The jobless are no shirking scroungers – you try living on £65.45 a week

lostinrates

Malcolm. wrote: »

Depends on whether your husband's home..?

It does. I'm a bit feeble about opening the shells myself.

custardy

aw shucks



(oyster joke if anyone gets it)

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

OH just had battered oysters in America but where I come from, you get oyster omelettes. It's not anything posh at all, it's street food!

What a strange concept that oysters are posh

Its a modern concept in UK too, relatively. They used to be used to add flavour/bulk meat in stews/pies here.

Of course, you can get them frozen in Chinese supermarkets here.

lostinrates

custardy wrote: »

aw shucks



(oyster joke if anyone gets it)

I'm sniggering.:D

carolt

lostinrates wrote: »

Its a modern concept in UK too, relatively. They used to be used to add flavour/bulk meat in stews/pies here.

Like Dickens with his beef & oyster pies. (Vomiting smilie.)

mbga9pgf

PhylPho wrote: »

Oysters is one of the reasons I decided not to be rich. Being compelled to eat them after an equally compulsory day out hunting with hounds isn't my idea of fun. And then there's caviar, also obligatory if you've loadsamoney. Er, and a Porsche. I sat in one once and sustained a slipped disc.

So I decided that as being rich is voluntary, I'd rather not volunteer. The amount of money I've saved by not having to cover the costs of being made ill by oysters and caviar as well as hospitalisation from sitting in a Porsche has been so considerable I'm now more upper class than the upper classes anyway.

Everything you describe above is Neauveau riche, not "old money". Bar Foxhunting which is a british institution that will once again be enjoyed by many middle class individuals when Cameron gets in.

wigglebeena

Malcolm. wrote: »

If you nice ladies lack zinc(?), there's (apparently) an easy way to solve that...

But it's men who lose humungous amounts of zinc with every, erm, deposit. So they're the ones who need to ... er...

...make use of cleaner's kneepads. G'wan, lad, it'll do yer a power of good.

catmiaow

I work part time and have done prior to my partner moving in, would have been better off on benefits but choose to get any job and look for a full time job in the meantime rather than claim benefits. Hate it, even now do not have much money left with no help.

Nightmare finding a full time job, have tried and tried but not enough jobs out there

moggylover

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You don't need to have money to have class.

You don't need class to have money, either.

Which I believe is what my post was suggesting;)

I was just trying to find out which "upper levels" were being referred to. Was that financial, intellectual, or...............?

lostinrates

moggylover wrote: »

Which I believe is what my post was suggesting;)

I was just trying to find out which "upper levels" were being referred to. Was that financial, intellectual, or...............?

or ...............serious thanks/post count.