The Class System..............

[Alan Medic]

WTF is that all about? I read a thread about a local school in the ED section and the White Middle Class is referred to on numerous occasions. Who are these people? Is it something that's engraved on your arse when you are born? Is it similar to the Indian caste system? Does Middle mean 'average'. Not great but not bad either.

Do I need to know which one I belong to? How many are there? Is it to do with how you think or how wealthy you are? If so, what do you need to think to be in any particular class and how much does it cost? I've lived here for a good deal of my life but I have never classified myself as any particular class. Is that something others would do for me?

I enjoy living here but this 'system' makes me wonder how a nation of sane people feel the need to have it. Much the same as my thoughts on the royal family. Would grown ups not grow out of this sort of stuff? Which bit is real please?

[reggie]

Alan, here is all the information you need. If you have any further questions just let me know.

Middle Class Dub Volume One by Sly and Reggie by Sly and Reggie

[Annette Curtain]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> WTF is that all about? I read a thread about a

> local school in the ED section and the White

> Middle Class is referred to on numerous occasions.

> Who are these people?

In my experience the above are the ones who get "stuff" organised, run committees, count the pennies after the school fete. They get their kids to school on-time, are generally polite & "attitude light"

> Which bit is real please?

The above & a whole lot more.

Nette(tu)

[Jah Lush]

Break free the chains that bind you. I'm classless and free. F*ck the class system. F*ck snobbery... because that's what it is.

[Annette Curtain]

Discipline is your freedom Jah

Tight chains are far "classy-er" than saggy ones.

Now step in line will you

N:)

[Brendan]

My wife says that she is proud of her working class heritage.

I say that the class system is a now defunct way of classifying people in an industrial economy that no longer exists and that its only relevance today is in a historical context.

My wife says that?s exactly the sort of middle class shit she?d expect from me.

[zeban]

Brendan I have a feeling I'd get on really well with your wife! (I'm a woman don't worry!)

[oilworker]

ehrrrrr zeban - I think Brendan was making a very middle class joke....

[huncamunca]

Sorry to say oil worker, you are not going to get a representative sample by asking this on the EDcatForum

[Alan Medic]

What question did oilworker ask hunc?

[Marmora Man]

huncamunca Wrote:

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> Sorry to say oil worker, you are not going to get

> a representative sample by asking this on the

> EDcatForum

Yup, this forum will generally takes a position that is left of left of centre and reflect modish guardianista opinion rather than the more traditional, centrist and sensible views of the country at large.

[Laddy Muck]

> I read a thread about a

> local school in the ED section and the White

> Middle Class is referred to on numerous occasions.

> Who are these people? Is it something that's

> engraved on your arse when you are born?

*checks mixed race arse*

Nope - nowt on there.

> Do I need to know which one I belong to? How many

> are there? Is it to do with how you think or how

> wealthy you are? If so, what do you need to think

> to be in any particular class and how much does it

> cost? I've lived here for a good deal of my life

> but I have never classified myself as any

> particular class. Is that something others would

> do for me?

Having digested your post, I would say that you are - without doubt - in a class of your own. Take that how you like!

> I enjoy living here but this 'system' makes me

> wonder how a nation of sane people feel the need

> to have it.

??????? Yep, definitely in a class of your own.

[Alan Medic]

Not sure what to make of your comments Laddy, but I take it from your signature that you are a commie!

[DJKillaQueen]

Aye....her support of a footy team that sports a red strip is more than just coincidental.

[Saffron]

Marxist Communism is a classless society.

[Saffron]

reggie Wrote:

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> Alan, here is all the information you need. If you

> have any further questions just let me know.

> Middle Class Dub Volume One by Sly and

> Reggie by Sly and Reggie

Great list for a main course, but perhaps Hotel Calfornia for starters and Welcome to the Machine for pudding.

That should keep you full for a while...

[Alan Medic]

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> Aye....her support of a footy team that sports a

> red strip is more than just coincidental.

What....the USSR?

[Laddy Muck]

Stoke City ;-)

[Annette Curtain]

Saffron Wrote:

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> Marxist Communism is a classless society...

...which didn't work either

[Huguenot]

'Marxist Communism is a classless society'

I think there's certainly a belief that this would be the end result, but it seems to me that most of the philosophy is about the act of revolution itself, and the subsequent impoverishment and destruction of the bourgeoisie.

Hence I don't feel it's fair to present it as an 'equal' society.

[zeban]

errrr oilworker, read what I wrote again and you'll understand I got the joke!

[Alan Medic]

I did............and I didn't!!!

[Atticus]

Robert Tressell eat your heart out!

[Alan Medic]

I'd comment if I knew what you meant:-S