Class... I look down on him because...?

Just thought I'd throw this out there as I think defining people by social "class" is rather outdated, as we may still have many defined by 'old' money, but so many who make 'new' money from nothing are a new sort of class altogether. But I define "class" personally by the way you conduct yourself and treat other people alone, regardless of so called 'social status'.

Consequently, some of the classiest people I have ever met have either come from very humble backgrounds, or have very little (who can also be the most generous - possibly resulting from a profound understanding of what it's like through experience) but this has all become a bit of a debate in the news given the fact that after a recent survey, apparently(?!) a third of middle class people may have to borrow money to pay an unexpected £500 bill.

So someone made an observation which I found quite interesting, and is simply that if you have a large TV and small bookcase versus having a more modest TV and larger bookcase - this could go some way to determining how you are perceived in this respect.

Personally, this 'observation' is flawed as doesn't really apply to me because I choose to have a smaller TV which I can just sit closer to (and I have 3 - one in livingroom, bedroom and diningroom, but don't we all now?), and the layout of my new flat dictates that all my books are stored in a cupboard in my bedroom (and I would say the contents of your fridge and the newspaper you read says more about someone) but just wondered what others think about this.

I have TV on most of the time in background while constantly working on new project (for self employment), and consequently, I never have time to pick up a book, but I don't think I have ever judged anyone for having a large TV with no books on display - so is this all just hokum?

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(and I have 3 - one in livingroom, bedroom and diningroom, but don't we all now?),

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No...but I do have a radio in every room, apart from the loo but if I leave the door open I can hear it nicely from the livingroom. Whispering Bob Harris has so far voiced no objection.

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(and I would say the contents of your fridge says more about someone)

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I guess from the lack of contributions to this thread means you are all a bunch of plebs with a distinct and significant lack of fresh artichokes and goji berries in your fridge . . .

Well we do have a large TV, but there are also so many books that all bookcases and cupboards are full and there are piles of books on the bedroom floor and tallboy. A lot of people don't understand my need to buy books.

I also like to have both big TVs and huge bookcases.

Okay. I think what we have here is a hopelessly flawed formula for purposes of observation in this respect.

Clearly, if one has a large TV (or multiple) AND a large and well-stocked bookcase (or multiple) one must be an intellectual of the very highest order and from superior stock and breeding, but if one also even knows what a tallboy IS, let alone possesses one, then they have most likely never even breathed the same air as a common pleb.

So what I really want to hear is that all you fancypants erudite sorts have a dirty fridge. I want to know that despite having all the accoutrements of a hopeless english toff, you have dirty food in your fridge that may include Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, cheap ready meals and assorted pastries from Greggs (I believe they sell a variety of baked goods, but have never ventured inside myself for fear of mixing with the hoi polloi).

I did imply (or infer) that my fridge currently contains goji berries and artichokes - but that was obviously quite ridiculous as my local deli is out of them at the moment, and I will only divulge what delights currently reside in my fridge if others tell me theirs - as I believe this says way more about a person's calibre than a few shelves, what occupies them and the size of modern gadgetry.

I have cheese triangles?

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I have cheese triangles?

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Ooh . . . you really have steam spurting out of my blowhole now - how can I distinguish that?!

Are we talking Dairylea or Laughing Cow here? Either way - I consider pretty neutral, though I have never mastered the art of unwrapping even with instructions as am always left with more on my fingers and foil than its intended destination . . . but I still buy this shit.

Laughing Cow!
But you reminded me I have Dairylea slices too.

Then you are a culinary, groundbreaking and gastronomic marvel.

(P.S. I blend it with pesto, so I am pretty sure that makes me a bit of an amateur as a chef, and not as a member of accepted society.)

I think that's quite inventive!

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I think that's quite inventive!

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I wish . . . but truth be told, just a tad lazy.

Though beats the whole roux sauce nonsense if you've just got in from work - add some rapadura sugar (modicum)/equivalent and cayenne pepper and is as good as, if not better than a restaurant would do.

Where do you start? I'm a grammar school Butskellite circa 1959 from very working class origins even though I wouldn't recognise Rab Butler or Hugh Gaitskell, 1959 is before I was born, I didn't go to a grammar school and only my grandparents lived with a mangle and wringer in a rented shed a mile from Peckham. Next question.

I'm working class and proud but my mother likes to think she's middle class yet she has no middle class qualities.
A mate of mine has a strange theory, that he may or may not have nicked from somewhere as it sounds familiar but he's said it so many time it could just be because I've heard it over and over again and that it's possible to guess the class of someone by the way they say Tesco or Asda. If they say "I'm going to Asdas/Tescos" then they're working class and If they say 'I'm going to Asda/Tesco" they're middle class.
Personally I think it's bollocks because as I've said I'm working class but I don't stick an s at the end and everyone knows the middle classes shop at Waitrose and wouldn't be caught dead in an Asda

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I'm working class and proud but my mother likes to think she's middle class yet she has no middle class qualities.
A mate of mine has a strange theory, that he may or may not have nicked from somewhere as it sounds familiar but he's said it so many time it could just be because I've heard it over and over again and that it's possible to guess the class of someone by the way they say Tesco or Asda. If they say "I'm going to Asdas/Tescos" then they're working class and If they say 'I'm going to Asda/Tesco" they're middle class.
Personally I think it's bollocks because as I've said I'm working class but I don't stick an s at the end and everyone knows the middle classes shop at Waitrose and wouldn't be caught dead in an Asda

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Yes I occasionally go into the posh one but I call it Waitroses and pronounce it in an extreme cockney accent.

Lots of phlegm etc.