Sure fire signs that the area is middle class...

Everyone's in in the evening posting on Boards about disadvantaged areas.

LexieOnRale wrote: »

There's nobody home during the day because they're out paying for everyone else's dole and medical card.

..and it's much appreciated.

LexieOnRale wrote: »

There's nobody home during the day because they're out paying for everyone else's dole and medical card.

Ah come on Lexie, really?

They're the only ones paying at the doctors and not on first name terms with the receptionist.

There's a Residents' Association and they send around a newsletter.

mariaalice wrote: »

There is also always one "rebel" who gives out about the residents association/says he wont pay, says all this to his long suffering wife but pays up anyways has condescending views of the neighbours again his long suffering wife is the recipient of his opinion of the neighbours. Thinks he is different!!

Condescension seems to be a common theme in these areas going by some of the posts on this thread.

bodhrandude wrote: »

What next eh! Sure Fire signs that your next door neighbour is a military dictator. :pac:

"Sure-fire signs that your area is a neighbourhood:"

"People live there."
"There are houses."
"There are facilities and elements of basic infrastructure."

This thread is a sure fire sign that taking the piss out of the Jeremy kyle brigade and the stereotypes of rough urban estates is of far more comedic value

There is no middle class, that's a quaint english Victorian notion. True middle class don't have to work for a living and never have.

In Ireland is there is :
The welfare class
The connected (corrupt) class
The working class (who are constantly told they are or should want to be "middle class" by advertisers so they borrow and spend more on things they don't need)

The working class pay for the other two classes, and pretend they are too middle class to stand up against being screwed in the ass by the other two classes. If you have to work for a living, you are working class no matter what the advertisers tell you.

The welfare class and the connected class in Ireland have had a little agreement for years.
Don't fck with eachother and then you can get the working class to pay for everything (often by simply calling them middle class)

The connected class forgot this little rule when they got even greedier than usual in recent years, and made the mistake of extending water charges from the working class to the welfare class. They were quickly brought back into line by the welfare class. The connected class have now remembered that the cash cow is the people who have to work for a living, and everyone is settling back down to business as usual.

I love the squeezed middle class, especially when they give out about how self entitled dole heads are. Oh why oh why do I have to work 9-5 when the chavvy man down the road gets €188 a week! Booooo. Life is so hard.

Middle class areas are so boring and nondescript that there's really nothing to add.

infogiver wrote: »

In middle class estates ( I agree that the middle class should really referred to as working class but hey lookit....) there's a non stop parade of knocks to the hall door in the evenings, folk selling Aitricity Eircom Phonewatch, Dogs Trust Concern Prepay Power etc

Thats why we kept the doorbell, but disconnected it inside! Bliss now, no answering the door to all and sundry!

And I suppose that makes us middle class. Double bonus lol.

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Skommando wrote: »

There is no middle class, that's a quaint english Victorian notion. True middle class don't have to work for a living and never have.

In Ireland is there is :
The welfare class
The connected (corrupt) class
The working class (who are constantly told they are or should want to be "middle class" by advertisers so they borrow and spend more on things they don't need)

The working class pay for the other two classes, and pretend they are too middle class to stand up against being screwed in the ass by the other two classes. If you have to work for a living, you are working class no matter what the advertisers tell you.

The welfare class and the connected class in Ireland have had a little agreement for years.
Don't fck with eachother and then you can get the working class to pay for everything (often by simply calling them middle class)

The connected class forgot this little rule when they got even greedier than usual in recent years, and made the mistake of extending water charges from the working class to the welfare class. They were quickly brought back into line by the welfare class. The connected class have now remembered that the cash cow is the people who have to work for a living, and everyone is settling back down to business as usual.

this is all very conspiracy theorish
The world isn't as evil as you think