The Great British Class calculator

[Secret Chief]

What's with the contant drive to divide people? Instead of looking for differences and separating British people into arbitrary classes, we should be looking for commonalities that unite all Brits, such as gnarly teeth and an inability to cook a decent meal.

No, no, that's the Irish.

Anyway, Americans don't cook do they? Fast food take outs rule!

 

[Octavia156]

Technical Middle Class.

How's a working class northerner supposed to hate the middle class if one has been redesignated???!!

welcome to the Middle Magog


what reason could you possibly have to hate the middle class?

 

[Octavia156]

What's with the contant drive to divide people? Instead of looking for differences and separating British people into arbitrary classes, we should be looking for commonalities that unite all Brits, such as gnarly teeth and an inability to cook a decent meal.

you ignorant ****

 

[Secret Chief]

welcome to the Middle Magog


what reason could you possibly have to hate the middle class?

Just being a bit tongue in cheek. Going with the tribal theme...

 

[Kilgore Trout]

You got something against boiled meat?

*shudder*

 

[Alceste]

Tight, sure, but not arbitrary. Why those random few careers or those random few leisure activities?

In the UK, it's mainly what you do for a living that determines your class. That was confusing for my husband, whose grandfather was a docker, a soldier who fought in both world wars, and the son of Irish tinkers. His mom benefited from post-war Old Labour social mobility programs and became a psychoanalyst. As a kid he thought if himself as working class until a teacher explained that when your mother's a shrink and your father's a university professor you have to be middle class. He was annoyed.

Edit: oh yeah, and what you do tends to determine who you know and what you do for fun. It's easier to select a small sampling of common jobs in each class than ask everybody to write their job down.

 

[Secret Chief]

The US angle article says there is less social mobility in the US than in the UK, which, if true, surprises me:

Today, one of the few things US politicians on the right and the left agree on is social mobility in their country has calcified. It is actually lower than in Britain, as the New York Times noted last year.

 

[Father Heathen]

In the UK, it's mainly what you do for a living that determines your class. That was confusing for my husband, whose grandfather was a docker, a soldier who fought in both world wars, and the son of Irish tinkers. His mom benefited from post-war Old Labour social mobility programs and became a psychoanalyst. As a kid he thought if himself as working class until a teacher explained that when your mother's a shrink and your father's a university professor you have to be middle class. He was annoyed.

Edit: oh yeah, and what you do tends to determine who you know and what you do for fun. It's easier to select a small sampling of common jobs in each class than ask everybody to write their job down.

Pointless, arbitrary nonsense.

 

[Alceste]

Pointless, arbitrary nonsense.

How very "emergent service worker" of you.