Reply to: class

[Freamon]

[speling bee]

ftfy

Class of my own.

[NotAllThere]

Options are better, but we need:

Upper class - land
Upper class - trade
Working class - respectable
Working class - not respectable
Lumpen proletariat
Under class.
speling bee

ftfy

[minestrone]

Drinking class.

Work is a scourge.

[NotAllThere]

Just for your info, religious types in every society are always working class, since they have been brainwashed by the upper level of that society. Of course there's a layer of that upper level that professes to be religious in order to make the rules.

You don't half talk bollix a lot of the time.

No, I take that back... all of the time. But this one was a particular gem. Don't ever change.

[Mich the Tester]

Upper class land. It's a hierarchy.

That's nice to know. While being a penniless permie I can eat hare shot on Lady Tester's land, drink burgundy inherited from my lot, listen to Mahler's 8th (please do listen to that some day) on vinyl inherited from grandfather, drive an ageing luxury car and feel thoroughly superior while pondering the challenge of paying for the next tank of petrol and keeping myself warm in a 40 year old tweed jacket. Could be worse I suppose.

[speling bee]

So if your family's upper class with land AND trade, you work, and you don't have any cash to spend, does that make you 'lumpen upper working class'?

Upper class land. It's a hierarchy.

[Mich the Tester]

Options are better, but we need:

Upper class - land
Upper class - trade
Working class - respectable
Working class - not respectable
Lumpen proletariat
Under class.

So if your family's upper class with land AND trade, you work, and you don't have any cash to spend, does that make you 'lumpen upper working class'?

[speling bee]

Options are better, but we need:

Upper class - land
Upper class - trade
Working class - respectable
Working class - not respectable
Lumpen proletariat
Under class.

[Mich the Tester]

I consider myself Arsetocracy.

Good to see you have a realistic self image.

[MarillionFan]

I consider myself Aristocracy. This poll is invalid.

[speling bee]

Just for your info, religious types in every society are always working class, since they have been brainwashed by the upper level of that society. Of course there's a layer of that upper level that professes to be religious in order to make the rules.

You are confusing the purpose of religion with its effect.

[sasguru]

...people such as myself ....

Just for your info, religious types in every society are always working class, since they have been brainwashed by the upper level of that society. Of course there's a layer of that upper level that professes to be religious in order to make the rules.

[NotAllThere]

Have 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.

If you're worried about being upper middle or lower middle or any other variation, trust me - you're middle. But I have edited it for you.

[NotAllThere]

Emigrating anywhere for work makes you middle class at best (depending on the work).
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTH

You are absolutely spot on, strangely. However, I really meant people such as myself who didn't emigrate for work.