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  • Plain, utter and complete absolute tosh image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Can I say unadulterated c##p, as tosh is a bit middle class for me.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • You can and you're very welcome Pdoc image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Pdoc - you are a fully trained doctor are you not?  That makes you professional and therefore middle class whether you like it or not.  Middle class is not a dirty word.  You can have working class fascists and idiots too.

    Last edited: 14 November 2017 09:12:58

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Wishful thinking Obelixx ....... in Great Britain class isn't about who you are unfortunately, it's still about who your parents and grandparents were image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    At least one bit of that statement is correct Obelixx.image

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090

    Really Dove?  I though social mobility since the war had done away with a lot of that.   I do recognise that the Brits I met thru my working and adult life with the most fixed ideas about class tended to come form "working class" and council estates and didn't see that their degrees and professions had moved them on.  Personally, I find manners and friendliness are far more important.   There are fools and layabouts and hooligans at all levels but, fortunately, also gems of humour and kindness and interest too.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889

    Ex council house , comprehensive school, no University makes me as common as muck .

    As Obs so wisely says " I find manners and friendliness are far more important."

    I'd like to think I scrape through on those criteria. 

     

    Devon.
  • Obelixx says:

    Really Dove?  I thought social mobility since the war had done away with a lot of that.   I do recognise that the Brits I met thru my working and adult life with the most fixed ideas about class tended to come form "working class" and council estates and didn't see that their degrees and professions had moved them on.  Personally, I find manners and friendliness are far more important.   There are fools and layabouts and hooligans at all levels but, fortunately, also gems of humour and kindness and interest too.

    See original post

     Sadly over the past few years social mobility has gone backwards at a rate of knots.  

    https://www.gov.uk/government/news/state-of-the-nation-report-on-social-mobility-in-great-britain 

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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Common and classy, is so much better than most alternatives, Hosta.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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