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  • somethingcorporate
    somethingcorporate Posts: 9,449 Forumite
    What makes them middle-class?

    Seems like a stupid idea.
    Thinking critically since 1996....
  • pinkteapot
    pinkteapot Posts: 8,044 Forumite
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    The Moet means they're not chavs.

    Their house means they're not upper class.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    somethingcorporate wrote: »
    What makes them middle-class?

    Seems like a stupid idea.
    Good question, they're not even working class now! Homeless, jobless....
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    pinkteapot wrote: »
    The Moet means they're not chavs.

    Their house means they're not upper class.
    The Moet's an empty bottle (from a skip?).
    They have no house.
  • Loughton_Monkey
    Loughton_Monkey Posts: 8,913 Forumite
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    They are hippies.

    Hippies can be drawn from any branch of society. Upper, middle, and lower. Basically, they take themselves away from any 'normal' classification and become classless.

    Their common trait is that they share a delusion that they can 'change the world' by brainless acts like attempting to change the so-called 'climate', trying to prevent an infrastructure project, or become organic vegans.
    So convinced are Naomi Smyth and Sam Rossiter that society as they know it could collapse in the wake of the Eurozone crisis, that they have decided to learn how to live as sparingly as possible - by visiting countries already affected by financial hardship.

    I suspect it arose after considerable ultimatums from Merkel to Greece, who had to decide between:

    1. Doubling austerity measures, by sacking another 100,000 public service workers.
    2. Introducing a draconian 90% tax on all Greeks earning more than poverty wages.
    3. Removing themselves from the Euro and re-introducing a heavily devalued Drachma.
    4. Inviting Naomi Smyth and Sam Rossiter over to Greece to invent the Internet for them.

    Greece presumably chose the latter course as being the most likely solution to their problems. Trouble is, they are going to 'solve' Spain and Italy first.

    .... thats IF their crummy boat ever gets them there.
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    pinkteapot wrote: »
    The Moet means they're not chavs.

    Maybe, Moet is IMHO the most overpriced of the Champagnes: a bargain basement product at mid-market prices. Getting the posh stuff slightly wrong is pretty chavvy I reckon.

    A bottle of Laurent Perrier or Pol Roger (Churchill's favourite) is a far better drink and is much the same price (£37 for LP, £38 for PR vs £32 for the M&C according to Sainsburys & Oddbins websites).
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,469 Forumite
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    champagne is all disgusting and the drink of the true upper classes is weak lager.
  • pinkteapot
    pinkteapot Posts: 8,044 Forumite
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    Most incorrect statement I've ever read on this board. Champagne is (almost) all delicious. :p
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    pinkteapot wrote: »
    Most incorrect statement I've ever read on this board. Champagne is (almost) all delicious. :p

    Yes but some are more equal than others.;)
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
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    Generali wrote: »
    Maybe, Moet is IMHO the most overpriced of the Champagnes: a bargain basement product at mid-market prices. Getting the posh stuff slightly wrong is pretty chavvy I reckon.

    A bottle of Laurent Perrier or Pol Roger (Churchill's favourite) is a far better drink and is much the same price (£37 for LP, £38 for PR vs £32 for the M&C according to Sainsburys & Oddbins websites).

    :T

    Or some Veuve for £36, quid cheaper than LP to buy some crisps :)
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