Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sorry to make this personal Jeremy, but you lose > all class/non-class arguments by dint of your > name. Now if your moniker were Gary ... Take the gloves off Jeremy and tell 'em how much you like The Clash. And when that canard about Joe Strummer's father being a high-ranking diplomat instead of a medium level civil servant, who by the way was quite the rebel comes up, ensure they're sent away with a flea in their ear. A flea you picked up in an Elgin Road squat. And PGC's point could be said to be somewhat spurious, if you were named Gary, you might have turned out to be Gary Bushell. And no one wants that. Anyway bollocks to the working class, I'm one and while I've no particular complaints, I wish I had better small talk. Seriously, meet me in a pub and after 'So, how's it going'? 'What have you been up to since I saw you last'? and 'Hot enough for you'? I'm pretty well buggered. I look around and there are scads of people having spontaneous conversations and there am I pressed up to the window of their wit like an aural Bisto Kid. Still, they can't touch you for it.