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So what is it?
It's Pasta Hut 'for a limited time only at participating restaurants', possibly as a prelude to a permanent shift.
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I think it's more to do with money than housing. I am, grudgingly*, middle class now, and live in a very middle class block of flats, that used to be one of the worst council buildings in London.
What makes it middle-class now?
I politely disagree, although maybe I used the wrong word in 'housing'. Property would be better. And not necessarily housing. Land, like gold, is wanted by everyone and controlled by the few.
Many so-called toffs are from generations of farming stock. Who are still toiling on the land, doing the same serf work that their ancestors would have done at the bidding of their lord. But now, they get to keep/sell what they grow, to simplify it massively. That's the historic class divide, essentially.
The creation of low-income housing for factory work changed that on a huge scale. It wasn't even that long ago, the results are still being tested and considered, I think.
The middle-class, essentially, are those who aren't bothered about owning their own land and passing it down to their kids. They also will certainly not be found working on a fucking
farm, what, covered in pig shit? Fuck that. Civil servants most of them, they have historically had the contempt of the other classes for not 'playing the game' and using the 'correct' means to create power or wealth for themselves. The middle-class is far from the traditions of monarchy, and more of an imperialist concept. But the modern EU is more of a socialist concept...
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I don't see why I should be ashamed of being middle class
You shouldn't, sir. Oh, oh, no - I'm not meaning to suggest for a minute that being middle class is a terrible thing, not at all.
The middle classes have become those which increasingly 'drive' the country. That's where the power lies now. That's where 'popular opinion' lies, as well as the brunt of Britain's intra-county business. It's also a cultural thing. The interesting thing about the term 'chav', is that much of it can be applied to the so-called working classes as much as it can to the toffs.
The problem is that the middle class are the most nervous of all. And I do think that 'chav' is a reaction to the slightly snide term 'middle class' as applied to civil servants. It's an inversion. It proves also where the power currently lies. But, weirdly, there's this this element of denial it all. Generations of people who, whilst aware that they are typical of most folk in the country in terms of pay-scale and job-type (and field of work), refuse to admit any responsibility or culpability for anything within the nation itself. It's been reflected in the polls (and not just through voter fatigue) most obviously of all.
It's a kind of weirdly cynical ambivalence to everything that happens. I realise that this might sound like I'm saying "I hate you! You're ruining Britain by not really being that bothered by anything that's going on here!", but I'm not. I'm saying that, as a self-confessed member of the middle-class, you ought to just maybe consider that. I'm grinning and winking as I say that, mind!
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My mother is a vet, and a pretty good one as I understand it, so she's middle class.
That's correct, yeah. Go back three hundred years and she might have been responsible for tending the local baron's prize falcons, or something. That's a lofty position.
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My dad is a mechanic[...]so he's "only" lower class, but (even taking into account that he's my dad and all) he is the most amazing mechanic you ever saw.
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He would be lower-class I think. Tending the equipment used for labouring the fields, and the like. But in as high a position within that strata as you could go, really.
My own Dad is a builder, and my Mum is a care nurse. One builds walls, the other spends her time with the diseased. Me, I'm not sure. I think I should be middle-class, except I have absolutely no property or decent assets, and my work is just the IT equivalent of my Dad's building work. I've also spent most of my adult life unemployed; but then, I was born in the Black Country at the end of the 70s; but then equally, I've been to university. So fuck knows really.
Can your Dad do that with any vehicle?