To want to be middleclass?

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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?

'The middle class don't worry about what class they are?'.

I find the opposite to be true. They, as a general rule, seem to need to reassure themselves of their status reguarly and have discussions on what is and what isn't acceptable to eat/wear/purchase clothing from as evidenced by numerous threads here.

If you typed 'middle class' into the MN search engine the whole MN site would probably crash/explode as the posters here are so obsessed with class, it's definition and it's various little nuances.

Lettherebe rock, could you highlight any thread or post in which people discuss without irony what food/ clothes etc are acceptable in order to be middle class?

Last time I looked, the clothes threads were about style not class, and the food threads about taste/ nutrition not class.

you are not truly middle class unless you have considered thieving a nice bottle of vouvray

morris, the fact that they are discussing it at all shows they care... a dignified silence is the only way of showing that you dont care!

I really hope the op doesnt take the question too seriously.

I definitely remember class discussion threads, the best of which was Enid and her taps in about 2002.

I'm not bothered about class to be honest. You can be a decent person however you've been educated. You can be upper class have loads of assets but no cash, you can be working class with low rent to pay and a decent job and have loads of cash.

I think I straddle the social strata quite nicely, I'm a teenage mum studying (medicine) at Oxbridge, I frequently pop to the local shop in my (jack wills) pyjamas. Among my closest friends I can count two Hamishs, a Rupert, a Larnee a Kaylee and a Jocasta Apolonia.
And I have drunk (and enjoyed) both Lambrini and Cristal.
I am who I am and I'm happy with that!

I understand the squeamishness about class distinctions. I think it's almost retro to think of people in class terms. You can't assume that because someone reads a certain newspaper or lives in such and such house they will behave in a certain kind of way, or have such and such values. At best it's incredibly superficial, and at worst it's perpetuating the damaging idea that some people are 'better' than others due to an accident of birth.

AcademicallyTormented - you're studying medicine at Oxbridge? Both of them?

Obviously not at both of them, I just feel a bit comfier using the generic on a public forum!

guess you also feel comfier when pants not on fire?