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Alan Medic

Alan Medic

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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? 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?

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Annette Curtain

Annette Curtain

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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)

Brendan

Brendan

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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.

Marmora Man

Marmora Man

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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

Laddy Muck

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> 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.

Saffron

Saffron

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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...

Huguenot

Huguenot

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'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.

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