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Author Topic:   What Social Class Do You Belong To?
onifre
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Message 29 of 41 (666983)
07-01-2012 5:49 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Phat
06-30-2012 11:03 PM


Re: Merits
Tax the ones with over five million dollars of course. Leave the rest of us alone.
Yeah those 4.9 million dollar guys are totally down to earth.
- Oni

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onifre
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Message 35 of 41 (667215)
07-04-2012 10:26 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by Straggler
06-30-2012 4:41 PM


Re: Connotations
Pushily aspirational. Overly obsessed with house prices, living in the right area, getting kids into the right school and that sort of thing. Overly conventional. A bit dull. Either hand wringingly liberal or self-righteously conservative. Polite to the point of ineffectual. A bit obsessed with the minutae of social mobility because there is neither the drive to "get out" that the working class are supposed to display or the presumed-right-to-rule of the upper classes. Being middle class suggests a life of routine commuting from the suburbs into the city to work in a rather dull office. Knowing exactly which train to catch each day (the 7:47 from Paddington) in order to both get to work on time and give one-self the best chance of getting a seat. Living a materially comfortable but rather uninspired existence.
Sounds like the character description for David Brent.
- Oni

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