You know you're working class when.....
Jun 1 2007 12:36
I'll have none of that "you have to sell your labour power" shit on this thread. What I want is the kind of oldskool marker of working class identity that we all affect to hate so much.
I'll start.
...... you have a Wetherspoons lighter.
Jun 1 2007 13:14
#2
When the pool cue is chained to the table.
Jun 1 2007 13:14
#3
you went to university and you worked hard
Jun 1 2007 13:16
#4
.... Jack is too scared to talk to you.
Although on reflection, that would mean that all women were automatically working class. And I don't think even Shulamith Firestone says that.
Jun 1 2007 13:21
#5
You wear a trucker hat and it's not ironic (perhaps that is america-specific? What do UK hipsters wear?)
You grew up wearing generic Keds ($1/pair @ K Mart).
You get rid of your southern accent because all the northern (middle class) anarchist types make fun of you for "being a hick."
Okay, maybe that last one is just me. I'm working it out.
Jun 1 2007 13:23
#6
Trucker hats are quite popular among the Aviator-wearing, half-a-haircut, look-at-me scum in this country as well.
Jun 1 2007 13:25
#7
Yeah I'm wearing a trucker cap today. Never with Aviators though, god.
Jun 1 2007 13:27
#8
j.rogue wrote:
You grew up wearing generic Keds ($1/pair @ K Mart).
Nah here you're working class if your shoes cost more than your car.
Jun 1 2007 13:31
#9
Quote:
Yeah I'm wearing a trucker cap today. Never with Aviators though, god.
The comedy of this situation being that John. is genuinely repulsed by the thought of someone wearing Aviators with a trucker cap. 
Jun 1 2007 13:43
#10
the button wrote:
Quote:
Yeah I'm wearing a trucker cap today. Never with Aviators though, god.The comedy of this situation being that John. is genuinely repulsed by the thought of someone wearing Aviators with a trucker cap.
What? Everyone knows: hat or sunglasses, not both.
See?
You know you're working class when... you call someone "love" and it's not ironic.
Jun 1 2007 13:48
#11
...you invented good food which some ponce gave a fancy french name to and sold in Jamie Oliver's restaurant for £8.
Jun 1 2007 13:50
#12
... the clothes you go out in are smarter than the ones you wear for work.
Jun 1 2007 14:02
#13
the button wrote:
... the clothes you go out in are smarter than the ones you wear for work.
Haha, yep.
Your motorcycle costs more than your home. (only a slight exaggeration)
Jun 1 2007 14:14
#14
the button wrote:
... the clothes you go out in are smarter than the ones you wear for work.
oi oi! I'm working class after all!!!
Take THAT meanwhileatthebar!!!
Jun 1 2007 14:16
#15
John. wrote:
You know you're working class when... you call someone "love" and it's not ironic.
woah i'm such a prole! I even get stick for this being sexist - so i'm an unreconstructed prole too!
You liberal middle class types just don't get my 'rough diamond' dialect 
Jun 1 2007 14:22
#16
I called everyone "hun" (short for honey) without even realizing it until someone thought it was weird and condescending.
Jun 1 2007 14:23
#17
You know you're working class when... you support Bash The Rich marches
(C) Coffeemachine
Jun 1 2007 14:27
#18
Went to Portstewart on holiday
Jun 1 2007 14:44
#19
...if no one will talk to you at an anarchist meeting.
Jun 1 2007 14:47
#20
You had to share a room with your brother
Jun 1 2007 14:50
#21
moonpies.
Jun 1 2007 14:56
#22
xConorx wrote:
You had to share a room with your brother
bed
Jun 1 2007 15:09
#23
John. wrote:
the button wrote:
Quote:
Yeah I'm wearing a trucker cap today. Never with Aviators though, god.The comedy of this situation being that John. is genuinely repulsed by the thought of someone wearing Aviators with a trucker cap.
What? Everyone knows: hat or sunglasses, not both.
See?You know you're working class when... you call someone "love" and it's not ironic.
Got told off by a young Brixtonite woman who I asked "'scuse me love" to move cause she was blocking my way onto my bus a few nights ago. Ilooked at her with astonishment
"It's just a colloquialism!" I said, to which she replied, "But I'm not your love". Random men aren't my "mates" either, but i'd still say "scuse mate" if they were in the way. Load of toss.
Jun 1 2007 16:01
#24
pingtiao wrote:
Got told off by a young Brixtonite woman who I asked "'scuse me love" to move cause she was blocking my way onto my bus a few nights ago.
You're not a cockney, you're too poncey to pull that off.
OK you know you're working class when... a Pole has stolen your job
... you've never been on a 73 bus, except when driving it.
Jun 1 2007 16:30
#25
...you had to go home for lunch 'cos you couldn't afford school meals.
Jun 1 2007 17:56
#26
Danny.P wrote:
...you had to go home for lunch 'cos you couldn't afford school meals.
Free or reduced school lunches and breakfasts. And those yellow tickets.
Jun 1 2007 18:07
#27
John. wrote:
pingtiao wrote:
Got told off by a young Brixtonite woman who I asked "'scuse me love" to move cause she was blocking my way onto my bus a few nights ago.You're not a cockney, you're too poncey to pull that off.
Then you just do it in a camp way.
Quote:
OK you know you're working class when... a Pole has stolen your job
Jun 1 2007 18:08
#28
Danny.P wrote:
...you had to go home for lunch 'cos you couldn't afford school meals.
Answer your fucking phone danny!
Jun 1 2007 18:09
#29
Flint wrote:
moonpies.
When I was a kid in Slidell, Louisiana, there was a parade during Mardi Gras that threw Moonpies, aptly called the Moon Pie Parade. I would make myself sick on those things. And they last FOREVER.
Jun 1 2007 18:09
#30
you know your middle class when you went home for lunch cos school meals were simply awful.
you wear the same hat as battlescarred
you've never posted on anarchist discussion forum