THE LOWER MIDDLE CLASS

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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?

An insatiable appetite for Cornettos

 

[Murphy]

If you think you’re lower middle class you’re probably lower middle class, the target of Mondeo Man

As the most liminal class it’ll be an intriguing winter for people who’ve sort of stumbled through with £ and, as inflation kicks further, paying bills

Imagine CAB encountering more of this demographic as winter eats into equity release

 

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What grade are you Hands? Are you a bonker, a shagger or a maker of love?

 

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I guess meeting in the carpark has no class distinction. A great leveller, the only true democratic act.

 

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Keys in the bowl have no accent.

 

[Murphy]

Hands only feels comfortable on the back seat of a 1986 Ford Capri

scandalous slander, Scimitar for space, torque and hp

 

[luka]

this picture is a good illustration of the differences between the lower-middle and the middle-middle. textbook really.

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[IdleRich]

Some critics, such as Tom Paulin, have responded more negatively, saying that Abigail's Party appears to represent a middle-class schadenfreude, with the only true middle-class character, Sue, looking on at the antics of the couples with disdain. Likewise, Dennis Potter wrote a critical review of the play in The Sunday Times, saying it was "based on nothing more edifying than rancid disdain, for it is a prolonged jeer, twitching with genuine hatred, about the dreadful suburban tastes of the dreadful lower middle classes".

 

[luka]

1. unusually short, squat, thick necked, square-headed, sunburnt. face free from the contortions of thought or self awareness. fag in mouth, looks straight, and thumbs up to life.

2. elongated and attenuated. pale. face wracked with self-consciousness, eyes up and out of the frame, fleeing the sweat and dirt beside him into some abstract realm of mind. does not reciprocate the embrace.

 

[IdleRich]

Met at uni, paths yet to diverge…

 

[Corpsey]

The best photos of me are where I look like a yob

Strange, that

 

[Corpsey]

Respectful

 

[luka]

like a crab without a shell. obscene.

 

[Corpsey]

Care to guess what class the man in the yellow shirt belongs to?

 

[Corpsey]

1. unusually short, squat, thick necked, square-headed, sunburnt. face free from the contortions of thought or self awareness. fag in mouth, looks straight, and thumbs up to life.

2. elongated and attenuated. pale. face wracked with self-consciousness, eyes up and out of the frame, fleeing the sweat and dirt beside him into some abstract realm of mind. does not reciprocate the embrace.

I do sometimes feel you're wasting your talents on here/obscure poetry.

 

[luka]

its quite noble tho wasting your talents. theres something sublime about it