You're Upper Class When

WoollyRedHat

Your house has a name, ancient Greek or Roman.

Your child buggy is operated as an SUV with a 1k insurance value.

You have a room for your coats

Pantry in the house

Airpods.

Tall hats

Cheese

Member of the sailing club even though you don't know how to swim.


You have a gate.

Government buildings

Could anyone fix the grammar in the title, please?

WoollyRedHat

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Your house has a name, ancient Greek or Romsn.

Your child buggy us operated as an SUV with a 1k insurance value


You have a room for your coats

Pantry in the house

Airpods

Member of the sailing club even though you don't know how to swim.


You have a gate that restricts viewing into the santorium.

... you can spell you're. To say nothing about the rest of your "post".

PommieBast

You forgot to mention which 1970's cask whiskey you cracked open tonight

WoollyRedHat

[Deleted User] wrote: »

... you can spell you're. To say nothing about the rest of your "post".

You are very aware, a modern day Sherlock Holmes.

The title of the post should have had a apostrophe and an 'e', unless I'm missing something else. By the way, if you want to start a sentence, you need to capitalise it, but I guess you might have been too involved in your own moaning self-gratification to realize that.

WoollyRedHat

Government buildings wrote: »

Could anyone fix the grammar in the title, please?

I agree, it totes annoy's me too.

WoollyRedHat

PommieBast wrote: »

You forgot to mention which 1970's cask whiskey you cracked open tonight

Teelings is pretty good if you can afford it.

WoollyRedHat

Too many plebs replying to this thread, I went to Grammar School, don't at me.

bassy

Been to lidl for the 2 slabs for 33 euros op

WoollyRedHat

Finallya proper response.

highdef

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Your house has a name, ancient Greek or Roman. Has a name but it's in English.

Your child buggy is operated as an SUV with a 1k insurance value. Don't have kids.

You have a room for your coats. Yes, have a cloak room.

Pantry in the house. Yes, have a pantry.

Airpods. Don't have any Apple products as I hate the brand.

Tall hats. Only have wooly hats.

Cheese. I like cheese. Cheese is cheap.

Member of the sailing club even though you don't know how to swim. No interest in sailing.


You have a gate. Yes, and I can open it by calling it on my phone.

Despite my answers above, I'm very very far from being upper class.

Government buildings

What's an upper class when?

Gremlinertia

One tiny edit to title

FixdePitchmark

In Ireland, I don't think you can. Even if you tried.

Your born into a certain class. The same educational institutes, professions, clubs and social gatherings are attended and controlled by the same people.

The same restaurants, even pubs and shops are used by these people.

And if you tried , you would be totally alienated and an outsider from both "classes"

So don't fool yourself - you are only upper class when you always were and know you are entitled to be.

Wanderer78

FixdePitchmark wrote:

In Ireland, I don't think you can. Even if you tried.

Not just an Irish thing, but globally to, ha-joon changs quote of 'kicking away the ladder' is rather fitting!

whisky_galore

You don't rent formal wear.

You've got a double-barrelled name that's been like that for at least a century, not because of 21st cent peasantry "notions".

You're related to or know one of the royal family personally.

Upper class? Must have stumbled onto some parody site. No, wait, it’s still boards.ie

You’re only upper class when society around you decide that a bollix with means is somehow better than every other bollix without.

I’ll take ‘classy’ over upper class any day. Good character, strong principles and a work ethic to drive you through tough times would leave many a man standing head and shoulders above the toss-pots the unthinking rabble would recognise as the ‘upper class’.

ElJeffe

You buy your wine in O'Briens not Lidl.

EDit

you’re a high-functioning heroin addict (as opposed to a feral junkie screaming at people on the banks of the Liffey)

the purple tin

You send your chislers to the Billie Barry and they get to sing or dance on the Toy Show.

Mrsmum

You have nothing from IKEA in your home.

KevRossi

...you go straight from Trinity/UCD into a well paid job in RTE, or in some production company where you earn three times what your co-worker gets even though they do all the work.

