Class

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Just wondered what made people a certain class - I was described as middle class the other day and not sure if I agree.

There are a few mentions n Northerners thread about her parents coming to stay and I can not for the life of me figure out what makes one middle class or working class - I go to work so IMO I am working class - Is this right????

Lack of choices for 'lower classes' people?

class not classes!

I suspect that most truly upper class people wouldn't give a damn! They have spent their lives having the piss taken out of them for being posh and it's water off a duck's back (well most of the ones I know are like that anyway!) They just find it funny that anyone can bother to take the piss out of them.

And for the record ALL the ones I know are pretty hard up. Money has nothing to do with it.

Rhubarb I live on a sink estate and have all that stuff, I need to keep the kids happy somehow heehee
No only joking I dont think it makes me a better class,I dont want to be any class as I am what I am. I just buy things to keep my family in a comfortable lifestyle. and to amuse them on those rainy days like the last few days.
Thank god for sky tv.

I see women who wear tights with open toed shoes, who smoke roll ups or wear too much gold jewellery as simply having no style, not as being lower class

I have a blender - it means I can buy cheap fruit and make my own smoothies rather than forking out £2.50 a bottle in Sainsburys. Does that make me cheapskate middle class?

What, you mean those type on the council house estates with the old banger parked in the front garden, it's wheels replaced by bricks? Those who still think that shell suits are in fashion and never go anywhere without a can of Heineken in one hand and a fag in the other? Those who don't have a cooker as all their meals are provided by McD's, KFC and the chippy? Those who can't string a sentence together without including the word F*k? Whose children are called Chantelle, Kylie and Dwayne? Whose mother's have mouths like foghorns that can be heard 20 streets away screaming at their kids to "Get the f*k back here before I belt you one!"

Are those the classes you mean?

Rhubarb, I beg to differ on your point about other countries. India has a far far more intrusive and active class/caste system than us.

Also would be v interested to know how you get a hi fi to work without an amplifier

What's a smoothie? And why not just mash everything? What else can I do with my brand new blender? (Thank you Custy!)

Come on you MUST have had a smoothie!!!

SamboM - you use speakers!
And in India is it not more divided? The gulf between rich and poor is greater? It doesn't operate the same class system that we seem so obsessed with. In India once you are born into that class, you stay there. A bit like the Royal Family. It is much more unjust and unfair than here, which was my point.

LOL Rhubarb, you described some residents on our estate down to a tee heehee
Just for the record I have not named any of my children those names.But my kids say I sound like a foghorn haha.

I've had a milkshake!

Smoothies are really just pureed fruit which you drink (add apple juice to make it more liquid. You can add yoghurt too. Makes it easy peasy to get your 5 portions of fruit in a day and is great if your children won't eat fruit. Tinned fruit (in juice, not syrup) works just as well as fresh, as does frozen. Tinned fruit is especially recommended for those lower class people who don't know what fresh fruit is

You can probably do home made soup too but that's way too middle class for me ...

NO no no, you can't just plug speakers into a cd player, you have to have an amp

Misinterpreted your post re other places.

Creole earings are a big pointer me thinks

I only own nice platinum and silver jewellrey - no gold in my jewellery box.

Stepmonsetr did all of the crap things that I listed and I tried so hard to talk her round but then again she definately did not have any class - upper, middle or lower!!

Think kids names are also a big pointer but am not going there just in case I name your child!!

Come on then sink estate posse, what have you called your kids? Let's see if it's true?!

Only joking - I'm not that thick! I normally just eat an apple or something though, never thought of blending anything apart from baby food!

Has anyone got a kid called Kylie?

louise is one

Mrs Minogue?

And what is wrong with Louise? It's a lovely name. V disappointed, at least expected Chardonnay

C'mon then SamboM, what do the wealthier classes call their kids!

I was only joking, I'm not posh really (well not very)

Guess!

I think I have named my children lovely names. Whymummy and washer know the names ask them their opinion.I would like to keep my anonimity.