[Crimson Dynamo]

Eg.

Untouchable
Working
Lower-middle
Middle
Upper-middle
Upper

And so forth


So one can address people properly

[Niamh.]

I have no idea what the difference between Working, Lower Middle and Middle would be?

[MTVN]

Self-proclaimed intelligentsia

[Niamh.]

Ultra Upper

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Self-proclaimed intelligentsia

Genuinely made me howl.

[kirklancaster]

Working class, but vereeee cultured and refined.

[Jason.]

Do people even associate themselves by social class anymore?

[Ashley.]

I am the monarch

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Ashley.

I am the monarch

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by BB6

Do people even associate themselves by social class anymore?

Apparently - in Scotland anyway.

[Livia]

The ruling class.

Actually, I was born working class and that's what I will always consider myself to be.

[Kizzy]

Is there a **** on the sole of your shoe class?
From Sir Len Hutton to me it's been a slippery slope

[JoshBB]

Probably working class

[rubymoo]

The cool class

Born working, so will always be working

[kirklancaster]

From those on Minimum Wage to Donald Trump and Oprah - We are ALL working Class.

But REAL class has nothing to do with 'Blue Blood' OR Money.

[Kizzy]

That's why the lady is a tramp...

[rubymoo]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

That's why the lady is a tramp...

[DemolitionRed]

I'm working class because I work.

Its interesting how people perceive class. I have a few American friends who are quite certain they are upper class.

[Niamh.]

I honestlt don't understand how the class system works, I think it's more of a British thing

[T*]

Upper-middle

[DemolitionRed]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I honestlt don't understand how the class system works, I think it's more of a British thing

This would be my definition.

Old working class was the labour force of Britain. The blue collar workers who rented their homes. They were the workforce that made life work for the middle classes.

Today's working class can be professionals and home owners. Working class is how they view themselves to be because they often started from more humble beginnings.

The old middle class were the white collar workers, professionals and home owners.

Todays middle class is subjective. Its more of an aspirational thing. A blue collar worker who has made good, afforded a mortgage, a nice car and takes a holiday abroad each year will often think of themselves as being middle class. Being owning class doesn't make you middle class like it used to. Plenty of middle class families in modern Britain opt to rent rather than buy.

Upper class means you have had an expensive education, don't have to work to lead a comfortable lifestyle. You will be a land owner, probably related to the aristocracy even royalty and you will never be burdened with having to think about something as vulgar as money.

You can't buy your way into being upper class, though you can marry into it. If a working class or middle class person makes a fortune, lives in a mansion, has a butler, a nanny and a chauffeur, that does not make that person upper class.

[Niamh.]

Thanks DR