Sergeant Wilson Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 1 hour ago, badgertheeuro24witness said: Owning a jet ski or speedboat, perfect for shitting on the tranquility of others at one of our many scenic waterways. C**ts. You're mixing up middle class and drug dealers. 54 minutes ago, eez-eh said: Going on ski holidays That's more like it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 (edited) Upper class = owners of capital in society (traditional: land); other asset classes. 'Capital'. Middle class = managers of capital in society; also provision of independent services such as education, healthcare, law. 'Management'. Traditional: professions - upper middle; Bureaucrats, clerks, factory managers etc - lower middle; Now: management level positions, gradated between the higher and lower bounds of seniority. Working class: The direct producers of products, goods and services on behalf of capital. 'Labour'. Traditional: factory workers; day labourers etc. Now - service sector employees; care home workers; nurses etc. There are clear patterns of behaviour, social attitudes and preferences that still attach to these broad categories, and everyone ultimately fits closer to one category than the other. Nobody is saying that you do all of the things. Only in Scotland (IMO) do so many people stridently refuse the idea that they may have benefited from social mobility to live a patently different lifestyle than either their parents or their peers from earlier in life. It shouldn't be flaunted or treated like some individual act of heroism either, but the refusal to accept and reflect on objective differences makes Scottish society and particularly its politics unusual. Edited June 29 by vikingTON 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Taking your kids to school on a bike trailer or wee seat on the back of your bike. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leith Green Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I think the real middle classes simply don't work for a living.........kinda like people from Ayrshire, but with less fat and more teeth. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I think we should have a P&B Census, I would then only reply to those in a similar class to myself (which would be Upper imo) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomersetBairn Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Working class - Having to wipe other peoples arses for a living. Middle class - Only needing to wipe your own arse. Using a bidet is upper middle class. Upper Class - Having someone wipe your arse, your kids/ pets arses, even though you have the 'functionality' of being able to do it yourself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HK Hibee Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 I think the whole premise of this thread highlights why the UK, Scotland is fucked. Too much focus on where people came from rather than what they are as people. Clearly a lot of smart, successful people on this forum and thread who make a good living and have great lives. But good forbid that you admit that you have improved yourself the class system, royalty is a complete mindfuck to me. Who gives a fucking shit if people go on skiing holidays or eat cheese. Are they guid c***s you would have a pint with or not. - that is what is important. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 12 minutes ago, HK Hibee said: I think the whole premise of this thread highlights why the UK, Scotland is fucked. Too much focus on where people came from rather than what they are as people. Clearly a lot of smart, successful people on this forum and thread who make a good living and have great lives. But good forbid that you admit that you have improved yourself the class system, royalty is a complete mindfuck to me. Who gives a fucking shit if people go on skiing holidays or eat cheese. Are they guid c***s you would have a pint with or not. - that is what is important. Class is treated like ethnicity in Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pocketman Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 21 minutes ago, HK Hibee said: Are they guid c***s you would have a pint with or not. - that is what is important. working class oik. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 1 hour ago, SomersetBairn said: Working class - Having to wipe other peoples arses for a living. Middle class - Only needing to wipe your own arse. Using a bidet is upper middle class. Upper Class - Having someone wipe your arse, your kids/ pets arses, even though you have the 'functionality' of being able to do it yourself. Do you have some sort of weird fetish that you want to discuss?* * For clarity this is not an invite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jedi2 Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 No mention of Vegans yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Wearing a jumper round your neck rather than your waist 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 35 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: Do you have some sort of weird fetish that you want to discuss?* * For clarity this is not an invite. SomersetTabbyDave, imo. Anyway. Getting all het up about the definition of middle class is very, very middle class. Using the word "cockwomble" is an indubitably yuppie bougie thing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 200 degrees that's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Golden God Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Using working class/older Scottish slang that even working class people don’t use much any more. “Swally/bevvy/tatties”. Always seems to be the Glasgow uni accent types that do it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doulikefish Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 30 minutes ago, Jedi2 said: No mention of Vegans yet? My mates been vegan since the late 80s before it was a thing ( was an utter nightmare trying to find him stuff he could eat on hols back then)...been a postie all his life 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
velo army Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 7 minutes ago, Richey Edwards said: 200 degrees that's why they call me Mr Fahrenheit. At work they call me Mr Kelvin as my contribution is absolute zero. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Going by half the suggestions on here, it would appear to the good people of Pie and Bovril that I'm middle class as f**k. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 Upper middle class = Folk who turn up at the funfair dressed like this to shoot air rifles at playing cards. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peil Posted June 29 Share Posted June 29 30 minutes ago, The Golden God said: Using working class/older Scottish slang that even working class people don’t use much any more. “Swally/bevvy/tatties”. Always seems to be the Glasgow uni accent types that do it i'll give you the first two, but a tattie is a tattie 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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