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Homelessness could spread to middle class

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  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    It isn't just a look, its behavioural .
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • lynzpower
    lynzpower Posts: 25,311 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    If you're homeless, you're not middle class.... so it's an oxymoron.
    :)

    What about if you went to grammar school, have a degree? And your parents "did well"?

    Presumably not?
    :beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
    Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
    This Ive come to know...
    So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    ukcarper wrote: »
    Could you or Graham explain what a chav looks like for me?
    Usually trackie/hoodie, trainers, a slouching/dodgy looking swagger in the walk - quite often a look of malnourishment... inability to enunciate words ... usually a distrusting/snarling look around the face.
  • lynzpower
    lynzpower Posts: 25,311 Forumite
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    Percy1983 wrote: »
    It isn't just a look, its behavioural .

    Could you let me know which behaviours I should not display then?
    Would like to know, lest anyone judge me or OH ?
    :beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
    Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
    This Ive come to know...
    So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    lynzpower wrote: »
    What about if you went to grammar school, have a degree? And your parents "did well"?

    Presumably not?
    Nope. Real middle classes will have their contacts to get them sorted.

    No job ... you're just then poor, like the rest of us beggars :)
  • lynzpower
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Usually trackie/hoodie, trainers, a slouching/dodgy looking swagger in the walk - quite often a look of malnourishment... inability to enunciate words ... usually a distrusting/snarling look around the face.

    Could you tell me where I can go to get my "walk" assessed please?

    Oh has not had the talk yet at the job centre, but maybe it might put people off employing?

    That lack of malnourishment might come soon, we cant really afford to eat much at the moment! :A
    :beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
    Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
    This Ive come to know...
    So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    lynzpower wrote: »
    Could you let me know which behaviours I should not display then?
    Would like to know, lest anyone judge me or OH ?
    Quite often a lard-4rse, with slouching jeans - and a g string that shows every time you bend over.... exposing also the tattoo you have in the small of your back.

    You also have to use the word "loose" instead of "lose" and generally not be able to speak properly anyway ... usually mumbling, while your multi-ringed fingers speed over your iphone/ipod controls.

    Key phrases/stances are: stare at the floor, drag your feet, mumbling "woteva" ... or, after a few Lambrinis, you have to be gobby and start fights.
  • lynzpower
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    Nope. Real middle classes will have their contacts to get them sorted.

    No job ... you're just then poor, like the rest of us beggars :)

    Poor isnt a class.

    I have no contacts to "get me sorted" whatever that means, most of my friends and family are escaping redundancy by the skin of their teeth.
    :beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
    Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
    This Ive come to know...
    So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
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    lynzpower wrote: »
    Poor isnt a class.

    I have no contacts to "get me sorted" whatever that means, most of my friends and family are escaping redundancy by the skin of their teeth.

    Sorry to say you sound working class to me, but not chav class.

    Remember the class scale:
    Upper Class
    Middle Class
    Working Class
    People off ready steady cook.
    Teletubbies
    Murderers/Rapists etc
    Chav
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    edited 31 August 2011 at 5:21PM
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Could you or Graham explain what a chav looks like for me?

    How about I simply show you?

    chavs.jpg

    chavs-on-bench.jpg
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