The Great British Class Calculator...

[red devil]

Fook! I'm Technical Middle Class...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973

*Hands round the prawn sandwiches...*

[david_carnell]

Me too, although I read it as "technically middle class" like I had the right job but wrong accent.

Anyway, I'm off to update my tumblr account on my ipad and then go for a flat white with Giles, my graphic design friend.

[Jeremy]

I thought somebody would post this sooner or later!

I expect a lot of people on here will qualify for the "elite" class.

[*Bob*]

It's a shit test.

Results are predetermined by money - income, savings and property value - even if you only know a cleaner, play video games and do Facebook.

[Huguenot]

'Elite'

Hahahahahaha

Although it seemed to predicate that judgment on the basis that I like museums and galleries, know CEOs of startups and teachers equally, and like to have BBQs at home.

Hmmmm....

I don't think this is really designed for expat lifestyles.

[Vicanna]

If your DVD collection isn't predominantly subtitled; and you don't bake your own bread, then your results are meaningless.

[Annette Curtain]

Ha- I'm Established Middle Class apparently

And there was me thinking I was an off grid Hobo with a door key.

[red devil]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I thought somebody would post this sooner or

> later!

Had to Jeremy, couldn't resist.

I'm taking bets on the number of posts before it decends into a full-on EDF Class war...hot favourite is after everyone's been to Pret for lunch.

[Louisa]

Just done the test and had to do some tweaking to get the answer I wanted. I'm now happily Traditional Working Class, despite some stupid question about property value. So I can rest easy in my bed knowing I'm one of the few remaining Cockney sparra's left in the city they abandoned for suburban Essex, Kent and Herts all those years ago. An old School ED'er, no bugaboos or organic muesli in this house!

Louisa.

[Huguenot]

So you aren't really Traditional Working Class, Louisa? Well who woulda thunk it?

[Annette Curtain]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I thought somebody would post this sooner or

> later!

>

> I expect a lot of people on here will qualify for

> the "elite" class.

Elite class "with a wood burning stove" Jeremy.

Radiators and gas fires are a bit - well, you know!

[Otta]

Emergent service workers

And I'm nearly 35.

Oh dear.

[Jessie]

Me too Otta. The whole thing is a bit daft, showing how we equate social class with property. Anyway, lovely for the beeb to confirm I shouldn't get above my station as I can't afford to buy a house.

[Otta]

I'm going to stop talking to any cleaners and tradesmen I know. Hopefully retired cleaners don't count, or else I'll need to cut my mum out of my life.

[????]

Established Middle Class - fookers

[DulwichFox]

Tried the survey.. Traditional Working Class..

As I am Retired did the test again adding what I used to earn..

Come out Elite. Likely to go to galleries and the opera Even when I did not tick those boxes..

This is not the Full Survey (5 Questions).

The full survey takes 20 mins and you have to get a BBC ID and register.

Foxy

[Huguenot]

Ah! There's a full survey?

Property wasn't key - I rent, but still came out Elite for the reasons above.

[RosieH]

Elite. Of course I am.

But I don't go to the opera or own property, so there's hope for the rest of you yet.

[david_carnell]

???? Wrote:

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> Established Middle Class - fookers

*proper chuckle*

[Jeremy]

Annette Curtain Wrote:

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> Elite class "with a wood burning stove" Jeremy.

>

> Radiators and gas fires are a bit - well, you know!

Wood burning stoves are for aspirational underlings!

The elite class burn foxes in pits made of marble.

[*Bob*]

'Elite' and 'Precariat' certainly sound like the most fun categories to be in.

[RosieH]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> ???? Wrote:

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> > Established Middle Class - fookers

>

> *proper chuckle*

I reckon he reads the Guardian n'all.

[El Pibe]

Like Louisa I lied enough to get in to a category more appropriate to my self image. Whew!!!!

[Annette Curtain]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> 'Elite' and 'Precariat' certainly sound like the

> most fun categories to be in.

Indeed *Bob*

I'm trying to break out of my "Established Middle Class" shackles

Could one pass the key ?

[Huguenot]

Hee hee

I looked up the 'technical middle class' and it seemed to imply that it was the same as the 'established middle class', but without any culture!

*snorts with laughter*