Things which give you higher social status

BillyMitchel

Coked off your face while doing the hokey pokey in Krystal on a Tuesday.

Drakares

A top hat with a cane.

Sleepy

A rich husband.
A hot wife.
An Aston.
Access to important people.

SCOOP 64

All the answers on here so far have the op answer licked!

Wacker The Attacker

A penis and testicles

stevedublin

Having your foot on the property ladder.

WoollyRedHat

LeinsterDub wrote: »

Would it be acceptable for one to eat dessert with a soup spoon

No, it would be an awful faux pas. The etiquette is to have a different spoon for every meal, at least, with different occasions often calling for different spoons and if you do not abide by this you must be of the lower class who knew know better. I bet you ate the ice cream with a scooper. One knows to use the Oval Soup spoon for the soup, and soup alone, the Iced-Beverage spoon to stir the sugar in the coffee or tea or what have you while waiting for the edibles, the bouillon spoon for impromptu meals or formal or informal luncheons, and it is only with the Place spoon that you may use it to eat cream soup or dessert, of your choosing. And that's just the spoons you know.

bluewolf wrote: »

In fairness even my work canteen has both soup and dessert spoons

That is the lower order of spoons, my one has 20 types of spoons, although admittedly, we don't know what half of them do, we just like to pretend we do, see above.

I Heart Internet

Being married.

Being able to say "I'm working from home".

Having written something that was published.

smash

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

That is the lower order of spoons, my one has 20 types of spoons, although admittedly, we don't know what half of them do, we just like to pretend we do, see above.

Any sporks?

Pilotdude5

Three Seasons wrote: »

I'll start off with a Third level degree, those with degrees tend to have higher social status then without.

Lol its what the degree is in is the important bit. I've always assumed people simply saying they are: "third level educated" are trying to justify having a degree in an area they have no interest in.

Anyway, land and road frontage.

WoollyRedHat

smash wrote: »

Any sporks?

Ugh, perish the thought!! The true mark of an uneducated and uncouth man.

P_1

€s and lots of them

smash

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Ugh, perish the thought!! The true mark of an uneducated and uncouth man.

How dare you talk about Bear Grylls like that!

OneArt

Very long cigarettes.

WoollyRedHat

smash wrote: »

How dare you talk about Bear Grylls like that!

The man is a charalatan, and is a prime example of the primitive and lost values that we as a society posssess today! He has inspired a hoard of unkempt and hairy brutes to follow him in his wake, and it is downright disgusting to sight and mind.

CorsetIsTight

namloc1980 wrote: »

Having furniture put together by someone else.

Wibbs wrote: »

Having furniture that has been in the family for generations. Things that show up on the antiques roadshow you just call "stuff".

Following on from that:

Alan Clarke quoted a put-down of his fellow Tory MP, Michael Heseltine (who was a self-made millionaire) by Baron Jopling "The trouble with Michael is that he had to buy all his furniture".

Heseltine's response was "Clark is the kind of man whose father had to buy his own castle".

As insults go, they're pretty special.

Iwannahurl

Being a Boards mod, or for even higher status an Admin.

Merkin

Money and power are what ultimately give people a higher social status. And for some odd reason celebrity and fame. Even if that fame is based on nothing more than having been on da bleedin' telly once inanyways, pop culture seems to embrace this and being famous for fame's sake.

cson

A Coppers Gold Card is another one.

Imagine just waltzing up the the door, waving 2 fingers at the great unwashed on the way in and then not having to whip 10 quid out of the wallet when they're branding you with their big dirty stamp.

I know I've finally made it if that ever happens me.

smash

Iwannahurl wrote: »

Being a Boards mod, or for even higher status an Admin.

Who are you winking at?

Iwannahurl

Not you anyway!

PizzamanIRL

Having an 087 mobile number.

Which I don't.

Viper_JB

An accent

fartman

having a good sex drive

Terry1985

Being called "sir" without it followed by "you're making a scene".

sitstill

Not knowing what a weekend is.

anncoates

Lisha wrote: »

Naming your off-spring unpronounceable, impossible to spell names, possibly as gaelige

Not putting a superfluous hyphen in the word offspring.




Sorry :pac:

Lisha

Sending the previously mentioned offspring to a gaelscoil.

srsly78

sitstill wrote: »

Not knowing what a weekend is.

A trait shared by both the upper and the lower classes.

stoneill

Knowing that there are more than 2 types of spoon.

shopaholic01

Being from 'old money'. Generations of wealthy ancestors ensuring you expect a certain standard of living as a birth right.

Traditionally solicitors, doctors etc. were viewed as having a higher soical status. It took money to get you there at a time when very few people had the means.

ToddyDoody

Being a first cousin of the blonde haired guy from liberty x (or something stupid like that)

bacon n eggs

Manners

Agricola

A bendy pipe as opposed to a straight shank.

Defiler Of The Coffin

Not having to take the Dorsh into work, loike

Katgurl

minimum bachelors degree
accent
ability to decipher a wine list
family heirlooms & traditions
respectable profession

NuckingFacker

Living on an Estate. As opposed to living in an Estate.

April O Neill

ibarelycare wrote: »

A double barrel surname.

This used to be so, but I think it's considered a bit chavvy now.

Muscles From Brussels

Jesus do all the threads here start with pages of shit jokes. Christ.

efb

Having more than 10,000 posts on boards! Boo ya!!!







No wait, that's the 'What makes you a weirdo loner' thread...

B0jangles

OldGoat wrote: »

Shuning the hoi polli.

Knowing that saying "the hoi polloi" is redundant since "hoi" means "the"

Arcsin

April O Neill wrote: »

This used to be so, but I think it's considered a bit chavvy now.

You used to have a double barrelled name because you were the scion of two prestigious families.

Now it's because your parents aren't married.

Muscles From Brussels

efb wrote: »

Having more than 10,000 posts on boards! Boo ya!!!







No wait, that's the 'What makes you a weirdo loner' thread...

Only been here a few days but having 10,000 posts here definitely means you've got a shit sense of humour and fuck all going on, as well as a painfully liberal perspective. No offense bro.

Remmy

Thinking those downton abbey lot are an uncouth bunch

efb

Muscles From Brussels wrote: »

Only been here a few days but having 10,000 posts here definitely means you've got a shit sense of humour and fuck all going on, as well as a painfully liberal perspective. No offense bro.

Roid rage?

Muscles From Brussels

efb wrote: »

Roid rage?

No, case in point.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Being a Princess.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Muscles From Brussels wrote: »

Only been here a few days but having 10,000 posts here definitely means you've got a shit sense of humour and fuck all going on, as well as a painfully liberal perspective. No offense bro.

Had an intelligent liberal perspective long befoe I hit the 10,000 post mark, I assume that's the same thing? The sense of humour is a work in progress, so go easy. Please?

Steve O

Being a boards.ie moderator.

Muscles From Brussels

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

Had an intelligent liberal perspective long befoe I hit the 10,000 post mark, I assume that's the same thing? The sense of humour is a work in progress, so go easy. Please?

Calling yourself intelligent is like buying yourself a miss world trophy, it's sad as fuck and means nothing. I don't know you but odds are your liberal perspective is about as smart as any other internet assembled philosophy you run into day to day but with added smug and annoying vibes.