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No, just curtains *Bob*, I know how obsessed the middle classes are with having just blinds or sometimes nothing at all in the windows so that the common folk can look in and admire the great interior design sense of someone who is intelligent, earning a considerably larger salary and often has a double barrel name.


Louisa.

No.. I think they opt for blinds when they find-out how much decent curtains cost.


Which is which the poor have crappy cheap curtains and the rich have swanky impossibly expensive curtains. Those in the middle can't quite bring themselves to spend so much on 'a bit of material to hang in the window'.

Tracksuit trousers worn when not doing sport would also fall into the underclass zone.

Middle class zone could do with the following

1.croissants

2.natural birth

3.going abroad during the half term

4.ensuring their kids have at least one working class friend, but being especially careful that the friend is not also underclass

> Louisa Wrote:

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> > Curtains

> > Own brand supermarket items


You mean net curtains?


Own brands can be much more middle class than some brands:


Sainsburys/Waitrose own rather than Heinz, McVities, McCain, Bernard Matthews, Sara Lee, Pepperami, Blue Nun, Black Tower, Hovis,

falcao Wrote:

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> Tracksuit trousers worn when not doing sport would

> also fall into the underclass zone.

> Middle class zone could do with the following

> 1.croissants

> 2.natural birth

> 3.going abroad during the half term

> 4.ensuring their kids have at least one working

> class friend, but being especially careful that

> the friend is not also underclass


Have we changed to a middle class list?


Wrong about going on holiday. Try Playa De Las Americas at half term..


Middle class additions:


breast feeding babies up to the age of one.

making public displays of recycling

talking about how good coffee is in various places they have bought a hot chocolate derivative or fruit juice

*Bob* Wrote:

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> I'm sure Louisa has a perfectly dreary and

> inexpensive pencil-pleated number adorning her

> front bay.

>

> Possibly with a pelmet.


I thought I was middle-class until you started talking about curtains. I had no idea it was such a minefield.

Alan Dale Wrote:

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> How many working class caffs have al fresco

> dining?


loads around ed - i was actually alluding to the cafe on Melbourne Grove - someone was complaining about some Morrisons Group geezers saying stuff a few weeks ago

blinder999 Wrote:

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> Alan Dale Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > How many working class caffs have al fresco

> > dining?

>

> loads around ed - i was actually alluding to the

> cafe on Melbourne Grove - someone was complaining

> about some Morrisons Group geezers saying stuff a

> few weeks ago


You beat me to it as I was that much maligned person...... (I now walk on the other side of the road!)

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