More "middle-class" bollocks

ACG · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:43 pm

sofas pushed against the walls in the living room: free
home made cake: probably about £2
pass the parcel (wrapped in newspaper): £1
musical chairs: free
dead lions: free
balloons: 50p
total: oh for chrissake its a 5 year olds birthday party, at that age most of them are still more interested in the box stuff comes in.

Amazonian · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 1:58 pm

I'm getting a definite mental image of a near-comatose Eric Cartman slurring "No...no more...pie." That or Spoilt Bastard from Viz.

But, as the Oompa Loompas so wisely observed, who really fucks up spoilt kids? Mum and Dad, that's who.

Rob · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 6:41 pm

Is sean compenating?

somewhat_nifty · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:30 pm **Posts:** 145

When you find your cleaner wearing the same outfit as you, isn't it time to reach for designer labels again?

No comments as yet, but I hope they rip this article to shreds for the snobbery-ridden trash it is.

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Is it disrespectful to wear New Look to a wedding?

Words fail...

JuanTwoThree · **Posted:** Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:15 am

I think we need to get away from the idea that these articles are written for middle-class people. I find the idea of many Mail readers having a cleaner extremely unlikely. Wishing they had one, yes.

70% of readers are not AB and they are mostly over 40

http://www.mailclassified.co.uk/circula ... rship.html

So more older class-conscious working-class tory with nose pressed to the bourgeois window than anything else. I'd go so far as to say that my father's and my grand-father's words " I wouldn't have that filthy rag in the house" represent a widely held upper middle-class view of the Daily Mail, that comes as much from DT/Times readers as it does from Guardian ones.

PS Reading this again makes me sound fraffly stuck-up. Class is always hard to talk about.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:25 am

aljardi wrote:

:shock:

I think my 5th birthday party in 1975 must have cost my mum and dad all of a couple of quid. I still loved them to bits for it.

A couple of quid! You were lucky! Best we could manage were an old condom that Dad had run under t' tap and blown up for a balloon.

** Yorkshire accent off **

office_tramp · **Posted:** Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:38 am

I think it's about time the Chairman Mao look came back in...

somewhat_nifty · **Joined:** Sun Jan 11, 2009 3:30 pm **Posts:** 145

JuanTwoThree wrote:

I think we need to get away from the idea that these articles are written for middle-class people. I find the idea of many Mail readers having a cleaner extremely unlikely. Wishing they had one, yes.

70% of readers are not AB and they are mostly over 40

http://www.mailclassified.co.uk/circula ... rship.html

So more older class-conscious working-class tory with nose pressed to the bourgeois window than anything else. I'd go so far as to say that my father's and my grand-father's words " I wouldn't have that filthy rag in the house" represent a widely held upper middle-class view of the Daily Mail, that comes as much from DT/Times readers as it does from Guardian ones.

PS Reading this again makes me sound fraffly stuck-up. Class is always hard to talk about.

Coudn't agree more, the Mail is fundamentally an aspirational paper, that's why the snobbery is so blantant. 'Proper' middle class papers are much more subtle about it.

aljardi · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:45 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -soar.html

It's simply awful. What is the world coming to?

ACG · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:48 am

good lord, how awful. when the tuition fees were introduced it just kept the riff-raff out, but now its gone TOO FAR!

amcneil74 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:33 am **Posts:** 307

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1196636/Lipstick-lesbians-How-kiss-sparked-teenage-trend-disturb-parent.html#comments

Get in :

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The middle classes have it so hard what with the falling value of the properties, getting stung by Brown's stealth taxes, and now this!!
I wish I was lower/working class, as they don't have these things to worry about
- Graeme Carter, London, UK, 1/7/2009 14:30

15 in the green!

Fflaps · **Posted:** Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:18 am

Arf!

Also I know I'm coming to this one a bit late but 'lipstick lesbians' are sooo mid-90s

AOB · **Posted:** Sat Jul 11, 2009 4:11 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... d-age.html

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It is only the middle classes that are supporting this country. However they are broke. Where are you going to get the money from when it has all vanished?
The middle classes have been totally abused for years. It is time to stop.

- Sue`, Southampton, 11/7/2009 06:15
Click to rate Rating [color=green 389[/color]

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Typical! Yet another tax to keep the aging boomers in the lap of luxury!

- John Devlin, UK, 11/7/2009 6:00
Click to rate Rating 373

I can imagine a few of them were trembling with rage when they hit the red arrow for that.

Dave · **Joined:** Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:08 pm **Posts:** 180

Headlines in yesterday's Heil....

Middle-class couple posed as homebuyers before moving in as squatters and refusing to pay

Middle-class 'orgy' at the manor house

Charity rules 'will price middle-class families out of private schools'

And I noticed another headline with 'middle class' in it today. Sheesh! Why don't they just do the obvious and print 'IF YOU'RE NOT MIDDLE CLASS THEN DON'T READ THIS PAPER' on the front page every day.

JamesFarrier · **Posted:** Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:17 am

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... House.html

It's now an UPPER class orgy, seems they wanted to bump it up a little. And they're going to show us photos of lovely respectable people about to DO IT! Look, aren't they mucky?

Almost as mucky as going to the extent of rooting around to find attendees of the orgy and paying for their photos to publish in your paper.

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