Loud bang - thunder?

[Penguin68]

Actually, Louisa, this is not true for those who may have started in wealthy Home Counties but then were sent to boarding school in the 50s and 60s. Indeed, it was a quite well known fact, during post-war conscription, that boarding school pupils coped with the privations of the squad room and conscription generally (those who chose not to play at being officers for 2 years) much better than others. I believe boarding is now much more comfortable, so this may no longer be true. However, as more and more young people spend 3 or more years at University, living in uncomfortable and often insanitary digs in the worst parts of any town, I doubt if any people now come to London having lived their lives in a middle class cocoon of respectability and quiet.

That is not to say that those, now paying top-end Home Counties prices for accommodation frequently less appealing than what they have been used to at home, have (clearly wrongly) expectations that their money should be buying them an environment more Home Counties than Gorbals.

And of course many people live lives increasingly stressful, where they may choose a 'tipping point' - dogs barking, planes flying - to explain their stress, this acting as a trigger (a straw which breaks the camel's back) to 'explain' their distress.

[Louisa]

Yes P68 totally agree with your point about "Home Counties prices for expectations of something better". However, that's the way of supply and demand, surely these people should know this? They do tend to have higher expectations of things in general, especially if they believe they're paying through the nose for it. A very working class trait has always traditionally been to make do with what you have, something someone from said background would struggle with. They'd be your class Uni educated posh person with family in the sticks who rents in London and makes a big deal out of literally the smallest thing, maybe a tipping point related to genuine stress, maybe just frustration that they live in shit and pay a lot of money to do so? It's the 'I'm educated and am rich and deserve better than this' mentality.

Louisa.

[Zebedee Tring]

I knew that it was a mistake to post 'Is there an EDF thread in existence that doesn't somewhere include a discussion about whether someone or somewhere is "middle class" or "working class"?' I should have realised that it would set off another discussion about the pros and cons of being middle class or working class.

[Louisa]

Zebedee I agree. For some reason some people just can't help themselves. I have to admit to very occasionally jumping on that bandwagon though I must say.

Louisa.

[Rolo Tomasi]

So we are all clear that it was thunder?

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Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> So we are all clear that it was thunder?

yup. a storm aimed directly at SE22 reflecting god's wrath with the the priveliged, blow in, entitled borguois of SE22 blah, blah, blah blah,

[Rolo Tomasi]

Always.