Class? That sounds to me like a box. I don't fit into boxes, so I don't expect anyone else to either.
This weekend's wall to wall coverage of the split between Prince William and Kate Middleton is stultifyingly boring. As far as I'm concerned, the whys and wherefores of their relationship and its demise are not our business.
There is one aspect of the coverage, however, that I have found interesting. That is the sneering class criticism from, in particular, The Daily Mail. A few quotes:
[Her mother is] pushy, rather twee and incredibly middle-class. She uses words such as "Pleased to meet you", "toilet" and "pardon".Ultimately she's just a middle class girl from BerkshireGiven that The Daily Mail unashamedly targets the lower middle and middle middle classes, it's a little surprising that they should risk alienating their readers in this way. Surely, the Mail doesn't think it can flatter its readers into believing that they belong to the upper middle or upper classes?Kate, with 150 years of mining stock in her DNA
There is a great book, "Watching the English" by Kate Fox, which explains our national class consciousness in a very entertaining way (eg "mummy says that "pardon" is worse than "***k"!).
Class? That sounds to me like a box. I don't fit into boxes, so I don't expect anyone else to either.
On a more trivial note, and with a dash of hypcrisy, Prince William's true passion, Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthrope, is drop dead gorgeous. Check out the pic on page 4 of today's Mail on Sunday (I tried attaching a pic from google but had loads of dodgy pics attached so I won't try again!)
One of the positive things about dancing is that nobody gives a fig where you are from or what you do etc.
Can you imagine your local class teacher doing something like this
"For those of you who are working class, bring the left arm up and give the one fingered salute...to those of you who are upper class, explanations will be given later when the taxi dancers get you all together for a jolly old chinwag!"
I don't have a class - I'm Jewish
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Age is a question of mind over matter, if you don't mind, it doesn't matter
Leroy (Satchel) Paige (1906-1982)
Mickey Mouse's girlfriend, Minnie, made her film debut, along with Mickey, in "Steamboat Willie" on November 18, 1928.
That date is recognized as her official birthday.
Incidentally, the question in the title to this thread was meant rhetorically. But if anyone does wish to put themselves in a box, feel free!
I'm in class 2EH.
I'm not in the class -- I'm the teacher!
(In school, that is. Not dancing.)
I'm too geeky to be classy.
I'm in a class of my own.
I suppose I would say that I'm working class, and am from a working class background.
I too say "Pardon", "Toilet" and "Pleased to meet you" mind you I also say "Gosh!" and "Bother!" and "Darned" a lot It doesn't make me any classier.. it just means I sound more like a Scottish Hugh Grant when I swear *
(* although one has been known to quote Hugh Grant's first few minutes of "4 weddings and a funeral".. depending on how bad work is going )
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