Reflecting on Hostafan’s observations, here’s a little quiz for you. Look at this list of 25 words and phrases. How many of them make your lip just imperceptibly curl, your eyebrow raise a millimetre or lead you to uttering the phrase ‘if you like it that’s all that matters’.
1. Celebrities and their antics 2. Prime time TV 3. Red top newspapers 4. Football 5. Orange flowers 6. Forsythia 7. Large plastic plant pots 8. Microwave meals 9. Plastic garden ornaments 10. Coloured Christmas lights 11. Salad cream 12. Package holidays 13. Hot tubs 14. Day time TV 15. Facebook and similar 16. The Mail and the Express 17. Begonias 18. Double daffodils 19. Folksy wooden painted signs 20. Crazy paving 21. Text speak 22. Lambrusco 23. Outside fairy lights 24. Sliced bread 25. uPVC windows.
Now multiply your score by 4 to get your percentage:
80%+ Lord Curzon* 70%+ Snob 60%+ Discerning 50%+ Easily pleased 40%+ You just don’t care, do you? 30%+ You’re on the wrong forum
* My name is Lord Nathaniel Curzon   I am a most superior person   My face is pink, my hair is sleek   I dine at Blenheim once a week.
Nah, thinking about it you probably wouldn’t like the nineteenth century. Just be aware that the lower your score I think the more likely you might be to being sucked in by conspiracy theories. From what I’ve read, ‘snowflakes’ want the demeaning word gullible removed from dictionaries.
We have inherited uPVC windows and doors with this new (to us) house and they're a lot easier to manage than the wooden framed ones we installed in our Belgian farmhouse.
I use FB to chat with Possum for free and one or two pals in Belgium and the UK so it has its uses but I don't do all the public fluff and nonsense. I don't mind discreet fairy lights in a courtyard where nobody else sees them so that makes me 88% and Lady Somebody.
I often think that I would have preferred living in a different time but, when I start to think about it, the hardships, disease, social injustices, etc. suffered by the working classes make modern-day living look a better bet. I do love salad cream, football and sliced bread thoughÂ
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1. Celebrities and their antics
2. Prime time TV
3. Red top newspapers
4. Football
5. Orange flowers
6. Forsythia
7. Large plastic plant pots
8. Microwave meals
9. Plastic garden ornaments
10. Coloured Christmas lights
11. Salad cream
12. Package holidays
13. Hot tubs
14. Day time TV
15. Facebook and similar
16. The Mail and the Express
17. Begonias
18. Double daffodils
19. Folksy wooden painted signs
20. Crazy paving
21. Text speak
22. Lambrusco
23. Outside fairy lights
24. Sliced bread
25. uPVC windows.
Now multiply your score by 4 to get your percentage:
80%+ Lord Curzon*
70%+ Snob
60%+ Discerning
50%+ Easily pleased
40%+ You just don’t care, do you?
30%+ You’re on the wrong forum
* My name is Lord Nathaniel Curzon
  I am a most superior person
  My face is pink, my hair is sleek
  I dine at Blenheim once a week.
My score? 72%, a snob.
Nah, thinking about it you probably wouldn’t like the nineteenth century. Just be aware that the lower your score I think the more likely you might be to being sucked in by conspiracy theories. From what I’ve read, ‘snowflakes’ want the demeaning word gullible removed from dictionaries.
I use FB to chat with Possum for free and one or two pals in Belgium and the UK so it has its uses but I don't do all the public fluff and nonsense. I don't mind discreet fairy lights in a courtyard where nobody else sees them so that makes me 88% and Lady Somebody.