"An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
The moment he talks he makes some other Englishman despise him... "
("Remember you a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech. Your native language is the language of Shakespeare, and Milton and the Bible ... ")
>How can you be so lacking in respect for our class system.
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>If I don't know my class and others class how can I know who to patronise and who to resent. :-)
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>>Gee, speaking as one of the Elite I found the classifications very insightful ;-) Of course I go to high-brow things like theater (Las Vegas showgirl revues count right?) and have friends who are solicitors (though most of those girls have reached mandatory retirement age.
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>>How can you argue with any system that can classify humanity based on some multiple choice questions? You are questioning the whole raison d'etre of Cosmo.
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>>>>Curious to know how non-Brits taking this would rank :-}
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22000973>>>
>>>Established middle class
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>>>So what does that mean exactly? And what is "Established Middle Class?" Anything? Nothing? How about some new classifications....:)
>>>Update: Never mind, I just read the descriptions of each class. What a bunch of malarkey! :)
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