Wibbs

If we're talking about the English sense of "upper class", which I assume we are. Large tracts of farmland owned over time giving rise to large chunks of money passed through the generations over time. Basically your aristocracy are a subculture of very rich farmers.

the purple tin

You are a correspodent on RTE News.

Cheese??

ShagNastii

You carry a rubber Jonathan in your wallet.

Just in case you meet a busty duchess on a night out with da boys.

KilOit

ElJeffe wrote: »

You buy your wine in O'Briens not Lidl.

Nah, dunnes 25% off 6 bottles with €10 off €40 spend

Signore Fancy Pants

You have a bidet.

An unused one, because Jeeves is always on hand.

Balmed Out

Parquet floor.

Dressed all in tweed, out with the shotgun, spending a day shooting peasants.

bertiebomber

You wear a fur coat belonging to your grandmother ( recycled ) and her pearls ( old & valuable) and you rarely buy new designer clothes and feel more at home in tweeds or a barbour and wellies than Gucci or Prada. Still have real Hermes silk scarves in your wardrobe, ancient but more valuable then the new ones. You use a bar of soap and not the plastic bottles with pumps. You dont have leather sofas in your drawing room & sometimes dont have a TV but prefer to read books. You take great joy in 'finding ' something amazing at a flea market or charity shop. Real class dont flash the cash at all they are frugal.

gozunda

The only real 'upper class' in this country are cute hoor politicians who are paid huge salaries, get massive pensions for doing fek all and invest their money in business 'opportunities' - which they learn about whilst supposedly running the country.

But no Ireland does not have an 'upper class' of tweed - top hat wearing - holidaying in Saint Tropez types - which oddly seems to be the general impression in such discussions. Too many Downton Abbey fans who think that TV programme was made in Ireland I reckon.

Those in big houses with actual money tend to mostly be the likes of M.D. Higgins and friends.

Wibbs

There are still some small holdovers of the landed upper class here. They're quiet and in the background for the most part and for obvious historical reasons and mostly an older generation, but they're out there. I've known a few. They inhabit a weird middle zone. You can often hear that in their accents. To the average Irish person they sound "English" but to the average British person of the same class they sound "Irish".

gozunda

Wibbs wrote: »

There are still some small holdovers of the landed upper class here. They're quiet and in the background for the most part and for obvious historical reasons and mostly an older generation, but they're out there. I've known a few. They inhabit a weird middle zone. You can often hear that in their accents. To the average Irish person they sound "English" but to the average British person of the same class they sound "Irish".

True. More notions of past glories and social standing than money these days.

If the 'big house hasn't been burned down or god forbid still has a roof- its been tarted up as a noveue riche wedding venue or similar - with whatever land which was left over after the various Land Acts in the last century has been leased or planted up in totality by some commercial forestry company.

AMKC

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Your house has a name, ancient Greek or Roman.

Your child buggy is operated as an SUV with a 1k insurance value.

You have a room for your coats

Pantry in the house

Airpods.

Tall hats

Cheese

Member of the sailing club even though you don't know how to swim.


You have a gate.

My brother and my Parents have most of that but they never named there house and raising children is behind them the parents that is as they raised 6 if us. They both started off very poor from very poor families but got lucky later in life and are both retired and happy now with their lifes.
The brother has his own business but would not call himself upper class but would be more working class.

I hate all the labels can we not all just be human and all get along together?

I have an aunt an the other hand who Married a rich man who was my Godfather who was a farmer who owned a lot of land and had all that including a name to the house well before my parents but he is no longer here so the rich life can also mean a short life.

zanador

Wibbs wrote: »

There are still some small holdovers of the landed upper class here. They're quiet and in the background for the most part and for obvious historical reasons and mostly an older generation, but they're out there. I've known a few. They inhabit a weird middle zone. You can often hear that in their accents. To the average Irish person they sound "English" but to the average British person of the same class they sound "Irish".

West-brit. And they go on holiday in mayo and drive old land rovers and have grown up with horses in their fields but don't have livery they mind them themselves.

