What is normal? (for East Dulwich)

[KalamityKel]

How does having gone to university put me in the middle class section?

[mightyroar]

loo

toilet

bog

for under or upper

but

lavatory is for mc only

now which way round is napkin and serviette?

to wipe your mouth after you eat your

pudding

dessert

or afters?

[macroban]

> the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head

Oh dear!

How very middle class courtesy of Mayall and God and the fashion thus created.

[blinder999]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> How does having gone to university put me in the

> middle class section?

ask the bloke who fixes your roof

[Marmora Man]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> So, does Mamoraman own his copy, or did he borrow

> it from the library?

My own, paperback copy - bought about 20 years ago.

[KalamityKel]

I can't afford to fix my roof! :'(

[Jah Lush]

macroban Wrote:

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> > the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned

> electric head

>

> Oh dear!

>

> How very middle class courtesy of Mayall and God

> and the fashion thus created.

Err...Viv Stanshall actually.

[SimonM]

Middle-class

Making lists of allegedly working-class characteristics and then smugly insisting one is being ironic, not smug...:))

(Why does this thread remind me of those Cleese/Barker?Corbett sketches on David Frost's programme all those years ago...?)

SimonM (unclassifiable, although not a toff)

[macroban]

> Err...Viv Stanshall actually.

July 1966 was earlier than October 1967 (Well it was in East Dulwich)

[*Bob*]

SimonM Wrote:

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> Making lists of allegedly working-class

> characteristics and then smugly insisting one is

> being ironic, not smug...:))

Simon, let me assure you that in my case (tinned salmon with a bit of vinegar in it, Vienetta Ice Cream, darning, dandelion & Burdock, condensed milk, having to stand in the kitchen sink to have a wash, Princes' tinned ham, watching snooker on a b&w television, woodbines) I was simply describing the usual Sunday at my Gran and Grandads place.

[macroban]

> having to stand in the kitchen sink to have a wash

Makes me feel quite superior. We could sit on the draining board.

[falcao]

So now there is only one zone that doesn't have it's own exclusive list and that's the underclass.

How about

1.joyriding and setting cars on fire

2.drinking extremely cheap lager al fresco , though without the table and chair to sit on. More the kind of alfresco that.involves walking down the street can in hand.

4.Listening to very loud nose bleed inducing techno at all hours of the day and night

5.having a fridge in what passes as a front or back garden

6.having a washing machine in the same garden

7.putting soiled nappies down the toilet

8.Attending your court case in tracksuit trousers and a football top

[KalamityKel]

falcao Wrote:

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> 1.joyriding and setting cars on fire

> 2.drinking extremely cheap lager al fresco ,

> though without the table and chair to sit on. More

> the kind of alfresco that 3.involves walking down

> the street can in hand.

> 4.Listening to very loud nose bleed inducing

> techno at all hours of the day and night

Those can hardly be assigned to one particular "class"

[falcao]

no your quite right. Stick them in the 'wealthy' zone as well.

[KalamityKel]

;-)

[Alan Dale]

Fleeing persecution

Bonded labour

Selling copied DVDs pub to pub

Being disenfranchised

Being homeless

[falcao]

Couldn't we add a 'Criminal class' zone. It would be a shame to tar all the underclass and the wealthy with the same brush.

[Brendan]

How would we classify 'Criminal class' as it has to incorporate local MPs, a large amount of people who work in the upper echelons of financial management, a few fraudulent professionals, most of the estate agents, all the students, petty thieves, heroine addicts, any council tenants who fraudulently claim benefits, not so petty thieves and Michael Palaeologus for public lewdness in the Quiet Room.

[blinder999]

Brendan Wrote:

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> How would we classify 'Criminal class' as it has

> to incorporate local MPs, a large amount of people

> who work in the upper echelons of financial

> management, a few fraudulent professionals, most

> of the estate agents, all the students, petty

> thieves, heroine addicts, any council tenants who

> fraudulently claim benefits, not so petty thieves

> and Michael Palaeologus for public lewdness in the

> Quiet Room.

tax evasion and embezzlement are in fact already on there

[citizenED]

Upper Class - Burberry

Working Class - knock-off Burberry

[????]

Brendan - is a heroine addict a keen fan of Jane Austen? Sounds very middle-class to me

[WickedStepmother]

Making your own picalilli; working class or middle class?

[WickedStepmother]

You know, you might want to move "kids at private school". Stepson #1 is at a private school but it's a financial stretch - a position I think is common to an awful lot of middle class households.

[KalamityKel]

It's all bollox really WSM ;-)

[WickedStepmother]

True enough. I have waaay too much time on my hands today! I think I'll go and pickle something instead... ;-)