Class........whats it mean these days???

[Andy Collins]

Phaps she does a lot of work on her back

[s.varty]

Phaps she does a lot of work on her back

 

Dont forget the long cold walk she has every week to sign on,its not all roses you know:laugh1:

[David Humphries]

A master class in observation on class

 

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[alex_m]

A master class in observation on class

 

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brilliant

 

"The big shots are all nuts, a great laugh and the working class are f-ing nuts, it's the middle that sucks - it's the v neck pullover volvo crowd that f the whole thing up!"

 

I agree 100% with this.

[Gnome]

I wouldn't consider myself working class. I think the minimum wage has altered things at the bottom of the ladder. I earn around £1000 a month after tax which is probably alot less than many in the so called gutter class.( so i'm in some kind of underclass that has to work hard)

I think of the working class now as the public sector workers on decent money with a foreign holiday once or twice a year, 2 cars, pension and home owner(20k plus a year)

I don't bother socialising as just can't afford it so for the past 15years or so(my working life)I have been immune to any social climbing. I know of many in the golfing fraternity and a few further up the ladder. I may as well be on a different planet to them.

At school I was very clever but knew I did not fit in with the ones going to Uni and with the rest who were smoking round the back of the school.

Alot of it is not what you know but who you know but many of you will know that already.

 

My question is: Are there far more steps on the class ladder these days?

[tree monkey]

last year i never put a penny in my personal account just lived hand to mouth.

that makes me a scrubber class

[oldwoodcutter]

I have two regular customers that i get calls from to carry out tree work,that are known

as upper class - 1 lives in a castle and the other a stately pile,and the first time i drove into their grounds i wondered what to expect,as ime about as working class as a border collie.

Get on well with them,one expects you to prefix his first name by 'sir' when you talk to him, and the other cust whose husband is never about very much,prefers to be addressed as 'my lady' ,which is no problem.

Both families have lived there since the reformation,dont drive new range rovers,and will wander over to where ime working and ask if ide like a cup of tea.

They can afford to pay for whatever they want,and to employ whoever they like,and as long as they keep phoning me up,i'll keep accepting their big red banknotes.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

last year i never put a penny in my personal account just lived hand to mouth.

that makes me a scrubber class

 

That's how it was for me too.

 

Although that may have something to do with the speed of my wife's spending!😂😢😢

[Nick B]

I have to agree with Andy,s view of the class system but with a few extra added in.

From what I remember you have lower middle class, Middle class and upper middle class which breaks up the jobs people do a bit more

[difflock]

Class has nowt to do wit money, though the forebearers of the upper class certainly needed money to get established.

At this late stage in the UK's social eveolution those who still consider themselves to be trapped in a working class situation, have elected to be so trapped, either by their own actions, or those of their parents and grandparents.

 

Ignoring the benefits of free education and reasonable thrift to induldge in short term consumer fecklessness.

 

From someone who grew up wearing hand-me-down cloths, without electric or mains water, often eating porridge as a main meal, and sleeping between sheets sewen from Mortons flour bags.

 

But I went to University via County Secondary School and tech college.

My well picked wife was an Army brat, who attended a good private school (paid for by the Army)

 

Our children are hopefully growing up with middle class values , but classless in their outlook.