Class system

[Bagpuss]

Perhaps we should grade people like we grade meat?

[Xenophon]

Scumbags
Average
Succesful
Celebrity
A-List

Shouldn't 'Celebrity' be at the bottom?

to Haris Pilton. Bless her...

[BrilloPad]

I look down on the queen. thats how upper class I am.

[SallyAnne]

We got taught a grading system in school of A's B's and C's.
It was dependant on loads of stuff - profession, wages, property owner, assets, etc - very complicated.

If this still exists it'll be very out of date...but like someone else said, it probably wont exist anymore, as we're supposed to be a classless society.

[IR35 Avoider]

I heard somewhere that the class system is actually a fairly modern concept, 19th century I think. "Class" replaced "rank" and was fairer, because it is actually possible to change your class. In the days of "rank" if you weren't (for example) born an aristocrat, there was nothing you could do about it.

In the recent series of Jane Austen dramatisations on ITV, I heard one of the characters making a reference to "rank", so it was definitely still in use in the 19th century.

[Moscow Mule]

I'm an Aussie

In the land where i was born, there was a man who was a thief;

and he told me of his life, of stealing bread, and shagging sheep;

so they put him in the nick and a magistrate came to see;

he said "send him to the ship to the convict colony;

YOU ALL LIVE IN A CONVICT COLONY
A CONVICT COLONY
A CONVICT COLONY
YOU ALL LIVE IN A CONVICT COLONY
A CONVICT COLONY
A CONVICT COLONY