Poll: What Class are You ?

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What class are you?

  • Working Class

    Votes: 129 26.4%

  • White Collar Middle Class

    Votes: 218 44.7%

  • Upper Class

    Votes: 29 5.9%

  • A Class Of Its Own

    Votes: 112 23.0%
  • Total voters
    488
[TW]Fox;14187577 said:
I know you don't want a debate on the ins and outs of your definitions but I think this is pretty fundamental - it is unlikely anyone is Upper Class on this forum. Class is not defined by wealth, upper class is reserved for titled landowners, aristocracy and Royalty only. You don't become upper class by buying two semi's, ordering an M6 and running a plumbing company.

The best we should have on this forum will be upper middle class - they are those which you've marked as upper :)
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Already been pointed out ;)
 
malc30 said:
Why would you waste precious moments of your life posting something that is not at all relevant because it was covered in the O.P. :confused:
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Because you did not cover it in your OP (Though subsequent posters have raised it).

If you are going to have a discussion on the class system the right definitions must be used or the entire thing is pointless because where you fit into one persons opinion of what the definitions should perhaps maybe have been is a bit useless :p
 
Well I have a white-collar office job earning the national average, but rent and don't own a car.... so that makes me working-middle class?
 
Definately middle, but not by your definitions, rather the ones that actually make up the class boundaries.

Earning well above the national average, but currently not a property owner.
 
malc30 said:
I know we are not allowed to Insult other members but are we allowed to hit them in the face with a Shovel ???
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So:

Working Class hit them in the face with a shovel that's still being payed off over 20 weeks.

White collar Middle Class would need to come on on here first to ask where they could buy a shovel.

Upper Class would instruct their P.A. to tell the gardener to hit them with a shovel.

A Class of its Own would hit them with a shovel, but it's their shovel.


Re What Class - I'm still paying up the shovel.
 
Reminds me of the John PRescott programme on class.

John 'Two Chins' Prescott: "I would consider you working class."
Chavette in drug-ridden council towerblock: "But I daant work!"

For the record, I'm middle class.
 
[TW]Fox;14187661 said:
If you are going to have a discussion on the class system the right definitions must be used or the entire thing is pointless because where you fit into one persons opinion of what the definitions should perhaps maybe have been is a bit useless :p
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No, you missed the bit where Malc said there was to be no discussion - in General Discussion.
 
I have a 76k mortgage on a **** terrace in a crappy town with my girlfriend and earn <20k a year. I suppose that makes me working class, I feel so poor :D
 
Because your opinion on what upper class is doesn't make it so... would you really regard the likes of Katie "Jordan" Price upper class? :o

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I don't own a house, I don't own a car less than 3 years old. I don't own a private estate, my job isn't particularly white collar.

Instead, I have an 11 year old motor, I have a job in computers/management/design that pays well over the national average, was University educated, had (debts aside) my University education funded by my parents, and my family is distinctly middle class.

Where do I go? I know I am stereotypical and stinkingly middle class, but where does this fit into malc's definition of things?
 
Skidder said:
No, you missed the bit where Malc said there was to be no discussion - in General Discussion.
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Aha, but he also said if you had no comment to make which fitted his narrow definitions of class, you should simply press the back button. But since I opened the thread as a new tab with the middle mouse button, pressing the back button didn't do anything. As he didn't give alternative instructions, such as close the tab, I felt compelled to post something. I image that's what TWFox did also.
 
According to the OP parameters, I am white collar middle class but I see myself as working class.

As for those who say the class system doesn't exist, I believe it does.

Upper, middle, working and [insert definition] class.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Upper, middle, working and [insert definition] class.
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Agree.

We still have a landed gentry and royalty (Upper class). I believe that clergymen are also in a class of their own - abstracted (or protected?) from the popular economy. We have a benefits under-class (can-work-won't-work), a working class, a lower middle class (the majority of people?) and upper-middle class. We also have a celebrity class, I guess - divided in two; one, the classy Hollywood superstars and second, the scummy ('classless') kinds of celebrity.

Class comes in two streams; wealth and social status. If you are going to list out classes that merge both, you'd end up with loads and loads of classes.
 
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