My background is working class, I'm middle class now but I remember where I came from.
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...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Father was an officer in the Royal Navy but he had no money or breeding.
Think that makes me middle class, whatever I do in life!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIt's very simple. The working class emigrate to Spain. The middle class to France, and the upper class... well, modesty forbids.
Poll added.
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTHHard Brexit now!
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Originally posted by ctdctd View PostFather was an officer in the Royal Navy but he had no money or breeding.
Think that makes me middle class, whatever I do in life!
Former submarine captain emails children to say he is 'bitterly disappointed' in them - TelegraphThe material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.
George Frederic Watts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_ParkComment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostIf its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.Will work inside IR35. Or for food.Comment
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Originally posted by VectraMan View PostI'd consider myself upper lower middle class, but strive to become lower upper middle class.
I grew up in a family clinging on for dear life to the lower rungs of the lower middle class, which paid considerably less well than their 'respectable skilled' working class roots. I think I am now firmly ensconsed in the upper lower middle class.
The poll option needs many many more options.The material prosperity of a nation is not an abiding possession; the deeds of its people are.
George Frederic Watts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman's_ParkComment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostEmigrating anywhere for work makes you middle class at best (depending on the work).
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTH
I emigrated for a landed Dutch girl.
(entirely coincidentally, she's blonde with big knockers)And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostEmigrating anywhere for work makes you middle class at best (depending on the work).
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTHDown with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by speling bee View PostHave you never read any of George Orwell's autobiographical essays about the horrors of being lower upper middle class? The kind of people who (c. 1910 - 20) who know in theory how to deal with servants but can't afford them.
I grew up in a family clinging on for dear life to the lower rungs of the lower middle class, which paid considerably less well than their 'respectable skilled' working class roots. I think I am now firmly ensconsed in the upper lower middle class.
The poll option needs many many more options.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post...people such as myself ....Hard Brexit now!
#prayfornodealComment
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