THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS

[luka]

this feels like a comparatively underexamined and very important social grouping in the UK. Craner is always mocking Corpsey and making him the butt of every joke for being a member of the lower middle class and trying to better himself. what do you have to say about this fascinating social grouping? exhibit a is that source direct documentary version and john eden love.

 

[luka]

as well as Corpsey youve got things like Hyacinth Bucket and Abigails Party (neither of which i've ever seen)

 

[Corpsey]

I know it must be hard for a man with craner's upbringing and education not to regard someone of my upbringing as a sort of petite bourgeois bactillus, but I implore him to grant me and my family at least the dignity he grants the animals on his family's farm.

 

[Mr. Tea]

 

[craner]

I love the lower middle classes. They are my favorite type of bacillus.

 

[craner]

 

[luka]

Craner pithily described them as 'proles with more money than sense'

 

[luka]

'never read a book but own a home' as Craner put it, pithily.

 

[luka]

'a red brick home with a garage' as he added, (a parenthesis)

 

[Corpsey]

Craner has built this castle for himself on sand, on Barry island sand

And I'll be watching laughing as the tide comes in

 

[luka]

I love the lower middle classes. They are my favorite type of bacillus.

note how he corrected jacks spelling

 

[luka]

I know it must be hard for a man with craner's upbringing and education not to regard someone of my upbringing as a sort of petite bourgeois

I love the lower middle classes. They are my favorite type of bacillus.

, but I implore him to grant me and my family at least the dignity he grants the animals on his family's farm.

 

[Corpsey]

I was going to say much to craner's presumed gloating satisfaction I had to look up that word

 

[luka]

still got it wrong. dont worry craner butchered his samuel johson quote

 

[Corpsey]

Also I should have said "livestock"

Horrible how inept I am with words

 

[luka]

animals was fine in my opinion it was your best one liner in years i give it ten out of ten.

 

[craner]

The trouble with the lower middles classes is that if you give them too much praise you end up with Ian Dunt and if you give them too much power you end up with Mussolini.

 

[Leo]

Which is worse?

 

[craner]

I don't know.

 

[Corpsey]

What are some features of the lower middle class?

Heightened anxiety over being thought lower class?

Less delusion re being upper class than the upper middle?