I know the owners of one of our old houses really well and they pay 2k a month for heating otherwise the house will fall apart and they're completely skint but have money in land and live off the proceeds from opening their house and gardens.

Your Face

You're upper class when an apprentice plumber calls you a West Brit.

gozunda

Your Face wrote: »

You're upper class when an apprentice plumber calls you a West Brit.

I think just about anyone can be a 'west brit' these days. Especially anyone who can't claim to be a direct descendant of padraic pearse, connelly or larkin is fair game apparently...

The new definition of upper class (ref the OP) includes among other things - having a gate and a place for your coats ...

Vita nova

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Your house has a name, ancient Greek or Roman.

...

You have a gate.

Not just any name but the name of the townland or district in which it's located or the family that has owned it for centuries. Sometimes house in the title is replaced by castle and the lands and the house/castle are often referred to as the demense or estate.

Lissadell House
Leixlip Castle (Guinness family)
Slane Castle (Mountcharles family)
Russborough House

Although in this case it's usually more landed gentry than normal upper class. Btw, they are usually very down to earth people with little very little pretension about them.

Also, you don't just have a gate, you have a gate house, which is nearly always occupied.

Harry Palmr

Have a man to post on boards for you.

NickNickleby

.... you never heard of Boards

gctest50

Your Face wrote: »

You're upper class when an apprentice plumber calls you a West Brit.

apprentice ?

When you have you have your own plumber, living in a house in one corner of the land. Kept busy by the new fangled copper piping

anewme

Vita nova wrote: »

Although in this case it's usually more landed gentry than normal upper class. Btw, they are usually very down to earth people with little very little pretension about them.
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Agree with this. People mixing up money with class. Lots of tacky mactscks with lots of new money and think they jumped a class or a few somewhere along the way.

I'm still laughing at the OP and his gate reference.

McGinniesta

You're upper class when you can masturbate in public and people call you "eccentric".

NickNickleby

McGinniesta wrote: »

You're upper class when you can masturbate in public and people call you "eccentric".

a "friend" was it? :pac::pac::pac:

Surreptitious

You have a front row seat at Wimbledon. You wear Burbury to the races dahling. You say 'taaaraa now' to the ladies who lunch.
Your servants shine your brass for you (!).

Lucy8080

Honestly , I feel that I must protest in the strongest terms about this O.P.

The O.P. said ( and it sickens me to quote it) that "you have a gate". We have an electric gate, and depending on our judgement of who is approaching our property we can switch the current on the buzzer to let one in or keep one out!

The O.P. is in for quite a shock if they ever have the temerity to approach our gate.

Sofa King Great

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Your house has a name, ancient Greek or Roman.

Your child buggy is operated as an SUV with a 1k insurance value.

You have a room for your coats

Pantry in the house

Airpods.

Tall hats

Cheese

Member of the sailing club even though you don't know how to swim.


You have a gate.

This has to be the lowest bar for being upper class i have ever seen. .
You have a gate? A GATE?!

Also cheese? What about it? Are we talking easily singles here or a nice mont d'or from Sheridans.

And lastly it isn't a sailing club, its a yacht club.

Stovepipe

Mrsmum wrote: »

You have nothing from IKEA in your home.

As one Lord said to another, when talking about someone recently given a peerage, " Dear God, he buys his own furniture"...

the purple tin

bertiebomber wrote: »

You wear a fur coat belonging to your grandmother ( recycled ) and her pearls ( old & valuable) and you rarely buy new designer clothes and feel more at home in tweeds or a barbour and wellies than Gucci or Prada. Still have real Hermes silk scarves in your wardrobe, ancient but more valuable then the new ones. You use a bar of soap and not the plastic bottles with pumps. You dont have leather sofas in your drawing room & sometimes dont have a TV but prefer to read books. You take great joy in 'finding ' something amazing at a flea market or charity shop. Real class dont flash the cash at all they are frugal.

In other words you are stone-broke :pac:

Church on Tuesday

An ascot is essential.