General Chat

There is an article on the BBC news site about the middle class. Part of this article is a test you can take to tell you what social class you fall in to.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, I am a member of the precariat, the lowest and poorest class of all and I might tell you, they look down on me as well!

Well I have always considered myself one of the downtrodden poor yet the BBC considers that I am part of "Established middle class" possibly because I play the saxaphone and like jazz. Jazz and respectability are strange bedfellows.

Maybe I should get out more and find the local branch of the wheeltappers and shunters.
;-)

It can't be that Rollo, because I listen to classical (it is sometimes in the adverts on the Jeremy Kyle Show) and I am still the lowest of the low.

What is the Jeremy Kyle show ? Is he a musician ?

Well,I don't know what I am !....Rollo what sort of jazz do you play?.
I play Dixieland/mainstream piano...although I am also into classics as have had lessons from age 7 on to 19 in classics and am LRAM ,,but my love in later life is jazz.
So...that makes me a mixture!!...know my star sign is Gemini ...so two sides...hmm .
All I know is that I am working class and always worked for my living.
Not had a privileged life!...but interesting!

Ever read 'Class' by Jilly Cooper? Going back a bit though. An absolute laugh, all these people trying to get somewhere that doesnt exist. :-D

My mum described those who lived in the so called better area of our town - that lot with fur coats and no drawers :-D

According to the article I am/was until retirement a member of the traditional working class - spot on I reckon :-)

I play modern jazz plus the usual standards and 1001 attempts to play Baker Street properly. I have a similar Yamaha alto sax to Dave Kozz but sadly don't play anywhere near as well :-(

I originally played keys which accounts for most of the damage to my poor Roland which has been gigged to often. The Roland and music software / hardware take up far too much of my time and office and contribute nothing towards paying the bills. OTOH much more fun than working lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWHtoJmqV9c
http://www.allmusic.com/album/hill-street-blues-tv-soundtrack-mw0000242466

fwiw my left arm got smashed up playing rugby and that was the end of playing keys left hand anyway ... I got quite adept at sort of leaping my good hand around ... I am left handed :-( Anyway the physio got me playing sax in an attempt to get my crabby left arm sorted and it worked. I got a saxaphone on the NHS + lessons wow!!! never these days I think. So that's how I became ambidextrous.

Apparently I am one of the elite and probably had a private education and went to university. Really?

My parents didn't have much spare cash and my mum went out cleaning. I was lucky enough to pass the 11+ and go to a good grammar school but it was a state school, not a private school, and I was one of the few there in a home made gym slip because mum couldn't afford the prices of the school shop. I do have a degree but I got it in my 40s through studying in my spare time with the OU.

It's half a crown to talk to me now I am one of the elite!

How often & on what inadequate data do we misjudge one another!

I'm apparently one of the 'Emergent Service Workers'.
So much for going to uni!

Just did it again - as I forgot my brother is an artist and I am friends with a solicitor and University Lecturer (I forgot what they were - I don't hve friends because of their occupation!)- but it made no difference :-(

Dermot - you sum it up for me with your wise words :-D

As for Sharron saying she is a proletariat, how can she be when she has such a wide range of interests . . . AND a good brain?!

You can fool all of the people some of the time Wend!

Well I am the same as Sharron but I knew that already.. :-D :-D

Good answer Sharron - you've had me fooled ;-)

I'm 'Muddle Class' by the way. I muddle along and hope for the best :-D

Same here Wend, I'm permanently in a muddle. lol.

Oooh - it's the Silver Fox - he's back!!!

Welcome home Foggy, great to see you - now get on that Sheffield Meet thread right now please :-D