Are people like me middle class?

lostinrates

moggylover wrote: »

OMG:eek::eek: I call mine my sitting room:eek::eek: My parents always did as well, and it was a council house:cool:

And I always thought I was born working class and proud of it:D

My mother has got a bit freakish in her retirement, she cares more, which she would once have said to be a middle class trait.

The middle class tend to dress it up (French words, ''middle class euphamisms'' etc), the uppers and workings say it as it is...in whatever their usual vernacular. My sitting room is a sitting room because I mainly use it to sit in. I go to the lavatory not bathroom because I don't take a bath in there when I go.

If you all know what you are talking about...does it matter? I guess whether I cared if my kids say ''toilet'' I'll never know. My guess is, hypocritically but truthfully, I would gently encourage them to not. But it doesn't upset me when friends go to the toilet. I'm pretty sure DH does a lot, and the bathroom.

vivatifosi

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Damn, I'm gonna get myself into trouble :o

One way to look at it could be the working class can only suck a Polo, while middle class women drive a Polo and upper class men save their horsepower for Polo. The nouveau riche wear Polo. All purely based on stereotypes of course;).

diable

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother has got a bit freakish in her retirement, she cares more, which she would once have said to be a middle class trait.

The middle class tend to dress it up (French words, ''middle class euphamisms'' etc), the uppers and workings say it as it is...in whatever their usual vernacular. My sitting room is a sitting room because I mainly use it to sit in. I go to the lavatory not bathroom because I don't take a bath in there when I go.

If you all know what you are talking about...does it matter? I guess whether I cared if my kids say ''toilet'' I'll never know. My guess is, hypocritically but truthfully, I would gently encourage them to not. But it doesn't upset me when friends go to the toilet. I'm pretty sure DH does a lot, and the bathroom.

You are rambling, just call it the sh1tter ;o)))

diable

moggylover wrote: »

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I hate to say this, but I wear Lonsdale for doing the housework and gardening:D They wash better and last longer than any other such clothes that I have tried and since I have mobility problems I want something "easy" to get on and get about in:D I'm told that my Lonsdale joggers look incongruous with green wellies and a barbour jacket, but I don't care:cool:

I wouldn't be seen dead in them in town though:o

ahhhh Sports Direct.............. The Primark of the sporting goods World

moggylover

lostinrates wrote: »

My mother has got a bit freakish in her retirement, she cares more, which she would once have said to be a middle class trait.

The middle class tend to dress it up (French words, ''middle class euphamisms'' etc), the uppers and workings say it as it is...in whatever their usual vernacular. My sitting room is a sitting room because I mainly use it to sit in. I go to the lavatory not bathroom because I don't take a bath in there when I go.

If you all know what you are talking about...does it matter? I guess whether I cared if my kids say ''toilet'' I'll never know. My guess is, hypocritically but truthfully, I would gently encourage them to not. But it doesn't upset me when friends go to the toilet. I'm pretty sure DH does a lot, and the bathroom.

That is precisely why I call mine my sitting room:) I'm rather looking forward to getting my extension finished because then it will not have to treble up as a study and music room as well (good job it is quite large). I'd like a library (and certainly have enough books) but that might be pushing my luck too far, I think the new study will have to masquerade as a library as well:) The music room will be just that, full of instruments and noisy:) Everyone but me plays something so I am threatening to get myself a drum set;):cool:

My mother always called it the lavatory (but then ours was separate to the bathroom so it would have been confusing calling it a bathroom, and she always said that a toilet was a piece of porcelain, not a room). Nowadays I am more likely to refer to it as the "loo":D My DS1 insists on referring to it as "the bog" (and I blame his father entirely for that:mad:) and DS2 calls it the "ty bach" which is the Welsh for toilet:D.

Personally, I've never given a darn what anyone calls any of their rooms, but I have been known to go slightly green if they have lots of them for individual purposes because that would so suit my OCD tendencies.:o

Oh Lord! We have a boot room as well, there is no hope for me at all:eek: However, we do not have a gun room, nor do I want one:D

moggylover

vivatifosi wrote: »

one way to look at it could be the working class can only suck a polo, while middle class women drive a polo and upper class men save their horsepower for polo. The nouveau riche wear polo. All purely based on stereotypes of course;).

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okay! Fess up, who broke my clapping smiley?

lostinrates

moggylover wrote: »

:eek: However, we do not have a gun room, nor do I want one:D

we have a gun chest....I keep the dog towels in them.

moggylover

diable wrote: »

ahhhh Sports Direct.............. The Primark of the sporting goods World

Yes, I did get them there as well;):D I'm far too savvy (and classy;)) to ever buy this years range at the ridiculous prices of the independent sports shops when I'm only going to clean the house or car in them, or dig the garden:D

I have a trug for my garden tools though:p;)

moggylover

lostinrates wrote: »

we have a gun chest....I keep the dog towels in them.

That's not a bad idea, but I don't have dogs. Cats, rabbits, guinea pigs and degus, but no dogs:( We used to have two, but once I couldn't be guaranteed to walk them they went to live with my MIL:(

diable

moggylover wrote: »

Yes, I did get them there as well;):D I'm far too savvy (and classy;)) to ever buy this years range at the ridiculous prices of the independent sports shops when I'm only going to clean the house or car in them, or dig the garden:D

I have a trug for my garden tools though:p;)

Willow or Chestnut?