never feed my child McDonald’s” too loudly to be securely upper middle. 🤷‍♀️

Tulip-shaped is much better than flutes for champagne.

I am very firmly middle class and definitely use a tumble drier for towels as I can’t bear a crunchy towel.

Dryer 🤦🏼‍♀️

Tulip-shaped is much better than flutes for champagne

Hard agree here. Although I have some gorgeous vintage couples (from Oxfam) I agree with PP that it goes flat too fast and doesn't hold enough

Coupes, FFS...

Ooh, that might do for @Plantstrees and her jodhpurs

You can also proof a Barbour in it

Wait, what?? Why am I sending mine back to Barbour and paying £££ every year??

We had no hot water, ragged, hand me down clothes, we went to sleep with our coats on, no heating upstairs, never went on holiday , mother and father fought, my brother and I fought, we went to the local comprehensive school and we were solidly middle class. I used to envy my 'working class' peers who had new clothes, nice warm houses and went 'abroad' for their holidays.

There is more to connotations of 'class' than tumble driers and sugar in tea.

dryers

This is a brilliant twist on the usual class thread. I also read it initially as OP was MC not fitting in with her WC colleagues but that's been explained now.
Usually there are tonnes of comments saying upper middle class/ upper class people are unfailingly polite and would go out of their way to make you feel included.
Sounds to me that the other teachers at your school are rather non-U and not to be paid any more headspace. Easier said than done. Small steps.

At the risk of prolonging the debate there will be statistics on tumble dryer ownership by income/region (not class). See Family Spending www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personalandhouseholdfinances/expenditure/bulletins/familyspendingintheuk/april2020tomarch2021#family-spending-data

As a 2nd gen immigrant to UK I always feel British until I read these threads (which have become an education for me!). I just cannot relate to so many things.
I dry my washing by hanging it on a hanger (these are stored in a Tesco bag for life which is hung on the tie-back hook) which is then hung on the curtain pole on the upstairs landing. It gets the sun all day and dries really quickly. Which class would that make me?

Now I am senior exec level I just tell them I'm having tea at my nan's and we're going to sit and watch Corrie eating Crumpets and I give them a hard stare and eventually they look away.
Brilliant 👏 I love it.

Is anyone else dying for warm crumpets covered in butter with a cup of tea right now?

Actually the best glass for champagne is tulip shaped.

I still think the coupe looks the coolest though. Think Audrey Hepburn.

I think most people judge others on their behaviour, not which class they happened to be born into.

I had a middle class "friend of a friend" at school and we went to her house once. It was massive but oh my god the mess. Piles of clothes everywhere, paper, all over the stairs as well! My working class mum would have been horrified.

I cannot believe how many declare themselves as a member of a 'class', comments like these on this thread:

"I am very firmly middle class"

Are you really categorising yourself in a 'class'?! Why?

I genuinely don't get it. I'm not British (am from an EU country), and see all people as human beings...

I understand that some people are financially more successful, some are better educated than others, but we're ALL the same people! Why this need to differentiate by 'class? What does it even mean?!

We're WC but have champagne, prosecco, red and white wine glasses. Then there's whisky, gin, cocktail, beer, port, dessert and various glasses for soft drinks 😂

I'd agree with holding the stem except for red, when it really doesn't matter. But personal obviously.

I've just read my post back and it looks terrible 😂

What is "working class" ?

teathyme · Today 13:06
I do exactly the same. I even have a few hangers with clothes hanging from my bathroom and back bedroom windows lol 😂 can you imagine the outcry from the mc or uc who saw that? I dread to think 🤔

Bought some crumpets and jam this morning. Cant wait! Will also have 2 sugars in my builders mug of tea!

To me class is so much more than jobs

upper class to me is royals, rich land owners, some business owners tho some dodgy rich business men I wouldn’t call upper class so matter how rich they are

middle class again would be people from stock. Where 3/4 generations went to uni and posh achool

a lawyer/doctor who’s parents were teachers/nurses or even bus drivers etc are still working class to me

working class to me is pretty much everyone who works and owns house but not necessary land

*To me class is so much more than jobs

upper class to me is royals, rich land owners, some business owners tho some dodgy rich business men I wouldn’t call upper class so matter how rich they are

middle class again would be people from stock. Where 3/4 generations went to uni and posh achool

a lawyer/doctor who’s parents were teachers/nurses or even bus drivers etc are still working class to me

working class to me is pretty much everyone who works and owns house but not necessary land*

What are people 'from stock'?

How can you own a house without owning the land its on?

Guess I mean people who own acres,

I have a £500k house and i an FE teacher with 2 degree but still describe myself as working class as my mum and dad worked in shops/drove buses etc