Working class credentials
Do you bang on about how you're REAL working class because your granddad was a miner, even though you teach media studies at a 6th Form College?

Or are you like me. Brought up 'middle class' but have never earned as much as a bin man. Have worked in factories, bars, warehouses etc. but never thought of myself as working class.

The 'News of the World' is bought by working class people - I've never bought it. Have you?

etc.

I'll bet SLVA has some choice words on this subject!
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 10:24, 4 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Alternatively
"Do you 'really get' The Royle Family, because that's 'just what your family was like', and think Peter Kay is funny, because 'it's so true!'? Do you constantly harp on about it, and take any opportunity to mention how you went to state school and never had a colour television?"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 14:15, Reply)

I really hate Billy Connolly these days
because he still harps on about working in the ship yards in Glasgow, like he did it for decades, rather than days - and that was 40 years ago.

And he dyed his beard mauve.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 16:00, Reply)

I have a funny relationship with the class system.
It would be hard for me to expain it in one post, but I'd say I'm aspiring Nouveau Riche.
So yeah, working class for now.
I enjoy hating on both the rich and poor.
(888777555, Thu 14 Jul 2011, 20:30, Reply)

I know this feeling.
I don't know where I stand. I can't call myself working class, really, as I'm doing a degree but at the same time working in a supermarket. My family didn't have much spare cash when I was a kid but these days I'm not uncomfortably skint despite working in a supermarket. And the other half earns a reasonable £25k. So am I working class, because of a poor family origin, or aspiring middle class because these days I have the money to shop (carefully) at waitrose?
( Bats, Thu 21 Jul 2011, 7:33, Reply)