You're Upper Class When

WoollyRedHat · 13-12-2020 05:16AM #1

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 · 13-12-2020 05:20AM

Could anyone fix the grammar in the title, please?

13-12-2020 05:22AM

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 · 13-12-2020 05:47AM

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

WoollyRedHat · 13-12-2020 05:52AM

[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 · 13-12-2020 05:55AM

Government buildings wrote: »

Could anyone fix the grammar in the title, please?

I agree, it totes annoy's me too.

WoollyRedHat · 13-12-2020 05:57AM

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 · 13-12-2020 05:58AM

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

bassy · 13-12-2020 05:59AM

Been to lidl for the 2 slabs for 33 euros op

WoollyRedHat · 13-12-2020 06:03AM

Finallya proper response.

highdef · 13-12-2020 06:13AM

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 · 13-12-2020 06:14AM

What's an upper class when?

Gremlinertia · 13-12-2020 06:28AM

One tiny edit to title

FixdePitchmark · 13-12-2020 07:52AM

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 · 13-12-2020 07:58AM

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 · 13-12-2020 10:00AM

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.

13-12-2020 10:26AM

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 · 13-12-2020 10:28AM

You buy your wine in O'Briens not Lidl.

EDit · 13-12-2020 10:30AM

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 · 13-12-2020 10:48AM

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

Mrsmum · 13-12-2020 10:53AM

You have nothing from IKEA in your home.

KevRossi · 13-12-2020 11:00AM

...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 · 13-12-2020 11:00AM

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 · 13-12-2020 11:02AM

You are a correspodent on RTE News.

13-12-2020 11:09AM

Cheese??

ShagNastii · 13-12-2020 11:19AM

You carry a rubber Jonathan in your wallet.

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

KilOit · 13-12-2020 11:32AM

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 · 13-12-2020 11:33AM

You have a bidet.

An unused one, because Jeeves is always on hand.

Balmed Out · 13-12-2020 11:35AM

Parquet floor.

13-12-2020 11:43AM

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

bertiebomber · 13-12-2020 11:58AM

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.

You're Upper Class When

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