http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/featu...-should-own-to-be-working-class-2015040997147 HOW working class are you? The 15 household items only the working classes own (one point for each): 1. Samurai sword, hung above fireplace in case of return to Bushido law 2. Android smart phone with Greggs Rewards app on homepage 3. Dog named after sportsperson or fictional sportsperson 4. Fantastic array of expensive electronic toys that any middle-class child would kill to play with, ignored for football 5. Digital picture frame showing slideshow of kids, other people’s kids, cars, dog as above, Greg’s stag night inc. nudity 6. Books, but not making a big deal about it 7. Televisions in ratio of 1.2 per room 8. Hand-waxed gleaming Toyota Hilux pick-up truck 9. Paved front lawn so Toyota Hilux can be parked and admired directly outside window 10. Oversized Sports Direct mug 11. Both colours of sauce 12. Ashtray 13. Fancy ashtray for guests 14. Dyson kept openly in hall, because there’s no shame in being clean 15. Two adult children, both driving £30,000 cars And the five things no self-respecting working class family should have (minus one point for each): Old furniture Breadmaker Board game The Settlers of Catan A record player Overachieving children desperately trying to earn their parents’ love but never filling the emptiness inside How did you score? 15-10: You are the workingest working class, with the pride and body type of a bulldog. Truly you are the salt of the earth, to the extent that your mere touch dehydrates things. 10-5: Middle working class, with aspirational tendencies. Your Tony Parsons books and occasional purchase of smoothies could lead you on a dark path to middle England. 5-0: Always sucking up to the bosses and laughing at their golf jokes, you cross picket lines on a weekly basis and nobody will pass you the mic during karaoke.
Thank you for posting this thread, it's amazing. It's ****ing hard to be sarcastic on here, Mick can you add a sarcasm smiley?
I have three from the first list: books, ashtray and tomato/brown sauce. I am, however, as working class as they come. And I have a folly in the grounds of my Suffolk residence. Never heard of a digital picture frame. Sounds ghastly.
A peculiarity of the British class obsession is that nobody who actually is working class ever self identifies as such. The same applies to the middle class; if someone tells you they're middle class, what they actually are is aspirational proles. If someone tells you they are working class, the chances are they have got a few bob but don't like to shout about it. Meanwhile, the genuine upper class honking poshos continue to lord it all over the rest of us. A hugely disproportionate % of people in top jobs in banking, journalism and politics went to public school. And no **** even notices because we're all too busy obsessing about who's middle class and who's working class.
