Are people like me middle class?

MrsE_2

flashnazia wrote: »

IMHO, if you have a large Telly, you are a Chav..
Sorry

Get in the real world, everyone has a good sized flat screen tv now a days.

Why would anyone want a chunky old fashioned box with a curved screen.

I have a 42 inch in the living room, I'm not a chav.

MrsE_2

toby3000 wrote: »

The working class and the upper class have most in common in Britain, in terms of language (apparently), so sitting room, pudding, napkin and what? are all upper AND working, while lounge, dessert, serviette and pardon? are middle

I'm going to be difficult, I say living room, pudding, napkin & sorry?

lostinrates

MrsE wrote: »

Get in the real world, everyone has a good sized flat screen tv now a days.

Why would anyone want a chunky old fashioned box with a curved screen.

I have a 42 inch in the living room, I'm not a chav.

We have ''inherited'' a chav tv from my father. Its horrendous. I don't know how big it is, but its too big. It just fits on a singer sewing table, but not all of it is screen And it IS a chuncky old fashioned box, it goes back for miles.. However we will not be replacing it because its just NOT important to us. I had my last tv since a kid, it was ...''normal sized'' like...a microwave. It was MUCH nicer. If we get another tv at some point we will get a small one again.

laurel7172

Biggish screens are normal now. Ubiquitous. Cheap. I think we've passed the point, with regard to 40 inch-ish screens, where a refusal to have one risks looking like "Oooo...look at me, I'm *far* too middle class to have a big TV".

And you can't get much more nouveau than that... :P

lostinrates

laurel7172 wrote: »

Biggish screens are normal now. Ubiquitous. Cheap. I think we've passed the point, with regard to 40 inch-ish screens, where a refusal to have one risks looking like "Oooo...look at me, I'm *far* too middle class to have a big TV".

And you can't get much more nouveau than that... :P

I just hate the ''tv as an alter'' look. I think its kind of depressing. I LIKE tv programmes, but I just don't feel a blank tv screen is ever that nice. The bigger the uglier. Looks like a sort of a vacuum..a void.

Best thing about having moved is no tv upstairs now

MrsE_2

Laconic wrote: »

The best definition I've heard went thus:
upper class people can give their children both wealth and opportunity. Middle class parents can't pass on significant wealth, but they can give opportunity (nice schools, gap years, extra tuition, exposure to professionals...).
Working class parents can pass on neither wealth nor opportunity, so everything their children get they have to get for themselves..

Thats pretty good.

I'm def working class then, no surprise there:D

michaels

We have ours wall mounted:

Loughton_Monkey

michaels wrote: »

We have ours wall mounted:

Well that's what I call class.

Trouble is, I can't work out which one!

Thermidor

Eskimo12345 wrote: »

I grew up in a modest house with my two siblings and my folks. My old man worked full time all his life, office based on the same wage as shop floor folks. My old dear took a part time job when I was 16. The telly in the lounge was only replaced by my grandparents hand-me-downs when they got a new one as we couldn't afford to buy one; all our winter coats were presents from my grandfolks, who also worked all their lives. I worked part time to put myself through uni and only relied on the folks to feed & home me during the holidays.

Now, at 29, I have a good job and earned around £37k in the last 12 months. Last year I bought a three year old m sport beemer for 12k in cash. I live on my own in a large apartment in the middle of town, with a massive telly and £5k's worth of home cinema gear in the lounge. My alarm clock was £300, and I'm currently saving £500 a month towards a house. Nothing I've bought was ever on credit as it didn't take my degree in physics to work out that saving up for something is cheaper than buying it on credit.

Personally I reckon that due to my income and resultant lifestyle, I'm middle class. To be honest, compared to what my folks had I feel like I'm loaded beyond my wildest dreams. I buy new suits for fun. However my older mates at work reckon middle class means that mummy & daddy had so much money that you don't have to work, and so I'm still working class.

Whadya reckon, am I middle class? Or if you think I am still plain old working class, do I have a chance of making my (future) kids middle class by continuing to advance my career so I earn enough to buy their education etc so they will be?

You're trying too hard................middle class people would never dish out £300 on an alarm clock. You would come across as desperate to the midle classes............sorry!

But why are you bothered? Why do you care so much what class people see you as?

Thermidor

Eskimo12345 wrote: »

As for a large telly being chavtastic - each to their own. Even a 42" would look like a digital photo frame in my LOUNGE

Any Tv when you're camping or caravaning in a field will look tiny.