Are people like me middle class?

Cleaver

Eskimo12345 wrote: »

If something makes me happy, and I can afford it, should I not buy it if it's over a certain percentage of my net wealth?

You should buy whatever you like for however much you like. I was just pointing out that you've spent 1.2% of your entire wealth on an alarm clock.

terryw

Procrastinator333 wrote: »

The greatest tale I ever heard for not bragging or showing off went like this. One night this chap was in a casino, splashing the cash, insulting fellow gamblers for being cheap, generally being a loud and an annoying tos*er. A rather unassuming chap came to the roulette table this person was playing on looking to get a seat. True to form the idiot told him this was the high rollers table and he should go play on the small stacks table. At this point, the chap looked him up and down and asked him how much are you worth? The idiot asked what did he mean? Today, if you sold everything, how much are you worth? The guy put his swagger back on, $25m I reckon. The newcomer looked at him again for a moment and then said "flip ya for for it".

There is always a bigger fish.

A good story mate, but I can better it with story that I actually witnessed. And this one is absolutely true, I promise you.

I drink in the local working men's club. A member received a phone call from his wife and merely answered "Yes, love. That is smashing. I'll be in about eleven....warm up those leftovers for my supper. Bye love."


Without any any excitement, the recipient of the phone call turned to his fellows and said, "Wor lass has just won the roll-over bingo at the local bingo hall and won £150,000. Is it my down on the dominoes?"

A superb example of panache! If you are ever in Newcastle upon Tyne, pop into the Westfield WMC for confirmation of this true story.

Apologies for going off the topic of middle-class.

lostinrates

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Alongside a booming industry in what knife to use if you were ever invited to a French restaurant.

And industry in fish knives.

Making them, I mean. Old canteens don't have them....

Graham_Devon

And just for a little fun, my definitons (based on your definitions) would be:

Working class - Run of the mill family, has holidays, goes to pizza hut, maybe a couple of cars on the drive, 3-4 bed house. Work until retiring age with most of their work life controlled by debt. Play golf and window shop for fun.

Middle class - Own outright, possibly with money passed down to them, large farm type houses, keep chickens because they can, have several spare rooms, all decorated pretty distastefully, and the windows probably don't shut properly. Probably have a holiday home in the english part of spain because they can and pay the cleaner to spend longer in it than they do. Often found in restaurants, and tell you the meals are only £50 per head while they spend 10 mins on the starter dissecting the meal to get at the tiniest bit of meat.

Upper class - Also own farm houses, but often bigger ones, with barn conversions which to them class as a kiddie playroom or granny flat. Work for themselves, probably with business or land passed down, don't have to work, but do so to keep themselves entertained and often walk into high up positions on councils and such like. Shoot badgers for fun. Can't speak to anyone but their own lot as no one can really understand a word they are saying, and for this reason they don't much like telephones. Houses are even less tasteful, and their wine cellars are probably the entire size of a normal pensioners bungalow. Use high end volvo 4x4's for shopping, and the XK jag or equivalent car they need to have comes out for their trip to the stables where they pretend to have an interest in the horses, but really horses are merely a requirement of their status. Will normally have a land rover too, which probably gets used more than both the jag and volvo as invariably these people are as tight as knats rears. Make you look twice when they give you a cheque from Coutts private banking, and as a simple peasant, your wondering whethere theres something dodgy going on.

TC1

Now I am confused.

I love pizza, keep chickens and am often described as being "as tight as knats rears"

diable

Procrastinator333 wrote: »

The greatest tale I ever heard for not bragging or showing off went like this. One night this chap was in a casino, splashing the cash, insulting fellow gamblers for being cheap, generally being a loud and an annoying tos*er. A rather unassuming chap came to the roulette table this person was playing on looking to get a seat. True to form the idiot told him this was the high rollers table and he should go play on the small stacks table. At this point, the chap looked him up and down and asked him how much are you worth? The idiot asked what did he mean? Today, if you sold everything, how much are you worth? The guy put his swagger back on, $25m I reckon. The newcomer looked at him again for a moment and then said "flip ya for for it".

There is always a bigger fish.

Ahh Rupert Murdoch and the Texan oil man lol I think it was $50 million.......

Graham_Devon

TC1 wrote: »

Now I am confused.

I love pizza, keep chickens and am often described as being "as tight as knats rears"

One way to settle this.

Does each "living" room in your house have a fireplace and some god awful swirly paterned carpet and curtains from 1982 hung on a gold plated curtain pole?

diable

I spent £90 on a kettle but only £50 on an alarm clock as I want a decent amp so am holding out on spending £3k on one as I have spent a fortune on a bathroom oh and I drive a 13 year old BMW worth about £1500 lol

God knows what class I am........... anyone help me work it out?

moggylover

flashnazia wrote: »

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

:T:T:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

That and the second hand beemer confirm it for me as well:D

IMO, being "middle class" would have more to do with understated good taste, a lack of ostentation and conspicuous consumption (all very bad taste don't you know;)) and holding certain standards of behaviour. Having a lot of money and excrutiating taste does not make one middle class.

In the days when "middle class" actually meant something, very few people outside of the professions would have been considered middle class: but personally I reckon anyone that has to work for a living is working class and OUGHT to be proud of that fact;) It doesn't mean that you can't have good taste and exacting standards, just that you work:)

Furthermore, I'm of the opinion that anyone who buys a second-hand car instead of a brand new one just so that he can have the "right" badge when they are all much of a muchness nowadays has had a brain bypass anyway:cool:

moggylover

diable wrote: »

Fixed ;o)))))))))

Your jealousy is showing;)