[Zaph]

If ever there was a poll screaming out for an Atari Jaguar option...

[The_B_Man]

wtf? what sorta person WOULD say it then? upper class? coz theres a mention of wine? i dont get the coffee thing at all though. must be coz i dont drink coffee. or wine for that matter!! oh my god, what does that make me?!?!

[Terry]

Originally Posted by Zaph

If ever there was a poll screaming out for an Atari Jaguar option...

[GhostInTheRuins]

Originally Posted by wowy

Well there was an article in The Irish Times, I think it was in the Commercial Property Section on Wednesday, which was about how wealthy people spend their money, and it talked about how wine tasting and associated activities has become very popular among the uber-rich in the USA and Europe. Perhaps she was just trying to be clever and make a joke about that?


Probably not though. She was probably just being a bit clueless. Surely there can't be all that much money in coffee tasting anyway?

HAhahahahaha

[Fanny Wank]

Originally Posted by dublindude

Now, I reckon what she said is a classic example of the middle class brain

No that is something that any over self important spawn of the Celtic tiger would say.

For some reason a lot of people these days think that spending €4 on a cup of coffee or drinking over priced wine in a 'trendy' shithole makes them 'middle class'. The kind of people who drank tea and beer in the 90's but when fancy coffees and wine bars became fashionable jumped ship and went with the tide.

PS: this gets my vote for most retarded thread in the histroy of boards

[Fanny Wank]

Originally Posted by The_B_Man

wtf? what sorta person WOULD say it then? upper class? coz theres a mention of wine? i dont get the coffee thing at all though. must be coz i dont drink coffee. or wine for that matter!! oh my god, what does that make me?!?!

+1

[Huggles]

LMFAO at the Poll - Third Option

Nice One

HOW NOW BROWN COW

[Dr_Teeth]

There's nothing particularly class-based about your wife's comment, it's just dumb.

[mike65]

This thread is sooooooooooooo Sept 21st 2007.

Mike.

[oranjeboom]

Originally Posted by dublindude

Now, I reckon what she said is a classic example of the middle class brain

What is a middle class brain supposed to be like?????

[anniehoo]

Originally Posted by humanji

pedantic,

Not interested in the thread...but only found out what this word meant the other day and am dyin to use it in a sentence!

[wyk]

I dunno what all middle and upper and lower class is in Europe, but I DO know I can tell you what sort of grape, and what area the wine is from in a blind taste test most of the time, and if it's worth a damn or not. You simply acquire it with age and cirrhosis.

I'm poor southern trash

But I dunno any Southern Gals that would ever say such a thing. as you stated.

Wez

[Andy Carroll]

middle class?

*shudder


Are we going that way like the Brits? Where everyone is divided into classes.

middle class, upper middle medium rare class. etc.

*shudder.

I really hope we don't go this way.

[Wertz]

Originally Posted by The-Rigger

middle class?

*shudder


Are we going that way like the Brits? Where everyone is divided into classes.

middle class, upper middle medium rare class. etc.

*shudder.

I really hope we don't go this way.

LOL, ummm...welcome to...forever?
We've had class distinctions here for as long as the english have been here and the minute they left we did our best to out do them.
Class divides may be a little less visible here than in Britain, but they are every bit as bad...and it's become a lot worse since we landed ourselves newfound wealth.

Back on topic: what the hell kind of job is coffee/wine tatsing?
It has to be some sort of specialist job for people with very developed palettes and tastebuds....I mean it's not as if you can just turn round and say "Oh ya, I absolutely adoore the old vino and a drop of costa rican double roast....so when can I start ?"
Next thing you know there'll be FÁS courses for this niche industry.

OP has your partner ever considered that if she looses her job, chances are that a lot of other people too will be loosing their jobs and that items of mass consumption like coffee and wine won't be the huge money spinners that they've been under our tiger economy? I doubt there'll then be enough demand in the industries to accomadate the legions of middle class ladies trying to avoid the dole office...

[Andy Carroll]

Originally Posted by Wertz

LOL, ummm...welcome to...forever?
We've had class distinctions here for as long as the english have been here and the minute they left we did our best to out do them.
Class divides may be a little less visible here than in Britain, but they are every bit as bad...and it's become a lot worse since we landed ourselves newfound wealth.

Of course we have people of various means and wealth.

But, I don't hear 'upper class, middle class' etc being used to refer to or describe people via our media, homegrown tv shows, or by joe public.

I have never heard anyone in Ireland refer to themselves or someone else in the following ways:

'That family are middle class/upper/lower' etc
'As part of the middle class, I believe....'

etc.

Maybe if I frequented D4 I would hear these conversations?

I wouldn't have a clue what the requirementss to be considered lower/middle/upper class are.

Am I leaving any class divisions out? Are there more than 3?

*shudder.