What is normal? (for East Dulwich)

[Louisa]

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.

[TillieTrotter]

Ah, so it's you that keeps peering in my window Louisa!:)

[*Bob*]

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'.

[TillieTrotter]

Oh *Bob*, us in the know use the curtain exchange in Park Hall Rd, we get the poshies cast offs there!

[Keef]

Also blinds are a lot easier to clean!

[KalamityKel]

Is there an in between grouping for those who are neither one or the other?

[falcao]

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

[Alan Dale]

> 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,

[Keef]

Mighty White bread

[Alan Dale]

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*]

I'm sure Louisa has a perfectly dreary and inexpensive pencil-pleated number adorning her front bay.

Possibly with a pelmet.

[Keef]

"Beware of the dog" signs

[blinder999]

*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.

[Louisa]

More middle class:

getting ripped off in boutique style shops

eating and drinking outside coffee shops and gastropubs

wearing bizarre glasses and clothing accessories (eg manbag)

Louisa.

[Goodliz]

Working class:

Piccalilly

Middle class:

Mango chutney off the North Cross Road stall

[Alan Dale]

More middle class:

getting ripped off by fitness providers, alternative therapists, vendors of organic produce,...

More working class:

getting ripped off by bookmakers, banks, purchase taxes, the national lottery,...

[blinder999]

Louisa Wrote:

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> More middle class:

> eating and drinking outside coffee shops

More working class:

eating and drinking outside greasy spoon cafes and making lewd comments to women walking by

[Alan Dale]

How many working class caffs have al fresco dining?

Working class:

Lewd compliments

Middle class:

Restrained disapproval

[Louisa]

More middle class:

Siting outside an overpriced coffee shop talking rather loudly about their positive financial situation

More working class:

Not siting siting outside a cafe being choked to death by car fumes and staying inside to get a bargain.

[blinder999]

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

[macroban]

> Siting outside an overpriced coffee shop talking rather loudly about their positive financial situation

That was 2007.

[Cassius]

blinder999 Wrote:

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> 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

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

[lozzyloz]

Middle Class: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Working Class: External combustion of human gas emissions

[KalamityKel]

is it not time for lounging?

[*Bob*]

Don't you mean 'living-rooming'?