[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by SoNottingH)
Because his post was fun and it's fun?

Of course you find it fun, half your posts are talking about your class.

[Fires]

(Original post by zara55)
It's easy to judge of course. I always felt a bit sorry for Stella McCartney, which sounds an odd thing to say, but she seems to have had a really hard time at the school she went to, being bullied for who she was. I guess people from lower backgrounds who make it higher up the social scale have a lot of fears of spoiling their kids. I see it from both ends, because families who have been upper-middles for a while like mine tend to have their way of doing things and then I have friends from the more "new well-off" backgrounds. I basically think though that if parents have a lot to spare, they should help their kids as much as possible, not ludicrously spoiled, but there is no reason why they shouldn't have comforts and some level of luxury I think, if their family can afford it. For sure it gives the child a different view of life, but that's their family situation anyway.

Lots of people get jealous of kids from families with a lot of money, but having held numerous conversations with such people, it often does seem to be the case that their families withold a lot of the pleasures they could enjoy from that position and indeed sometimes seem to deliberately set out to make things harder for them. I don't think spoilt kids are a great thing, but some families with money are very mean with their kids - they could do with lightening up a little and being more relaxed. A little spoiling in the right places goes a long way.

[Fires]

(Original post by hassi94)
Of course you find it fun, half your posts are talking about your class.

What other subjects on TSR are there, apart from football, the Jihad, how to get into Oxford and how to score?

[Intriguing Alias]

(Original post by Fires)
What other subjects on TSR are there, apart from football, the Jihad, how to get into Oxford and how to score?

Well I spend most of my TSR time in the Technology forum and the Maths forum.

[Bill_Gates]

Could someone tell me where i am?! My mum owns her own business my dads unemployed but we live in a 1million pound house and acquire overseas property. I study eco at uni. And sometimes spend most my time in my pj's.

[zara55]

(Original post by hassi94)
Well I spend most of my TSR time in the Technology forum and the Maths forum.

LOL, do you? What brought you over here to the social wars?

[zara55]

(Original post by Bill_Gates)
Could someone tell me where i am?! My mum owns her own business my dads unemployed but we live in a 1million pound house and acquire overseas property. I study eco at uni. And sometimes spend most my time in my pj's.

Are you English by origin? You sound "owning" class or "rich"? Is the property a recent thing?

[Aramiss18]

(Original post by zara55)
I assume you must be foreign, speaking that way, LOL.

I have no idea what you are on about and no I've lived in England all my life.

[zara55]

(Original post by Aramiss18)
I have no idea what you are on about and no I've lived in England all my life.

Right, but you're not English by origin? I was just picking up on your attitude to class, which sounds non-English?

[Bill_Gates]

(Original post by zara55)
Are you English by origin? You sound "owning" class or "rich"? Is the property a recent thing?

Property has been around for a while.

[Chucklefiend]

(Original post by AmyJ)
You are ignorant because you assume that all poor people are coarse, uneducated, economically unproductive and socially inept.

No, I don't:

(Original post by Chucklefiend)
No of course it doesn't. They are just stereotypes and there are of course exceptions. But like I've said, the ideology of class in this country is largely based upon stereotypes. Furthermore, considering working class people tend to live in poorer areas with less successful schools and poorer quality teaching it's not unreasonable to conclude that typically working class people are likely to have a smaller vocabulary and poorer grammar.

"uneducated", "economically unproductive" and "socially inept" are all your words. I've never said anything even vaguely similar to anything that you've just attributed to me. All I have implied is that being working class increases the likelihood that an individual will use slang, questionable grammar and have a relatively limited vocabulary. I have outlined the reasons that I believe this in the post I've just quoted.

[zara55]

(Original post by Bill_Gates)
Property has been around for a while.

How long is "a while"? Just trying to get a handle on your immediate class background - were your parents raised working class, or did they have money in their families?

[Chucklefiend]

(Original post by Aramiss18)
Conflating working class with underclass and then lecturing on ignorance.

So you saying that everybody who lives in Bradford, Moss Side or the poorer areas of Liverpool are members of the underclass are you? Because that's what this post implies.

[Dhaal_Chawal]

Royalty.

[Fires]

(Original post by Chucklefiend)
So you saying that everybody who lives in Bradford, Moss Side or the poorer areas of Liverpool are members of the underclass are you? Because that's what this post implies.

That's so widely known it's almost laughably unworthy of further discussion.

Similarly, everyone in London is loaded.

[nicatre]

Perhaps someone here should write a general test for class XD

[Sternumator]

I'm the same as you really, I would say working class. You don't have to have parents unemployed to count as working class, both your parents do normal jobs and you went to state school, that makes you working class. Whether I am working class or not doesn't matter to me at all, it is only a matter of definitions. My town has never had big industry so I have never experianced any working class culture like I imagine there is in places that have a lot of manufacturing work or in old mining towns. I have grow up with middle class kids and don't feel any different to them its just my parents have worse jobs.

[madaboutmambo]

Your class is whatever you want it to be.

[Fires]

(Original post by Torpedo Fish)

So based on this what would you say my social class is likely to be?

For what it's worth OP, given the occupation of your Head of Household, the government might class you as either a C1 (lower middle) or B (middle-middle) category, depending on the professional level of your father. If he is a graduate, professionally qualified type of underwriter with a well-paid job, that moves you towards middle-middle. From your general description so far it sounds like you would be officially classed as lower-middle.

[sweetascandy]

(Original post by the bear)
how do you pronounce the eighth letter of the alphabet ?

I say aitch so what class am i?