To want to be middleclass?

[holliejobber]

Im not though. I live in a council house! These are the things i have done to try and 'raise my game';
Have a vegetable patch.
Breastfeed for ages.
Go to baby massage classes.
Recycle my household waste.
Try not to watch jeremy kyle.
I am hoping to get a place at uni in september, that will definately make me middleclass surely?

x-posts!

Coffee tables defy class boundaries

I do hope that your tongue is firmly in your cheek Sabire. It can be difficult to tell if someone is being serious or not online.

No, you look like just as much of a tosser to privately educated self confident poeple.

maybe it's the thick skin that is the difference?

Thick skin does often = tosser I've noticed, and knows no barriers to class.

Lets just agree we're all in a class of our own

No carry on

roffle sabire
Yes,yes, tribal. But I note that other tribes aren't quite as fantastically competitive with one another, are they ?

My husband's working class roots govern the dialect used in our house. Our sitting room is the 'front room', where we hang a picture of the Queen and our collection of Franklin Mint figurines. yuck!

And we keep the plastic covers on all the chairs.

MIL... is that you??

They're gorgeous, sabire.

Our house (not ours and a flat to be accurate) is an appalling mess and full of books. Am middle class/underclass hybrid.

upper class...or (genuine) working class....only thing to be,...anything in the middle is naff....

you are neither....give up and give in to a life of dullness...

Being thick skinned is a huge blessing Baroness when it comes to encounters with angry, self-righteous people who are determined to take offence about .... well, almost everything.

Zephirine - having a slutty house is a sign that you're a member of a) the underclass or b) the upper middle class. In my experience working class women tend to keep a very nice home, even when they work full-time, and judge each other by the state of their upholstery. But then they've got more time on their hands because they don't read!

lol, that's true sabire. I grew up thinking I was 'poor' because I lived in a messy house and wore jumble sale clothes.

The penny didn't drop until I was about 21 or so that in fact I was considered 'privileged' in the big scheme of things.

Oh dear... you've really done it now....

If that's me Sabire, I'm not 'offended' just find the banging on about class on MN nauseating and rather odd.

I now gather you ar being ironic. as I said that wasn't clear enough in earlier posts which did make you sound like a tosser. imo.

Tossers rarely offend me, but do make me think 'tosser.'

Maybe make your irony clearer in future?

Baroness, when did you have a senseofhumourectomy. and more importantly, did you go private or have it on the NHS?

Sabire's wit is wasted on you.

What's wrong with scent I'd like to know, kindly???

scent is correct, I believe, rollmops

perfume is vulgar

sabire - I know. I am having anxiety attacks about dd's first playdate with her best friend at school (and btw there are no Guardian reading mc types at my school gates - your area can't be that rough).

...fuckinell ark at me coming over all Nancy Mitford

...in fact I have a mcockernee accent you could strike a fuckin match on

I mean her first playdate at our house. I think her mum is going to be appalled.

I am assuming you are joking sabire!Reading the guardian and veg boxes aren't indicative of class and sneering at other mothers is snobbery not mc!

Baroness I think you are being a bit of a meany

if you don't like the harping on about class on mn, why on earth would you even look at a thread like this one?

oh, and sterling work OP- I like the "raise my game"- roffle