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Middle class going skint
Middle class going skint
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the pound shop keeps me going. Can live exclusively out of it. Might break in and live in their rafters if it goes like mad max after the EU vote.. Food and plastic crap. Pens and paper to entertain. Plastercene to mold. oh yeah.
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The middle class think that the working class work in potato fields.
The middle class think immigrants are needed because the UK working class are slow at picking potatoes. The middle class support open door immigration but are not keen on opening their own doors to immigration. The middle classes pay for therapy. |
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If you can't pay a £500 bill. You aren't middle class - you are working class.
King's then barons then soldiers. Baron's have plenty of gold. |
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someone is poor when he goes to school in a torn jacket, who would deny that? They wear tattered clothes and have dirty faces that are not beautiful I understand what you say about beautiful women. They wear tight fitting dresses and high little boots..and you could watch them for hours for pleasure  Its worth the money. |
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I think that the state should pay, when every young man turns say 16, for a visit to an escort. They would be required to go whether they want to or not
 It would solve a lot of problems, these young women save lives. |
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I remember in school reading about communist China, and how they all wore the same clothes like workers overalls. That i found appealed to me greatly.
It still does. |
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not everyone seems to appreciate your great philosophical contributions lfc
 it's not uncommon for those of great intellect to be misunderstood  |
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Reminds me of a comedy sketch. Beautiful young girl goes up to boffin professor..... "We should get married professor. With my looks and your brains we'll have such amazing kids." Professor responds "What if they are born with my looks and your brains?"..... Girl does a runner.
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wait till the interest rates start going thru the roof, you ain't seen nothin yet
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story breaking in america
a women with a company worth 5 billion last year,now worthless  |
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/elizabeth-holmes-net-worth
4.5 billion to zero  |
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THE MORE interesting question would be how many people on average wages maybe aged 50 to 65 brought up in an era of you dont go into debt to fund a lifestlye,if they were to suddenly decide to live in todays era where you didnt worry about taking out loans,maxing out credit cards etc would consider themselves middle class or even higher class,if maxed out to the penny every month salaries between 30 and 40 grand can fund a lifestyle far greater than it should
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lfc1971 • June 8, 2016 8:38 AM BST
I think that the state should pay, when every young man turns say 16, for a visit to an escort. They would be required to go whether they want to or notGrin It would solve a lot of problems, these young women save lives. They should do that for some of us OAPs as well, they could save mine lfc1971 • June 8, 2016 9:00 AM BST I remember in school reading about communist China, and how they all wore the same clothes like workers overalls. That i found appealed to me greatly. It still does. It has changed a bit since then ebulGery • June 7, 2016 11:09 PM BST until I decided I would like a relationship with those "fiends from hell" also known as "women" I will withdraw that unreservedly, a tad misogynist  , even for me |
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x that lady claimed to have a revolutionary way of taking blood samples and duped shed loads of investors (several of them well known) but its all a load of bs. she should end up in the clink, time will tell if she does.
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Middle class is more a behaviour /upbringing thing than a money thing .
You can be very poor and be middle class or pretend to be middle class (or working class,which a lot of middle class prefer to do these days  ).But you can't be working class and pretend to be middle class (for very long at least ) |
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or pretend to be middle class *
give the impression of a middle class lifestyle that should read. buying second hand quality goods for example ,shopping in Aldi but coming home with Waitrose bags that type of nonsense .WHO DOES THAT ? |
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I am card carrying middle class but people presume I'm working class. :(
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No surprise to hear that lfc1971 lives on his own in a hovel.
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But if he is happy that is the most important thing in life We live in a consumerist society and are all put under tremendous pressure to buy things that are better or newer, because that is how our economy functions. People have to keep buying things. I regard lfc1971 as an eccentric, and a nice eccentric to boot. So you really should not change if you don't want to lfc1971, there is really no obligation for you to do this |
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I'm classless.
I don't belong to any class and wouldn't want to. I could be mistaken for any class including under but never upper. |
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Frank Skinner, interviewing Tony Blair before he became Prime Minister:
Skinner: My rule of thumb is that if you grew up with a bucket in your bedroom, then you're working class. Blair: (silence, with the face of a man who would never be able to work that one out if he lived to be a hundred) As it happens, I had a bucket in the bedroom, a white plastic one that weathered to a relaxing pastel yellow shade as the years passed. But my mother insisted that class is irrelevant. The only thing that matters is whether you're common or not, and her criterion for that was simple: do you or do you not watch ITV? |
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I remember that interview well Screaming. It really struck me how out of touch Blair looked. I had always quite liked Blair, but at that moment when he sat there with the weirdest, blank look on his face and that fixed. rictus grin. I thought, naw, he ain't anywhere near being one of us. It was a strange moment. I'm sure Blair thought it was a good move. trying to look cool, "cool Brittania" and all that, but it didn't work for me at all. Still voted labour, of course, but never looked at Blair quite the same way again!
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I am merely a man on the streets, in the forests and fields, in the pub and in my own room.
I have never been to a fancy resturant in my life, i`m afraid of them. And as a man of sound mind i obviously avoid what frightens me. |
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But then again i don`t much like the working class, they are not capable of logical thought.
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Anything old and shabby is something i love.
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I would not like to be introduced to someone middle class, i fear that i would annoy them.
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What will they think of me? Whatever it is i can``t let that bother me.
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everyone should respect the situation in which he finds himself, envy is a kind of insanity.
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well bred behavior is not my style. I am extremely rude with practically no manners whatsoever.
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only the upper class can get away with that.
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That was a nice little joke Des Pond
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but you are very rude about Mr Blair, i like him.
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lfc and the words 'logical thought' dont seem a natural fit
the great homer had nothing on you lfc (of course i mean homer simpson) |
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i,ve spent the last 10 yrs working with a bloke who,s now retired and although he,s had 3 foreign holidays a year teneriffe,benidorm,etc,he,s never easten pizza,spag bol etc and his fav meal was them frey bentos steak and kidney pies in a tin with tinned new potatoes ,peas you,ve got to love the old timers
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I bought one of them pies once, thought it looked quite nice on the picture. Then I opened it and I was faced with something from Quatermass & the Pit
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HE THOUGHT you had 2 choices of bread brown or white never heard or tried of all the varities available
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