What is normal? (for East Dulwich)

[lozzyloz]

>:D

[KalamityKel]

I have a "front room" tyvm :p

[Keef]

Middle class French Connection

Working Class FCUK

[*Bob*]

Which order should the following be in:

Drawing Room

Lounge

Front Room

Living Room

Sitting Room

Parlor

The Good Room

[lozzyloz]

I think the list needs to include reception, kitchen diner and library.

[barrymarshall]

Sitting room ... ?

Is that working class or middle clarse?

Pah, to the lot of you, anyway. As if sociio-economic classification should be decided by whether you have curtains or not! As any fule kno, one's class is not defined by one's pattern of consumption, but by one's relationship to the means of production.

Broadly speaking, if to live you have to sell your labour-power (ie your capacity to work) to an employer you are working class. The ruling class, er, rule. The middle class is made up of those who don't really fall into either category: lawyers, doctors, etc.

[KalamityKel]

and a study *rolls eyes*

[Brendan]

Open-plan kitchen/living area.

Bedsit.

[macroban]

> As any fule kno

Very LMC.

[Keef]

I was thinking Mr T was posting on the forum.

I aint gettin on no plane!

[barrymarshall]

LMC? Lower middle class?

[KalamityKel]

:o Macro!

[Alan Dale]

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> Middle Class: Reducing greenhouse gas emissions

>

> Working Class: External combustion of human gas

> emissions

Nonsense.

Boarding school kids light their farts. The middle class have the bigger carbon footprint per capita.

[macroban]

The wealthy have libraries, billiards rooms, and music rooms.

[macroban]

> LMC? Lower middle class?

What else are prep schools?

[barrymarshall]

Dunno, never went to one. I was dragged up.

[KalamityKel]

I have a music room/spare room/art room... I'm like sooooooooooooooo not middleclass!

[macroban]

> art room... I'm like sooooooooooooooo not middleclass!

Call it a studio and move one step of the ladder.

[*Bob*]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> I have a music room/spare room/art room... I'm

> like sooooooooooooooo not middleclass!

Oo.. get you! You'll be telling us you have an expensive table football game and Jura expresso machine next.

[KalamityKel]

lol it's harddly big enuff to be called a studio but certainly resembles a bedroom :p

[macroban]

> I was dragged up.

So was Nigel.

[Alan Dale]

There seems to be some sort of misconception here that being middle class is better than being working class. Both have their relative merits. Take Arctic Roll for example.

Rather than renaming rooms to sound middle class you should be buying arctic roll and eating it al fresco. Best of both worlds.

Don't be afraid to give a compliment but don't shout it across a busy street..

That sort of thing..

Maybe that way we can establish a norm for ED...

[*Bob*]

Exactly.

It's fine to have curtains, but if you can't afford nice ones, for God's sake do the decent thing and get blinds instead.

[blinder999]

KalamityKel Wrote:

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> I have a music room/spare room/art room... I'm

> like sooooooooooooooo not middleclass!

hang on - aren't you a university-educated classically-trained musician? I know where you're going on my Venn diagram:

[Jah Lush]

I'm classless. There's no such thing as normal.

If you're normal then I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life and I shall baffle with you cabbages and rhinceroses and the kitchen and sets of quoatations from Now We Are Six through the mouthpiece of Lord Snooty's giant poisoned electric head. So there!