Class

[vinteuil]

... tweaking by one notch one entry (on which I am on the cusp) moves me from "traditional working class" to "élite".

Not sure which I find the greater surprise...

[Thropplenoggin]

... tweaking by one notch one entry (on which I am on the cusp) moves me from "traditional working class" to "élite".

Not sure which I find the greater surprise...

Did you used to be a punkawallah and now you own one?

[Nick Armstrong]

You have vindaloo's number, M. Le Noggin!

[vinteuil]

... sadly I think I'm more one of yer nouveaux pauvres...



ah well, still enuff in the coffers for much

[teamsaint]

This really is a load of nonsense

If i'm a rich person who only knows people with low paid occupations and has one cultural activity ......"listening to rap music" then I am part of the "Elite"

and apparently (in this instance)

Enjoy high cultural activities such as visiting museums and listening to classical music errr NO
Went to private school and elite universities errr NO
Socialise with people who do a wide variety of jobs errr NO

This confuses wealth with 'class' in a ridiculous way ..........

and exactly the kind of nonsense that helps to divert from real issues.....increasing income gap, war in Syria, that kind of thing ...

Any way here is how it is in the West/America.

Top. A very small group , perhaps.001% which owns disproportionate wealth and allows them great control of the economy.

Below them. Approx 10% who do really well financially, and who have the influence (for example in places like the upper echelons of the BBC, ) to ensure the status quo.

next 20%. Doing decently, financially. Aspire for the most part to join the 4 holidays a year mob one notch up, and thus in the main support the status quo. They vote in elections.

Everybody below that is either working too hard to have time to express their opinions to any effect, or is part of an underclass, which is deliberately set at odds with the "working" part of the bottom 70%.

All that "cultural" classification is diversion.

[Beef Oven]

GG can we connect on Linked In please? I want to become part of the upper-class power elite in the next 24 hours.
With thanks

Ludwig van Beef Oven

[teamsaint]

GG can we connect on Linked In please? I want to become part of the upper-class power elite in the next 24 hours.
With thanks

Ludwig van Beef Oven

Just knowing about linked in defines your class in absolute terms.
I can't remember which class it is though.
Some of my bosses are on LI. I think that means they are important.

Or over paid.

Or not got enough to do.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well, I'm traditional working class (apparently) which 'scores low on cultural activities', in spite of specifying that I go to the opera, listen to classical music and visit museums and art galleries (go to gym). Presumably these also don't rate highly on the cultural scale ...

Snap!

[MrGongGong]

I can't remember which class it is though.

The one that doesn't ignore SPAM ......... "lovely spam, wonderful spam"

[vinteuil]

Well, I'm traditional working class (apparently) which 'scores low on cultural activities', in spite of specifying that I go to the opera, listen to classical music and visit museums and art galleries (go to gym). Presumably these also don't rate highly on the cultural scale ...

... whereas if you were part of the élite - apparently you -

"Enjoy high cultural activities such as visiting museums and listening to classical music
Went to private school and elite universities
Socialise with people who do a wide variety of jobs"

[teamsaint]

Which classes play snap?
perhaps class can be more sensibly defined by the card games we play.
Personally , I like snap, Newmarket, and German Whist.
Rummy is Ok.

[vinteuil]

Which classes play snap?
perhaps class can be more sensibly defined by the card games we play.
Personally , I like snap, Newmarket, and German Whist.
Rummy is Ok.

... canasta and bézique.

Belote is all right for wet afternoons...


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bezique

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canasta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belote

[Thropplenoggin]

... canasta and bézique.

Belote is all right for wet afternoons...

Ah, vinteuil! Ah, humanity!

(In reference to TS's terms: Shithead.)

[vinteuil]

Ah, vinteuil! Ah, humanity!

"O God! O Montreal! ... "

[teamsaint]

Ah, vinteuil! Ah, humanity!

(In reference to TS's terms: Shithead.)

?!
Wish I hadn't mentioned it now...no idea what you are all on about.