Reply to: Class system

[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

[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.

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If this still exists it'll be very out of date...but like someone else said, it probably wont exist anymore, as we're supposed to be a classless society.

[BrilloPad]

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

[Xenophon]

Scumbags
Average
Succesful
Celebrity
A-List

Shouldn't 'Celebrity' be at the bottom?

to Haris Pilton. Bless her...

[Bagpuss]

Perhaps we should grade people like we grade meat?

[Diestl]

Scumbags
Average
Succesful
Celebrity
A-List

[EternalOptimist]

I never buy second class stamps. They are so , er, you know, plebian. Yar.

[timh]

Lower Working Class
Middle Working Class
Upper Working Class

Lower Middle Class
Middle Middle Class
Upper Middle Class

Lower Upper Class
Middle Upper Class
Upper Upper Class

That's what I was taught.

I think it's:


Lower Working Class
Middle Working Class

Lower Middle Class
Upper Working Class
Middle Middle Class

Lower Upper Class
Upper Middle Class

Middle Upper Class






Upper Upper Class



Any clearer?

[Xenophon]

How does the class system work. As in working, middle, upper. It's not purely financial is it? What is an easy way of defining what class someone belongs to?

In this country we operate a classless system, haven't you heard?

[darmstadt]

I'm first class, me! MFC is second class....

[Bagpuss]

Class is a load of BS, look into british history around the time of the first great plague and you can see (due to opportunity from deaths) yesterdays peasant was tomorrows lord of the manor. The ability to Mimic behaviour, that's all class is.

[freakydancer]

There is nothing worse than the upper middle class - bunch of f**king tits.

[tim123]

middle class is funniest, anyone with a mortgage, therefore a 'home owner' is middle class, but what these idiot's don't understand is that anybody not able to live off a private income is still poor !

in my book, doesn't matter if you earn 200k per year or 20k per year, you're still poor, the rich are really rich

Milan.

class has nothing to do with being rich.

Many of the upper class are poor, and many of the rich are lower class.

tim

[Board Game Geek]

Lower Working Class
Middle Working Class
Upper Working Class

Lower Middle Class
Middle Middle Class
Upper Middle Class

Lower Upper Class
Middle Upper Class
Upper Upper Class

That's what I was taught.