Upward into the Middle Classes

[adonirum]

Having now been back in ED for just over a year and seen the huge changes that have occurred, I was wondering what do East Dulwichites now do to move themselves up into the true classification of middle class?

Do people still follow the old tried and tested methods of:

Join the PTA and then move up to School Governor

Join a local Police Consultation Board and then move up to Magistrate

Join the Committee of a Local Community Centre and then move up to local Councillor

Join the Rotary Club and then move up to the Freemasons

Join the local Mum's Club and then move up to the W.I.

Join the local Pub Darts team and then move up to the local Golf Club

or do East Dulwichites not bother these days and just unilaterally declare themselves Middle Class by virtue of their postcode?

[Rolo Tomasi]

Really?

[Earl Aelfheah]

boring

[El Pibe]

troll the forum then move upwards to trolling grieving parents' twitter accounts?

[Mick Mac]

Yes, its the class of the postcode that has changed not the people, it all seemed to just pass us by. Who'd have thought, a postcode moving up in class without consulting its inhabitants?

[adonirum]

Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> Really?

Yes

[Robert Poste's Child]

Reminds me of a guy I went out with a few times who kept referring to me as a nice, middle-class girl his mother would approve of. I couldn't find the heart to tell him that he would do better to check whether being middle class was something I also aspired to, so I'm afraid he had to go.

[Rolo Tomasi]

adonirum Wrote:

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> Rolo Tomasi Wrote:

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> Yes

Well good luck with that. I mean it.

[uncleglen]

Most people are middle class aspiring working class these days......

[Robert Poste's Child]

Some ED people do seem to be amusingly conflicted in that way, if this forum's anything to go by.

[Seabag]

"Having now been back in ED for just over a year"

Where the have you been before, in solitary confinement for 20 years ?

Wakey wakey, it's 2014

[adonirum]

Seabag Wrote:

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> "Having now been back in ED for just over a year"

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> Where the have you been before, in solitary

> confinement for 20 years ?

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> Wakey wakey, it's 2014

Not quite solitary confinement, Seabag, just the back of beyond due to a work posting. Mind you, solitary might have been preferable looking back over the years......!!!!!

[Louisa]

Or in the case of two posters today, join an online forum and patronise someone using grammar/spelling/punctuation/language to appear obviously far more middle class than the person they are aiming their comments at. Sorted.

Louisa.

[El Pibe]

'middle class' is kind of a catchall term for 'stuff wot i don't like' for you isn't it Lousisa ;)

[Louisa]

Yes it is El Pibe, absolutely. It's the equivalent of reality TV, the 'C' word and Carol Vorderman in the way it manages to get my back up so successfully. I can't deny this fact.

Louisa.

[Jah Lush]

If you think you've got it tough please spare a thought for this poor family in the Cotswolds and think how lucky you are.

http://i1369.photobucket.com/albums/ag237/jahlushhead/10472878_830125543705218_7665761801838216356_n_zps5d0867ec.jpg

[maxxi]

I feel their pain but they should wait - such a decision should never be rushed.

I have sometimes pushed too hard for a second pony. I mean really pushed. The pain stayed with me.

[Mustard]

Horses don't do well on their own as they are a herd animal. Maybe their search was for a companion for their first pony.

[steveo]

Jah Lush buying Cotswold Life. Now that is aspirational

You'll never fit an 'orse in that flat

[maxxi]

steveo Wrote:

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> Jah Lush buying Cotswold Life. Now that is

> aspirational

Never takes it out of the polythene though - ruin the collection

[Jah Lush]

Indeed. You don't expect me to read the damn thing do you.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Is Cotswold Life an oxymoron?