Class

[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.

Actually, there's a fair amount of the hoi polloi on Linked In. They don't go to museums, Smokey And The Bandit is there favourite film and they aren't top-rate tax payers. You have to be careful who you Link with.

[teamsaint]

Actually, there's a fair amount of the hoi polloi on Linked In. They don't go to museums, Smokey And The Bandit is there favourite film and they aren't top-rate tax payers. You have to be careful who you Link with.

keep that kind of thing for football forums, please Beefy.
I will take your comments as my "Linked in " bible.you seem to know all about it.

Although i still suspect that if you are on it, you aren't doing enough real work. (meant as a generalisation, not a personal comment, natch).
I can tell this from a survey I did.
What is "Smokey and the Bandit" about?
And surely nobody pays top rate tax in Dave's Britain?

[Thropplenoggin]

It's a blessing for the poor blind girl that she will never have to see Johnny Rotten's ugly mug. - Rot_in_hell_Myra

y dont the militry wives quire, celebrity's, football family, band aid get 2gether and do a song called GOD SAVE THE QUEEN AND MADDIE AND KIL THE SEX PISTEL'S - Justice_4_Maddie

any sex pistol comes near my girls I swear ill do time - Family_Man

Great stuff, guys! Bogbrush

A sample of Private Eye's 'From the Messageboards' feature.

That couldn't happen here, could it?

[Beef Oven]

keep that kind of thing for football forums, please Beefy.
I will take your comments as my "Linked in " bible.you seem to know all about it.

Although i still suspect that if you are on it, you aren't doing enough real work. (meant as a generalisation, not a personal comment, natch).
I can tell this from a survey I did.
What is "Smokey and the Bandit" about?
And surely nobody pays top rate tax in Dave's Britain?

You seem to be a tad tetchy today ts.

[teamsaint]

You seem to be a tad tetchy today ts.

certainly not.
day off, dug over a new vegetable patch, and just spinning " Four last songs", HvK, BPO/Janowitz which arrived this AM.
Apologies if my mood seems off. I'll try to pull my socks up and play nicely.

[Beef Oven]

certainly not.
day off, dug over a new vegetable patch, and just spinning " Four last songs", HvK, BPO/Janowitz which arrived this AM.
Apologies if my mood seems off. I'll try to pull my socks up and play nicely.

I have a day off too!

That is my favourite 4 last songs

[jean]

The first time I did the test, I was astonished to come out as 'elite', which I'm certainly not. I then dropped both income and house value by one notch - because, as I said, I don't really know either - and found I was 'traditional working class', which I also am not. I'm as ordinary middle-class as you can get.

It doesn't give any weight at all to 'cultural activities', it seems. In fact, the only thing that seems to count is how much money you've got.

I did it twice and went from 'traditional working class' to 'established middle class' in one bound - and the only thing I did differently the second time was to put in a much higher income and a lot more savings.

[Flosshilde]

I've just done it, & apparently I'm 'Technical middle class' - This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Mix socially with people similar to themselves
Work in research, science and technical fields
Enjoy emerging culture such as going to the gym and using social media

But it is nonsense, since neither I nor my partner " Work in research, science and technical fields" (I'm actually retired & now work as an artist). The first question relates to our joint income, but the rest seem to be on an individual basis. I also found it difficult to answer the one about people I know socially, since I don't really know what most of them do (or most are retired). As usual with most of this sort of thing my answers would start with 'What do you mean by ...' or 'but ...'

[Richard Barrett]

I find that I'm an "emerging service worker", the group with the youngest average age. I guess it's too late now for me to grow up.

[Angle]

I wonder how much time was devoted to the construction of this diversion - and who paid for the time taken to perfect it ? The licence fee again ?

Cards? I am a Bezique man myself - a truly tradiitonal working class pastime.

Angle slumps.

[scottycelt]

Some of us don't need to take the test because, apart from a handful of lairds and ladies who wear kilts and tartan skirts and talk with upper-crust English accents, the Scots generally consider themselves to be classless ... but that should not be taken to mean, therefore, that they consider themselves to be wholly devoid of any class.

[Thropplenoggin]

From today's Grauniad:



Their front page news is an exposé on the trillions being stashed away in offshore tax havens by the, um, 'elite'.

[Mary Chambers]

Some of us don't need to take the test because, apart from a handful of lairds and ladies who wear kilts and tartan skirts and talk with upper-crust English accents, the Scots generally consider themselves to be classless .

I take it you don't live in Edinburgh?

[french frank]

Well, try as I might with my answers , I still cannot drag myself out of the traditional working class: I 'own my own house' (that bit's true), it's worth up to half a million (um - if an artisan's terraced house c 1890 were to appeal to the right buyer), I have savings of over £100,000 (hmmmm) and I go to the opera and listen to classical music. No go - I'm still traditional working class. The only points where I really fall down - and I couldn't be persuaded to exaggerate - were on my income and non use of social media - oops! - does this forum count, or must it be Facebook and Twitter? I'll go away and try again ....

Add: I have become a new affluent worker (young, come from a working class background, own their own home).

The forum didn't really count because it specified Facebook and Twitter, but I ticked it anyway. That's all it took

[french frank]

Leaving the trivia behind (but doesn't it show how 'class-ridden' we are that it's at the top of the 'Shared' and 'Read' lists?), a burst of nostalgia for me with the forthcoming Landmarks/Night Waves discussion of EP Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class. Essential reading in my youth though haven't looked at it since.